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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    9 days ago

    Should perhaps add that you can generally run Linux distributions off of a USB stick for that first impression.

    Just follow a tutorial for how to install Linux and when you see the actual installer on screen, you can just close the installer without installing and then click around in the UI.

    It will be slow, because it’s running off that slow USB connection, but otherwise this is pretty much the operating system as it is when fully installed.


  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldContinuwuity
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    10 days ago

    Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it’s not a corporate project. You’re hearing about it, because it’s actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.

    Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.







  • Hmm, ja, spannend wie da die Gesetze auszulegen sind. Das “mit XYZgeschmack” ist ja eigentlich schon länger der Kapitalistenkniff, wenn es nicht wirklich enthalten ist, aber eben der Geschmack nachgeahmt wird. Kann mir eigentlich schon vorstellen, dass das auch bei den Anti-Vegan Gesetzen anwendbar ist.

    Aber ja, keine Ahnung, ob jetzt “vegane Käsealternative” genehm ist oder nicht. Das Ganze ist halt komplett irrational.







  • AGPL is specifically for web services. For example, if Nextcloud were provided under the GPL, Amazon or the like could serve a modified version of Nextcloud without having to hand out their modifications. As far as the GPL is concerned, Amazon is the user and the software just happens to accept requests from the network.
    With AGPL, those who use the software over the network are also deemed users and therefore have the right to access the source code.



  • I imagine, it’s just too much of a niche and practically not enforceable anyways.

    You would need to somehow know that a web service is a using a modified version of your library, then you’d be able to demand those library changes to be open-sourced.

    And well, just in general, covering all kinds of niche use-cases isn’t terribly healthy for open-source licenses, because each modification is something that can be challenged in court and which might be incompatible with other licenses.
    Ultimately, a library under such a specialty license would probably not see much use either. You could only really depend on it in AGPL applications. And at some point, you do have to ask yourself, if it’s even useful to develop your library then.