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anikom15 commented on Bear is now source-available herman.bearblog.dev/licen... · Posted by u/neoromantique

apgwoz · 2 days ago

There are a few avenues.

1. You incorporate GPL software and hope that no one notices and/or no one challenges. This is the most popular approach, and it’s quite successful, actually. 2. You cease to be a proprietary software company. Less popular, but an option.

Both of these are literally possible.

anikom15 · a day ago

1 is a breach of license, 2 is not a solution to the problem, it is avoiding the problem.

Plenty of companies develop both proprietary software and contribute to GPL codebases. It’s not at all the dichotomy you think it is.

anikom15 commented on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that thenexus.media/your-phone... · Posted by u/natalie3p

yachad · 2 days ago

What freedom?

anikom15 · a day ago

Anything that can’t be done while in prison, for starters.

anikom15 commented on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that thenexus.media/your-phone... · Posted by u/natalie3p

yachad · 2 days ago

So what? Lose your job, lose your housing.

Prison is at least 3 hots and a cot.

anikom15 · 2 days ago

Some people value freedom more than comfort.

anikom15 commented on We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that thenexus.media/your-phone... · Posted by u/natalie3p

specproc · 3 days ago

Yeah, this is it. I've lived under governments of a variety of different stripes in some very different parts of the world, I've lived in war zones. Day to day life has been more or less the same across all of them.

You go shopping, go to work, see friends, have a few beers or maybe a smoke, eat out, go to weddings, birthdays and funerals, play sports. People run businesses, post memes.

The way non-OECD, "non-democratic" countries are portrayed in the West gives us a very false sense of superiority.

We have the same problems: gilded elites, crushing poverty, persecuted minorities, illusory participation in governance, terrifying police, rampant corruption.

I'm not saying everywhere is identical, there's a spectrum. There's just more similarities between countries than differences, in my experience. The things that often distinguish are more cultural and geographical than political.

anikom15 · 2 days ago

Your day-to-day life may have been the same, but that does not mean everyone's lives would be.

anikom15 commented on Bear is now source-available herman.bearblog.dev/licen... · Posted by u/neoromantique

apgwoz · 3 days ago

They _literally_ could.

anikom15 · 2 days ago

How does one keep software proprietary while leveraging the GPL (aside from the case of not distributing it)?

anikom15 commented on Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY (2023) aresluna.org/the-primitiv... · Posted by u/kens

anikom15 · 2 days ago

I can type in Dvorak, Qwerty, Zhuyin, and Kana direct input. If you are a slow typist, the problem is not the layout. It is an overreliance on looking at the keys and not taking the time to learn the layout by muscle memory. My keys only have labels for Qwerty but I can touch type in four different formats because I forced myself to use them. That process works. The individual layout does not matter much. How ergonomic the keys are also doesn't matter much. The limit is likely you.

anikom15 commented on Bear is now source-available herman.bearblog.dev/licen... · Posted by u/neoromantique

apgwoz · 3 days ago

My comment wasn’t written with enough precision.

Using GPL software: yes. Totally fine. The rise of Linux and all that jazz.

Incorporating any part of GPL software _into_ other products? Pretty much doesn’t happen. Every company I’ve ever worked for has said “do not bring LGPL or GPL software into the codebase.” When it comes to commercial software, be it cloud based, or downloadable, you’re not going to find much that tries to incorporate GPL stuff. You just won’t.

anikom15 · 3 days ago

Of course proprietary software products aren’t going to bring in the GPL. They literally can’t.

anikom15 commented on Bear is now source-available herman.bearblog.dev/licen... · Posted by u/neoromantique

duskwuff · 4 days ago

The "goals" of the license are irrelevant. What matters from a legal perspective is the text of the license, and every time that text sets legal conditions which reference specific technologies like "linking", "object code", or "interface definition files" which don't apply to all programming languages, a lawyer's blood pressure rises.

anikom15 · 3 days ago

Intent is relevant in law, especially when text is insufficient to determine a clear meaning.

anikom15 commented on Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font osnews.com/story/143222/i... · Posted by u/rguiscard

opan · 5 days ago

I have never encountered a non-HiDPI setup where non-bitmap fonts looked especially different or good, so I don't think my OS[1] is relevant. If you look at screenshots of classic Mac OS it has a beautiful timeless look to the fonts, that I feel I similarly get using Terminus in my terminals. I also wanted to list an old Windows version out of fairness, which would be 3.1, I guess, but when quickly looking up screenshots, it doesn't look quite as good as I want it to. Your first instinct that my setup is wrong when I'm commenting on the state of fonts as a whole tells me you're probably used to the blur. Most people who aren't already a bit weird about their terminal fonts don't seem to understand or at least don't seem to care when I talk about the blurry font problem.

[1] But I'll tell you anyway so I don't seem like an asshole. I'm using Guix System GNU/Linux and the Sway Wayland compositor on my primary PC at the moment.

anikom15 · 3 days ago

I have no blur because I don’t use anti-aliasing at all. Different renderer settings can have a big impact on how the text looks at small sizes, which is why I commented. For a long time I used anti-aliasing with light hinting, full anti-aliasing with no hinting. I’ve never liked subpixel hinting (ClearType). In the end, I found that turning off anti-aliasing gives me the best readability.

anikom15 commented on Bear is now source-available herman.bearblog.dev/licen... · Posted by u/neoromantique

apgwoz · 4 days ago

…until businesses decided that the GPLv2 was legally risky and businesses started to avoid it.

anikom15 · 3 days ago

This is FUD. Some businesses may have a policy of not using GPL software, but all the major enterprises, including Microsoft and Apple, use GPL software.