• satchmo
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    281 year ago

    GNU!

    Just had to give a shout out to Stallman & GNU. I’ve seen a lot of mentions of thanks to Linux on here, but Richard will never let us forget that Linux ain’t shit w/o GNU software to interact with it.

    Just think of the number of GNU programs you’ve used, just in a typical day on the terminal.

    My hat is off to you, Richard.

    • @Gremour
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      1 year ago

      Very yes. But GPL license, while inteded to make IT world better, still makes life harder for common developers.

        • @Gremour
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          11 year ago

          Not everyone writes open source. Let’s put the reasons aside, but GPL stuff is unusable outside of open source. MIT and Apache are the licenses that make code really free.

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            1 year ago

            I have to add that GPL licenses would hardly change the intention of creators of software not to publish their source code, instead limiting what libraries they can use and open possibility to sue for a fragments of code that could originate from GPL licensed repositories.