I’m not talking about what should versus shouldn’t happen.
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I’m not talking about what should versus shouldn’t happen.
Philosophically I agree, but legally the reality is different.
Ironically it’s a very human error to miss a username change.
I don’t think free software/open source has ever guaranteed the ability to maintain a specific project. Only the freedom to modify the software. They haven’t been stripped of that core freedom from the GPL which is the closest thing there to what I think you’re talking about.
It wasn’t so long ago that Java developers had to download the unlimited strength cryptography extensions separately from the main Java development kit because of export restrictions involving encryption.
Edit: Links for the curious.
neck beards losing their minds over some change they don’t like.
Ughhh, it was so infuriating hearing that guy rant about how Rust was bad and was trying to take over at that conference. I felt so bad for the speaker.
The GPL is certainly “beholden” to laws as well, including a total lack of developer freedom which I personally disagree with.
A lack of freedom from being screwed over by companies stealing your code.
FOSS is inherently political though, but I guess you mean country vs country politics moreso than ideological politics.
Any details on that case you remember? Sounds fascinating.
Look, when you’re trying to get your computer working I agree. I don’t mind having to use nonfree stuff if I literally cannot boot otherwise. But if we don’t have strong ideological fighters pushing for things like totally free systems then we wouldn’t be where we are today and we would always have to use non free stuff. So it’s definitely important we have people who are more ideologically idealist.
Wouldn’t an end user of something that should be GPLed be able to request the source?
Yeah, like one of the few things GitHub actually requires you to let people do is press the dang fork button.
Yeah but I’m not gonna sue or risk getting sued over it.
HamStudy.org is what I used. What’s useful is that it’s sort of like a wiki. People can write why the answers are right/wrong.
I remembered some of the science stuff from school so the hardest parts for me were learning some of the vocabulary.
All in all it’s fairly easy to pass with some prep. The worst parts were finding when I could rest and waiting for my license after I did lol.
If you’re interested then do it now! Because it takes a bit and it’s frustrating.
No. https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2020/march/1.php
Only Visual Studio Products Can Access the Extension Marketplace
While all of the projects listed above support VS Code extensions, only Microsoft products can use and connect to Microsoft’s Extension Marketplace. The terms of use for the Marketplace prevent any non-Visual Studio products from accessing it.
Gitpod employs a workaround where users upload .vsix files to install extensions. This causes unnecessary overhead as users have to download the files from GitHub, then upload them to Gitpod. Downloading extensions from the Microsoft Marketplace for any use other than in Microsoft products is prohibited as well.
Most extensions are developed by communities and published under permissive open source licenses. The requirement to distribute and access these community-owned extensions in a system with such restrictive terms of service does not seem right.
Our goal is to resolve this issue by hosting an open source extension registry at the Eclipse Foundation, a vendor-neutral organization. We’re doing this through the Eclipse Open VSX Registry project.
No, it’s not a fork.
Codium also used an open extension marketplace. Microsoft’s cannot be used except by Microsoft products.
VS Code is the epitome of fauxpen source.
Yessss this program is amazing. One of the few things I’ve donated to.
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