Look at the Jellyfin one. Why is there something breaking the logo from the right? Lots of little things.

Fair. It’s not just that one though. I notice a lot of weird things there.

Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?

Small clarification. Apple Pay is not really paying with your phone bill. I think you can but most users just have their credit card or debit card linked.

You need to reach out to the scientists to let them know! You could save lives with your insight!

Idk. I think using ai to learn Linux as you switch to it is fair ground. In the end they’re free from Microsoft. It’s a win. Just make sure they have data backups.

What are you talking about? Linux has virtually no backwards compatibility at all. Maybe one or two years max. The kernel is fine. The weak point is glibc.

You literally need to recompile applications constantly to stay compatible with glibc. Otherwise they just don’t work.

The good news is that distros are constantly providing freshly compiled versions of open source applications.

The bad news is that actual binary backwards compatibility is non existent. Try running a binary compiled in 2005 on modern Linux. You’ll just get a ton of glibc errors.

Windows lets you run applications compiled in 1995 on modern desktops.

Linux is great and it’s what I use. But we can’t claim backwards compatibility as a strength. Maybe a binary compiled today with musl might run in 2036 but musl targeting is quite rare.

It’s a major hacker community centric event. The biggest in Europe. It could be that the community just likes it. 🤷‍♀️

Yah. And a CPU to match. Either Epic or Xeon.

Yes but you’ll need special hardware. Enterprise systems use registered “RDIMM” modules that won’t work in consumer systems. Even if your system supports ECC that is just UDIMM aka consumer grade with error correction.

This all being said I would bet you could find some cheap Epic or Xeon chips + an appropriate board if/when they crash comes.

Companies are allowed to participate in the community. They are wallowed to use community code. Companies donating servers and resources is actually a good thing. This includes Valve. The “greediness” you talk about isn’t a factor.

Also factually none of those projects you listed were started by IBM. Half of them were started by GNU foundation. The other half were started by Redhat before it was acquired by IBM.

The way Redhat made money was by taking community code and packaging it with support guarantees for other companies. Redhat took that money and hired people to further improve that community code they were packaging. I was at Redhat at the time.

Regarding freeBSD you are forgetting the literal largest user of BSD in the world. Netflix voluntarily gives back code to the community but they aren’t forced to.

Sony is the largest user of FreeBSD in the world. They take the code. Use it improve it and give nothing back. From the PS3 forward all of their devices are based on FreeBSD.

Microsoft also is a large user of FreeBSD in a way. When they couldn’t add a proper networking stack to Windows without everything crashing all the time they’re turned to FreeBSD. Microsoft ripped out the networking code and glued it into Windows 2000. From there we got XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, and now 11. All with community code taken and used to fight community coded operating systems.

I guess it all comes down to how you see companies. If you believe that companies will always act in the interest of the community even at the expense of competitiveness I can see how one might see MIT or BSD licenses as adequate.

GPL, LGPL, and MPL on the other hand force companies to give back when they take.

I don’t trust companies enough to use MIT. I choose GPL, LGPL, and MPL.

If a company intended to give back to the community there is no reason why they would not use GPL, LGPL, or MPL. They intend to tie back anyways. Right? MIT just lets them keep their taking but not giving options open.

I know I do.

GPL forces mega corps to give back when they use community code.

MIT just lets companies take community code without giving anything back.

GPL code is code for the community by the community. Meta crops can use the code too but they have to give back.

Choosing MIT over GPL, LGPL, or MPL (all community oriented) in my book is pretty close to corporate bootlicking.

Good move I think. :)

It might be my lemmy client but when I go to that link I just see a basic steam next fest post with a Linux picking section from a different user.

What am I missing?

If you don’t mind me asking, why did you choose Zorin? How do you hear about Zorin?

Why would you choose the crypto bro ad company browser out of all the chrome spinoffs?

Why not use any of the others?

Will probably make the price go up. The whole reason why they do this crap is to get more money out of the consumer.

Strong recommend for learning the swipe motions. It takes a few min to learn but it’s free real-estate after that. And it’s faster. At least for me.

And the easy retort to that is that they don’t apply Chinese censorship globally. Only in China. Regional laws only apply regionally.

Bro. This is the fediverse. Don’t crap where you (we) live.