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  • I’m a copyleft fan in theory, but…

    In practice my experience is that anything GPL actually doesn’t benefit the fellow worker/programmer as much. Since the worker probably works for an evil soulless company, he would have to use a different permissive software or buy something proprietary. I.e. if you choose copyleft you provide to a commons that is only accessible to a minority of workers. I also believe that most companies (even big tech) will try to contribute important or significant changes to permissive upstream projects instead of running their own private forks (the latter is much more annoying and expensive).
















  • mapumbaa@lemmy.ziptoOpen Source@lemmy.mlEU OS
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    1 year ago

    I think it makes great sense to use Nix (or better Guix). The users are not expected to do any configurations. They basically need a browser and maybe a text editor if it’s the public sector.

    Also, you can run Nix or Guix on basically any other dist. Which is very helpful for reproducible deployments.

    Ubuntu doesn’t make any sense. Better use Debian in that case. We don’t need to give yet another eccentric South African billionaire more power.



  • mapumbaa@lemmy.ziptoOpen Source@lemmy.mlEU OS
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    1 year ago

    I agree. Most Linux distributions have their base within the EU. Just dumb to bring a new Fedora based dist to the table. Debian is also very connected to the EU and France, even though the SPI is registered within the US.

    One could push for The Linux Foundation to to move their HQ to the EU. If that changes anything. I guess it depends on if Linus resigns or wants to move back to Finland.