There’s not a single thing in this universe that cannot be accomplished with enough IF statements… as long as you’ve got infinite time to wait
There’s not a single thing in this universe that cannot be accomplished with enough IF statements… as long as you’ve got infinite time to wait
While I’m not bothered by this in particular, like other people have said, it feels like the top of a very slippery slope that I would be bothered by
True, true. Lemmy seems to have quite the large German base. I have to block them as I go otherwise a bunch of my feed ends up in German
As someone who browses KBin/Lemmy fairly often, I can’t say I ever see massive amounts of Linux talk even on the All tab. Usually it’s just pictures of cats and star-trek memes
If you read into the blog post this links to, you’ll find that is only the opening argument, not the whole argument as you say.
My first paragraph reacts to that… and to be honest, I’m still going to say isn’t that controversial.
When most people think of Open Source, they’re not thinking about the OSL, they’re thinking colloquially (as in the source being open to the public). I suspect he was using that wording colloquially as well - whether that was a slip up or intentional, I don’t know, but considering he goes out of his way to let us know about the way Grayjay’s licensing works, I don’t think he’s trying to hide anything by it.
The rest of what I said afterwards was my first reaction towards the rest of the blog, and I stand by it.
One can certainly argue it’s not “open source” so much as “source available”, but I don’t think it’s that controversial.
They’re providing a product, and obviously don’t want other people slapping their name on it and selling what they worked hard to make. Their license makes it easier for them to enforce that.
They also obviously don’t want people creating malicious forks of their program, like what keeps happening with NewPipe. So their license also makes it easier for them to enforce that.
If you want to encourage more companies to make their source code available, then maybe we shouldn’t shit on those that are.
Plus, per Rossman’s own words, you don’t even have to buy Grayjay for it to work, it’ll just ask you, ala Winrar. Give them a break.
Exactly. Even on regular width monitor, you still have so much more horizontal space to spare than vertical, so putting it on the side just makes sense!
How Microsoft don’t see that, at least anymore, is astounding to me
I’m glad to see somebody else as salty as I am over them removing that feature for Windows 11, as that immediately killed any enthusiasm I had towards it.
Remember when Windows 10 was meant to be the last edition of Windows …
True…
But even on a more metaphorical level, every single thing that has or will happen in this universe, down to even the smallest quantum fluctuations could be encapsulated into IF statements as long as you had enough of them.