• @lordnikon@lemmy.world
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    126 hours ago

    I wish it was then it may make sense. Every time I use the MacOS terminal. It’s like an uncanny valley so similar but the more you look the more horrific it becomes. I can’t even say it’s Unix is the problem as freebsd makes complete sense.

    • @Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      115 hours ago

      That license does nothing.

      Your comments aren’t licensed because you put something in them. It’s stopping nothing. Licensing is an agreement, and requires parties to consent. You don’t just magically force licenses onto people.

      If this was real I could license my comments where if you read them, you owe me 10k.

      This is the digital equivalent of sovereign citizens.

      • @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world
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        11 hour ago

        So, if I go to a library, pick a book and start reading it, I am then free to completely copy it because I didn’t agree to any licensing?

      • @mholiv@lemmy.world
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        63 hours ago

        I don’t think it’s equivalent to sovereign citizens. OP is the author of their comment and therefore has the copyrights. As the author one can license their work as all rights reserved or other permissive licenses.

        OP chooses to license their work as Creative Commons.

        They’re not forcing you to accept the license, it’s your local government that enforces copyright.

        The reason why this might work on Lemmy but not on corporate Social media is that corporate social media often have terms of service that require you to give them ownership/rights/etc. Lemmy has no such ToC.

      • Cosmic Cleric
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        229 hours ago

        You’re probably the only one, but thank you for saying that. 🙂

          • @grue@lemmy.world
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            136 hours ago

            Nope, the opposite: in the absence of an explicit license, the default is “all rights reserved.”

          • Cosmic Cleric
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            I don’t think just thanking someone is real content. /shrug

            (Edit: I also declare all that I post/comment is licensed by me as well, in my user account description area.)

            But answering someone who thinks they are being funny or annoying, by explaining things to them, would be considered content by me.

            This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

            • @toynbee@lemmy.world
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              68 hours ago

              I kind of suspected it might be something like that, but it was a genuine query that, yes, was intended to be mildly humorous. I don’t intentionally annoy except maybe my wife.

              Your indirect accusation made me smirk, but as far as I’ve noticed you’re the only one who does this without doing it on every comment, which seemed interesting enough to observe.

                • @toynbee@lemmy.world
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                  37 hours ago

                  Ah. Well, I have questions or comments I could make about the license. However, while I feel passionately about Unix and Linux and OSS in general, I don’t think I have anything useful or interesting to add to the thread that hasn’t already been said.

                  I wish you luck both with finding engaging conversation and with your licensing.

      • @infeeeee@lemm.ee
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        19 hours ago

        You are not new to lemmy, it says you registered a year ago, but is this the first time you meet a comment with license info? You are one of today’s lucky 10000.

        I’ve seen this on multiple users, usually it’s some anti ai license. Like the laws stopped facebook from torrenting copyrighted books, an anti ai license will stop the next ai startup scraping the fediverse.

        • Cosmic Cleric
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          28 hours ago

          I’m only aware of myself, and the one other person who I learned to do this from, on Lemmy. That was tenish months ago, but still.

          I haven’t seen anyone else, even the other person I mentioned previously, since having returned to Lemmy recently.

          Be nice if you were right, but I haven’t seen it really.

          This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • southsamurai
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    199 hours ago

    Pft, everyone knows macOS is just a fancy DE on top of Hannah Montana Linux

  • irotsoma
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    I mean it’s kind of like the “humans evolved from monkeys” or whatever primate you want to substitute for monkey. No, they branched off from a common ancestor though.

    I mean lots of people get mixed up between BSD, Linux, UNIX, and all the variations over the years. Is MacOS a version of Linux? No. Is a human a type of ape? No. Are MacOS and Linux way, way closer than either are to Windows, hell yes. Just like people are way closer to being monkeys than swallows. There’s a lot of mixed breeding in both examples and a lot of total incompatibilities as well.

    • Well it depends where you sit on the bell curve, 1/8 of the population thinks the other 1/8 are fucking stupid, whilst been completely oblivious to the fact that they are in fact also fucking stupid

  • @Zink@programming.dev
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    I get that it specifies tech workers, but still my first reaction was that 12% is pretty low. You can find a much higher percentage of people who are confidently wrong about way more important things.

  • @Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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    I would be more surprised if 12% of “tech workers” know what Linux is at all.

    Fwiw: I work in a call center as basically a more knowledgeable tech for our client facing team to rely on for help and only about 1% of them have any familiarity with Linux in the slightest.

    I wonder about the framing of this question, like another comment mentioned, it’s kinda like evolution where MacOS and Linux have a common ancestor, I could see the wording throwing people off.

    “Is MacOS based on linux” seems to be the wording used?

    I’d bet less would fall for, “Is MacOS a Linux distribution?”

    Edit: Ha some people in the comments had similar thoughts, in addition to Linux and Unix being nearly synonymous to all but those who are very into that kind of thing.

    Edit again, if anyone else is curious https://youtu.be/jowCUo_UGts?si=3nSGWhispI7Vcfgm

  • @Bogasse@lemmy.ml
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    I’m not that surprised, a lot of people around me dot have a clear picture of what is the relationship between MacOS, Linux and Unix is. So I suppose some of them would guess that Linux is a modern fork of Unix and MacOS based on Unix.

    • The Bard in GreenA
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      29 hours ago

      I know a guy who worked on Unix in the '80s and he is very clear that Linux / MacOS are just Unix.

      • @Hawke@lemmy.world
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        37 hours ago

        Yes but no. Some folks are purists and feel that the actual code must derive from the original BSD/SysV code.

  • @gerdesj@lemmy.ml
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    -56 hours ago

    Who on earth actually cares? Those 12% are probably not really wrong either, apparently.

    Can you fiddle up a weird black screen with lots of $ and # symbols? Yes, its a Unix and its probably Linux.

    MacOS is odd because I say so and because most users of it will insist on their screen being darkened and brightened at the same time. I don’t like black being rammed into my eyes.

    • @porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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      Can you fiddle up a weird black screen with lots of $ and # symbols? Yes, its a Unix and its probably Linux.

      You heard it here first folks, windows is a Unix and probably Linux!