The most important part of FLOSS is “F”, apparently.
Not to take away from the point but the F in FOSS stands for “Free as in freedom” and not free as in price.
It’s FLOSS in the image. Free Libre Open Source Software
i wonder, why have i never heard “GLOSS (Gratis Libre Open Source Software)” used
it would make sense
That’s also a nice acronym. I like it better actually.
Free Open Source Software.
PR||GTFO
I’m arguing right now with a user who things that the developer of rsync should either change how they write code or hand over their project to someone that meets their personal standards for how software should be written.
Have you mentioned yet that anyone can do that second one by making their own fork? And that no one is required to give a fuck about how they think it should be done?
Yes! They don’t believe forking is good enough because his version of rsync is mainline. That’s why he thinks the rsync developer needs to give up his project to someone else.
What an entitled and dumb twat. I guess he didn’t think it through that the guy maintaining it now doesn’t have some magical ability to tell who would be a good new owner and “handing over the mainline” to any one person could screw people more than any AI changes because that new person might be malicious or neglectful.
Forks need to earn trust and it’s best that that step isn’t skipped by some inheritance. Not that there even is any obligation to hand it off no matter how many people rely on it or complain.
And the comparison with ms or Google was dumb because I didn’t expect them to do it the way I wanted and stopped using what I could to get away from where they were going and any expectation that they hand over their projects to someone else would be ridiculous (and Google open source projects have been forked).
The entitlement is strong in that one!
eta wen?
Just a heads up you forgot a word between “you” and “me” I think
Thanks, fixed.
…not fixed?
What are you seeing. This is what I’m seeing
it seems not to have federated to dbzer0
Interesting. Maybe a new bug? @UlrikHD@programming.dev is one of our admins. Maybe they can look into it. Dunno who the admin is of dbzer0. Maybe you could ping them.
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com is the admin of dbzer0
db0 this ping is about a federation issue, an edit is not federating from programming.dev
Not much I can do really here. If I can see later replies but not the edit, it must have been lost somewhere in the federation. Typically that means the source instance didn’t send it or gave up, but normally lemmy should continue retrying
Thanks for pinging them.
Seems like everything is up to date on lemmy.dbzer0 now, just minor federation quirks it seems like. Thanks for notifying about a potential issue.
Thanks for having a look!
ohh, now i get it.
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As someone who works with COSS, most folks are fine with us charging for stuff, so long as their specific use case gets to be free.
