Great breakdown, esp. the license issues and the case in point of MINIX. Subscribed.
I just checked, Archlinux already has uutils-coreutils in [extra], but there’s no surprise there, they’ve always been relatively unconcerned about such things.
Thanks for sharing, always nice to see!
But nowadays I’d be surprised if one of these display devices ran Windows or some similar crap that is NOT Linux.
Ubuntu/Canonical did, imho, the right thing to offer paid support for what is otherwise a free OS. That’s what companies care for, that cannot afford a full IT employee or even department. Of course Redhat et. al. also offer that but Ubuntu seems more suitable for smaller solutions?
This or some other company, that’s essentially what Maria Ressa said (with proof).
Familiar playbook.
Thanks for the update-in-a-nutshell!
Maria Ressa
Yes! Thanks, I couldn’t remember. Was an amazing podcast series on PBS iirc.
Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds... 🎶
Sorry that phrase always gets me. Fuck Facebook an’all that.
Good
Fuck Duterte. He did to his country almost a decade ago what Trump is doing to the USA now. I remember this Philippine-American journalist saying in 2016 that
we (the Philippines) are the test bed for things they don’t dare do in “the West” yet.
Isn’t his daughter president president now? No doubt that’s better, but by how much I wonder.
Ouf, you got me down a rabbit hole. I’ll start at the end, where I clicked on a comment of yours laying out why Andreas Kling and Brendan Eich are assholes. This FOSS tendency to support 100% meritocracy becomes a bullshit lie the moment some lead devs use their position to spread vile views, deny harmless PRs to improve phrasing etc.
I have yet to meet a single self-proclaimed “centrist” who isn’t just a racist/misogynyst/homophobe in sheep’s clothing.
Meritocracy enables sociopaths.
Well really it should be “Pure unadultarated meritocracy in FOSS development enables latent sociopathic behavior to come out unchecked in nerdy devs” or some such, but that’s not much of a slogan.
Anyhow, about Kagi & Vlad & the writer of this blog post (I really read it all) - I am always so skeptical about FLOSS trying to go financially sustainable. Usually people applaud it because they think it’s a solution to “slow development and clunky UIs”, and usually people like Vlad like to support that feeling without really committing to anything.
Also always interesting the lack of commitment when you press them about data collection. You can’t run a web app like this without data collection, and the distiction between personally identifyable, private, anonymised or anonymous is - facile because as legal terms they were coined by people who have no clue about fingerprinting and such.
All in all I’m glad with the road I have chosen in device & software usage and just like the Brave hype did not get me, neither will the Kagi hype or the next one.