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  • What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?

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  • Why do they not care?

    Because, for many of them, they don't have any reason to. In other words, privilege. Copyleft licensing is a subversive, anti-establishment thing, and software engineers are predominantly people who benefit from the established power structures. Middle/upper class white men (I'm included in that category, by the way). There's basically no pressure for them to rock the boat.

    And why would they avoid GPL

    Because many of them are "libertarian" ideologues who have a myopic focus on negative liberty (as opposed to the positive variety).

  • What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?

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  • Well, my experiences with my coworkers would lead me to pretty much exactly the opposite conclusion: the majority would probably intentionally avoid the GPL, if they even care at all.

  • What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?

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  • I can’t believe professional developers choose MIT because they can’t be arsed to look at the license choices

    Have you worked with many professional developers?

  • Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?

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  • If you’re in the US and a citizen, you do not have to divulge your password to the authorities or even a judge, per the 5th Amendment. However, they can force you to use your fingerprint or FaceID to unlock your phone.

    They can, however, probably seize your phone, and refuse to return it to you. Something to keep in mind when deciding to take your primary device, or a burner.

  • What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?

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  • The unfortunate reality is that a significant proportion of software engineers (and other IT folks) are either laissez-faire "libertarians" who are ideologically opposed to the restrictions in the GPL, or "apolitical" tech-bros who are mostly just interested in their six figure paychecks and fancy toys.

    To these folks, the MIT/BSD licenses have fewer restrictions, and are therefore more free, and are therefore more better.

  • HP Inc settles printer toner lockout lawsuit with a promise to make firmware updates optional

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  • The actual reason is because in 2015 "Hewlett Packard" split into two companies, one called HP, Inc, and one called HP Enterprise. The print and consumer PC business went to HPI, while the server and network hardware went to HPE. So, writing just "HP" could be interpreted as ambiguous.

  • Gay bar defends decision to eject Trump supporters despite their cries of “discrimination”

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  • Is Chatterbox a gay bar? I've been going there for a couple years and thought it was just a jazz bar with a pride flag in the window.

    Regardless, still glad they threw out the fascist.

  • Vice President JD Vance describes Britain as ‘some random country’

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  • Excuse me, the Hidenburg was not merely a blimp, it was a rigid airship. JD could never.

  • Need help asap

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  • Version Control

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  • MyProject - Copy v2.bak new NEW (3)/

  • Being Forced to Say Goodbye

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  • Please be careful when copying anything that could be considered your employer's intellectual property (almost certainly anything you built as an employee falls into this category) off of that employer's systems.

    And definitely be even more careful about using one employer's IP for a new employer (neither company would be pleased to discover this).

  • With tariffs signed, Trump warns of ‘pain’ to come for Americans

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  • At this point is it even crypto-fascism anymore?

  • This Week in KDE Plasma: Better fractional scaling

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  • My Gnome has everything between 100% and 350% in 25% increments?

  • Did Nazi that coming

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  • beer steroid gut

  • Bernie Sanders blasts Democratic Party following Harris loss

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  • alienation

    Careful now, that sounds like one of them there socialism words.

  • Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay?

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  • I once got called the f-slur for having the audacity to read a book in public, outdoors in front of the library.

  • Infants died at higher rates after abortion bans in the US, research shows

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  • Is that the world's most cursed SEO, or is that repetition something that's significant to the cult?

    Nevermind, I see the "for search engines" now. Missed it in all the nonsense.

  • San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave

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  • This is the first beard I've ever seen make someone's chin look weaker.

  • Split-/usr on Linux became so broken, that even Gentoo maintainers decided they can't fix it

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  • And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.

    On my current Fedora 40 install /bin is already a symlink to /usr/bin

  • Helldivers 2’s Politics Appear To Be Flying Over The Heads Of Some

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  • The main difference from the film being that the novel isn't a satire--Heinlein was being sincere.