* Posts by TJD

4 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Aug 2015

Open source maintainer threatens to throw in the towel if companies won't ante up

TJD

I do not have much sympathy for him. Either he believes in Free Opensource Software licensing that is available to anyone for any use, or he doesn't. He can't have it both ways.

If he wants to be paid for his work, he should get off his fanny and go find a corporate sponsor. That's on him, and no one else.

Otherwise, my only response to him is: "FOSS doesn't need you or your attitude. It is counterproductive and does more harm than good for other projects beyond you. Someone else will contribute to the project. He's welcome to leave and take his drama with him.

Do not let the door hit you in the fanny on the way out. "

Microsoft's latest Windows 10 update downs Chrome, Cortana

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Re: Try Linux. - Or DON'T! (My love/hate Linux rant.)

If you don't like Linux, that's fair enough - but I'd like to point out a few things that you have wrong.

1. "Windiows hating old farts" are not the people using Linux.

I'd grant you that there are a lot of vocal Linux people out there who don't like Windows, but the people who really use Linux do not care about Windows, just as they do not care about Apple. IT professionals use Linux as a tool, just as they use Windows, when it is appropriate.

2. Linux and others are not "fringe" operating systems.

You have more people using Linux than Windows on any specific day. Everything from phones to tablets, to cars, to ATMs, to kitchen appliances run on Linux or software derived from Linux supported projects. Your Apple computers use source code derived from MACH and BSD. Android devices use Linux code.

If anything Microsoft is a fringe operating system, with less than 15% of the world computer device market outside of the desktop. Even Microsoft admits this.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2490008/microsoft-windows/microsoft-gets-real--admits-its-device-share-is-just-14-.html

Steve Ballmer: Get the Facts. I 'love' SQL Server on Linux

TJD

Re: Windows on Linux next?

No need. You already can with KVM.

Hardened Linux stalwarts Grsecurity pull the pin after legal fight

TJD

Ahem - Linux kernel code is GPL Code

I think everyone is forgetting that the Linux kernel is GPL code.

If GrSecurity sells or gives any code to anyone outside of GrSecurity, they are required to make that code available to everyone, regardless of whether they paid for it or not. That is the distribution requirement of the GPL. If GrSecurity attempts to withhold patches from the public that they are giving out to select individuals, they are violating the GPL, and subject to a lawsuit for breach of contract by the FSF. No one is "ripping" GrSecurity off if they use the code. They have that right. GrSeecuity has no right to tell anyone how they can use or not use GPL licensed code. It does not matter of they wrote it or not.

While it has nothing to do with the GPL, if they put the name "GrSecurity" in the kernel code as a name on a menu, they are implicitly giving people the right to use that, and to say "Yes, we are using GrSecurity code."

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