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As some here did point out free software as Richard Stallman and GNU foundation use the term is a specific set of freedoms and limitations.

These freedoms and limitations are arguable depending on many factors and they are not what everybody considers free software.

While I can understand the need for those limitations in order to promote some ideas and practices, I am not happy that they stand for free software as an absolute and at the same time the GPL license limits freedom in two aspects: - You cannot distribute copies (modified or not) without attributing the work to the original author - You cannot distribute copies (modified or not) with less permissions than the original license

Some people can argue that the GPL license actually limits your freedom while the UNLICENSE license gives you more freedom.

And here is my question: If I work on a patch or feature and I put my time and effort into it, is it ethical to get rewarded for my effort? How can I sell the modified version without closing the source or changing the license? That at least until I get the money back for my invested time.

And this point for me is where non free software will get ahead, simply because they are able to get paid for the the developers time and will always have more resources than free software projects.


I saw something like this in Star Citizen: https://youtu.be/ZsXnFzYu10k?t=21m2s


Worst is that some information is only provided in the comments and not in the documentation itself.


Today's society does not favor unselfish behavior. Somebody with morality or the other qualities you enumerated is more limited than somebody without them.

Greed is somewhat what our race is breeded for in terms of society design. Greed is rewarded by our society.


Entre means between. Preneur means taker.


That's true, but also irrelevant. That isn't the etymology of the word - it's a loanword from french, coined by French economist Jean-Baptiste Say.



I tried to switch from aufs (which performs poorly with writes) to the "recommended" filesystem overlay2 (and later overlay) but the container wasn't building anymore.

It seems that using overlay or overlay2 file systems corrupts data between intermediate containers during build.


I like the app. I wanted to migrate some notes and start using it. Unfortunately it's way too expensive for me. I would not pay more than 20 euros per year for a notes app.


It's a joke indeed!


Humans have learned a lot of things. However they still have to learn about the universe because there are non-naturally-observable physical phenomena and we have no evidence that we discovered them all.

Edit: These so called "laws" are laws in our minds and things like EmDrive show us that our minds can expand forming new "laws".


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