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Originally posted by GunpowaderGuy View PostWho else thinks they should / wouldnt be against them making the next gpl/ LGPL versions more like mpl ? A license can be even less liberal than that without suffering from the drawbacks of copyleft
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Originally posted by boudewijnrempt View PostThe FSF's 2016 expenses were $1,308,747, which means that this donation almost covers one year, not a few years. $780,972 of that is personnel fees.
(just kidding)
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Originally posted by GunpowaderGuy View PostWho else thinks they should / wouldnt be against them making the next gpl/ LGPL versions more like mpl ? A license can be even less liberal than that without suffering from the drawbacks of copyleftLast edited by duby229; 30 January 2018, 06:24 PM.
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Originally posted by QaridariumVery good. ;-) FLOSS projects are the future for sure. I wait for my Purism Librem 5 smartphone and we use out mined Monero/XMR to buy it.
all the negative people who told me it is not worth it we made ~900€ per month out of a 7500€ investment. (mining profit+Speculation profit)
I am sure there will be much more Cryptocurreny Million dollar people who will fund FLOSS projects in all topics. everything is possible from an open-source car to a open-source airplane.
As for planes and cars using FOSS code, the development of cars and planes is just so expensive (literally billions per product even with a lot of off-the-shelf components around) that I just don't see the few companies who can afford to develop and sell those kinds of products while giving away their proverbial secret sauce. There's a reason why aerospace and auto makers all have massive legal departments almost dedicated to different facets of intellectual property.
With cars there's also the facts that their engines are very heavily controlled by embedded systems and thus much of their performance and efficiency is determined by the code running on the car's embedded engine control boards. This is just something companies will not to give away, specially when so many of them, particularly the German ones, have used and still use this software to cheat at emissions tests.
Additionally there's also the fact that theft of modern cars is very much built around hacking the embedded systems that control the door locks and ignition, something car makers would rather keep behind a lengthy and time consuming reverse-engineering process rather than letting thieves hit the ground running. Hell, stealing modern cars is so difficult most thefts are accomplished by stealing the keys, tricking or just bribing a dealership or someone working at one into ordering the thieves a new set of keys straight from the manufacturer.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI'm pretty sure kapour is referring to the people who do mining for a living, not hobbyists like yourself. I'm pretty sure such people do not use renewable energy, and it wouldn't surprise me if the people who donated $1 million worth of Bitcoins to FSF are not hobbyists.
Here is the reddit thread that started it all (where he announced he is starting Pineapple Fund): https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/com...itable_causes/
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Originally posted by andrebrait View PostNow you have something with no intrinsic value that's only profitable when converted from/to the thing it's supposed not to be compared with and the whole market is fed by pretty much nothing but hype.
I remember their point was to have a stable value over time, too. Let's just say they didn't exactly succeed at that.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI'm pretty sure kapour is referring to the people who do mining for a living, not hobbyists like yourself. I'm pretty sure such people do not use renewable energy, and it wouldn't surprise me if the people who donated $1 million worth of Bitcoins to FSF are not hobbyists.
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