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[jo-erlend]

From the Sailfish End User License Agreement:

«License restrictions. You are expressly prohibited from doing any of the following acts:...

[jo-erlend]

The crazy/evil license guarantees that I will never use Sailfish. It doesn't matter to me that it would never hold up in any court. It's not their business...

[jo-erlend]

It has nothing to do with being fair. The question is whether or not the license is compatible with the definitions of Free Software and Open Source....

[jo-erlend]

I haven't studied the license, but let's just stipulate for the sake of argument, that Fedora is right to say the license is discriminatory.
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[jo-erlend]

Canonical built on the existing and universally accepted Compiz, while Gnome decided to create something new. It would've been just as reasonable for...

[jo-erlend]

Let me get this right; you are aware that there are dozens of proprietary Upstart builds being distributed without complying with the GPL? Name some of...

[jo-erlend]

Which? This is a very specific claim. Which of their GPL products are now proprietary?...

[jo-erlend]

The GPL does not apply to the original code, but only to copies. When you write software, you automatically have copyright on that code and when you distribute...

[jo-erlend]

I'm not blind. I did a Google site search. I was not able to find any particularly negative articles about Ubuntu or Canonical. I also didn't find any...

[jo-erlend]

That's entirely false. For one thing, the GPL never applies to the developer, but only to people who have received the code from someone else. This is...

[jo-erlend]

Hmm. I've never thought of this site as particularly negative towards Canonical or Ubuntu. I think I would be inclined to say the opposite of what you...

[jo-erlend]

So I have invested ten million dollars in something and you demand the right to become an equal partner for three dollars. Why should I accept your proposal?...

[jo-erlend]

The idea that the GPL license is suitable for vendor lock-in, is interesting. Can you elaborate more on that subject? It's new to me....

[jo-erlend]

Maybe use devmode for the time being? It's no more dangerous than using a PPA, that's for sure....

[jo-erlend]

That's annoying indeed, but you can just bind mount the wanted folders, so it's not a total disaster, just a tad unfriendly to the average user ...

[jo-erlend]

I don't think it's stupid to pay people to do things for me. Maybe you feel that way because nobody wants to pay you to do anything for them?...

[jo-erlend]

Isn't this a very strange argument? Unity is based on the long-existing Compiz, whereas Gnome decided to create a brand new compositor. Wouldn't it be...

[jo-erlend]

All the largest systems used Upstart, including RHEL and ChromeOS. It wasn't a failure by any possible metric, but then Red Hat developed Systemd, Debian...

[jo-erlend]

Hmm. How would you talk about Intel developers working on Linux drivers for Intel graphics without mentioning Linux and Intel?...