refalo

joined 7 months ago
[–] refalo 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

I still don't think something so important should be beholden to the whims of one company (Linux Foundation) or their country's laws (USA).

I would strongly prefer to use an operating system that didn't have this problem. Do any even exist?

[–] refalo 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

go against their spirit

I think this is more of a failure of the license itself. It's not a good look to allow something explicitly and then go "no not like that!"

[–] refalo 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For professionals used to Photoshop, yes it is that bad. People want what's familiar because they're used to it and they're busy or lazy. They don't want to learn something new.

If GIMP wanted to increase their userbase by a million overnight, they would make it look more like Photoshop.

The problem is they and many current users are huge FOSS zealots and see this kind of thing akin to selling your soul to the devil.

[–] refalo 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Eh.. I understand exactly where they're coming from. If you're trying to make money with a product then this is something that can happen. You can argue all day long that it's no longer technically "open source", but IMO for 99% of usecases (anything that's not a Confluence integration), it still is... even still non-copyleft.

Of course there will still be people that argue open source is antithetical to capitalism in general... but not everyone agrees with you.

[–] refalo 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

except gaia is one of the largest forums on earth.

they have more subscribers than Apple TV+

[–] refalo 2 points 1 month ago
[–] refalo 1 points 1 month ago

it was funny even before the last line though

[–] refalo 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I just don't see the point. I can't think of any good reason to have one personally.

I would love to be proven wrong though.

[–] refalo 1 points 1 month ago

Except there were scientific studies done at the time that "proved" it was safe, even as a cigarette filter. Can't really blame people for trusting that IMO.

Now I wonder what was actually so flawed about those studies.

[–] refalo 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

99% of browsers and their forks also expose your real OS via javascript (navigator.platform), even on Tor Browser. Some in the privacy community say this information is actually worthless (it could be lying), but I don't know for sure.

[–] refalo 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
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