Comment Re:Convenience (Score 1) 214
A free software license will always be considered open source compliant.
That was my take, and what the poster I was responding to said was not the case.
A free software license will always be considered open source compliant.
That was my take, and what the poster I was responding to said was not the case.
Right. So how much can it hurt to clear out some of the deadwood brogrammers spending their time on dick jokes and let a few budding Grace Hoppers have a go?
I'm not remotely convinced that those "budding Grace Hoppers" aren't already "having a go." I've worked with more than a few.
I suspect that it's time to update the old saw to "Those who can, do. Those who can't, cry about 'oppression' on the internet."
. As a user of FOSS, I like to think it's being written by people who are somewhat competent
I'd say the last five years of Mozilla, GNOME, et al have pretty well popped that particular fantasy already.
Maybe because Wikipedia articles have to be based on citations of reliable sources, such as articles by journalists, books by edited and published authors, that sort of thing. Since most of the GamerGate support is from blogs and Twitter posts it can't be cited, and most of the reliable sources say it's an orgy of misogyny and trolling.
Imagine that... a group calling out (a subset) of mainstream media bullshit is crapped on by the "reliable sources" which all happen to be mainstream media - oh, and textbooks. Lots of reliability and fact-checking going on there, especially in Texas...
First, software that you make for yourself and don't let others use. Not even through services. Google and Facebook are considered non-free in that regard
Right, but that's not what I'm asking about. If they're considered non-free, they don't fit the criteria of "free software" but not "open source software." I get how something can be "open source" but not "FIAF", I was looking for examples of the opposite.
That's because there's close relationships between "free (as in freedom) software" and "open-source." Neither is a proper sub-set of the other though.
Bolded part has me curious. What sort "free software" would not fall under the looser defintion of "open source" at the same time?
Beyond Good and Evil was a decent puzzle/TPP game. Not quite sure how it got its cult icon status, but it was decent.
I honestly never tried their keyboards. After overpaying for the mouse and gamepads, and seeing how expensive the keyboards were, decided to stick with the old Model M and grabbed a Logitech G600 mouse instead. That's lasted me a year so far, and was much cheaper.
I don't know how well built the CODEs are, but Razer's build quality has been utter crap in my experience for the past few years, and their warranty support sucks (Naga mouse and two Onza TE gamepads in a row).
you are more likely to replace the keyboard because it's input port has disappeared on your new computer than because it has stopped functioning.
Not until there are no more adapters to be had, dammit!
Though if I end up having to chain a third one in there, I'll probably have to work out some kind of hack for weight support...
There are also cows, pigs, horses, and chickens.
You can't prove a negative in a deductive sense but you can in an inductive sense. If little of the available evidence suggests that a proposition is true while much of the evidence suggests an alternative proposition is true, then the first proposition is unlikely to be true.
"Unlikely to be true" isn't the same as "proven negative." When discussing logic, "proof" has a specific meaning.
That said, your example/reasoning is mistaken, but you're underlying point is not. It is sometimes possible to prove a negative by contradiction (proving that the affirmative is impossible).
They are well-supported by established evidence
You might have a point, if the internet ^Wworld didn't have an abundant supply of nitwits willing to ignore any and all evidence that might conflict with their "individual" world view.
Deluge likes to use random ports
Edit->preferences->Network, uncheck "Use Random Ports" and it will let you specify a port range, old-school style.
They made threats against her. Yes. That is a real crime. Threats are a crime. People seem to forget that, but it doesn't change the law.
I'm pretty sure that most jurisdictions limit it to credible threats being crimes. People forget that part, even more often.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
