Then you get USians complaining about the rest of the world freeloading and non-USians complaining that they're not getting paid.

Depends on the model. Wix (the Windows installer builder, not the website builder) has switched to a model whereby the source is always available for free but they charge for compiled binaries.

Yep. There's a parallel between the busy-work culture so popular these days - there's little time to pause for reflection so the deep work doesn't get done and that's where the true insights lie.

But what was the secret to its success?

Micromanagement?
'Agile' ?
Slides and table football?

Did I win?

Fuck these guys. I am sick of paying for their stupidity.

Can we interest you in paying for our greed instead? Shareholders are people too.

until this horrible AI bubble pops

So, five months.

It's because this AC (the same one twice) is an asshole.

Now you're all caught-up :D

But but but ... greed is increasing. You need to buy more not less. Didn't you get the memo?

PS5 is a mandatory purchase so it's all good. Oh wait.

Must the whole of society be taxed to feed the greed of AI investors? AFaF

That's the opposite of how that works. It's LGPL 2 or later. That means you can follow the terms of redistribution from either license. Either. Or.

It will do the same jobs. Most of the software on which we depend predates the GPL3 and/or uses an even more permissive license without an anti-tivoization clause.

Was it the monopoly that made the difference? Or was it simply management smart enough to not only not kill the goose, but also to feed it? They had wins, they got more funding, they had more wins, repeat until they no longer got more funding and stopped getting wins. What's probably more important than why they succeeded is what happened at the end.

If you're a Debian derivative user, it's called Devuan.

Otherwise...*

* Note: Removing systemd from a systemd-based system is madness. There's a reason Devuan exists, and it is that simply changing the init system on Debian results in a lot of breakage, which best illustrates the biggest problem with systemd.

Yes, that is literally the entire ethos behind systemd.

Yes, that is literally the entire situation with systemd.

This change literally could not be more on brand for systemd.

That's systemd in a nutshell. Only people like that would willingly work on a project like that.

The Linux kernel is GPL2 and glibc is LGPL, and you can construct a complete userland without any GPL3 components. Also, you seem to be under some weird misapprehension that the federal government will follow the law, which it has never done across the board.