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Comment Re:GPL is software herpes (Score 1) 30

Some of it is the licensing, with the BSD license having fewer restrictions on reuse, but a lot of it was the early fighting over Unix copyrights, including between AT&T and BSD, when Unix proved to be a viable commercial OS

That was a thing, but it was resolved well before Linux became popular.

Both have their pros and cons and places where one may be a better choice than the other.

IME FreeBSD is realistically almost all drawbacks because development happens on Linux. OpenBSD has its selling point I guess, but my personal experiences with it taught me that if you aren't qualified to fix your own problems with e.g. the kernel, you should avoid it. NetBSD has some meaning as the last available OS for a lot of old hardware, so I guess there's that? In-kernel ZFS is cool but hardly worth the hassle unless what you are building is a pure filer, when the unbundled ZFS works well enough.

Comment Re:GPL is software herpes (Score 0) 30

No it is infectious and some thing to be avoided.

Oh, that explains why BSD which predates Linux is an also-ran, while Linux is the world's most popular operating system and many major contributors told us in so many words that they chose to contribute to Linux instead of BSD specifically because of the license.

Comment Re:That is called "being competent".... (Score 1) 79

The Iranian regime is literally a bunch of Nazis [...] Look at what is going down in Iraq and Lebanon

You mean being attacked by Israel, a country which is actually doing a genocide, with our money, from a nation which was founded on genocide? You're only a genocide apologist.

Comment Re: Is it much different? (Score 1) 74

That isn't how negligence works, and it never was. If the tool didn't take anything into consideration at all, if the tool was incapable of the analysis you were required to do, that's worse than violating their rights on purpose.

No, in actual fact it isn't.

Nothing in worse than gross incompetence.

Nice typo. In fact, malicious intent is worse than gross incompetence.

You're required to do certain things in employment law. Not even trying is the ultimate worst category of failure.

Of course they will claim they tried.

Comment Re: Is it much different? (Score 3, Interesting) 74

That's illegal no matter what tool you use, though, and it's not the tool that makes it illegal unless it was designed to do illegal things intentionally, or if you keep using it when you know it does illegal things. Adding AI isn't the legal problem. It's just a slightly new gimmick to the same old game, pretending you didn't know what you were doing.

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