As to Red Hat being a traumatized company, well they are now very successful and profitable. It's time for them to get over the trauma. Besides, although they put in a lot of work and polish, their product is based largely on the work of others, so they are hardly in a position to accuse Oracle of playing unfairly by using GPL'd code they worked on.

No, you misread what I wrote. "Any version" refers to the version of the GPL. GPLv2, GPLv3, or whatever. Nothing to do with the version of the software package.

Put another way, whether the code in question is GPLv2 or GPLv3, the right to redistribute the source code is that same.

Poor choice of words on my part. Sorry about that.

Sure. No one says they have to make their SPRMs or github repo for the spec files publicly-accessible. Where they crossed the line, though, is in contractually preventing their clients from being able to exercise their rights under the terms of the GPL. As a Red Hat customer, you can go download the SRPMs just fine, but under the terms of your contract with Red Hat, if you distribute those SRPMs to anyone else, that is grounds for termination of the support contract. This is at odds with any version of the GPL, which applies to a lot of Red Hat's packages. This is the fundamental problem and it's been going on for decades. Only recently Red Hat began to talk more tough about it, even threatening some clients with compliance audits.

All that said, I think AlmaLinux's approach is the best one for the "clones." No damage, just community value added.

There are lots of different kinds of cables for different application. What you say is true, but it doesn't necessarily trivially apply in all circumstances. For example the undersea cables have limits. The person being interviewed in the article specialized in undersea cables, from what I can tell. I don't think you can simply just jack up the voltage and magically get more capacity through an existing undersea line.

As others stated, traditional overhead wires also have their limits. and are designed for specific voltages and currents before you run into problems with insulators, discharges, etc.

Ublock origin not working again? Haven't noticed that here. Html-load
Com malware is completely blocked.

It's almost like elections have consequences, and America has elected that it and its businesses are going to be treated like the plague. Well, even more than that, even visiting the US is dropping, and now with US Marines on city streets in a major US city, well, fuck that banana republic. I will never enter the US again.

I've had rendering nightmares in Word, including docx files. There are most certainly version and rendering issues in Word just like any other word processor. It gets really horrendous with tables and frames, particularly when they are used as some sort of typesetting system, at which point try to open up on a different version of Word than the documented was created on, and it can turn into a mess.

I can get native Zoom apps on Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS and Linux. It isn't perfect, and they've added a lot of cruft, but all in all, I've had less problems than I've had with Teams.

It's not like the writing in the original Star Wars film was all that great. Guiness's dialogue was cheesy enough that he begged Lucas to kill his character off (and Lucas, to his credit, found a way to get Guiness into two more films).

But if I were making fun of the third trilogy at this point, it wouldn't be so much about the bad writing (though in general it's bloody awful), but the almost complete lack of any kind of plotting.

The Producers? Young Frankenstein? Blazing Saddles? High Anxiety?

I'm not sure there's a funnier scene in any movie ever made in history than Springtime For Hitler (the reaction shots in that scene are the best I've ever seen in a movie), with the possible exception of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster doing a song and dance number to Putting On The Ritz.

For me, at least, Mel Brooks is probably the pinnacle of comedy filmmaking.

The only one I can think of is John Candy (which is a big hole), but Rick Moranis has been retired for many years now, and he's rebuffed most attempts to get him in front of a camera again.

Like I said you can keep on buying it. No skin off my back.

It's interesting. Things like table of contents are to me much harder in office than libre office. Especially if you didn't start out doing things right. At least it was like that last time I was asked to help someone set up a table of contents in office for an existing document. With LO by default styles are associated with table of contents so it's really easy to with the stylist to set up the document for table of contents. Office last I used it seemed to apply heading styles without setting the data points for tables of contents or indexes. Really surprised me.

Anyway if you don't want to learn a slightly different way to do things that's totally fine.

And that creates a binary equivalent to the kernel running on my pixel that could be drop-in replacement for the stock kernel? I highly doubt it.

Google has managed to do to the GPL and open source in general what MS only dreamed about back in the Linux cancer days. What a world we live in.

NVidia doesn't distribute kernels, just their blobs, so they can get away with it. When I download the driver and install it, I'm the one tainting the kernel. Google, on the other hand ships the kernel and their own drivers and blobs.

It's an open question whether Ubuntu can legally ship ZFS support since they are shipping both the GPL kernel and the incompatibly-licensed ZFS modules.

And that underlies the reality of WYSIWYG, that there are limits to what any word processor can actually do to guarantee formatting and fixed placement. It's why Tex/LaTeX and PDF were invented to begin with, and why there's really a point at which trying to force any WYSIWYG word processor to behave that way is going to lead to fragile misbehaving documents that fall apart. As a very good example, the use of tables and frames in documents (both docx and odt) to guarantee the positioning of various elements creates can quickly lead to documents so fragile that any attempt to update styles causes havoc.

I'm working my way through some biology and general science courses right now in my spare time, and I'm seriously looking at re-familiarizing myself with LaTeX to produce reports and papers, because the amount of work I've had to do to get diagrams and images to stay put, and to break my cardinal rule relying solely on styles for formatting makes me think the kind of work I'm doing is much more in typesetting than in word processing.