This is great news, and I might be tempted to use it if I had some reassurance that the mail servers (and the organisation that controls them) weren’t subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

I’m quite happy with EuroDNS. They even include free email housing if you want it.

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing. I’m not sure I’d be happy in a fully remote role where you’ve got hundreds of employees voting on how you build stuff, but I know that there are lots of people who dig this pattern, and they’re clearly doing Good work.

True, but the mere existence of an AGPL project that follows the MIT one might be enough to convince would-be contributors to choose our version instead.

It may also be more likely to be adopted by non-corporate Linux distros that favour the AGPL over MIT (Debian for example) which in turn could help make the AGPL version the dominant one.

The best example I could point to would be BSD. Unlike Linux, the BSD kernel was BSD (essentially MIT) -licensed. This allowed Apple to take their code and build OSX and a multi-billion dollar company on top of it, giving sweet fuck all back the community they stole from.

That’s the moral argument: it enables thievery.

The technical argument is one of practicality. MIT-licensed projects often lead to proprietary projects (see: Apple, Android, Chrome, etc) that use up all the oxygen in an ecosystem and allow one company to dominate where once we had the latitude to use better alternatives.

• Step 1 is replacing coreutils with uutils.
• Step 2 is Canonical, Google, or someone else stealing uutils to build a proprietary “fuutils” that boasts better speeds, features, or interoperation with $PROPRIETARY_PRODUCT, or maybe even a new proprietary kernel.
• Steep 3 is where inevitably uutils is abandoned and coreutils hasn’t been updated in 10 years. Welcome to 1978, we’re back to using UNIX.

The GPL is the tool that got us here, and it makes these exploitative techbros furious that they can’t just steal our shit for their personal profit. We gain nothing by helping them, but stand to lose a great deal.

Here’s a fun idea, let’s fork these MIT-based projects and licence them under the AGPL :-)

Absolutely. I’ve been running Debian for literally decades both personally & professionally (on servers) and it’s rock-solid.

On the desktop, it’s also very stable, but holy-fuck is it old. I’m happy to accept the occasionally bug in exchange for modern software though, so I use Arch (btw) on the desktop.

Ubuntu is literally just Debian unstable with a bunch of patches. Literally every time I’ve been forced to use it, it’s been broken in at least a few obvious places.

I have zero interest in anything Microsoft has to say about Free software.

I find Croc to be rather just good for this.

In case you’re wondering, the correct response was:

I’m sorry. My country is overrun with fascists and Nazis and I’m horrified by the threats to your nation’s sovereignty that manchild of a president is making. He does not speak for me, and I appreciate that you would decide not to spend money in a country that’s actively threatening your family.

You know, for the next time you feel the urge to defend a government that demonstrably doesn’t care about you or anyone else.

I’ve stopped buying from Steam on account of their country threatening to annex mine. GOG is looking good though.

What is the deal with getting gpu acceleration into a terminal emulator of all things? Of all the innovations that we could use, faster drawing of text doesn’t feel like it should be a priority.