plain TeX is a joy to use, but you must really understand boxes and glue etc on a deep level. LaTeX makes that easier, but at the cost of extreme complexity internally (compare the output routines for example.)
plain TeX is a joy to use, but you must really understand boxes and glue etc on a deep level. LaTeX makes that easier, but at the cost of extreme complexity internally (compare the output routines for example.)
Their “dominance” is the choice of the distributions. Gnome is opinionated, and I respect that they follow their vision. To me this is free software working as intended, people are free to fork Gnome if they want something that the devs don’t want. And apparently, many distributions think Gnome should be the default. Maybe it shouldn’t, but that’s up to the distros to decide.
Getting paid in money is one motivation for people, but not the only one. Some people do things because they want to, regardless of payment. And some of them want to give what they made as a gift to anyone. The flip side is that no one can force them to do anything, it’s all voluntary.
I’m not good enough to give recommendations, but meanwhile some questions might make it easier. What is your budget? Is open source important to you? What’s the biggest thing you want to print? Are there any special features you’re looking for? Do you want to tinker with it or rather have it “just work”?
The author of JSLint wrote:
"So I added one more line to my license, was that, “the Software shall
be used for Good, not Evil.” And thought: I’ve done my job!
/…/
Also about once a year, I get a letter from a lawyer, every year a
different lawyer, at a company. I don’t want to embarrass the company by
saying their name, so I’ll just say their initials, “IBM,” saying that
they want to use something that I wrote, 'cause I put this on everything
I write now. They want to use something that I wrote and something that
they wrote and they’re pretty sure they weren’t gonna use it for evil,
but they couldn’t say for sure about their customers. So, could I give
them a special license for that?
So, of course!
So I wrote back—this happened literally two weeks ago—I said, “I give permission to IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.” "
A good story about a bad day doesn’t have to be about complaining. It can be about learning from mistakes, a strange irony, the absurdity of coinciding factors, etc.
Om någon undrade så är rollatorn en Gemino 20.
Hm, ok. Då är väl frågan snarare vem som ligger bakom att skynda igenom frågan? Det ligger nära till hands att tänka att det är för att man vill slippa debatt. Att man i efterhand kan säga “nämen oj, allt gick så snabbt, men nu är det bara så, vi kan inte ändra på något”.
Om man är lite konspiratorisk är det lätt att tänka att man hoppar över omröstningen för att sedan kunna säga att man inte röstat för förslaget, alla kan peka på alla andra.
Det verkar som att det inte var någon omröstning, men att C och SD sagt att de var emot förslaget. Hon från V som var där skrev på twitter att V fortfarande var emot, hur man nu ska tolka det.
Är det här rätt sida tror du? https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/betankande/preventiva-tvangsmedel-for-att-forebygga-och_hb01juu24/
Jag vet inte riktigt hur man ska tolka den.
Aha, tack. Det ser inte bra ut.
Det var en valfråga för mig med. Hela idén med demokrati gungar ju lite om man kan ljuga hur som helst innan ett val utan konsekvenser.
Men för i helvete, jag röstade på V precis för att de var emot.
It’s fair, but different people have different ideas about what they want, and in the end it’s the authors right to decide what is fair for their code. An unconditional gift is also fair.
People seem to think that those who choose permissive licences don’t know what they’re doing. Software can be a gift to the world with no strings attached. A company “taking” your code is never taking it away from you, you still have all the code you wrote. Some people want this. MIT is not an incomplete GPL, it has its own reasons.
For example, OpenBSD has as a project goal: “We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY PURPOSE, with no restrictions. We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage companies to use whichever pieces they want to.”
If you don’t want to touch anything, you could boot from a live USB image and try it?
I wonder how much work would be needed to make a “FreeDesktop Linux” complete OS, with the runtime + whatever it needs beyond that. Then when you install a flatpak, it’s just like installing, uh, I didn’t think this through tbh.
PC-DOS on an IBM 5150 (iirc).
The founder of GNOME, Miguel de Icaza, stopped using Linux in favor of macOS in 2014 iirc. That makes me guess that the macOS design was at least acceptable to him. Maybe the visions were similar enough.