>Drew DeVault creates a public hit list on his site full of FOSS people he doesn't like
I'm actually surprised he hasn't done this earlier. But this shit is so disgusting, it makes me want to never contribute to that movement again.
And this makes me restate my position for my game studio (Ioncom) in that we may release source code of our games under a free license, but we will never accept contributions from the outside world. We will a NEVER create or contribute to community projects, EVER, under any circumstances. There is just too much drama.
@icedquinn @phnt @sam @jaff @sun timeline where he gets kicked out of the EU for creating public lists of enemies, only to get in trouble entering the US for putting the antifa flag on his site.
he hasn't fully thought this through, i feel.
California Ban Leaves Open Questions Despite Supposed "Industry Consensus"
"For Linux users and distributions, the bill’s most important part remains unchanged. Its definition of an 'operating system provider' explicitly excludes an entity that distributes an operating system or application under license terms allowing recipients to copy, redistribute, and modify the software."
Not all parts of the Linux kernel are "open source", and some have restrictive licensing or are 'closed'.
If the state enforces the law strictly no mainstream consumer distribution is truly in compliance.
The law doesn't say "primarily open source" or primarily under FOSS terms. And there isn't a single license. You'll find the numerous different licenses under which different components of the "operating system" ship in /usr/share/doc/.
But it's worthy of pointing out that even something like ath9k-htc which supports USB wifi adapters consists of firmware released under three separate licenses. All three in this case are "FOSS", but that's unusual, not the norm.
It's also questionable what constitutes an operating system. Is it just the kernel? Is it the kernel plus the core applications like GNU? Is it the kernel, the graphics stack, printing stack, audio stack, GNU utilities, X server, and package manager?
SteamOS is based on Arch yet it's unclear if SeamOS is included or excluded.
How about Android? Android is a set of software, but most of the apps merely run on top of what is actually an "open source" operating system that is itself a fork of the Linux kernel.
Is Mac OS X exempt because the VERY core of the kernel is released even if nothing else?
"Apple has begun rolling out ads in Apple Maps,"
Open Street Map still ad free!
https://www.openstreetmap.org/
Article: https://archive.ph/ngaBg