Comment by hiccuphippo 4 days ago Maths are just maths again!Enough with patents, NDAs and trade secrets. 7 comments hiccuphippo Reply xpct 3 days ago I wonder what the downstream effects of that will be. I imagine we may see some big lawsuits soon, meant to scare off the RE trend. embedding-shape 4 days ago Seems "information wants to be free" wins yet again. To bad we don't have any strong political leaders in the world that could run on such platform, I guess in 2-3 decades the tide will start turning the other way again. anthk 3 days ago Philosophically RMS won in the end. NexRebular 3 days ago Except GPL is done too when anyone can license wash FOSS to public domain via Claude and friends. hiccuphippo 3 days ago GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to. 1 reply → anthk 3 days ago Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.
xpct 3 days ago I wonder what the downstream effects of that will be. I imagine we may see some big lawsuits soon, meant to scare off the RE trend.
embedding-shape 4 days ago Seems "information wants to be free" wins yet again. To bad we don't have any strong political leaders in the world that could run on such platform, I guess in 2-3 decades the tide will start turning the other way again.
anthk 3 days ago Philosophically RMS won in the end. NexRebular 3 days ago Except GPL is done too when anyone can license wash FOSS to public domain via Claude and friends. hiccuphippo 3 days ago GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to. 1 reply → anthk 3 days ago Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.
NexRebular 3 days ago Except GPL is done too when anyone can license wash FOSS to public domain via Claude and friends. hiccuphippo 3 days ago GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to. 1 reply → anthk 3 days ago Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.
hiccuphippo 3 days ago GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to. 1 reply →
anthk 3 days ago Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.
I wonder what the downstream effects of that will be. I imagine we may see some big lawsuits soon, meant to scare off the RE trend.
Seems "information wants to be free" wins yet again. To bad we don't have any strong political leaders in the world that could run on such platform, I guess in 2-3 decades the tide will start turning the other way again.
Philosophically RMS won in the end.
Except GPL is done too when anyone can license wash FOSS to public domain via Claude and friends.
GPL is a means to an end. If all source code is available always, it becomes unnecessary.
The end goal was always that you could go and modify your printer drivers if you wanted to.
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Every MIT software can be forked over to GPL2 at some point.
Also you can reimplement, but not steal the code.