cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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Cake day: January 17th, 2022

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  • even if it’s from its own repository, it is still on F-droid

    There is nothing to stop anyone from running their own f-droid repo and distributing non-free software through it, which is what futo is doing.

    seems open source enough

    This is the definition. Compare it with Futo’s license; it fails to meet both the Open Source Definition and Free Software Definition in several ways. After insisting they could redefine the term for a while (despite the definition’s wide acceptance) and inspiring some of their very vocal fans to promulgate their dishonest argument on their behalf, Futo themselves finally came around and agreed to stop calling their software open source.












  • why bother opening a pathway in the first place

    i’ve never had an IG account myself, but i think your mistake is in assuming that someone accepting your follow request on a restricted IG account is an indicator of desire for chatting with strangers. accepting your follow request might just mean they glanced at your profile and assessed that you aren’t a spammer or bot, not that they want to chat with you.

    perhaps just need to find out somewhere in the real world where I could bond more easily with real people?

    for sure that is a good idea 😂

    but there are also many places online where it is much more reasonable to assume people are interested in chatting with strangers.





  • Having some distrust in Wikipedia is healthy; you certainly shouldn’t take it as the final word about facts you’re depending on the accuracy of. But, it is very often a good starting point for learning about a new subject.

    Spending a minute or two reading that “source code” article (or another version of it which is likely available in your first language) would give you a much better understanding of the concept of source code (which is a prerequisite for understanding what “closed source” means) than any of the answers in this thread so far.