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Chris Wanstrath … $1,000,000 donation
So… not independent then.
You may have missed that the best approach is not to switch but to dual-boot.
non-GTK
What do you mean?
Gnome Software Store, Gnome Settings, System Monitor
All of these programs use GTK.
Because GNOME aren’t interested in building a desktop that works well with non-GNOME programs.
Probably the most egregious behaviour is declaring different terms and conditions for sales and pre-orders after a person has handed over their money, particularly changing the terms around refunds. Literal Vader “pray I do not alter it any further”. And illegal. Refunds in general have been a nightmare for customers with many making a complaint to the Attorney General of California which seems to have been the only way to get money back.
Check r/purism on Reddit if you want to see lots of examples of their shady behaviour.
Also: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zlatan-Todoric-Interview
And: https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2019/10/the-sad-saga-of-purism-and-the-librem-5-part-1
Can I ask why you posted this here?
Uhhh… recent? Did you perhaps miss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment_America,_Inc._v._Hotz ?
Evangelical in that it’s documented as a theory & a paper for the concepts you can read about?
No, evangelical as in needing to tell people about it, even when they have no interest.
Have you worked in a distributed team sharing just patches over email?
No.
The Patch Theory
The way you write about this seems very evangelical.
patches, without depending patches that would cause a conflict, should commute
get stuck in their rebases/pulls
I use git every day and I don’t recall patch ordering ever being a problem.
I think it’s a little much to expect people to always qualify ‘Free as in beer’ anytime they ever use the word free in a monetary sense in a Linux community.
That seems really odd to me. I don’t expect people to qualify use of the word free in a montery sense in a Linux community, I expect people to avoid using the word free in a monetary sense entirely. And it doesn’t seem a little much, it seems blindingly obvious if one’s goal is to communicate effectively.
The two big contenders are Darcs … Darcs … has some performance issues (where some of the old perf issues are fixed, some remain)
If Darcs has performance issues, how is it better than git?
Git is not the best DVCS
What would you suggest is a better DVCS than git?
I would’ve thought … would’ve made that much obvious.
Using the word “free” to refer to proprietary games in a GNU/Linux context is a huge indicator of a lack of awareness. I wouldn’t look further.
finding out what software licence each and every title used, along with a direct link to the source code
FYI, the page you linked to isn’t publicly accessible. When I try to look, Reddit demands that I log in and doesn’t present the page content.
Windows 2000 was a good operating system by any measure
ROFL
It is a fact.
LOL
because everything just works
No, it’s because they believe everything will just work.