Ignoring Red Hat which according to the Software Freedom Conservancy organization they GPL violators.

But with Ubuntu it depends on whether you consider paid repositories features or support. Sure you can just compile it yourself but that’s kinda the same thing Zorin is doing: https://lemmy.world/post/29546682/17016426

Stallman’s usual take is “Yeah sure you can sell it, as long as you respect the 4 freedoms.”. So I don’t think selling Free Software is against the spirit of FOSS. The issue is rather that the Free Software is against the spirit of selling because realistically you can sell it to one entity which can then just make 7 billion copies of said software. At that point it’s no longer financially viable to sell it for you.

I also think that the majority of people creating Free Software would be fine with someone else selling it. Remember how much permissive-licensed software is out there. If authors really cared, they would have licensed the software under GPL, but instead they even allow it to be used with commercial licensing. Obviously I’m not taking away your opinion, but I don’t think your opinion represents the majority of FOSS.

According to this comment

https://lemmy.world/post/29546682/17016426

it’s not absolutely proprietary. It’s just Free Software they are selling, which is approved by Root Mean Square.

they don’t

https://lemmy.world/post/29546682/17016426

I know what kind of projects you are talking about, I just think it’s kinda pointless to talk about “shifting focus” when 99 % of focus has already been shifted since forever. The projects you listed are really just hobby projects. It’s kinda like saying people should stop working on “alternative” init systems and they should instead work on systemd. People working on hobby project won’t suddenly shift to professional projects, because that would kinda ruin the hobby.

I see so many people here on Lemmy who are desperately waiting for Linux phones to replace their iPhones or Android phones

In my opinion it’s similar situation with the users. I think people waiting for Linux proper phones aren’t really waiting for a replacement for their Android phone, rather for a niche alternative for hackermen, like alternative init systems to systemd or Gentoo to Ubuntu. It doesn’t have to be a drop in replacement, it just has to do the job (calls, sms, internet, camera, usable battery life). Right now it does not even do the job.

unless they use my discord server to spread those views

To me that’s not controversial at all and does not suggest in the slightest that he’s a fascist, National Socialist or whatever. And he isn’t creating “safe spaces” for these kind of people either. A safe space to me means a place where said people can express their (stupid) opinion freely, which Vaxry according to this statement does not support. Also I don’t have the exact quote but in a different episode of his blogpost saga he claimed that when some person was transphobic, said person was banned. So that would also be supporting evidence that he does not create safe spaces for bigots.

If we’re talking strictly hypothetically, I’m a worse person than Vaxry because unlike me, he claims not to allow bigots to express their opinions in his dicksword server, while I am engaging in communication in a Lemmy community where being a fan of Mao or Stalin is allowed.

In the rest of the article he presents nazism as an opinion people might have that you disagree with.

He didn’t say anything about Nazism being an opinion you disagree with.

He argues that his silent acceptance of nazis is the morally correct stance while inclusive communities are toxic actually.

He does argue that his stance is morally correct but what you said is not his stance. I think the following quote implies the point he’s trying to make.

It’s important to note that there are many people who disagree on topics like religion, economic systems, LGBT issues, geopolitics, and other. For whatever reasons they may, we still should not ostracize them as long as they can interact with the FOSS community in a respectful manner, without arguing about those issues in places not meant for such discussions.

I think his point is that him disallowing ostracising of people creates communities that tolerate all kinds of people including say, LGBT people. The Nazis would be collateral damage of inclusiveness, I suppose. I’m naming specifically LGBT, since in a different quote he’s talking about illegal things in Hungary, which is famously a highly LGBT-discriminating country in the EU:

I stand by my stance that even if you are something that the country I live in disagrees with, you still are free to use, contribute to, and be a part of the greater FOSS community.

Also part of his point is that just because someone claims some other person is a bigot, does not mean that’s actually true. The former person could just be lying or otherwise twisting the truth, therefore it’s important to be inclusive:

They will try and find things that you do outside of your proffessional persona, or often infer, guess, meddle with, or lie about what you say and stand for.

The vast majority of the FOSS mobile development community has already shifted to AOSP. “Proper” mobile Linux has never been a serious thing except maybe during the Nokia N900 era (It was released in 2009.). So I don’t really get what you’re trying to say with that statement. Also the main thing that’s lacking for mobile Linux are the drivers and hardware*, so there it does not really matter whether it’s Linux “proper” or Android because the low level stuff is pretty much the same.

*With hardware I mean that the devices are not designed to be tinkered with unless it’s Pinephone like Linux phone, where the problem are said drivers.

This is the least of the issues that Linux phones are facing though. It’s mostly the drivers that are lacking. Linux phones are also one of the areas where you actually don’t want flatpak and docker bloating up your system with duplicated dependencies because you have limited storage.

You probably don’t care about my opinion, but one of the reason I don’t really care about this is that I only have the “drama” second hand from very unreliable sources. There is the Vaxry’s version of the story which cannot be trusted because that’s conflict of interest. Then there is Drew, who according to a Distrotube video is quite a bizzare person, who really enjoys to stir the drama and write these extremely misleading “hitpieces” on famous FOSS people. The issue is that to me Distrotube is not a credible source regarding this either because he’s got for me too schizo view of the world. He has a rifle collection, in case he has to fight for his country. (including a rifle, “that’s good for children”)

So it’s just too foggy for me. Well I don’t promote Hyprland because I don’t care about my computer’s “looks” and because according to some (I think) Void dev, Hyprland code is crap. But that’s a different story. Anyways my point is that I can see why people can see it as not that bad.

edit: adding sources for the Drew, Distrotube and Void stuff, in that order. Also the Drew video relies on indirect evidence but for me it’s fairly convincing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NLHIIVppdMw

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nvQ-ZY460WQ

https://reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/1eb3ivp/on_hyprland

Haven’t seen the video, I’m only commenting based on the summary in the comments.

It’s good that flatpak is switching to OCI containers. Hopefully that will end the flatpak’s dependency hell. This week I was looking at flatpak as a way to publish my app and found the user experience (user is the app publisher in this context) quite bad. Could be skill issue obviously.

I thought I could just look into a database of flatpak runtimes, pick the one with the software I need, add additional packages and be done with it. Unfortunately it is not that simple. First of all as far as I know, there is no “database” like archlinux.org/packages. You have to download the runtime and then search /usr/include/ or /usr/bin/ to check if particular piece of software exists in it. Adding additional packages is also quite difficult. There are these runtime extensions which are like “baby runtimes” for special software like ffmpeg, java, etc. They kinda suffer from issues similar to the issues of the runtimes. And unlike in regular distros where you can get a package for almost anything, here you don’t have the luxury and have to bundle that not so popular dependency.

I hope that with OCI I will be able to just provide the binary, a link to the base image and a list of dependencies to install and be done with it.