Yeah, it's a big myth that GPL prevents corporate profiteering.
I understand now. You're following the wrong approach for installing on a USB. Installing to USB is done purely by burning an ISO to it. If you run a standard traditional installer, it will think the USB is just another disk on your computer, and will hence modify the host computer's bootloader accordingly.
There may be a way to do what you're trying to do without burning a ISO, but I'm not sure. But the way you're doing it is definitely not right.
You're right. I should say "profit growth" which is what corporations look for. You can have solid growth, but unless it's growing, they don't care.
Just so I understand clearly, you installed OS on a USB drive, but it somehow had effects outside the USB itself and messed up the host device's bootloader?
This shouldn't happen. Can you please tell us how exactly you did this? It must be something wrong in your procedure. Installing ISO onto USB should never impact your host machine unless you intend so.
Not surprised. A for-profit corporation wanting more money. Especially as we enroach further into late stage capitalism where corporations struggle to find more territory to profiteer from and squeeze more profit out of us.
The era of free services being profitable is ending rapidly, and we see this across many areas in the world.
Caspian report has some good videos but some of their stuff is really far fetched. Speculation presented as fact.
Time to bully the new mods and spam the sub reddit with pictures of John Oliver
I tried accessing via https://lemmy.ml/c/foss_gaming@lemmy.world bit doesn't seem to work for some reason. Maybe the federation takes a minute.
It's a good idea but honestly I am already enjoying the lemmy-unique content a lot more.
SimpleX Chat and Briar. Also check this link out.
lemmy.ml is also very large, so I would look for something smaller. you can try vlemmy.net It isn't that small, but it seems to have 100% uptime from stats.
I don't suppose they're modifying much of the GPL'd kernel necessarily. That's the part protected by GPL.
Their own actual distro is not exactly a modification of GPL software. And if they modify GPL software, they wouldn't have issues providing source code to that.