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[–] grue@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (13 children)

There is no such thing as "conditionally open source." The license terms you describe are just "not open source."

If they actually gave a shit about commercial entities contributing back, they should've gone AGPL3. This is just a money grab and yet another example of how permissive licensing isn't good enough and everything should be copyleft.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Specifically to force all of us to do unpaid labor for Google.

Where's my fucking paycheck‽

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope, Star Trek Online.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The majority of the gameplay is committing war crimes in the name of galactic peace, but the players know the real endgame is space Barbie.

(It's probably not my favorite game of all time, but it's the MMO I play most often.)

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

AFAIK it's a lemmy.ml (the instance) thing, not a lemmy (the software) thing.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dual boot is too inconvenient. Just go Linux cold-turkey and run Windows in a VM if you have to.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

For the umpteen-thousandth time, Stallman was right, LOL.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Why would they stop? That revenue model has been working just fine for Wikipedia for over a decade now.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Aww, alternativeto.net isn't that bad...

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Exactly! That inability to anticipate all possible answers is the reason a textbox is necessary.

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