I would argue that \"look but don't touch\" is, in our general IP regulatory environment, much worse than being completely closed. It's literally a trap: if we record you looking at this, we have evidence for the infringement suit against you.
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For some organisations, it is important to be able to see the source of the code that they're running. They don't need/want to do anything else with it other than verify it does what it purports to do.
I agree that it isn't a *good* thing for most code uses.
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But by Thompson's Reflection, we know that reading the purported code without compiling it yourself offers no verification at all.
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And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Initiative seem[s|ed] moderately popular with some.
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Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
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Known as @Edent on most social platforms.
Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.
Please read the link before replying. Yes, that means you!
@Edent What's your view on the categorisation of the RHEL/CentOS source which is \"You can have it if you have a license for the product\" but makes it harder for anyone to use it to make another product directly based on it. A (somewhat important?) variant of #4?
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OSS, tech toys etc. (often RISC-V!)
KISS advocate
Former Solaris fan
Opinions here are mine and won't always match my employer's (@RedHat) 😎
@sxa as I said, they're all rough categories.
I think anyone who says "I'm taking my ball back" shouldn't be surprised when people don't want to play with them any more.
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Got the ⏻ symbol into #Unicode.
Open Standards / Source / Data geek.
Known as @Edent on most social platforms.
Bit obsessed with #SolarPower but not quite a #SolarPunk.
Please read the link before replying. Yes, that means you!
@Edent I am very curious about 7. Have we seen any glimpses of this?
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