[ShadowAce]

Tech Ping

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[Red Badger]

What’s GNU?..........................

[plsvn]

Richard Stallman was ousted?! That’s like getting rid of George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. Stallman was a way left lefty, too.

[SanchoP]

There are a number of empirical signs of the breakdown of boundaries between Free Software and Microsoft, such as the “Windows Subsystem for Linux”, but most insidious is the movement of GNU development processes onto the Microsoft-hosted platform, GitHub.

HELLO!!!--------HELLO!--------- What about systemd?

[kosciusko51]

I find this deceptive and very concerning. For a number of important reasons, hosting GNU development on a proprietary Microsoft platform should be verboten.

I wish the author would have stated the reasons more fully, rather than some vague insinuations.

[ConservativeMind]

I understand his “concern,” but the licenses still say everything is owned by the effort and anyone can host the code anywhere they want and the code is freely available to all.

I don’t like Microsoft, but, frankly, I never like Stallman.

I believe the best license is the old Borland license for commercial software and BSD for the rest.

The problems the GNU/GPL crud brought wasn’t worth anything over what BSD licenses already had out there. With BSD, companies don’t have to freak over a developer making changes to libraries or the like.

When I was younger, I maintained my computer club’s public domain software library. Public domain should be equal to BSD. Stallman perverted it with socialist ideals, saying that you owed your changes/work to everyone else and “we’ll sue you if you don’t give them.”

[cymbeline]

I use MBED which uses Github. It’s an embedded software/hardware development site. I have my source code up there and compile and link using their tools in their servers.

It works ok. Why should I care about an affiliation with Microsoft?

Why do I need to care about GNU?

[sauropod]

bkmk

[poconopundit]

I love what GNU has done. Three free GNU licensed software are invaluable to me:

GIMP - a free Adobe PhotoShop.
Audacity - a free audio editor.
Inkscape - a free Adobe Illustrator

Now on the Microsoft side, there are also free or almost-free software available.

Expression Web 4.0 — a great HTML editor (discontinued and now free)

Visual Foxpro 9 — a great object-oriented programming tool (discontinued, but will work as long as the 32-bit Windows OS is supported). Hard to find on web, but usually available for a few hundred dollars

[Bob434]

for us tech dummies- what does this mean? Linux is morphing into windows? Possibly Going pay at some point?