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  • yeah that's the situation as i understand it. obviously im not a lawyer and whatnot but the way i understand it apple would have been required to open source the entirety of macOS if they had included GPLv3 software. GPLv2 was also considered copyleft (in fact, the FSF, who is responsible for GPL, coined the term), but GPLv3 added more stipulations in response to practices by corporations (most notably TiVO) that were not appreciated by the free software community

  • do you think that the political decisions of tech companies aren't intimately tied to the tech itself? you are lucky to have a corner of the globe where you are able to ignore politics. unless you're on your deathbed right now, that won't last.

  • i haven't gotten much sleep and it's really early so apologies if i misunderstood the question. very broadly, there's two kinds of open source licenses: copyleft and permissive. generally, permissive licenses like MIT allow any usage of the code, including by copyrighting your own contributions or including it in copyrighted works. copyleft licenses require additions to the code to be open sourced too. this was a problem for apple when GNU code updated from GPLv2 to v3, which iirc added the restriction that any package that included licensed programs also had to be copyleft. this was a problem because apple had packaged a lot of GPL programs with macOS, so now they haven't been updated since 2007

  • i can envision a future where you comes out to bring someone their food and talk for a little, sort of like how they do it in europe. obviously bringing some asshole their slop and then fucking off probably doesn't appeal to too many people.

  • i could be convinced that rhetoric like "social order" is inherently fashy but ultimately it seems like it mostly depends on the broader social context, doesn't it? i couldn't tell you a thing about china but it seems like the meaning behind the words probably isn't the same