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Don't talk about open source if you don't understand it. Paid binaries are the oldest form of OSS monetization.

Is the source open and with a OSS-compatible licence? Then it's open source, not freeware nor shareware.

Red Hat has nagging too.


I do understand OS. Read the preamble of gpl this explains the _purpose_ of os.

The _goal_ of open source is to provide free software. Software that is free to _use_ now, and in the future, not _just_ free to get the source, free to use. If you don't provide free software (and free build processes) it's not compliant with Open Source licences.

Paid binaries are permitted but you must be _willing_ to to give away your software free of cost.

Aguably nagware is a deliberate annoyance and time cost to the user that makes it not "free to use". Adding crippleware (making it not work after a period of time) is certainly forbidden.

If your are writing nagware with oss license no-one will take you to court, because they can fix it, but it's certainly deceptive. It imies you don't want your software to be free to use.

OS licenses were not designed as a marketing tool for individual developers to get you a foot in the door. You can do that, but don't be surprised if you get called out for it. That is not the _purpose_ of OS.

That's the purpose of a free tier.

As a RedHat customer I don't find any of the software use daily to be suffering from nagware.

If grep had nagware in it, I'd bitch about it on HN.


> The _goal_ of open source is to provide free software. Software that is free to _use_ now, and in the future, not _just_ free to get the source, free to use. If you don't provide free software (and free build processes) it's not compliant with Open Source licences

No, the goal of Open Source is to provide a user with ability access the source and do things to it. That's the difference between the Open Source and Free Software championed by FSF. FSF flopped. That's why we are still waiting for the Hurd to be useful.

Source: Sat in the room with Bruce Perens when this was happening.


> As a RedHat customer I don't find any of the software use daily to be suffering from nagware.

Don't enter your license key and you'll see

Why does CentOS exist?


So you think Zensursula is pushing surveillance state only so she can then buy surveillance products of US tech companies because ... what? Money going to her pocket?

I think that's much more of a conspiracy theory than the notion that politicians want control.


You are putting things in a manner that is too concrete. Politicians do not always need money that is going directly to their pockets.

UvdL has been mentioned in connection with nepotism before (by the German state radio!):

https://www.dw.com/en/german-opposition-to-probe-defense-min...

After that scandal she failed upwards to Brussels. Politicians that are that unassailable should face extended scrutiny. Who protects her and why?

(Here is an unrelated mask procurement scandal that shows how things work in Germany:

https://www.dw.com/en/german-mask-scandal-unforgivable-viola...)


Why that surprises you?

As a German minister of defence, she is known as a person who paid half a billion euros to PwC consultants. Also, she renovated a sailing wooden training ship for more than 200 million euros.

And she is accused of removing proofs by deleting data from her phone and “not remembering” anything.

I would trust that person every evil and corrupt thing one can imagine.


Why is it so hard to believe she simply wants [Chat] Control, then?


Of course, she wants Control, although not for control's sake, but because she will get more of what she really wants (money, power, more money, ...)

It's sad that our EU doesn't let any hope that they do something because they believe it's the right thing to do. It's always big business and foreign government interests before interests of Europeans.


Why is it so hard to believe that she truly thinks that McKinsey consultants will improve the German Army instead of guzzling money?


The biggest problem is Germany's and other Western European military is that they've been starved of money for decades.

Paying half a billion to consultants to tell you this is.... Kinda the problem.


Sorry, I wrote PwC instead of McKinsey.

Now, if I only could make my previous comment disappear, like she made her messages disappear, so they couldn't be used as court evidence …


She does, because she will benefit from it, even if only indirectly.


Politicians want more than control, they want informational weapons.

It's clear now how these Israeli zero-day exploit software power politicians' informational armies against their political adversaries.


History is chock full of people in positions of power pissing away all sources of resources and closing the door to all sorts of prosperity for both themselves and for the people subject to their actions in order to further consolidate power.


She is riding the lobbying wave without giving much critical thinking to what happens. After all, she is just a humble public servant, she thinks. What harm can this possibly make?


Make a free Gitlab account and try out their Web IDE as it is now, and then compare it to Gitpod or just run Coder-server on your machine. It's a humongous change.

The current Web IDE is not an IDE at all - VSCode is.


What does it matter if you pay for it?


Well then self-hosted Gitlab is the perfect option.


Wow, what an insurmountable problem!!! All plans off!


What got you to programming

What do you like about programming

Do you know anything else about computers or are you interested learning about it

Are you interested in adjacent fields such as microelectronics, math, etc


I live near one, it's the best environment I've ever lived within, especially compared to the coal thermal plant that was near where I used to live.


Germany doesn't have blackouts only thanks to Czech and French nuclear energy ;-)


The other way round, actually. France recently had massive problems because they had to switch off multiple nuclear plants for unexpected maintenance issues, and bought lots of power from Germany


1 event does not make a rule. French nuclear reactors were turned off for maintenance, yes, but over the past 30 years, it is clearly Germany depending on French power


Germany is a net electricity exporter: https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/EN/Infografiken/stromaustausch...

Unplanned shutdowns are a increasing occurrence in France because of aging reactors and overheating/freezing rivers


Doesn't matter at all. Germany is exporting tons of underpriced (or even negatively priced) electricity in peak season - when everybody has more than enough of their own, so people are using it only to mine Bitcoin and other non essential usecases - and then there would be a blackout off-season if it wasn't for neighboring nuclear power plants, gas and coal. Very weird for a country that has its mouth full with greenness and renewability.


>overheating rivers

Is this really what German press is reporting? What a gross lie. The "overheating" is neither due to the reactor (simply it getting hot naturally) nor actively threatening to the reactor: they are just stopped to avoid making the situation slightly worse. Temperature difference at the output of a nuclear plant is barely a degree.


That's kinda the point of an interconnected electricity grid, it allows you to import the cheapest energy available. I don't get the argument here. Sometimes it's renewable, sometimes it's gas, sometimes it's coal, sometimes it's hydro, sometimes it's nuclear...?


The argument here is that a country that keeps talking about green energy, ecology and renewables for decades is now using much less ecological methods of power generation than nuclear, and they keep badmouthing nuclear too.


Germany abandoning nuclear has been decades in the making, it does not come as a surprise. If we look at the whole picture without focusing on one particular energy source, then we can see that they have reduced their CO2 emissions over the years. Not by much, but it's expected to improve when they close down their coal plants.


Trade is not bad?


Trade is not bad. Saying you don't have a use for nuclear and then using it anyways while badmouthing it is bad.


Noone says you don't have to use nuclear. People say that building nuclear against climate change is an inferior intervention to fix climate change.


Actually Germans say that a lot and try to enforce it through the EU. They never found support for a complete ban but they're thwarting progress as much as they can.

And then you have the Austrians who try to cancel our nuclear power plants directly through activism, etc.


I read that debate about what is supposed to be green just a political struggle to get a larger share of pot of money distributed by being anti-nuclear they could "compromise to" natural gas being allowed as green.


Every Angular dev I knew switched to React because they couldn't find good positions...


makes me wondering maybe I was in a sterile information vacuum. I used to think Angular naturally protects me from all this BS mediocre react projects because of its ’enterpriseness‘ and ‘the choice for serious projects’. Thank you for the note, I’ll take this into account


Make sure you're generalising your experience and not advertising yourself as an angular dev. Many jobs expect you to take 6 months to a year to fully get up to speed anyway in my experience.


I was doing exactly opposite (Angular-only) but now I see that maybe times when there were plenty of Angular positions with often more interesting projects are gone


Yeah. Around 2019 most companies I interviewed for started telling me they're rewriting their Angular projects to React. Before that there was a good number of Angular projects, but I'm seeing only React since then, occasionally some Angular maintenance when it's not worth it to rewrite (so you don't really want to work there usually).


thanks for your insight


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