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  • It just replaced GNU parts. It's a classical Theseus ship dilemma. It's still GNU.

  • Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads?
  • Software Freedom #0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose

    Open source criteria #6: The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

    By forbidding some entities from using the software, it violates both Free Software and Open Source and makes itself proprietary.

  • Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads?
  • So it does violate some core rules of both FS an OS. Also the text is so full of legal holes which makes it useless in it's goal too. It only prevents good-intent individuals from contributing and acts as a tool in hand of big evil corpurates.

  • Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads?
  • No. It's not. It's just a proprietary source-available software. The license is neither Free nor Open.

  • Selfhosted alternatives to Goodreads?
  • Only if it was Free Software or at least OpenSource…

  • Many such cases
  • Unpopular opinion: Microsoft Office suite sucks in UI and UX. LibreOffice is far superior to it.

  • Many such cases
  • From a software engineering POV Photoshop is a bad software (against unix philosophy) and no Free Software wants to be a bad software, so forget about feature parity and use different apps for different things that mistakenly all done by Photoshop.

  • New season!
  • F you! We even celebrated it in Iran

  • The fediverse Goodreads alternative: Bookwyrm
  • No. It's not Open source at all!

    From Open source definition: "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

    Source: https://opensource.org/osd

  • The fediverse Goodreads alternative: Bookwyrm
  • I really wish was a Free Software and not a proprietary one!

  • Current situation on FOSS Discord replacements?
  • Discord is a mess and very hard to use. Element in the other hand is designed logical and easier to learn.

  • "But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver"
  • The hell with android apps. In my last year with Droidian, I got better replacements for any single app I used on Android!

  • "But my friend runs a PinePhone as a daily driver"
  • I'm daily driving Droidian for more than a year!

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  • During agricultural revolution

  • Useless messenger
  • Who uses WhatsApp anyway?

  • Useless messenger
  • Every damn thing?

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  • Of course it did

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  • Religion is a product of capitalism and it's right hand. The other hand of capitalism is state.

  • true comparison

    A picture of Lara Croft in new Tomb Raider hand in hand with Lara Croft from the old Tomb raider Series. The new one labeled GNOME and the old one KDE.

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