Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "Maybe Linux Isn't Really About Choice" video.

  1. He literally can't! It's copyleft, and nothing anyone can do could change that! For example, there are arguments for why it would be better for Linux to be licensed under GPLv3 instead of v2. I think Linus is nominally against it, but he's even said it doesn't matter because he'd have to get approval from every single contributor or rewrite from scratch any code written by the hold-outs.
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  2. I have the right to complain that you broke my workflow. You have the right to say you don't support my workflow--almost all projects are published under MIT, GPL or other licenses with explicit "no warranty" terms. That's totally fine and fair, though, because I further have the right to switch to something else, even if it's just a fork of your thing!
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  3. Ugh. I hear what you're saying, and you're not wrong... But ugh. And fwiw, my reaction is kind of the point--very few of us are actually paid (and paid well) to work on Open Source. So as a developer working on something in his off-time, the thing I'm working on will be geared either: - towards making my life better (solving my very esoteric customer need) - towards playing with something shiny. Nobody--and I mean nobody--wants to subject themselves to work on a faster horse and deal with the đź’© that entails.
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  4. ​ @NerdyWasTaken  "Mama, Papa, don't make me choose!" -Me, who uses Arch with the DE from an Ubuntu-based distro and who uses a dozen packages from the AUR which are literal torn down and reassembled from debs
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  5. To quote Voltaire (a noted early GNU developer), "If Linux did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it." There will always be a contingent of people who demand to be able to rebuild their engines or modify their operating systems. People thought that electrification would kill car mods, but just look at the number of people who have installed aftermarket upgrades on their Nissan Leafs. Similarly, modding Android has such a high barrier to entry because of the bespoke hardware involved. That doesn't stop pretty much every phone ever made form having a sub on xda-developers with instructions on swapping the kernel or installing a new ROM.
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  6. Glad to see people (besides me) sticking up for kdenlive, so I'll just add that between dxvk, wined3d and DOSBOX, I'm far more likely to be able to play a randomly-selected non-DRM/EAC-restricted title on an OS built off the 5.15 kernel or newer than I am on Windows 11.
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  7. Immutable filesystem based distros (ChimeraOS, Silverblue, SteamOS) say hi. Edit: Sorry--still trying to grok how NixOS uses immutability
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  8.  @lawrencedoliveiro9104  Interesting. Can't find it after about a 15m Google.* Do you remember when or in what context he said that? *All I could find is him expressing concern that Linux under GPLv2 is likely illegal in various parts of the world, him claiming that Linus probably didn't understand the part of the v3 draft he was upset by and the results of an audit of BusyBox which found that none of his original code was in the current (2006) codebase.
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