After a great week for Linux, with the releases of Fedora 40 and today Ubuntu 24.04, I would be interested to know which operating system the Fediverse in my "bubble" uses? Linux? Windows? Or macOS or even a BSD? More than one?

Please write in the comments which distribution or version! Thanks for participating and SHARING!

#linux #unix #opensource #freesoftware #windows #microsoft #apple #macos #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #debian #fedora #ubuntu #linuxmint #archlinux #opensuse #gnome #kde

• Linux - Which one? (71%, 50 votes)
• Windows 10/11 (15%, 11 votes)
• macOS (20%, 14 votes)
• FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD (30%, 21 votes)

We now understand why permissive #licensing is bad for #FOSS.

#Redis taught us why #GPL is important and #MIT, #Apache, #BSD etc allow corporations to enclose and steal our contributions.

#Israel's use of #Lavender for targeting in #Gaza, which may also use the code we donated to the commons, shows that we need to be more restrictive if we want to avoid assisting war crimes and probable #genocide.

I hope some lawyers are on this, and will help us add exclusions to protect from such use.

It seems, as if there is a category missing:
operating systems

I'd put in: #LinuxMint (or any other distros) or a #BSD system.

I've seen discussion of #gpl / #copyleft versus #bsd licences in the context of proprietary relicencing recently but unless I’m misunderstanding something it seems like a red herring.

Copyleft is meant to ensure that non-copyright-holders only gain rights if they comply with certain conditions. But the relicencing problem is about the behaviour of the copyright holder.

In either case, the owner can relicence the software as they see fit; and in either case, previous versions remain available.