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I was curious what the Linux people think about Microsoft and any bad practices that most people should know about already?

  • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
    12·
    1 year ago

    https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

    Free software can be freely copied, modified, distributed, etc. This doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay for it.

    Open source software has its source code published. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re able to copy some or all of it, modify it, distribute it, etc.

    It’s getting more and more common that, even in cases where code is open source, only part of the codebase is actually available. This is something that Microsoft (and other wealthy tech companies) loves to do to show that it’s “transparent.”

    • scratchandgame@lemmy.mlTiếng Việt
      12·
      1 year ago

      Thanks.

      Open source software has its source code published. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re able to copy some or all of it, modify it, distribute it, etc.

      GPL as an example.

      Free software can be freely copied, modified, distributed, etc

      If you are citing the GNU’s website, you should remove the “modified”. I’d quote a mailing list user:

      Say if OpenSSH was licenced under (A)GPL, companies would likely not use it because they wouldn’t be able to incorporate it into their IP, they would then try to code a shoddy implementation, and have numerous security bugs which would affect the end user. In other words, you are just shooting yourself in the foot.