[–] 1 point 9 months ago

Oh that's just the delusion of freedom. USA is great at selling that. We will still fight but accepting the truth is always the sane approach compared to hopeful optimism .

Russia and china and easterns are more straight forward. "We don't want you to have privacy and control" Western countries wrap it around a populistic shiny wrapper. "This is the land of freedom, you are encouraged to have privacy and controll, unless you actually try to do so" they also let people play in the dirt unless they are doing something serious and pose some threat. But eastern governments are much less tolerant. You will be punished even for minor inconvenience.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I am having the time of my life with Clojure. Lisps in general. They really change how you view software. I was showing how clojure works to my Java coworker and showing her the REPL and powers of Clojure, and we both almost teared up :)) It's tgat good.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    The compatibility stuff really do need understanding.

    You can't use all other projects in your GPL project and your GPL project cant be used within every project.

    permissive licenses really do have no compatibility since they forbid nothing and allow everything (which isnt good most of the time) so tgey are simpler to use.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure but theres something in my mind bout MIT being the first suggested license for github.

    and also, to be real, you need to do some reasearch and actually understand the GPL license if you want to use it for your project. But with MIT you can just slap it on there and forget. It's convenient, but like a lot of conveniences, can be very bad.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    I think a part of it may be that they are from the younger generation like myself, and most of them don't really know the history of software and FOSS, and MIT is just a safe option for them. I think they haven't really put in the time to read and undertstand the philosophy and logic behind FOSS and read the licenses and writings.

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