Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.

It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.

What a lovely journey 🤍

  • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    That is not correct. Who is this “they” you are talking about? The OSI?
    Open source is a term with a definition - which has been written by software freedom advocates by the way.
    With free software you have politics and a philosophy, in which somebody can have more freedom or less with a piece of software. I really wouldn’t confuse that with the practicability of the OSI definition.
    Copyleft or push-over is a whole separate topic. Copyleft might be favoured by software freedom enthusiasts, but I disagree with your idea of separation through that. Even if you don’t care about software freedom, you could like the practical effects of the AGPL.
    I feel like you’re spreading at least misguiding information here.

    • spiffeeroo@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      Richard Stallman, the man behind GNU and FSF. He makes a distinction between free software and open source software.

      Stallman is not a pragmatist. He quit his job as a professor at MIT because he felt they were forcing him to use proprietary software, which contradicted his ideals.

      Linus still keeps Linux on GPLv2 because he disagrees with GPLv3+ and its anti-tivotization clauses. Companies that contribute code back to Linux is good enough for him. Linus has a more pragmatic view.

      • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        11 months ago

        These statements do not contradict anything I have said. Some people are pragmatic, some dogmatic about software freedom. So what?
        Another correction since I am on a roll: Linux can’t switch from GPLv2. There are too many copyright holders, you’d never be able to contact all of them and get them to agree to a license change. Even if Linus Torvalds wanted to change, which I honestly don’t think would be a sensible thing to do in his position.