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  • This right here. I know lemmy is all “LINUX IS FOR EVERYONE!” But it isn’t.

    I know this would go against Google’s self interest but they are best poised to make Linux mainstream. Chrome OS can play android games natively. But it’s all close source.

    It wouldn’t take much to make the ecosystem for general Linux. I don’t know if the other android-based OSes are working on this but anything we can do to push gaming into Linux would help it to become a better everyday OS












  • Open source software literally means that the source code is available to anyone. In GitHub, that just means that your repo is public rather than private.

    You can make publicly available any code that is fully under copyright. The reader cannot compile, modify, or redistribute it. It’s called “source available”.

    Open Source has a specific definition that has been tested in court, which means that you are able to make modifications, transform, etc. within the confines of the license that is provided with the code.

    There are two types of “free”: free as in gratis (free beer) vs free as in libre (free speech). The OSS licenses very clearly dictate by which means that you are free.

    Edit: added a source