Theoretically they can, in practice it’s less than ideal. And that doesn’t solve all the other distros or the combinatory explosion of supporting several distros and versions.
Flatpaks on the other hand give you a single runtime of your choice to worry about (though they still have lots of cons too).
Until they drop it for flatpak as they did all NIH-driven products.
Probably because PPAs only work on Ubuntu and there are more Linux distros and even then it meant having to build and test a package for a couple of different Ubuntu versions.
So if I want to improve their software I need to pay them. Got it.
One way of making software more fair is by allowing developers to profit. Many companies today invest resources into taking an existing project and copying the ongoing work of the project creators; afterwards, creating and maintaining a hosted version using their code. In a fair circumstance, should they benefit from using the software, they could add certain features, fix bugs and support the community of users enjoying the product. In many cases they do, but fair-code ensures that this can happen by bringing businesses to the negotiation table when it comes to commercializing software.
This is bullshit when only a set of developers are allowed to profit. Every single project with a non-commercial license I know has an exception for the company that owns the repo. At that point external contributions are not open or fair anything, it’s a company stealing labour.
Either licenses are symmetrical or they are inherently unfair, and calling it Fair is doublespeak.
So a single entity is allowed to commercialize external contributions without any kind of reciprocity. Somehow it sounds worse to me than Shared Source.
If you are worried about leeches just use AGPL and call it a day.
That makes it source-available (like Microsoft Windows which is available under Shared Source) not open source.
That version/feature table 😵💫
You have no idea. I once did an open source library that became somewhat popular and shit like that made me give it away to a consulting company that will happily attach a quote to the bullshit requests.
As in my case it was a library I also got the university students demanding I do their homework for them, which is another delightful group.
One of the effects of capitalism is that people are conditioned to think as growth in quantity is the end goal of all human activity.
This makes it harder to realize that, as far as the Fediverse is concerned, at very least, Lemmy and Mastodon have achieved viable self-sustaining networks and that driving inorganic growth by targeting users in other platforms would reduce the viability of the network because it makes onboarding new users harder. An example of this even inside reddit was when a subreddit got a sudden large influx of new subscribers they invariably lost what made them stand out in the first place.
Are you in the market for a plasma widget with ads? That can be arranged.
When your entire security model consists of obfuscation and sticking your head in the sand, sweeping the vulnerabilities under the proverbial rug is the obvious course of action.
While I personally don’t oppose licenses that forbid commercial usage, this is not open source.
Mastodon and Lemmy could be indexed relatively easily, but as all social media it raises the problem of consent on broader decimation of content that’s intended for a specific audience.
Everyone that needs a universal time is just using UTC.
And Apple said they are finally going to support RCS.
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A text editor and a markdown to PDF app.
Alternatively Libre office and a standard template like Europass.
If you feel you need more than that you are putting too many details on your CV.
If by animations you mean smoothly moving the mouse and windows while badly optimized apps and websites are rendering, yes.
TLS certs can have one level of wildcard (even let’s encrypt supports this), and creating subdomains programmatically is not exactly black magic - the main blocker from the technical side is that the code to update the DNS is usually not portable between providers, so it’s not adequate for a federated open source project.