I'm not sure where you heard any of that, but I have never heard any Red Hat employees say anything to that effect, ever. Fedora still exists, and to me that seems perfectly fine to install on a random laptop.
That blog is just one developer's opinion, not an official statement. Although I will say I share the opinion, Glade messes up my ui files and I can't recommend using it if you want to use any newer widgets. It has…
I've posted about this before, but if you want GTK and you believe API stability is the most important thing then you should just use GTK3. The API there is frozen. I'm not sure what "reputation" you're referring to but…
What you've said is really not correct, at all. For one, Glade is not deprecated in the sense that it doesn't work any more, it still works okay with GTK3, however it has a number of limitations that may make it…
Please don't assume bad faith. Glade was not "killed," there are technical reasons why Glade cannot be used for GTK4 (I can give more detail if you want). There is currently a new tool being developed by a Glade…
I'm not sure what you mean. It can still be operated offline, in which case there is no telemetry sent. The analytics is just another service that you can use.
Specifically, which legal threats and unethical behavior are you referring to?
This specific complaint seems to be about data privacy, not about a freedom being eroded. Also, since you can fork it, as has been previously mentioned, there seems to be no purpose in objecting to this type of FOSS…
Generally, no, that's not what that law in the US is acknowledging. It doesn't make any special consideration for any definition of "spyware" or any other similar concept, it talks about all kinds of data collection,…
More exhausting than developing towards an entirely different (and often redundant) feature set without any help from upstream? That's what is usually meant by "fork." If you want the minimal effort option and you don't…
I understand that you feel upset that they added something that you didn't want, but you don't have to continue adding to the division and cynicism. Forking is not the only move, and I would actually suggest against it…
I'm not sure what you mean, these laws aren't strictly concerning telemetry. Did you mean that telemetry is bad because children under 13 years old could accidentally use it? If so, that's the purpose of the law -- to…
Please don't do this, this is needlessly divisive. You don't have to make these (incorrect) assumptions about me and what I will use.
With that, I would say good luck troubleshooting your server if you don't collect any logs whatsoever. I wonder how you would even protect against bruteforcing and DDOS attacks if you never stored IP addresses for any…
I'm personally not confused, just disappointed. Sadly I've seen far too many FOSS discussions that become overrun with irrationally paranoid rhetoric, sometimes bordering on the reactionary. This stuff is nothing new.…
Please make sure you check the privacy policy there as well: https://man.sr.ht/privacy.md It's not clear what sort of thing you're referring to, it's generally not possible to make a service where you have accounts and…
>It's absurd to expect the word "community" to appear in the text of the GPL I'm not sure why you're saying this? I don't expect that word to appear in the text. It also seems mostly not possible to prove or disprove…
Sure, but the "intent" in question would be the intent of the copyright holder that chose to use the GPL. My point is that the intent in a lot of cases is NOT to do what is being suggested.
I'm not sure what value you're suggesting rustc would be able to bring there. If you want that in LLVM you can try your luck with the "resurrected" C backend: https://github.com/JuliaComputingOSS/llvm-cbe I don't…
I am familiar with the various other things that are hosted on the GNU website. I'm referring to the actual authoritative legal text that gets copied alongside all the source code that you use, not any other essays on…
>There was a thousand ways to do that before systemd, systemd added yet another way. It's not bad, but it was not novel in any way. The difference here is that systemd actually went to the individual distro maintainers…
If you want to use journald for those programs you could just configure them to pipe the logs there, or you could just disable journald logging and have it pipe its logs to the syslog. If your distro didn't configure…
I don't think it took me that long. I said this elsewhere but to me that is mostly a documentation problem, not anything to do with the underlying technology or the package format.
I don't install build-essential on a server, in a container, on a VM, etc. It really matters in those places. If you combine them then you lose the ability to deploy a small rootfs.
Hi Amjad, thanks for taking the time to respond. Can you please talk to Radon and work with him to remove the offending "unique and invisible" aspects, to make it so he can put his project back up? There must be some…
I'm not sure where you heard any of that, but I have never heard any Red Hat employees say anything to that effect, ever. Fedora still exists, and to me that seems perfectly fine to install on a random laptop.
That blog is just one developer's opinion, not an official statement. Although I will say I share the opinion, Glade messes up my ui files and I can't recommend using it if you want to use any newer widgets. It has…
I've posted about this before, but if you want GTK and you believe API stability is the most important thing then you should just use GTK3. The API there is frozen. I'm not sure what "reputation" you're referring to but…
What you've said is really not correct, at all. For one, Glade is not deprecated in the sense that it doesn't work any more, it still works okay with GTK3, however it has a number of limitations that may make it…
Please don't assume bad faith. Glade was not "killed," there are technical reasons why Glade cannot be used for GTK4 (I can give more detail if you want). There is currently a new tool being developed by a Glade…
I'm not sure what you mean. It can still be operated offline, in which case there is no telemetry sent. The analytics is just another service that you can use.
Specifically, which legal threats and unethical behavior are you referring to?
This specific complaint seems to be about data privacy, not about a freedom being eroded. Also, since you can fork it, as has been previously mentioned, there seems to be no purpose in objecting to this type of FOSS…
Generally, no, that's not what that law in the US is acknowledging. It doesn't make any special consideration for any definition of "spyware" or any other similar concept, it talks about all kinds of data collection,…
More exhausting than developing towards an entirely different (and often redundant) feature set without any help from upstream? That's what is usually meant by "fork." If you want the minimal effort option and you don't…
I understand that you feel upset that they added something that you didn't want, but you don't have to continue adding to the division and cynicism. Forking is not the only move, and I would actually suggest against it…
I'm not sure what you mean, these laws aren't strictly concerning telemetry. Did you mean that telemetry is bad because children under 13 years old could accidentally use it? If so, that's the purpose of the law -- to…
Please don't do this, this is needlessly divisive. You don't have to make these (incorrect) assumptions about me and what I will use.
With that, I would say good luck troubleshooting your server if you don't collect any logs whatsoever. I wonder how you would even protect against bruteforcing and DDOS attacks if you never stored IP addresses for any…
I'm personally not confused, just disappointed. Sadly I've seen far too many FOSS discussions that become overrun with irrationally paranoid rhetoric, sometimes bordering on the reactionary. This stuff is nothing new.…
Please make sure you check the privacy policy there as well: https://man.sr.ht/privacy.md It's not clear what sort of thing you're referring to, it's generally not possible to make a service where you have accounts and…
>It's absurd to expect the word "community" to appear in the text of the GPL I'm not sure why you're saying this? I don't expect that word to appear in the text. It also seems mostly not possible to prove or disprove…
Sure, but the "intent" in question would be the intent of the copyright holder that chose to use the GPL. My point is that the intent in a lot of cases is NOT to do what is being suggested.
I'm not sure what value you're suggesting rustc would be able to bring there. If you want that in LLVM you can try your luck with the "resurrected" C backend: https://github.com/JuliaComputingOSS/llvm-cbe I don't…
I am familiar with the various other things that are hosted on the GNU website. I'm referring to the actual authoritative legal text that gets copied alongside all the source code that you use, not any other essays on…
>There was a thousand ways to do that before systemd, systemd added yet another way. It's not bad, but it was not novel in any way. The difference here is that systemd actually went to the individual distro maintainers…
If you want to use journald for those programs you could just configure them to pipe the logs there, or you could just disable journald logging and have it pipe its logs to the syslog. If your distro didn't configure…
I don't think it took me that long. I said this elsewhere but to me that is mostly a documentation problem, not anything to do with the underlying technology or the package format.
I don't install build-essential on a server, in a container, on a VM, etc. It really matters in those places. If you combine them then you lose the ability to deploy a small rootfs.
Hi Amjad, thanks for taking the time to respond. Can you please talk to Radon and work with him to remove the offending "unique and invisible" aspects, to make it so he can put his project back up? There must be some…