Re:The Joy of Slow Computing
by omouse on Thursday May 21, 2015 @11:11AM
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>Eric Schmidt doesn’t care if I’m using Emacs
Actually, yes he does especially if you use GNU/Linux because that runs the world. The importance of free/open source is so great that if the popular libraries switched to a proprietary license a lot of companies would go bankrupt paying the license fees.
Re:The Joy of Slow Computing
by seiji on Thursday May 21, 2015 @11:37AM
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Licensing is the reason all the Apple GNU tools are forever stuck on old versions now. Once the tools moved to GPLv3, Apple stopped updating them. Check out how old your version of /bin/bash is on a completely up-to-date OS X machine.
Actually, yes he does especially if you use GNU/Linux because that runs the world. The importance of free/open source is so great that if the popular libraries switched to a proprietary license a lot of companies would go bankrupt paying the license fees.