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While I fully agree with you, there are several issues here:

- the word "free" has several meanings in English, i.e. "free" as in "no charge" and "free" as in "freedom" (free access, free software, etc.) - the answer given there does not indicate which one of those is meant.

- patents have most likely been granted in countries that recognise them - this does not prevent from the patent being put into public domain. However, the second sentence in question 17 seems to indicate that the license bears a fee, which also contradicts one of the meanings of "free above.

Either way, the Q&A/FAQ is full of marketing mumble.

Re:The Secret Button on Thursday August 18, 2016 @06:30AM (#12311454)
Disable all window decorations (i.e. adjust for best performance) and it's back - not a big deal.
Re:Ask HN: New attempt at mobile markup – keep or bail? on Monday November 02, 2015 @05:31AM (#10491035)
Finally!

Keep it, please!

Re:Dungeon Robber on Monday November 02, 2015 @05:10AM (#10490967)
+1 # I'm not a fan of "plus ones"

Flash!? It's 2015!

I take it you own one and would like your objective opinion. What exactly was wrong with it?
Re:OpenBSD from a veteran Linux user perspective on Sunday June 28, 2015 @08:52PM (#9795842)
OpenBSD grows and changes, and its rc.d(8) is no exception!

man 8 rcctl

If something did not exist prior to our action then it is an invention, otherwise it's a discovery.
Re:Why I dislike systemd on Monday June 15, 2015 @06:46PM (#9722634)
> If you'd like to know what that does, you can just look up the bash source of `/etc/rc.d/rc.subr`, another bash script.

Ouch... Shell (or Bourne Shell to be exact), not bash.

Bash is a type of Shell and it's not* even available (thank goodness) on either of the BSDs in their base system (only as a port and/or package).

On OpenBSD, the actual command line interpreter is actually Korn, not the Bourne, Shell.

Re:Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You on Monday June 15, 2015 @04:05PM (#9721698)
I meant the whole thing - subkeys, their very purpose (even CAs use subkeys to sign certificats!) or usage, etc.

Seems a bit strange for security researcher - that's all.

Re:Signify: Securing OpenBSD from Us to You on Monday June 15, 2015 @04:01PM (#9721668)
How is this personal?

I'm not trying to insult anyone, it's a mere statement of a fact - the OP hasn't a slightest clue about web of trust, subkeys, key-signing, etc. and he clearly demonstrated it in several comments. In those he spreads misinformation and FUD - and those are signs of a troll. So if I say "you haven't a slightest clue" to such an individual, I'm being polite.

Good day.

Re:Favicon bug on Monday June 15, 2015 @03:55PM (#9721616)
I've noticed it several months ago by going through my server logs - hadn't included 'favicon.ico' in the HTML and yet, the browser - Chrom(e|ium) - tried downloading it every time.

Thanks for reminding me to report it ;^)

The same with "UNIX", "Unix" and "unix" (sic!).
Re:OpenBSD's safe, new file(1) implementation on Sunday April 26, 2015 @06:40AM (#9441289)
OpenBSD != FreeBSD

This[0] is a good place to start. Other than than, just read the code.

[0] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man9/...

Re:Stop using tail -f (mostly) on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @02:00AM (#9294616)
Why would they? It's not needed - '-F', '--retry' and the like are redundant. IMVHO, OpenBSD's '-f' behaviour should have been the default elsewhere, too. How many times in the past have you deliberately followed the file descriptor (coreutils' default '-f' behaviour) instead of its name? Every single time I used it in the past on Linux, this is what I thought:

    "For f***** sake! I should have used '-F'! Arghhh...!"
Obviously, I'm paraphrasing ;^)
No, this will remove 'var_is_not_set_so_please_fix_this_script' file if one exists.

If you're suggesting using parameter expansion, at least suggest the correct one (i.e. one that will give a meaningful error message):

    ${parameter:?word}
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...
> 3. This is where it smells fishy. "Revolution R Enterprise Workstation is licensed for a single named user, and available in two editions:". But is it a modified R version. They mention no change to core for open, but not for this. If they use R which is licensed under GPL how can they sell it ? Else if it is proprietary why call it "R"?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

No wonder F(L)OSS has such a bad PR in some business circles.

How are they, or regular folk for that matter, to ever understanding it, if even some of us don't!?

Re:Google, Microsoft Map Brazil's Favelas on Thursday September 25, 2014 @04:03PM (#8369417)
It would be nice to link to an article anybody can read.

I can only suspect it's Google Maps vs. Bing Maps - the latter are simply from OpenStreetMap project in which case it's nothing new.

That is what I mean, basically :^)
Has anyone noticed that the usage restriction:

"This software(OpenNote) cannot be sold as a product, as a component, as a service, or in any other way unless a distribution license is purchased from the author(J. Liscom)"

is incompatible with its (OpenNote) license (GPLv3)?