@span strypey Because they are used to it. It's for most people difficult to change. Why do foss communies use Discord or Reddit. Why Telegram?
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@span martin @span strypey @span julian git is under this license; https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html
Can you find "open" in it for me?
Can you find "open" in it for me?
@span martin
> to clarify for anyone who might not have realised
> to clarify for anyone who might not have realised
Thanks for this. It surprises me that anyone doesn't know this yet, but I guess it shouldn't. Surely Free Code developers at least know this? But I'll keep it in mind for future posts where the target audience is the general public : )
@span strypey If you add ?raw=true to the URL - sometimes github will actually send you the file.
The issue is that guessing the file path is often not easy, forcing you to git clone the whole lot.
Such projects are "open source" instead of free software for a reason.
The issue is that guessing the file path is often not easy, forcing you to git clone the whole lot.
Such projects are "open source" instead of free software for a reason.
@span strypey Because they are used to it. It's for most people difficult to change. Why do foss communies use Discord or Reddit. Why Telegram?
@span os_sci
> Why do foss communies use Discord or Reddit. Why Telegram?
> Why do foss communies use Discord or Reddit. Why Telegram?
All equally good questions. Not only do these too have perfectly usable Free Code replacements, they're also decentralised.
For Discorpse/ Telegrim there's XMPP and Matrix apps, and public rooms can be made available via both (and IRC). For dReddit, there's Lemmy and PieFed, which federate over ActivityPub, making them part of the fediverse.
@span strypey i wrote a blog about this a couple of weeks ago. https://os-sci.com/blog/our-blog-posts-1/the-paradox-of-tough-image-software-114
"Telegram is popular among the open-source community for its strong encryption"
https://os-sci.com/blog/our-blog-posts-1/the-paradox-of-tough-image-software-114
Are you sure this paragraph was meant to say "Telegram"? AFAIK It's famous in software freedom circles, and especially among cryptographers, for its mostly-unusable, roll-your-own encryption;
It's popular with technically illiterate contrarians, who think everything they say on there is encrypted (it mostly isn't).
Going back a bit;
"Reddit is adored by the open-source community for its numerous subreddits dedicated to open-source projects, programming, and tech discussions."
https://os-sci.com/blog/our-blog-posts-1/the-paradox-of-tough-image-software-114
I guess it depends who you mean by "open-source community". It's certainly very popular with Redditors who like to talk about Open Source, GNU/Linux, etc. But I wouldn't necessarily conflate that with the dev and support communities producing the software they talk about.
HN and Lobste.rs, maybe.
"Discord ... serves as a hub for gaming communities."
https://os-sci.com/blog/our-blog-posts-1/the-paradox-of-tough-image-software-114
FYI if you want to avoid mentioning Matrix twice, Mumble is a fully Free Code voice and text chat system used by some gaming communities as a replacement for Discord/ TeamSpeak;
... as is Revolt;
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@span strypey I was talking about the issue at dino xmpp group chat one day, and some people were not even aware of the issue of non free javascript. So, I would say lack of awareness.
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