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Starting with comma is also a common technique in the text expander / text replacement community.

MPL 2.0 has been the preferred license for CTO Bryan Cantrill and crew for more than a decade:

“And because any conversation about open source has to address licensing at some point or another, let’s get that out of the way: we opted for the Mozilla Public License 2.0. While relatively new, there is a lot to like about this license: its file-based copyleft allows it to be proprietary-friendly while also forcing certain kinds of derived work to be contributed back; its explicit patent license discourages litigation, offering some measure of troll protection; its explicit warranting of original work obviates the need for a contributor license agreement (we’re not so into CLAs); and (best of all, in my opinion), it has been explicitly designed to co-exist with other open source licenses in larger derived works. Mozilla did terrific work on MPL 2.0, and we hope to see it adopted by other companies that share our thinking around open source!”

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2014/11/03/smartdatacenter-and-...

Also discussed around 38 minute of https://youtu.be/Zpnncakrelk?si=DkSW6CM_MS-q1Gyd

Although not explicitly stated there are like deeper roots here “The one important exception to these generalizations is Sun Microsystems' CDDL, which was a true improvement on MPL 1.1, and which continues to cover a substantial amount of important open source software. … I encourage Oracle, the current CDDL steward, to consider relicensing its CDDL code under MPL 2.0, which is as worthy a successor to CDDL 1.0 as it is to MPL 1.1.” from Richard Fontana’s article at the time of the MPL 2.0 release, https://opensource.com/law/12/1/the-new-mpl

With its compatibility with strong, older copyright licenses I’m surprised the license has not had more widespread adoption. It is a not too hot, not too cold porridge of a file level copyleft and CYA OSS license with the strong backing of Mozilla.

The topic, but not this exception, is touched on in “Your Brain: Who's in Control? | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS“ Episode 2 of a two-part series, premiered May 24, 2023. Both episodes are fascinating and eye opening.

08:36 Anesthesia and the Brain

https://youtu.be/yQ6VOOd73MA

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/your-brain-whos-in-contr...

December 2005 article:

"So, the GNOME people have started to focus on questions such as universal access, so if you have motor difficulties or other disabilities, software still should be usable. Likewise, it shouldn't matter what language you use or character set you need, software should be usable.

Part of Galago and Telepathy comes from getting beyond questions of windows, menus, icons and pointers and focusing on the things people really care about. In Jeff's view, these things are people, events, documents and sex. When questions of when GNOME 3.0 will be released arose, people have suggested it was a stupid idea. So Jeff came up with TOPAZ, taking the first letters from Three Point Zero and inserting some vowels. TOPAZ is not planned for release at this time."

An Evening with Jeff Waugh Linux Journal by Colin McGregor on December 27, 2005 https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8752

I am going from memory. I can anchor the memories as September 2005 till early 2006 as it was a memorable time for me. I spent that time working out of a Palo Alto garage working on a "web 2.0" web browser, Flock, with a small group of people that included a few who had previously been at Eazel and were still passionate GNOME participants.

Thinking further on it now, unrelated to that work, Jeff Waugh @jdub would be person I'd go to for receipts.

If I was searching the web, I'd be looking for references to Gnome ToPaZ with topaz being a play on ThreePointZero:

"When the prospect of GNOME 3 was first discussed by developers in 2005, the concept took on a life of its own among the users who imagined that it would be an audacious reinvention of the desktop with completely new interaction paradigms and a new kind of user interface. This pie-in-the-sky vision was referred to as ToPaZ, word play on the phrase three-point-zero. " https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/07/gnome...

I don’t doubt it, but the post does not lay out the timeline. Those events likely aligned the business interests to what the designers were already wanting to make happen. From what I recall, by 2004, Linux on Desktop designers were already looking to move on from mimic and displace Windows to win on their own terms. There seemed to be a lot of energy do something new and different by 2005. It seemed like there was a lot of wireframes and prototypes in both GNOME and KDE camps. Also around 2005, touchscreen tablets were also having a moment. I think I remember a popular Nokia model. 2006 had Sugar UI for interactive learning on OLPC XO.

Unfortunately, “telos” is misused when the author’s data is singularly focused on the US.

I have always assumed this related to achieving a differentiated character set for Math and science formulas.

I came here to ask the same thing. What were the disadvantages of using the Mozilla Corporation? Will Thunderbird be the only offering in MZLA Technologies Corporation?

I’m excited by the https://planetary.social/ announcement this week.

“We’re building an open and humane alternative to Facebook”

https://mobile.twitter.com/rabble/status/1220075601337315328

Flossing seems like an example concept for a different concept. The tiny task is a trick to get you to start. Once started you’ll floss them all.

https://nomedium.dev/ is a new site, where the author describes what he doesn’t like about Medium including “ When sharing a Medium article, there is a high degree of uncertainty that the person opening the link will be asked to pay money to read the content.”

I learned about it at https://mobile.twitter.com/ChrisShort/status/121849195514918...

The link above doesn’t work for me, but the following one does: https://chrisdown.name/2020/01/13/1195725856-other-mysteriou...

Last year I went to refresh my memory on the status of the case and all pop press referred to “11,500 lines of code” copier. I couldn’t find any clarification of those are all API calls. Anyone know or better yet have a reference with analysis?

You may be confusing the adoption of Kotlin for Android. That happened more recently Kotlin has been open source since 2012 and designed as a direct (compatible) replacement for Java.

macOS Spotlight became good enough

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)

Homebrew is only as secure as the results of that first curl command

     /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Reminds me that there is still no official package manager on macOS. So https://nodejs.org/en/download/ has you comparing check sums.

Great article. It frequently occurs on iPhone SE for 3rd party apps with its smallest dimensions.

SE seems to also have the unique problem of cropping of instructions and phrases on the right of screen.

I’m always using Dashboard to pull up dates on the calendar and the time in different zones. What is the Apple way?

A search now for “Apple iPhone labor” brings up recent articles describing issues with Apple’s sub-contractors.

Size seems less relevant than the image Apple’s projected and its profits.

thank you, I’ve update with the acronym meaning

reminds me of other reading from today. You can get a US National (healthcare) Provider Identifier (NPI) without any verification:

@Aetna @Cigna @UHC 27/ Medicare officials declined to be interviewed about Williams. But in a statement, they acknowledged that the agency doesn’t verify whether an NPI applicant is a medical provider or has a criminal history.

https://twitter.com/marshall_allen/status/115224361495057612...

@Aetna @Cigna @UHC 16/ He kept getting new NPIs. For every application, Williams also obtained a new employer identification number, used for tax purposes.

But he never hid who he was, using his real name, address and phone number on the applications.

Medicare gave him 20 NPIs! https://twitter.com/marshall_allen/status/115224148431540633...

edited: provided the NPI meaning.

I remember watching one or maybe two interviews of Mr Musk at one of the iteration of the Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg conferences, I think it was All Things Digital. To the delight of the audience, Mr Musk described two or three technologies right out of Iain Banks’ books including using the term neural lace. At the time I had recently read the books, so I immediately recognized the one book, but it escapes me now. I don’t think Mr Musk acknowledged the connection, but there or another interview he talked about deep conversations with his brother on sci fi topics.

So does Bryan. His talk list as of Feb 2018 is at http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/02/03/talks/

I don’t know if more people are not on that planet because of lack of room or other factors, but I’ve never been able to figure it out. With the death of the Joyent public cloud, we truly don’t have the same access to the illumos mineral-rich “clean water”. This worries me.

Bryan Cantrill, @bcantrill raised similar topics:

“Admire the spirit, but I have many follow-up questions: In how many of the deals was the non-compete clause agreed to? How long was the non-compete? How many employees were forced to waive accelerated vesting, agreed to severance, or change-in-control provisions?”

Short thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1140661238705225...

Doesn’t directly answers your question, of which I suspect parenting very high on the likeliest reason — as that is the reason I’ve seen others provide for him stepped down and out from YC. But you can see from his last major period of activity https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg ends with his departure blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493856 and the top comment is his wife hinting that Mr Graham was overly consumed by managing hacker news ;)

Exactly, newborns are regularly put in danger as people do not appreciate the seriousness of the most likely disease new borns could encounter, the common cold.

I appreciate you being complete here, though your opening also reads like you are doubling down on your previous response.

Your comment about croup is also bizarre, as the paragraph I included mention of it in is not about colds. Context matters.

Sure, my comment is generally obvious, except I felt it needed to be said as arkades's comment seemed dismissive of the risks to infants with his response of "Colds are not the flu. Children tolerate colds just fine."

Flu are truly scary causing deaths throughout childhood with increased survival around two years and then again around five years. My youngest turns five this month. Before she was two she was hospitalized with croup and she has had a rougher ride with illness than my other kids along the way too.

Colds are dangerous to new borns just as the parent comment says.

Colds are dangerous to new borns just as the parent comment says.