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Google releases new device. Top comment: "but the proprietary x doesn't work with the proprietary y." Proprietary software is the trap.

But if I'm expecting a UPS package... How do you authenticate that everyone you email or text hasn't had their computer hacked or stolen?

it would be extremely confusing if Otto was called Vagrant 2.0

But that is the closest thing anyone thinks of when you say "successor." Then having to explain that it's not a successor, well, you've done it yourself.

realize you on the path to make $100K on an app that, rightly or wrongly, could impact other people's livelihoods

Because someone giving me 100k for an app which wrote, to use it for the exact purpose I made it for is certainly /the/ reason I would change my mind about making it...

and subject me to a torrent of unpleasantness. But that’ll end soon enough, and that’s better than how I’d feel if I kept going.

What he doesn't say is that he is obviously already getting what amounts to a "torrent of unpleasantness", from people which are more like colleagues than customers. Of course, no one wants to admit to kowtowing, so there is no mention of it, but as we can see, he cares about this sort of thing, so it was obviously a significant factor.

If you want something cool without building yourself,

NeuG is an implementation of a true random number generator, a tiny USB 32-bit computer based on a free (as in freedom) hardware design.

http://shop.fsf.org/product/usb/

it doesn't work that way. Again, the folks you mentioned generally only work for non-profits and individual hobbyist devs

"that way" which I said it worked, was for non-profits and hobbyist, and so was the comment I was replying to, so yes, it does work that way.

those with means and those with means alone.

Your own comment explained says that it works for other people.

I don't know win 10, I use xmonad. There, virtual desktops are 1 per monitor by default. It sounds like what you are saying is that windows virtual desktops span all of your monitors. Is that right? If so, I agree that is lame.

really? You can't open 2 browser windows and put them in different desktops?

I see. This plus an official trademark policy might help.

Agreed. I could see this being possible with a pre-existing trademark policy, and an explicitly different trademark for "test quality" code, and being very careful about it all, but otherwise I just don't see it. Trademark is to correctly identify the source of a good, and the source here is identified correctly. If it was creative commons licensed, they would be required to do what they have done.

Not only all that, it seems like this is a bit strange that their complaint is that they called it grsecurity without using a blessed version, so their response is to stop giving out blessed versions publicly. Won't that just encourage more companies to do exactly what they are complaining about?

In practice, yes. First of all, all those organizations have enforced the gpl on behalf of "a team volunteer/hobbyist developers" from large companies. In fact, it's the primary kind of enforcement they do. Second of all, individuals who have zero resources win lawsuits against large companies EVERY SINGLE DAY. Lawyers work on contingency and pro bono. Stop this hand waving crap saying the gpl can't "really" be enforced for volunteer efforts.

This is not at all true. They are liable for significant monetary damages for violating copyright, and you can find a lawyer to take up the case if you own the copyright. There are a couple well known organizations who have gotten paid more than their expenses from lawsuits against gpl violating companies: sfconservancy.org, sflc.org., fsf.org.