Happy birthday 🎊🎉 GNU/Linux.

Today GNU/Linux is 32 years old.

It was thankfully released to the public on August 25th, 1991 by Linus Torvalds when he was only 21 years old student.

What a lovely journey 🤍

  • Baut [she/her] auf.
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    1 year ago

    That is not correct. Who is this “they” you are talking about? The OSI?
    Open source is a term with a definition - which has been written by software freedom advocates by the way.
    With free software you have politics and a philosophy, in which somebody can have more freedom or less with a piece of software. I really wouldn’t confuse that with the practicability of the OSI definition.
    Copyleft or push-over is a whole separate topic. Copyleft might be favoured by software freedom enthusiasts, but I disagree with your idea of separation through that. Even if you don’t care about software freedom, you could like the practical effects of the AGPL.
    I feel like you’re spreading at least misguiding information here.

      • Baut [she/her] auf.
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        1 year ago

        These statements do not contradict anything I have said. Some people are pragmatic, some dogmatic about software freedom. So what?
        Another correction since I am on a roll: Linux can’t switch from GPLv2. There are too many copyright holders, you’d never be able to contact all of them and get them to agree to a license change. Even if Linus Torvalds wanted to change, which I honestly don’t think would be a sensible thing to do in his position.