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  • This is contrary to OSS definitions. Personally, I’m not a fan of the strict position OSS takes with things like SSPLv1, but I’m the vocal minority.

    Free software and open source are the same thing in the accepted definition. A good example of where this is tough is something like MongoDB, where it’s free to run and source available, but the license doesn’t allow you to resale it as a service. This was done to stop companies like Azure and AWS from making millions without supporting development, while not restricting most business use.

    By OSS standards, Mongo is not free, and is not open source.













  • The author points out systemic issues with Flathub, why it needs to improve, and then, through some crazy rationale, still recommends it because:

    Although Fedora Workstation works well for most users, and although quality and reliability has improved considerably over the past decade, it is still far too easy for inexperienced users to break the operating system

    Without stating “how” it is too easy for this to occur. Flathub is not a “fix”, it’s a host of other problems, many of which are in the article itself.