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New comment by limagnolia in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

limagnolia — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:36:47 +0000

The Drupal Association and its mismanagement of the community? I don't know how dead Drupal is, but I used to actively use and promote it and I have long since moved on, due in part to the Drupal Associations shenanigans.

New comment by limagnolia in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

limagnolia — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:34:28 +0000

If you share your code with me under a copy left license, I will share my contributions under the same copy left license... you will not then be free to ask for money for things built on top of or with my contributions. You may be okay with that, but it is a decision you have to make.

New comment by limagnolia in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

limagnolia — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:23:42 +0000

I am pretty sure that these industries use the open source projects the Linux Foundation maintains. So it is pretty clear the Linux Foundation is indeed a user community group, too.

New comment by limagnolia in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

limagnolia — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:19:05 +0000

Do you have any examples of Google submitting vulnerabilities and refusing to assist maintainers create a patch when asked to do so?

New comment by limagnolia in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

limagnolia — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:16:53 +0000

So far, the Linux Foundation, from what I have seen, has pretty darn good track record of keeping the projects under its umbrella open source, even going against corporate sponsors to do so. For a recent example, see the recent NATS tuffle. (And I should.recognize that Synadia, finally, did the right thing and backed down).

New comment by limagnolia in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

limagnolia — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:48:03 +0000

I'm not sure that average across the entire industry is a good measure of how animators are paid for high budget, high talent features.

New comment by limagnolia in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

limagnolia — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:46:15 +0000

Big tech didn't steal anything. Elastic used open source software as the foundation of their product (specifically, Apache Lucene), and released their product as open source. The license allowed Elastic to do so, and likewise, the license Elastic used allowed "big tech" to use Elastics product. If it wasn't for open source, Elastic wouldn't exist.

Then, Elastic whined about Amazon using Elastic under the open source license they used to build their product. They whined that Amazon wasn't contributing enough. So they switched the license to their product. So Amazon took over maintaining the open source software. Doing exactly what Elastic asked them to do.

Sorry, but everything about Elastic, and especially this most recent announcement of layoffs, scream "bad leadership".

New comment by limagnolia in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

limagnolia — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:32:09 +0000

Elastic isn't Open Source though, they abandoned Open Source. It seems to me like this is an example of non-Open Source whatever licensing causing job loss. Or just plain bad leadership.

New comment by limagnolia in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

limagnolia — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:17:36 +0000

It would be absolute stupidity for a property owner to keep a property vacant solely to reduce the property tax assessment. Certainly there are some stupid rich people... but I doubt that the majority are that stupid. There must be some other explanation.

New comment by limagnolia in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)"

limagnolia — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:45:23 +0000

Most of the US does, its called property tax. Or in some cases, land value taxes.

New comment by limagnolia in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

limagnolia — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:50:23 +0000

In another article, it mentions that there is a buffer zone still owned by the city between the houses and the datacenter. They also mention that there is another park nearby (doesn't say how near).

New comment by limagnolia in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

limagnolia — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:32:18 +0000

Okay, I can only see a few sentences and was going off what other commenters have said.

New comment by limagnolia in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

limagnolia — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:31:31 +0000

Possibly... there is a lot of unknown details here. The article posted appears to be rage bait rather than a well researched article.

New comment by limagnolia in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

limagnolia — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:24:56 +0000

Thanks, I actually just found that article- and it gives a completely different view of events than the posted article. For one, it says the suit was from a group of residents, not the family who donated the land.

New comment by limagnolia in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

limagnolia — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:13:37 +0000

There seems to be some missing details from the few sentences in this article. Does anyone have the full story? Why did the court dismiss the families lawsuit?

New comment by limagnolia in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

limagnolia — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:24:39 +0000

Not the poster to whom you are questioning, but I would argue that inspiring and encouraging are much better than coercing, especially if the goal is to educate, as I am skeptical that coercion is ever going to work to get true learning.

New comment by limagnolia in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

limagnolia — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:19:58 +0000

But there is a difference in behaving ethically and behaving legally. While there may be consequences for behaving unethically (IE "I won't do business with them because I do not feel they are ethical"), society generally only overtly punishes those who do things that are illegal.

New comment by limagnolia in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

limagnolia — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:20:58 +0000

At that point, why wouldn't they just give their employees a corporate debit card and say "go and buy the subscription you want."? I suppose the enterprise plans come with additional controls and features? But are they worth it?

New comment by limagnolia in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

limagnolia — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:10:44 +0000

Well that is why it is open source. It doesn't matter how big the company is behind it, you can use it without the company that owns the name, and even use a different, small tech company for support.

New comment by limagnolia in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

limagnolia — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:28:44 +0000

Your recourse for Meta bricking your hardware is Small Claims Court, in the US anyway... other countries may have something similar.