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It's GPL Or Nothing
Programming Git
14 days ago 33.4M views 0 shares
It's GPL Or Nothing
Companies slap MIT or BSD licenses on their code and parade around like they just saved humanity. Meanwhile, actual open source purists are sitting there with their GPL licenses, watching these "generous gods" allow corporations to take the code, close it up, and sell it back to you as SaaS. The permissive licenses basically say "do whatever you want, even if it's evil" while GPL is the one that actually forces derivative work to stay open. But sure, call yourself generous for letting Amazon build a billion-dollar product off your weekend project without contributing a single line back. Richard Stallman is somewhere nodding approvingly at this meme.

Keep On Reading The Friendly Manual, Programmer
Linux Programming Bash
7 months ago 525.6K views 1 shares
Keep On Reading The Friendly Manual, Programmer
Oh honey, buckle up for the most LEGENDARY tech pedantry of all time! Someone dared to call GNU "Unix" and the GNU mascot (that magnificent horned creature) is about to deliver the most passive-aggressive correction in open-source history. The response? A devastatingly polite "Oh yeah" followed by the mic drop: "You are a GNU who is not Unix." For the uninitiated: GNU literally stands for "GNU's Not Unix"—it's a recursive acronym that's basically the tech world's way of saying "we're inspired by Unix but we're our OWN THING, thank you very much!" Richard Stallman and the free software gang created GNU as a Unix-LIKE system, but calling it Unix is like calling a vegan burger a hamburger at a PETA convention. Technically accurate-ish? Maybe. Gonna get you destroyed in the comments? Absolutely. The level of "well actually" energy radiating from this comic could power a small data center.