Nah

Nobody will ever need more than 640kb anyways

Yeah - but it isnt

Its not open so it doesnt matter.

Source - it’s about open source, not access to the database

And looking at mobile games like Tacticus, there are loads of people with millions to burn on hobbies

Very good and smart of them. I may not have paid enough attention- all I’ve seen is that they don’t want to provoke Putin with long range weapons.

Also it would be nice to see those numbers compared to gdp

Sorry - I was referring to Ukraine - that’s probably more southeast.

I do believe that ww1 and ww2 showed your warmongering side - and sending weapons into Israel so they can bomb kids are not much more honourable

You never seem to figure out right from wrong, do you. What strikes me as odd is that you’re rather slow with supplies to your neighbours in the south for a warmongering tribe

At least there’s no conspiracy

Or maybe they forgot to rinse off the soap when cleaning the cup?

There’s no requirement from the kernel that the userland is GPL. It’s by chance - and replaceable. Like with Android - there’s not much left of gnu userland there afaik. If you look at end user devices this makes up the bulk of devices running the Linux kernel.

Looking at today’s landscape of Linux development, replacements for userland is likely to be rust code. The majority of this code is MIT or BSD licensed. The coreutils implementation was an example of this. It’s not GNU licensed.

No

Nobody in this thread seems to be discussing kernels - but rather talk about Linux distros. While GNU userland still dominates most distros, most of the rust replacements seems to be mit or bsd-like licenses. Like the coreutils

Ah - so wine is a lie?

Yes - most of Microsoft and Apples income is from gamers. They are huge group compared to the business laptop market

Shh - we don’t need the fanboys to experience this. What would happen to arch forums if they did!??!

One is free (as in air) the other is not.

Without gpl source there would be no RHEL. If they want closed source there’s other kernels with userlands under proprietary licences or bsd-like, yet they went for the GPL one. To lucrate (?) on top of it.

How many do you reckon would be using systemd if it was closed source? What about Wayland? I’m thinking mostly just you and their fanclub

If RH survives because of the support, why would they care about this? Only reason it’s a thing is because of their idea of restricting the rhel code. Restricted enterprise Linux is worse than no enterprise Linux.

I’m just guessing but I think rhel made money off their support already, but someone in management figured “we’re giving this away for free!”