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  • Wow, that’s great! That’s the idea behind libre software/hardware or the copyleft where you are encourage to fix bugs, develop new ideas and share it with the community! It’s great that you’ve you contributed to public domain! Is there copyleft for except softwares?


  • sure, these are examples where open source thrive. It’s great to see it be that way. But there are services which are open source, as good as their propreitory alternative but still didn’t have proper business model, rely on donations which is unstable. Even in the linux community, there are lot of distros that sustain through donations? If they have as much as money as microsoft, they may develop their distros and innovate. So, I’m asking for ideas, business models, solutions to these problems! Correct me, If I’m wrong!


    1. I agree, the philosophy behind open source and free software are created or atleast have a part in it.
    2. sure, most open source softwares aren’t written with that intention. But the problem is it would be nice if they have some money to keep on develop without abandoning the project, it would help them to innovate. Although open source companies are innovating, it would push to innovate even to greater extents.

    a. a good one, but selling support could only be posible for enterprise or is it actually possible for direct consumers, although that’s possible. I think that would give a bad rep for the company? Is it? b. that would be good, but if the software is propreitory, the would still add up the value of their core business? c. a viable business model idea d&e. still the same problem with donations Correct me, If I’m wrong!


  • Although the redhat is approximately valued at 33bn, but does RHEL is truly open source? Can you study, edit, modify the source code, the freedoms a user get when the software is licensed under GPL. Selling support could only be posible for enterprise or is it actually possible for direct consumers, although that’s possible. I think that would give a bad rep for the company? Is it? Sponsored development is actually like a donation based model, where you can except new features when you donate some money. Customization for big enterprises is actually a viable business model, only if it generates as much money as the company sustains and can continue to expand? All of the other things you’ve mentioned goes against the principles of free and open source? Correct me If I’m wrong!






  • Skiff licensed all of it’s apps it at CC-BY-NC-4, why not change it for GPL 3.0 to make it a real free and open source software that respects user’s freedom and mandates the fork to be free and open source. There’s a difference between free software, open source and source available!


  • fbsz@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.mlHow to learn linux?
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    Sure, you dont know what’s important, how things work when you start out! But when you randomly explore, you’re hit with blocks and in order to pass it you have to analyze, examine it. In the process, you better develop your intuition as you yourself explore it and understand it to the core.

    Suppose, your end destination is some place, there is a forest before the place you need to reach. If you know the path(when someone teaches you), you can reach the destination effectively and quickly. But if you explore it yourself, it may take some time but you get to know the forest when you analyze and careful enough that you are not be lost.

    I think, the goal that is learning linux has to do with everything that makes the linux, but it is a long and boring process, when one learns without knowing the basics or the philosophy behind it. I think that, I better get to know about forest(basics of linux) and then explore randomly when you know what you’re doing.

    I find a website, linuxjourney.com. Let me try and understand the basics of linux.





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    ‘read and then do’? How is it better than ‘learn while you do’? It may save you some time when you read and then do, but I think you can learn more when you do and also learn in the process? Correct me, If I’m wrong. Are there any books or resources which are available for free of cost?


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    Understanding is more important than installation! So, arch is a starting point and then gentoo for a little advanced user? Yes, the community and the philosophy behind the GNU/Linux made it a great thing to explore! As it have made me switch from windows to GNU/Linux!


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    To make the learning process much more enjoyable, I’am going to try one of the OS’es either arch or gentoo. Which one will best for as a beginner? As gentoo has much more wiki than arch, which one will best suit for beginners(like me) to trying to understand things? Are there some resources, where I can learn some very basic stuff like about package manager, linux kernel, etc(if there, please share it here) and then it would be good if I go onto the installation and then onto the LFS thing. Learning linux would be a fantastic journey!