• do one thing and do it well

byebye unix principles

Zorin

Not sure if I’d trust an OS named like a Bond villain.

Great, now find a project to apply it and collect your participation trophy. :-P

Just use your media corporations

Exactly. It’s easier for smaller NGOs to do political lobbying since they don’t have any media corporations available.

If you take that away, you’re basically left with big actors and social media.

and produce tons of excellent, reviewed but useless code on the way.

corporations with big pockets have more possibilities to influence than regular people, or even NGOs

I guess nowadays it’s cheaper to target social media and let the voters + traditional media do the lobbying.

Unironically Lynx and Elinks.

Didn’t he prefer theatrical acting & live audience and thus played his TV role like a theater actor would? I vaguely remember reading about it.

Those tend to traditionally exaggerate gesture, mimic and tone so the last row still gets everything even when they’re further away.

license is probably the reason they’re doing it. no way around that without infringing copyright law I guess.

I find too verbose comments less annoying than no comments.

Try to describe the bigger picture. Good comments allow understanding the current portion of the code without reading other code.

Also add comments later if you find yourself having to read other code to understand the code you’re currently looking at.

Comments are also a good place to write out abrevations/acronyms.

Never optimize for sourcecode size.

you could check how other FOSS do it. e.g. you externally link it as a library and use another license the user has to agree on just for that.

screw syncterm, what’s a good & secure BBS software for linux? with doors and mails and nice menu navigation, zmodem and everything…?

I remember amiexpress and prometheus from amiga times, they were a breeze to setup, configure & maintain.

world-renowned, enterprise-level antivirus software running

lol. better just use defender next time.

edit: or not use windows.

What are you trying to prevent? You can’t release anything (opensource or not) without risking someone stealing the idea without patenting.

No FOSS license will prevent that (quite the opposite, it encourages copying/modifications). Those licenses just prevent someone using your code commercially without releasing the source code again.

not sure why you think that. if it’s indistinguishable, it’s still prior art. If it’s something better or different than your code, it’s a new thing.

Patents protect technical principles, not actual sourcecode.

no, the patent office would find your publication, deem it Prior Art and not grant the patent. If it would miss it (some don’t research very well), anyone can notify them to void the patent afterwards anytime.

IANAL, there are lawyers specialized on patents who’ll reassure you for free/cheap (relatively, they are friggin expensive). It also depends on legislature. Countries that break/never agreed to the PCT will do what they please.

NAL but my understanding always was, that you can’t patent anything in your name, when it’s already published.

That would make any patent related clause void anyway.

You could do some automated/scripted installation VM-image builder thingy and release that. Would probably also save some manual work for you. (bash script fetching install image & run qemu, autounattend.xml, etc. all nicely released on github.) And it’d be auditable.

that’d be an awesome way to spread malware with some VM evasion.

not sure if any 3rd-party windows install should ever be trusted. no matter what usecase.

much more important: we’d be years ahead with storage technology.