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I wasn’t aware of these distinctions and the history behind them (mea culpa). But I think the current events can be a good occasion to make more people aware of this.

Yes, I agree with you.

I don’t think enough developers realize that the majority of users does not want this. They’re acting exactly like the legislators: “we don’t give a shit about what the people think”.

The legislators won’t take the Linux community seriously, because the developers aren’t taking the community seriously either.

The law is bonkers. As a user commented, with internet of things you might need to verify your age to open your fridge 😂 https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/#wont-someone-think-of-the-cryptographers

💪 That’s what I count on!

In principle I agree with you, pacific discussion and democracy should be the way to go. But it seems that “discussion” doesn’t lead anywhere these times. Politicians do whatever they like (or what lobbies tell them to do), without checking if the majority of the population really agree with some decisions. A developer does whatever he likes, without bothering about the more or less pacific feedback he gets on github. Nobody really seems to want to have a discussion. Well guess then what the “mob” does at some point: they don’t care about discussions anymore either, and they do as they please too.

I fear that riots will start on a larger scale. Even if the context today is different, the situation reminds me somewhat of what happened with the 1981 riots in Toxteth, in Brixton, and other previous riots. Unjust or misused laws; deafness of authorities about discontent; innocent and not-so-innocent people getting hurt.

Of course there are no obligations and he’s’free to do as he pleases. Likewise, the community or I are under no obligations of not criticizing him for what he chose to do.

He did not just suggest it. He went on and implemented it. All while the community was telling him “we don’t want this”, “stop with this” – look at the comments on GitHub. Yet he neglected all this feedback.

As an open-source volunteer, you work for the community, right? If you go ahead while the community is telling you “we don’t want this”, then whom are you working for?

He got a huge amount of criticisms and negative comments from the community while he was working on this on GitHub; look at the comment thread of his implementation on GitHub. Essentially the community was telling him “we don’t want this”. And who are you working for in a FOSS project, if not for the community? Yet he disregarded the comments and went on.

On top of this, he appeared out of the blue with this implementation. He had not made any pull requests to this git before now. Nobody had assigned this task to him.

So the situation is not that this is some employee who was asked to implement something, and did it without knowing what the feedback would have been.

Brilliant! 💪

Nobody paid him to do this. He’s a cloud engineer who read the law and decided someone needed to implement it.

Well, how do you know that?

Agree. In fact, even projects that do have ties to those regions. Free & open-source is a stance.

“We have to comply with the law”. This has become Russia or China where the sheep people do whatever an oligarchy dictate. Wasn’t it a democracy? Do the majority of people really want this?

In the end we get what we deserve for being just sheep that obey.

I wish one could implement “mental-age verification”. That way almost all politicians on Earth would be blocked from important technologies.

Love it when the why is explained and not just the how. Thanks for the informative guide!

But nope – not even a mention of Diamond Open Access, not in the article and not from the interviewed people apparently.

“Mutual benefit” my a**e.

Academics are apparently just stupid.

Thanks for asking. I think I’ve had it for a week, and luckily no issues so far. I use it sparsely though, I always have on-demand mode. But I imagine Ubuntu Studio has important differences from Ubuntu?

Happy to have helped! I’m myself testing 580 now, fingers crossed :)

I don’t know if it’s the same in Ubuntu Studio, but in Ubuntu and derivates you can launch sudo software-properties-gtk or sudo software-properties-qt from a terminal. In the window that appears, choose the tab ‘Additional Drivers’. There you can choose the Nvidia graphic drivers you prefer among older and newer versions. Good way to roll back.

Apologies if this was obvious 🙏