City getting into a lot of tunnelling recently. I like.

Cheese grater. Sorry for your insomnia.

What is the top one?

Our small business just bought a server and installed NextCloud on it. We’re doing our part.

There’s a killswitch scenario where a malicious US executive order shut off our civilization by banning Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon from serving Canada. Almost every business would be immediately hamstrung and the economy would collapse in a week. This is too fucking dangerous.

Exchange rates vary. Cost of living varies. Purchasing power parity varies. Travel one year, and it’s cheap, and the next it’s expensive. Pick destinations accordingly.

(I recommend Chile).

And something about potatoes

Damn, are you me?

If they’re the copyright holder, they are allowed to use any license they want. Including a modified AGPL. It’s up to the users to understand what license they’re getting the software under. In this case, it is a modified-AGPL.

This is like Qt when they used the modified GPL (Qt 2-3 era, before they went full LGPL). Qt was the copyright holder and can issue under terms they decide. Then it is up to the users to decide if those terms are acceptable. KDE decided these terms were acceptable, but some other users did not.

However, if a user decided to ignore the additional clauses in Qt and treat it as unmodified GPL, they would have been in violation of the license. Because Qt was the the copyright holder and can dictate terms. Qt would have won the court case. It never happened, so it wasn’t tested, and that’s ancient history now.

But here OnlyOffice is in the same boat. They can dictate the terms, and a court can decide if a user is in adherence of those terms. There’s no part of copyright law that OnlyOffice is violating here.

What will be up for legal debate is whether EuroOffice is willfully and maliciously violating it, or if they just interpreted differently. If the latter, then there will be a great deal of legalese. The real question will be: the AGPL as amended by OnlyOffice – does it permit forking, and are forks subject to the same modified clauses.

I suspect OnlyOffice wins this one if it actually goes to court. Which will be super annoying from an end user perspective.

The problem with this is that OnlyOffice owns the copyright and used attribution agreements from any contributions. Meaning, as owners of the copyright, they are allowed to set the license. So if they applied the AGPL wrong, they aren’t violating anyone else’s copyright. If OnlyOffice has used someone else’s AGPL code and then added these impossible restrictions, then I would agree.

OnlyOffice and OpenOffice are two different things. One is originally Russian, the other is not.

Technically correct. But it is still a departure burn into another sphere of influence. So you can forgive the quibble. There’s nothing else massive enough in Earth’s orbit to do a free return trajectory around. Or an orbital insertion burn into. And technically lunar orbit is still an earth orbit, but no one would ever use the word that way when in a lunar orbit.

But, yeah, technically ;)

Linux is as buggy as you want it to be. If you’re using Gentoo or Arch in production (and aren’t Valve) and are recompiling kernels cause you read a tomshardware article about a scheduler… Then yeah 😀

Cannot say. Saying, I would know. Do not know, so cannot say.

The legal battle between euro office and onlyoffice is interesting. I actually hope it goes to european courts. I suspect onlyoffice will win this one, but then everyone will abandon their code.

Simultaneously TDF and collabora are having a spat.

Interesting things afoot in the FOSS hosted office ecosystem. Prediction: a third option emerges – clean room rewrite (maybe this is a good thing).

Bone spurs and hamberders

The article is targetting an American audience, but it is interesting to read this perspective

Arggggh

Sony Xperia Pro-I – a phone with a very nice camera :)

I would presume you could make the legal argument, but try getting a repair manual for that ebike you bought off Amazon Marketplace from China…

In conclusion. The tank has become stuck in the mud.