Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • I moved to Linux over 25 years ago and I miss absolutely nothing.

    The joy of not having to update your OS when Microsoft forces it, even whilst you’re working, or the way Apple still cannot do window tiling despite decades of examples on how to achieve this, or installing applications and finding files splattered all over the file system with no way to remove them except manually, or the endless user agreements, licence fees, expiring licensees, or the notion that you cannot run a new OS on an old machine that’s in perfect working order.

    So, no, it was the best decision I’ve made.

    I wish that I’d made the same good decision when it comes to my accounting software.











  • The question is even more fraught than you might have considered.

    What if you report them to your rideshare company and they do nothing?

    As a passenger of a private vehicle where you observe or experience dangerous behaviour, are you required or obligated to report the behaviour to the police?

    What if that driver came to collect your teenage child?

    I don’t envy your situation, but their income is not your responsibility, your personal safety is.





  • It goes well beyond bother.

    In my opinion, the biggest issue is that software with a GPL licence is not permitted to be distributed without making the source code available, which Red Hat restricted to only paying customers, and in doing so added a licence restriction which is not permitted by the GPL.

    They are now profiting off the work of every developer who ever contributed to the software they’re selling and none of those people are getting paid.