You misunderstood: Red Hat The Linux Distribution (not quite relevant for Linux development) is not Red Hat The Commercial Entity (quite relevant for Linux development). However, volunteers repackaging ("distributing") Red Hat software still don't change the nature of the software, but that's a different discussion.

It’s honestly insane that you can sit there and shill for Microsoft these days.

I do not do that. What I actually wrote is: By moving from Windows to Linux (assuming you use Linux-libre), you gain a certain level of freedom, but that freedom still relies on commercial entities and their own ideas that are contributed to the kernel. Just because you can see the code, you still can't decide about the code.

Note that I do not use Windows. You make it sound like I would.

Let's leave it at that. We probably won't solve this debate over Christmas, and life is too short to argue about software. :-) Have a good one.

5mo ago

It's really not that hard!

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5mo ago

I use neither. Just wondering.

5mo ago

It's really not that hard!

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5mo ago

True, sadly.

5mo ago

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5mo ago

systemd rocks

I disagree.

the kernel is widely audited OSS

Minus the proprietary blobs, that is.

"Everyone can see the code" does not mean that everyone understands what's going on, by the way. The X server had had a security hole for 23 years just a while ago. Could it be that "it's OSS" and "many people read and understand what's going on" are not the same thing?

5mo ago

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5mo ago

You give up all control over your system to other US corporations though, like Red Hat (who are - and should be held, IMO - responsible for systemd) and Microsoft (who contribute quite some code to the kernel). The only system you control is a system you write, I'm afraid.

5mo ago

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5mo ago

The point is: If "just simulate a Windows environment" is the best thing you could come up with, chances are that Windows is what you should use anyway.

5mo ago

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5mo ago

Average Linux user: "we could just use the Windows totally-not-an-emulator!".

(They're this close to getting the point while saying it.)

5mo ago

A penis has the "second-most" microexpressions, compared to a face

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5mo ago

Don't rub its temples.

5mo ago

A penis has the "second-most" microexpressions, compared to a face

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5mo ago

Especially mine.

5mo ago

NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages

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5mo ago

This is a problem for all languages

More or less. Some repositories, like CPAN and Quicklisp, are curated with more caution than others.

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NPM Package With 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages

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5mo ago

This isn’t going to get any better unless we revert to OS based dependencies which noone wants to do because developers want the latest and greatest model.

A few operating systems (e.g. OpenBSD) do actually (try to) enforce using pkg for Perl dependencies, due to Perl being "system Perl" instead of "packaged Perl".