I don't think this meme format means what you think it means
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So wait....
Is the girl drinking from two sources, or is the guy drinking second hand?
I think the implication is supposed to be that people get common misconceptions from tech influencers doing linux videos, but it does kinda work as her drinking from both.
To put on my fanciest trilby and um actually it, I think a more accurate version would be the straw having "popular misunderstandings" and the man being "linux newcomers". Then it would be pure and correct, and I could sleep at night.
That makes a lot more sense. I think that was my initial thought, but then I questioned the directionality of the straw and maybe the guy was a source of... Sustenance...
Because without the meme format, I'd think it was supposed to be a romantic "sharing" picture.
Buuuut there also exist... people in this world.
Like https://static0.gamerantimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/pike-death-hxh.jpg
Ya'll in this comment section are making things more confusing somehow.
Free Open Source Software:
Is Free; available without purchase
Is Open Source; the source code is available to study and fork
Is Software; A series of intangible instructions that run through a compute module
Do correct me if I'm wrong, because I've just ripped these from other comments in this thread that have been disputed unclearly.
Not financially free but free as in freedom. Although most foss does not need to be bought, but there are foss programs you have to buy and after you bought it you are free to do with it what you want. Although this depends on the licence and copyright. For example you can fork the code and resell it (under certain licences) but due to copyright you can not use certain things such as graphics, fonts and name (depending on their licence).
I'd say that 99.somethiny percent of open source software is also free as in beer
Come to think of it, I can't remember ever having seen open source software that required payment
ThFair enough most are free as in free beer and free as in freedom. But that is also the reason why open source is so badly funded. I donate but that is nowhere near enough. I am not Valve, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.. Do not have the funds to hire devs.
Graphics font and name fall under trademark I believe, which separates it from copyright.
Firefox is a famous example of this. The code for Firefox is completely open to anyone to fork and reuse, but you cannot call your fork Firefox. Mozilla retains the brand and the logo for it.
So instead we get iceweasel.
Yes sorry I meant trademark. It is just visual such as graphics in games that are copyrighted. That is why you still need to buy Doom eventhough the code was open sourced in the 90's.
but there are foss programs you have to buy and after you bought it you are free to do with it what you want.
Any examples? I'm just curious how they stay afloat after sharing the source code once someone buys it, forks it and releases the source.
Maybe 'F' in FOSS does not mean it is gratis (de jure), but it is in fact gratis (de facto) for the majority of FOSS?
RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) would be an example. I am sure there are more but I am not well versed enough. There is also Ardour but I think that is more if you want a binary and build the software from source.
but everyone just used centos instead. was that a failure of the commercial foss idea?
Maybe, than again Red Hat was bought for an astronomical some by IBM so they were doing something right. Ubuntu still looks like it is doing well. I do not know how Suse is doing but they still exist.
So I think commercial foss is not a failure but probably difficult to maintain.
Wrong definition of βfree,β and funnily enough this is where the ensuing comments section confusion starts.
... such as?
"Linux requires constant fixing."
Use one of the stable distros. You generally never have to worry about breakage if you don't go looking for it.
Linux actually has a large swath of testers using rolling release who we've tricked into feeling very superior than the rest of us. /s
That one is particularly funny because they have to be completely unaware of the overwhelming number of 5-9 servers, super computers, and even the space station that use Linux explicitly for its stability.
Confusing "FOSS" with "free software" comes to mind.
Confusing "FOSS" with just "Open Source" seems like the more typical offender.
Count Me in the confused group, I thought FOSS was free as in speech software
Free as in speech (software) is nowadays usually referred to as libre.
English is a horrible language full of ambiguity. F/LOSS is libre, but not necessarily gratis.
Isnβt it usually the opposite, gratis (because if itβs open source, you could just build it yourself, unless thereβs a proprietary build env or hosted env) but not necessarily libre (because of the license?)
So wouldnβt gratis normally be the superset of libre.
Then thereβs a set of gratis but not open sourceβ¦ someone should do a venn diagram.
I could potentially just say it costs money to use this software, but allow you to build it yourself if you don't want to
It's called Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in case you were wondering
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But the F in FOSS stands for free. I understand that there's a lot more to unpack in the OS part of FOSS, but still, it's not quite wrong.
The F in FOSS stands for Libre
Wine is not an emulator.
Linux doesn't require programming knowledge to use, just computer knowledge at most.
I seen a few go opposite end and claim "you do not need computer knowledge, you can just ask chatgpt for the commands and copy-paste."
The two commands below are equivalent so why the fuck does every single guide online use former?
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt upgrade -U
The second way doesn't work on older systems before they added it. I have some Debian servers where it doesn't work
Because I understand the former
The latter can both summon nasal demons and not summon nasal demons. It is in a state superposition until an observer consults the manual
Not in apt manpage.
But in fact at man apt-get.
I blame the feds.
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This is about some nerd telling me my Linux issues don't exist and I just need X distro?
That's relative to situation and also usually the easier solution to a certain problem because if you need to find a solution for your distro it might come to compiling from source. So, either switch to the distro recommended or just start from Gentoo for everything. If you're using Gentoo, no nerd will tell you to switch to another distro.
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wait someone update this meme to have me drinking out of a straw chain out of the hot dude's straw chain. please title me "complete bullshit lies about FOSS"
edit: and make me happy gollum with three teeth. that's my mood today.
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