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In the video, and in the blogpost that is effectively the transcript of the video, he clearly states that though locking away the source code is within IBM’s or RedHat’s rights.

What seems to have done it for him is, the subscription terms and conditions that prevent redistribution of source code by subscribers or else have the subscription revoked. This is what he argues as being borderline illegal and that RedHat could be banking on the army of lawyers on IBM’s retainer.

And, knowing Oracle, what is to stop them from becoming a subscriber? That way, RedHat has a poster child of a subscriber, Oracle gets access to the code which they can and most likely will, with their own army of lawyers, repackage and publish as Oracle Linux. Admittedly this is my cynical take on Jeff’s.

Time to start debating moving more projects under GPLv3 or AGPLv3 which demand more innovative ways to run a business than what IBM is doing.

If starting from https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/little-known-history-of-goa-and-the-portuguese-inquistion/ and working farther into the past is acceptable. A fair bit to the south of the gangetic region.

Also, depending on your end goals, which are difficult if not impossible to discern from your post as of this writing, you might want to find out the background of the authors of the book. Most stories about India as is known outside India is narrated and steadfastly owned by non Indian voices. So if you are looking to work in a think-tank for instance, you’d steer towards authors who advocate German speaking region’s interests with regards to India. Or if you are looking to work in diplomatic capacities, the authors might be of that leaning.

Bear in mind the current government’s push to own the narrative to the exclusion of outside voices. Totally understandable, whilst being something to be mindful of.

Regarding religion. Doubtful of getting anywhere without running into religion as far as India goes. The science vs religion dichotomy works differently outside of the West, for all I can see.

The India of Mahabharat era encompasses today’s Afghanistan, for what it’s worth. Going by Indian archaeologists – https://www.booksfact.com/history/ancient-gandhara-kingdom-kandahar-afghanistan.html

Also, another decent starting point would be, Constantino Giuseppe Beschi. The man who most recently resuscitated the then dying language of Tamil and led to original Christian literature being written in it. Tamil, along with Sanskrit is listed as a classical language by UNESCO IIRC.

If only there’s some way to enforce a GPLv3 or AGPLv3 on every application that implements ActivityPub. Or something to prevent the walled garden effects that Twitter (on SMPP) and GChat (on XMPP) so masterfully used on open protocols. The siren songs of walled garden are too strong for too many especially when paired with marketing and advertising.

This is the way

What Odin said to Thor. Asgard is not a place, never was, never will be. It is the people.

I did the following on Jerboa

• save this post (we’ll be revisiting this a few times)
• go to the search function that is indicated by the bulleted list icon
• enter the community name (without the @… part)
• there’ll be a few results
• tap on them, see the posts if you want, and tap the subscribe button and see that it shows joined
• go to saved posts, repeat until subscribed to every community you want

Having said that, there’s probably a simpler way to do this. Still early in the learning process.

On point 👍 If I may add, the arguments put forward by the Reddit team reeks of ‘welfare queen’ put forward by politicians to push austerity measures. If any one of them spoke English, they should read ‘social media’ and meditate on it for a moment. Social media without the social bit is largely a dud.

The article itself appears to be leaning on TC’s reputation in the hopes that the casual readers would not do their own independent verification. In other words, one business helping out another. Sadly, the article seems likely to achieve this goal. Does a good job of cheerleading Reddit’s move without coming across as such. Indie devs are forced to shoehorn accessibility features and self limit on the number of requests by the end of the month, or the door out is wide open. This is the point that the article is amplifying from what I can see.

Seconding Lemmur rhymes with Lemmer of Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the authors of the ActivityPub protocol

Fediverse will go through what Linux went through. Be seen by businesses as an existential threat. Then face FUD and EEE campaign.

One day, likely earlier than Linux witnessed the rise of RedHat, Google, Facebook as prominent businesses that became poster children for Linux, new or existing businesses could be built around and/or on fediverse. They may as well come together to form an ActivityPub foundation similar to the Linux Foundation for all we know.

Email went through similar trajectory too. SMTP, IMAP, pop are are open protocols. Yet we have a sort of oligopoly on email.

Similar to how Windows did not die away because Linux came along, existing social networks may remain in existence. The availability of fediverse as an alternative would keep them busy

That second worse city in the world is Delhi India for those wondering.

Nor does it look great…

Interesting move by #Microsoft

Only weeks ago, https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/04/water-starved-middle-east-large-chatgpt-data-centers-are-threat , https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2023/04/thirsty-ai-training-chatgpt-required-enough-water-to-fill-a-nuclear-reactors-cooling-tower-study-finds/ and the #nomoat leaks from #google were making rounds

Is this some #eee and #fud like strategy being employed by Microsoft?