@Anaya_sharma876 If the Linux community wasn't so busy rewriting fine working software and obsessing over Codes of Conduct instead of actually fixing the mess that is Linux audio, this old article wouldn't still be relevant. https://t.co/n1KPHnTDJq
June 5, 2026, marks #XLibre's first anniversary. We're thrilled and will share this with you for a week. Accordingly, we released our first stable version 25.1.6. Over the next few days, we’ll be introducing its features and expressing our heartfelt thanks. Stay tuned!
FFmpeg developer Paul Mahol says it's legally questionable that an AI can rewrite his work from C to Rust and the human repo owner change the licence from LGPL to MIT:
https://t.co/MeWC3naMrD
Many FFmpeg developers do not tolerate violations of their copyright
@Anaya_sharma876 If the Linux community wasn't so busy rewriting fine working software and obsessing over Codes of Conduct instead of actually fixing the mess that is Linux audio, this old article wouldn't still be relevant. https://t.co/n1KPHnTDJq
@Anaya_sharma876 If the Linux community wasn't so busy rewriting fine working software and obsessing over Codes of Conduct instead of actually fixing the mess that is Linux audio, this old article wouldn't still be relevant. https://t.co/n1KPHnTDJq
I suspect Microsoft WOULD have adopted UNIX had the AT&T licensing been tenable, and the world would be a very different place.
Microsoft owned the Xenix license, which I think was basically the BSD V6 code from what I saw of it. And they already used Xenix internally on their systems, like Miss Piggy. And, of course, they sold Xenix licenses, where they actually made money as a reseller of bulk licenses.
I can't speak for @BillGates, but I have recollections of Paul and Gordon Letwin both being interested in UNIX, but the AT&T licensing was ridiculous:
At the time, Microsoft charged $10-$20 for an OEM MS-DOS license.
AT&T UNIX started at $20,000 per CPU.
Could they have worked out a simple "UNIX-Lite" license for basic kernel and utilities on a PC? That would be cool, but I don't know if it even got THAT far in discussions.
All I know is that me and two buddies could have knocked it out in a long weekend, because that's how programmers rolled in the 80s ;-)
Reminds me when certain people found out I was behind @DevuanOrg and went deleting almost every entry about my work on Wikipedia. Deletionism was the most immediate response and it keeps happening in waves. @XLibreDev be reassured: it is a sign of success and real impact.