I don’t think it’s accurate to say that everyone can just decompile the code and reuse it. Decompiling and reverse engineering a binary is incredibly hard. Even if you do that there are some aspects of the original code which get optimised out in the compiler and can’t be reproduced from just the binary.
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The GPL uses copyright because it’s the legal mechanism available to enforce the principles that the GPL wants to enforce. It’s entirely consistent to believe that copyright shouldn’t exist while also believing that a law should exist to allow/enforce the principles of the GPL.
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review ScoresEnglish11·6 months agoThis assumes that the reviewer who gave the rating wasn’t considering value as part of their scoring. I’d expect the reviewer to be scoring a TV based on his good it is compared to similarly priced competitors, not comparing to every other TV on the market
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto homeassistant@lemmy.world•The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home AssistantEnglish7·8 months agoWhy would it need 5GHz? At most it needs to do two audio streams, which aren’t going to need lots of bandwidth
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The .io domain might be in troubleEnglish2·10 months agoThe upside of IANA doing it would be a standardised place for sites to move to. Without coordination, different sites would move to different TLDs, probably mostly based on what isn’t already registered. IANA could create a new TLD for this and give existing whatever.io owners a chance to register whatever.iox before its generally available
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•How grep with -e (regex) `/log/messages` ? [ solved ]4·11 months agoIt’s marked solved, but since OP didn’t post the solution:
-e
uses basic regular expressions, where you need to escape the meta-characters ((|)
) with a backslash. Alternatively, use extended regex with-E
$ echo a | grep -E "(a|b)" a $ echo a | grep -e "\(a\|b\)" a $ echo a | grep -e "(a|b)" $ echo a | grep -E "\(a\|b\)"
CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.English11·1 year agoThe xz compromise having demonstrated that FOSS projects are totally immune to interference from state actors…
They tested using a green light for the front brake light, not a red one