Well, GNU is a Linux based OS.

Not exactly. GNU/Linux is an OS using the Linux kernel and the GNU Software Suite. But GNU can also be its own OS on its own if you use Hurd.

Why would you post this in one that is not that?

This honestly strikes me as odd. I understand you may not have liked his music, but he released a new album in 2020 and was actively touring earlier this year. What made you think he had died? Or do you just assume everyone you haven’t heard from lately is dead?

The birthday thing fascinates me because it’s the exact opposite of how you would handle it in the US. Here you would wish them a happy birthday and then move on since you weren’t invited.

In Chicago it’s the same thing.

Linux is licensed under the GPL, which is described as “copyleft.” The GPL requires that if you want to use GPL code you need to license your modified code under the GPL.

FreeBSD is licensed under the BSD license, which is a permissive license. Basically as long as you stick the license statement in your documentation you can do whatever you want with BSD-licensed code. This is why commercial uses (like the Wii’s OS) tend to be BSD-based rather than Linux-based.

The article specifically says in response to complaints…

The first Linux distro I used was Xubuntu and I’ve use Xfce primarily ever since. I’ve used a lot of different distros over the years but have almost always used Xfce. I think my only serious time away from it was using Plasma for a while before Xfce had hidpi support.

Most likely. For example you can’t consent to allowing someone to kill you - see the case where a man agreed to be killed and eaten by someone else.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3286721.stm

The man who killed him was ultimately convicted.

I think I only saw it “right” because of the Infinity for Reddit logo.

Assault is, and much of what was done to her would qualify.

What the fuck. Like I’d throw some paint at her or draw something funny on her but my god.

It’s really a shame. I switched to Spotify and it’s really just as bad. I listen to way too much different music to be able to afford to buy all of it though. Maybe Pandora for radio and buying albums is the way of the future.

Personally I would scoop the lava away from myself but I’m no volcanologist.

This reminds me of how Skype always had limits in the fine print of its unlimited calling plan back in the day when we paid for minutes on cellphones.

Or, y’know, how current cellphone data plans are only unlimited up until the point where you’ve used enough and then become “deprioritized.”

Or how backblaze offers unlimited plans on Windows and Mac but not on Linux because Linux users tend to actually know how much storage they’re using.

Companies have a number that is the profitable point for whatever unlimited plan they’re offering. They just want to be able to advertise “unlimited” since that’s what customers want and they hope people don’t go over their “profitable usage” metric.