You’re using “open source” as defined by OSI. Just wanted to note that open source historically arose in protest to the corporate walled gardens that dominated the software ecosystem, rather than a movement to give companies a large eco-system of free-to-use software for profit. It was about individuals having access.

But I am not going to argue that what I am proposing is open source. I will accept that open source as a term has already been coopted to serve corporations.

forces you to share the code, even when it is not deployed

It would only apply to for-profit entities. It would be extremely difficult to enforce on an individual level anyways, and it would disagree with the spirit here.

forces you to pay a tithe to the developer.

I called that profit sharing earlier, but you can call it that too, sure.

isn’t that similar to gpl?

That is correct. GPL has the same problem.

why should the company’s profit go to a developer they don’t employ?

I dont agree with the idea that paying non-employees is a foreign concept. Many companies pay, for example, Adobe for Adobe suite software, or Google for Google suite software, despite not hiring them as employees. They pay rent to property owners despite not hiring them as employees. The idea that only employees must be paid is unfounded.

Now, to answer “why should they pay them”, well, in exchange for their labor.

I haven’t looked into it, but I will. My only worry is that it will discourage many people from it due to political biases against the naming.

Not good enough. Companies are still allowed to use this software freely, make massive profits without anything going to the developer. It is truly free labor.

They are even allowed to modify it, even make derivative work, without open sourcing it, as long as they don’t distribute said derivative work.

Tbh I don’t know what gamescope is, but I’ll look into that and try it out to see. Thanks!

I thought about trying it out, didn’t get to it yet. I will now. Thanks!

It’s Gentoo. That could be possible, maybe something to do with the open vs non-open variant. I will look into it.

I wouldn’t call sway a custom WM, it uses wlroots which has become a standard.

Though I agree that wlroots seem to vary significantly in results with gnome and KDE based Wayland.

Weird question, but what does GnuCash do that you wouldn’t get easily from excel? I haven’t used any of these apps and wondering what I’m missing out on.

Here is a docker compose: https://snikket.org/service/resources/docker-compose.yml

You only two configuration options in the config file: domain and email.

This makes matrix even less attractive to me lol. But you’re right, that’s a very good point.

Guix is almost like nix but with scheme, right? Any other differences?

I do like scheme. Nix is quite impressive. But my unpopular opinion is I am not convinced it’s philosophy is necessary. Nix feels like a workaround to legacy baggage in POSIX to allow for all its features of full reproducibility of packages and the overall system. Although Gentoo is not exactly reproducible, I feel like the level of control is sufficient to give me the benefits I want.

Nix works for maybe 95% of cases, but the 5% where its workarounds do not work sre annoying to deal with. Gentoo on the other hand doesn’t break so much from the traditional unix way of doing things, but still grants the user a great load of freedom and choice.

I love when people on the Internet say “X did Y quietly” to make it more suspenseful. This doesn’t look quiet to me…

I’d love to clarify if you tell me which part of the post you didn’t understand.