G is for GNU

[@wayne_taylor]

I’m really enjoying this video series. Thank you for taking the time to put these together. Amazing work.

[@dragonfly-7]

Dylan - you are the man ! 02:04 ... 02:35 is the very best abstract about "rms" I ever heard. Amazing your non-contradicting phrasing on somebody rather contradicting ... 😉🤭😊

[@mrtnsnp]

And then there is xnu, the Apple kernel for Darwin and macOS. And yes, the acronym is recursive, if Wikipedia is accurate here.

[@willemvdk4886]

I absolutely love this series, Dylan! Good job!

[@MOOBBreezy]

First time watching this channel, glad this showed up in my feed. Really enjoyed the video, will watch the rest!

[@TheGeoffable]

Whilst waiting for my partner's delayed train, in her VW car, and with no mobile signal and nothing good on the radio, I started digging around in the depths of the car menus. Sure enough, under something like "other->legal->credits->bewareLeopards" was a whole bunch of GPL licence credits.

[@StenIsaksson]

C is for cookie, it's all I ever need.

[@kaiserruhsam]

hey now, we'd watch the 5 hour rms video

[@logiciananimal]

Wonderful work, as usual. Years ago I read a book on cases and legal analysis of the various open source licenses and I could have sworn that some more had been tested in court - maybe just not GNU? Also, being Canadian, finding a Canadian equivalent to this text would be interesting, but as far as I can tell there is even less case law here. Of course, I am not a lawyer, so maybe I am just missing something.

[@MonochromeWench]

Various projects changing their licensees has me become really sceptical of any project that does not use an OSI approved license but claims to be open source (often it seems to be you can look at the source code and make changes if you contribute back the changes but you are not allowed to do anything else with the code, so really just crowd sourced bug fixing not at all in the spirit of open source). The Wordpress problem is why licenses like AGPL were created to force networked service providers to share their modified sources with their users/customers. Not a fan of AGPL myself even though it solves an obvious problem, I just don't like licenses that have poor compatibility with other widely used open source licenses.

[@danielrhouck]

15:16 Nothing about GPL says you canʼt also offer an alternate license, *if* youʼre the copyright holder. But anyone who contributed to Wordpress without a CLA would have also had to GPL their code, and *they* could then sue.

[@Zeutomehr]

3:50 actually, the freedoms originally started at 1! Freedom 0 wasn't part of the freedoms originally, because it was taken for granted, but later added explicitly

[@Stoney_Eagle]

Maybe you can do a video about the impact of MIT in hardware and software 😊

[@george-vhs]

I absolutely vote for a video on rms !!!! even if it is a 5 hour one 😂!!!!

[@alejandromedina1019]

acktualllyyyy....

[@niceEli]

Gnu = (((((((((Gnu Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix) Not Unix

[@hendy643]

where's the base case???? lol.

[@bauckrob]

Also, GNU is a pun, since "gnu" is pronounced like "new". But puns tend to work best inside the same language speakers. The pun-ness was probably lost by the first person who read about it.

[@DontKnowDontCare]

I'd like to interject for a moment....

[@harrkev]

Sallman is great! I love that guy.

[@DylanBeattie]

🙃

[@thezipcreator]

I hope you're not serious. (if you are, please see the appendix of the open letter to remove RMS from the board of directors of the FSF)

[@creativeb549]

Hey, respect Stallman :P he's a nice boy

[@thezipcreator]

don't exactly know how being misogynist, ableist, and transphobic qualifies as "nice", but alright.

[@gwaptiva]

A router is someone that runs away in fear; a router is something that ensures that something arrives at the correct destination. Please remain a Zim that lives in the UK and speak properly :)

[@DylanBeattie]

No, a router is the victorious force that routs its enemy... routing is the act of causing somebody to run away in fear, not the act of running away itself. When I'm paying attention, router-rhymes-with-shouter is the woodworking tool and router-rhymes-with-hooter is navigation and networking. But some bit of my brain has latched onto pronouncing "wireless router" to rhyme with "shouter" and occasionally throws it up when I'm tired. I don't think it matters very much unless we are in the very specific situation where we're building a lovely wooden cabinet in which to install some networking equipment and I ask you to pass me the router without specifying whether I meant the router or the the router.

[@paulabraham2550]

@@DylanBeattie Quite. gwaptiva was defining a routee. 🙂

[@gwaptiva]

@@paulabraham2550 not quite, in tabletop wargaming we used the term to refer to the routing unit, but I'll admit that's rather niche and probably impure usage

[@ThatRobHuman]

​@@DylanBeattie fun fact: here in New Jersey, we use both pronunciations - the difference is if it's a proper noun. When you want to drive from location A to B, you could take several routes (like "shouts") or one route (like "shout") might be better than another this time of day, but your best bet might be to take [the highway called] Route 287 (like "root")

[@paulabraham2550]

@@gwaptiva I wouldn't object to that - I was being flippant. And "routee" is most certainly "impure usage"!