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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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How do you, or do you vet if a software will paywall features or "enshittify"? (lemmy.world)

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Obviously we all want to avoid enshittified (aggressively monetized) software or at least get our money's worth. I'm looking at self-hosting software right now and one I'm looking has a pricing page but only for cloud (no other paywalled features) and is open source. I tried looking up future plans and didn't find much, so it doesn't seem like it will enshittify. (not related) I had thought about switching to Omnivore for a long time but then they merged with ElevenLabs and the rest is history.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Forking splits the community, development resources, etc and ensures Linux will stay irreverent to the home user.

If everyone switches over to the fork that's great. But let's be honest. Ubuntu isn't going anywhere any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I disagree, forking and personal modification are the fundamental powers that FOSS licenses like the GPL and MIT give the user. They're the whole point of why FOSS exists in the first place--it's not about money, it's about giving people the power to chance the source and build things for themselves.

Copyleft takes that idea one step further by asking them to share their changes, of course.

Obviously it's great if everyone can align their ideas and desires to work together on a single thing, but the software world also benefits from having multiple projects with different directions and goals, because one-size-fits-all is never ideal.