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  • Not legal advice, just an idea.

    Publish early and frequently (e.g. on github with a license statement) and encourage others to clone it. Now the code is out there. You can’t take it back. Even better if the funding agency explicitly approves this.

    You can still dual-license, later, i.e. use a more permissive (or different) license if the agency or a research partner requires this. Just make sure the repo with your preferred licence stays available and uptodate.

    The license is less important than you think. OSS projects live as long as there is at least one maintainer.


  • Not an expert, not an insider. Just commenting to inform about what i know.

    When wayland was designed, security was a concern and it was handled differently than in X decades ago. That is good.

    Under X any application can be a screenreader and see your data. This was okay when you trusted everything on your machine, but is a problem today.

    Under wayland’s original design, no application could be a screenreader. That’s bad. It took way too long to agree on how to make exceptions to the rule, e.g. for screen readers, screen sharing in video calls, etc.












  • I’ve been macOS user for past decade.

    I find macOS UI superior to both Gnome and KDE.

    I’m not surprised.

    Also, I’m not sure if Gnome tries to mimic OS X or Windows or KDE, for the sake of this argument. Gnome (classic) was invented to replace (original) KDE, which sort-of tried to replace Windows.

    Stuff evolves. UIs oscillate between minimalism and overload.




  • Most specialized software are web apps running in a browser hosted on the cloud these days. I’m sure they exist, but I couldn’t name any HR, ERM, CRM, … software that’s not a web app.

    The desktop OS is becoming irrelevant. That’s why those who want a Mac or Linux notebook can make it work, at least from a purely technical point of view; i.e. if the company allows it. That’s also, why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop. (I mention Macs here, because while OS X gets some commercial software that you won’t get on Linux, it’s not that much outside of some niches)

    There will never be a year of the Linux desktop because you gain very little from replacing Edge on Windows with Firefox on Linux (a different software that does the same thing). However, you loose some specialised software and your IT supplier, your IT service provider, half of your IT staff and some of your non-IT employees’ skills. This does not sound like a good business case.

    Linux on the desktop never happened, because Linux on the server replaced desktop applications.