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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ql wallpaper.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I love one of the clauses of gplv3 where if a user does not follow the gpl you may deny them their ability to use it forever.

Would be funny to strike Nintendo with that. Or any other company that likes suing people work.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my penguin go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

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[–] [email protected] 184 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I clicked on this because I thought it was gonna be a spoopy jumpscare anti-piracy screen but I was pleasantly surprised.

There are a disturbing amount of little kids posting homemade anti-piracy screens for things that are free.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I came across a bunch of those recently, which is how I came up with the idea for this, as a parody :)

Internet horror is disappointingly un-creative. I have no idea why the weakest works (sonic.exe, anti-piracy, kill screens) always end up becoming huge trends, or why so few people try to put a significant twist on said trends.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not only TiVO, IIRC Tecno (the phone company) is in violation of the GPL-2.0 too by not providing device trees.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tons of companies are shipping Linux without giving users access to the source code, it's just that only one has the term "Tivoization" named after it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Thats false! There is already a link to the wikipedia article, but here is the relevant quote: „but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware.“

It is not a violation of the GPL 2, the license of the Linux kernel, but only the GPL 3 which was basically created for this case. Linus Torvalds is a big defender of the GPL 2 and said that Tivo provided good patches for the hardware they used.

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