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My girlfriend in High School and college was taking "Secretarial Science" like her mother but took Cobol for a laugh, maybe because I was taking every other language. Right out of college she got a job as the bum she married finally finished college on her nickel.

I signed into Instagram because one of the news sites referenced it. A few months later I signed on again to set up a business account, only to be informed I was "violating the Community Guidelines" and asking to send a text (so I gave a number intended for the business - only for the text to ask me to bend over, kiss the nether parts, and, oh yes, write a number on a piece of paper and take a selfie for them. So far, Zinc is asking for photos. So I wrote Meta's chief legal officer to ask for a justification for mining for personal identification information under fraudulent circumstances. No answer yet so it's time to go see if I can get triple damages for not responding to the demand letter. Ho Hum, we hardly knew ye.

From 2018 - no use correcting it now - but an instance of drawing conclusions about probability after ignoring the predicates. So, if one child is a son, what is the chance both children are sons: (1) after a daughter (1/2), the next is a son (=>1/2); (2) after a son (1/2), the next can be a daughter (=>1/4) or another son (=>1/4). The three allowed outcomes does not imply they are equally probable.

That fallacy continues in that article, or am I wrong, just like the whole world about that well-known vos Savant's answer to the Monty Hall conundrum. I had to write a little program before I believed that one.

Can we count the ways...just look around the web. Start with msn and linkedin which now merrily spin in my browser but never show any content.

Without investigating further, I doubt this was a Thunderbird bug. Find a live ISO to boot a USB device, delete a few files, no more low hard disk. That said, I've encountered a few what-were-they-thinking data losses recently, the worst being a shingled backup of a few big ISO files, the first being a move, and when the disk barfed (presumably too much data queued to be shingled written), the first few files were lost. So I went out and got a larger disk from the same vendor, tried 'copy' this time, same exception, I guess, the same old crappy firmware.

Again the fallacy. GPLv2 allow (1) giving the source code along with the binaries or (2) promise to allow any third-party to obtain those sources for the cost of copying. The Software Freedom Conservancy post shows that Red Hat considers GPL licensing to be a serious matter. Correct, an end user could not enforce a copyright violation, but the copyright owner can assign those rights.

I also think Red Hat is complying with GPL and other licenses, just it is closer to the edge than last month.

I commented to the blog, saying that it was incomplete to say "Red Hat and IBM are making their sources available to all those who receive their binaries under contract. That is the GPL." The blog responded, it's submitted for moderation - but I do not see my, or any other comments.

A simple search on "Linux GPL-2 license" yields "The Linux Kernel is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only", and on the gnu site, "Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code [...or...] give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code". For brevity, I synopsized this in my comment.

I see too many articles saying that Red Hat only have to provide source code to its customers - and the blog only implies that - but the Linux license requires more. The community often takes the source code, compiles and matches the binaries. That is essential. Red Hat offers a service, support and warranty, but as the license says, you cannot just take the source code, you have to give it back too.

I had a contract where source code had been lost, until I found a printout, yellowed and wrinkled, showing self-modifying code to boot, and assembled that, finding a match to the binary, at which point I could produce a module that could be maintained in the future. That task would have been much more difficult without source code.

Here we go again. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/license-rules... "The Linux Kernel is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only"

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html [3.] "b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code,"

QED

As I said, there are other documents, especially in userland, encumbered by other licenses.

I haven't seen any comments that are absolutely accurate. Linux itself is licensed under GPLv2 - so any third party can ask for source once the binaries are distributed - but some are trying to spin in the opposite direction.

Yes, other parts of the distro are subject to different licenses, and if Rocky is right, one can still compile and package up a 1:1 binary release and this is a good thing. I know of at least one substantial product with direction to run it under Red Hat, 'although there are reports that it runs under Fedora too'.

It looks to me that Red Hatters are being careful to follow the open source licenses, as, or course, they carefully follow their binaries so they can be paid for their warranties and the support they provide.

Psychiatrists blame anxiety - everyone starts with their own experience, yet there is a point, as in the brain, the hippocampus reacts poorly (to anxiety) and makes it difficult to organize your thoughts (by interfering with short-time memory). You are going to have your own way through this.

Some recommend mediation. That is a fancy way for saying to train yourself to focus.

Do not ignore nutrition. There are so many additives in foods, different people can respond differently to them.