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In my opinion, the EU Public License is the most carefully thought out FLOSS license for European jurisdictions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licenc...

Thank you for your answer.

I'm glad to hear that Buxfer is still improving and I'll take some time to take a deeper look at it.

Congratulations on building a solid business!

I hope that I never see the "Have disk" button again. The Linux way of distributing hardware drivers is so much easier.

As for usage, linux on the desktop is between .5% and 2% market share. And there reason to suspect that Linux usage is undercounted.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268237/global-market-sha...

https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/operating-systems-market-sh...

If you find this article interesting, you would probably enjoy this great podcast about the history of English:

https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/episodes/

He goes into much more detail. He has a separate audiobook that focus on the evolution of the alphabet.

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This is a great story about an ISP owner having to deal with National Security Letters: http://www.shiftfrequency.com/madison-ruppert-owner-of-small...

Some of my best experiences as a parent have come because I started young and had to struggle about which priority in life was most important. It changed who I am. I wouldn't trade the extra time I have to be a father and grand-father for the freedom and flexibility I could have enjoyed. I find deeper joy in the "boring" slog of being a dad.

You citing a number of examples of marriage evolving and being redefined only serves to clarify how the process is continuing today and how people of all backgrounds have an interest in those issues.

Your demeaning tone and labels doesn't serve your supposedly tolerant position. I agree that everyone should be treated with respect and decency. But I also believe that there is a standard for morality that should be honored in order to promote the greatest mutual happiness.

Advocating a standard of public morality in marriage is the same as in drug control, pornography, hate speech, or any other area. We might have different opinions on what standard will bring the most happiness. We don't have to agree, but mutual respect smooths the democratic processes around reconciling those differences.

We are a bit off topic here, so I'll stop derailing the conversation.

This isn't really the place for an in-depth discussion of Mormon doctrine (and I don't really have the time today), so feel free to email me if you would like to continue the conversation.

But I will quickly correct a few of the mistakes in this conversation:

* There were black members of the Church before the lifting of the ban on the priesthood.

* Though Brigham Young characterized the priesthood ban as a "cursing" he was very clear that the priesthood would be available to people of African decent at some point in the future.

* Not being ordained to the priesthood never meant that blacks would be excluded from salvation. Through the practice of proxy ordinances for the dead, Mormon doctrine has always made clear that all would have the chance at salvation even if denied the opportunity to have the priesthood during this life.

* Limiting the priesthood, or even the preaching of the gospel, to a specific family is part of the Biblical pattern in both the Old and New Testaments.

* Though there was clearly some racism in the Mormon Church before 1978 (and probably still is today), the people I know who were part of the church at that time say it was limited. The official position then, as it is now, was of love and acceptance within the limitations they felt the Lord had set.

Conversations such as this one are valuable, but be aware that they tend to oversimplify complex topics.

A great book on the topic written by a black Mormon who joined the Church before 1978 is this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Blacks-Mormon-Priesthood-Setting-Strai...

Calling people bigots does nothing to promote civil discourse about important issues such as homosexual marriage.

The standard was drafted in 1984, long before efforts to redefine marriage. It isn't very fair of you to project your 21st century politics back on the creators of a 30 year old standard.

You apply the label of bigotry to exclude from the conversation those who differ in opinion from you. That isn't how democracies are designed to function. Nor does it recognize the complexity of the issue. Religious people can desire a standard of public morality without espousing hatred for those who don't share that standard. Calling that bigotry makes it harder to identify true prejudice.

Understanding and appreciating are very different things.

The LDS Church does employ many developers, but they also benefit from a lot of volunteer contributions.

They have a neat program for organizing volunteer efforts:

https://vineyard.lds.org/

I don't think you are appreciating the world view of believing Mormons.

Though Ancestry.com has some agreements to share resources with the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-day Saints, it is a completely separate organization and a for profit company. It was founded by Mormons, many of the employees are Mormons, and lots of the customers are Mormons and driven by their religious interest; but it is distinct from the work you are discussing.

The efforts of the Church of Jesus Christ are all non-profit and publicly available at Family Search (http://familysearch.org).

What a silly comment.

The idea that proxy baptism for the dead has any effect is predicated on the belief that there is an afterlife and that the individual has the ability to accept or reject the ordinance.

I really like working with Bluehost (http://www.bluehost.com/). They are amazingly cheap shared hosting plans targeted at non-administrators, but if you are willing to provide a copy of your government ID (as insurance against naughtiness) they will provide shell access. Their admins are very accommodating about letting me run my own stuff as long as it won't impact other users of the server.

Is Disqus more friendly to screen readers / impaired users? In the past its reliance on Javascript has made it painful for accessibility software, but the SEO improvements might have made things nicer now. This is the big objection to deploying Disqus on our site.

Starving artist is not a good analogy. Software is a trade that provides economic benefit to the recipient, rather than purely entertainment.

Better analogies would be to an architect, general contractor, plumber, or mechanic. Anyone can do these jobs with proper training. They don't live off repeated sales of single pieces of intellectual property. And they all make reliable livings (though few of them become millionaires).