Of course it was thought of from day one. It was explicitly allowed from the outset.
Anyone who ever licensed something gpl and was then suprised that someone else made a business selling services or otherwise employing the software, is simply, I won't say an idiot but let's say thoughtless. It's possible to be unthinking for other reasons than being incapable.
Unless they were not suprised and never genuinely subscribed to the ideals and theory of open source in the first place, but just wanted the cache that comes with it, as basically a marketing tactic to get popular fast & easy that they don't really intend to honor the moment it becomes inconvenient.
The GPL never cared about or even slightly tried to inhibit or control commercial use of software. It ONLY cares about the end user being empowered.
WPEngine sound like complete soulless sucks, and I wouldn't give them a dime of my own money by choice, but that doesn't matter at all and doesn't harm WordPerfect or anyone else. WPE using the software and not doing a thing but adhering to the GPL is being exactly a perfect GPL citizen. Matt, by trying to enforce any kind of extra terms on a user of GPL software, is the one violating both the letter and spririt of the GPL, which is just super extra rich considering what his whole attempted argument has been.
But anyway the point I meant to say was "the idea of third parties taking open-source software and just making a shitload of money with it was unthought of"
Yes it was explicitly thought of all along. It's neither a goal nor an anti-goal, it's simply expected, and expected that traditional business models will be difficult when the user can have the source, and irrelevant either way, wthether someone tries, or not, succeeds, or not.
It's like ownership of property. If I sell you a car, I have no legitimate interest in what you do with the car. You can do something I would totally hate. It's none of my business. The author of GPL software similarly has no interest in what a user does with the software other than adhering to the GPL terms. Using it and giving nothing back other than what the GPL requires is 100% fine and upstanding.
The output hasn't changed because the input hasn't changed. The shoe still fits.
So far everything an llm has ever done is still consistent with fitting bits of training data together.
It looks like people because it is replaying things done by people.
Similarly in the other direction, the fact that people can and often do mechanical things (make bad art, follow routines, etc) does not prove that people are no different than machines either.
Just because there are these two overlaps in both directions doesn't excuse getting them actually confused.
I don't think anyone lacking the perception to distinguish these things simply because there are overlaps and similar appearances is in a great position from which to be calling anyone else stochastic.
50% of the population has hands that are too small to operate a typical phone with one hand. It's ridiculous that there is nothing for such a huge number of people.
Most people take what they're given. Whatever is on the shelf or the front page, that's what they buy. Manufacturers make bigger screens because it's impressive and good for delivering content and provides room for cpu & battery, and most people just go along with it. They think about products the same as the weather. Whatever is, is just what is, like it's just part of the world, not something that people made and people can make differently. If there is choice available, they buy what they were told to want.
Sales numbers are not a strong argument in an environment like that. Countless things sell in huge numbers without anyone actually liking the product or service, even when there isn't a hard monopoly like your cable/internet.
There is a whole other big perverting factor too, which is that for many years now a phone is many people's only computing device. They are preferring phones that are larger that they'd really like for a phone, because they can only have one, and need it to do every job that you and I use a laptop for.
This is no great conundrum. There is simply a large set overlap. A lot of the people who care about one one, also care about the other.
It's the same as Framework owners and Linux users.
FW is not a linux laptop company. They didn't even barely say the word Linux initially. Their selling point was the repairability and configurability. Only after they had been shipping for a while it became unavoidable that a huge fraction of their users were linux and even freebsd users. Only after some time and only gradually they started providing a little bit of official acknowledgement and support for Linux.
But repair parts and linux os don't have anything to do with each other! zomg why is everyone conflating Framework with a linux laptop company???
I just call them not great developers. The users pay your fat salary and you yourself are a user for everything else in the world and at all other times. It's not some icky burden to talk to them or let them talk to you, it's the job. If you don't like the job, then you don't like the job, and should not be doing the job.
I don't have a lot of patience or sympathy for this attitude even though it's practically universal. There might be a few legitimate cases where someone basically has a handicap where they are clinically incapable, but then that's a handicap like a broken leg. A defect. Maybe it's ok to make allowances for them in the name of equality but it's absolutely making allowances, and should not be a norm and should not be something just everyone gets to claim for their mere comfort and convenience. IMO anyway if I were king and all that.
Maybe, but check if there's another level to it: is it because their performance review is based on metrics for which meeting with customers is a hindrance?
If I'm graded on getting tickets done or getting some feature out, then meeting with users may be beneficial and the right thing to do but incentives turn it into swimming upstream...
I live in Finland, where in "product companies" developers don't always speak great English. Or they might not speak Finnish if they're immigrants. So the employer wants to pick and choose product managers that they think are "presentable" enough in terms of linguistic or social competence to put directly in front of a customer. They seem to value this high enough that they are willing to take the productivity hit from the indirection.
About to move over myself. Apparently it now works to migrate from zvault 13.3 to freecore.
I can not think of any way to decide between freecore and bsdnas.
Both freecore and bsdnas seem to be single developer projects so far. Similarly there were at least 2 other 15.x ports done by individuals even earlier but not really pubblicized with their own websites. And one of those, dravanet, was what bsdnas forked from, and dravent continued to develop after that too so that's yet a 3rd distinct not-certainly-dead version really.
They are all still a toss up at the moment but as long as it continues to be more or less painless to hop then I guess it doesn't matter which you switch to right now.
And then xigmanas is a bit behind still on 14.x but not derelict, but also different and not as painless a migration. But it's been around a long time and even if it's slower to update, seems safer and more predictable if you want to find a new home once and not have to be hopping 3 more times over the next couple years.
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