imagine how much better F/LOSS would be if commercial users had to fund back to the project based on the income derived from that code. $50 helps.
Consider how many free programs an individual independent contractor uses. Now imagine what fraction of one's income a 50 USD per year royalty for the use of free software would represent, particularly in a country whose currency won't buy a lot of US Dollars.
Unlike GPLv2, GPLv3 is explicitly compatible with AGPLv3. This means that a program is allowed to include both GPLv3 and AGPLv3 components, and if so, it must offer complete corresponding source code to users who interact with the program over a computer network even if the program itself is not distributed to the public. Oracle has changed the license of new versions of Oracle Berkeley DB to AGPLv3 in order to forbid its use in any program with a proprietary component. This allows Oracle to charge for exceptions.
Need contacts? Either get the real ones or a fake empty list. Or possibly get some edited set.
Would all apps on a given phone share the same "edited set"?
Need location? Either get the real location, or just get a static location defined by the user.
If this were to transpire, then movie streaming apps would quickly become exclusive to iOS, as streaming providers would have no way to verify that the user of an Android device is physically in a country (or a digital single market confederation) where the provider has licensed the movie.
Need the network? Either get it, or tell the app that you're offline.
"To continue using this feature, connect to the Internet. For advanced offline capability, subscribe to Offline Pack next time you're online."
I imagine Apple set its payment service charge at 30 percent for a few reasons. One of them is that the underlying credit card and ACH payment processors charge roughly 30 cents per transaction no matter the total. This lets Apple not bleed money with a lot of 99 cent transactions.
Except in regulated industries there's no law governing the "fair" share that someone has to offer, or someone has to accept.
Music is a regulated industry pursuant to Title 17, United States Code. In addition, the Sherman Act as amended regulates certain aspects of all industries that engage in "commerce [...] among the several states".
Spotify wants a lower $ charge. Apple owns the platform and controls that access and $ charge.
Specifically, Spotify alleges that Apple is "dumping" the service of negotiating with labels and operating streaming servers by providing it to users for free. (In competition law, dumping refers to pricing a good or service below cost in order to harm competitors.) If the music publishers and record labels get 70 percent, and the App Store gets 30 percent, what does that leave for the service of negotiating with labels and operating streaming servers?
If you owned a shopping mall, and had your own restaurant inside that mall as well, would you charge yourself the same as you charged other restaurants?
The accountants would make up some nominal amount to put down in the "rent" category in order to itemize tax-deductible expenses. And in order to keep privileges that the city's zoning board grants to the mall, a city aware of the possibility of monopoly abuse would require this rent to be within a reasonable range of what Chick-fil-A and other tenants in the food court pay.
they could easily avoid [Apple's 30% cut of IAP] by simply pushing the user out of the app or even taking credit card information in the app.
The App Store Review Guidelines ban "pushing the user out of the app" or "taking credit card information in the app" except for physical goods.
I have made a retail app on iOS, you could put things in your cart, put in your credit card info and check out just like on a web page and apple didn't get a dime for it
Were the "things" physical? If so, that is the material difference between your app and Spotify.
Perhaps artists should focus on making their money on concert ticket sales and merchandising
What steps can a recording artist take toward "making their money on concert ticket sales and merchandising" in each of the following cases?
A. The recording artist is independent and relies on income from a day job, which rules out touring, but seeks a way to recover the costs of further production of recordings. B. The recording artist specializes in a musical style that is impractical to perform live, such as the second half of The Beatles' discography or several forms of electronic dance music.
When you got your iPhone, you knew you were locked into the Apple Store, right?
No. When the iPhone was introduced, it had no App Store. The "lock-in" was in the other direction: playing iTunes Music Store purchases required an iPhone (or an obscure model of Motorola flip phone), though the iPhone could play music acquired elsewhere. Apple added the App Store came in iOS 2, and its lock-in was and is bidirectional: adding apps to the iPhone requires the App Store, and App Store apps require an iPhone. People who bought an iPhone because of compatibility with FairPlay DRM on pre-2009 iTMS purchases ended up additionally locked into the App Store once iOS 2 came out.
Having two accounts helps if you don't want Google feeding your Docs activity to its other divisions to help AdWords and DoubleClick personalize ads presented to you.
The Dropbox client is proprietary. Only the installer is free software, and its dependency on the proprietary software that it downloads is why it cannot be included in Debian main or in Fedora.
Just like I am not changing my Email client or my web browser to suits my Email provider.
Microsoft has in the past required users to change their email client in order to use Hotmail (now called Outlook.com) on free accounts. It refused IMAP in order to enforce ad views. The only desktop MUA compatible with the proprietary protocol that Hotmail used at the time was Outlook Express for Windows.
Recently, Microsoft has required users of Skype for Web to switch from Safari or Firefox to Google Chrome, and I doubt that Outlook.com is far behind.
Are you downloading Libreoffice and Firefox from their web sites?
Some people do this in order to benefit from bug fixes and new features that haven't been upstreamed into the distro yet. For example, I was told that Firefox 66 fixed a problem that was causing the "Upload Emoji" button in Discordapp.com not to work. But Ubuntu's repository carries only the release version, and at the time, Firefox 66 was beta, and Firefox 65 was release. So in order to test whether Firefox 66 actually fixed the problem, I had to download the beta from Mozilla's website.
I have used the Dropbox client on Debian and Ubuntu. The website mentions Fedora. That's more than two. In addition, the install page states that the updater can also be compiled from source code.
while I can't speak for every ISP, the consumer ISPs in my area only block 80 and 25; 443 is open even on consumer connections.
ISPs that run carrier-grade NAT block all ports in order to allow an entire neighborhood to share an IP address. These ISPs are more common in countries with a smaller allocation of IPv4 addresses relative to the population.
Nextcloud works on a Raspberry Pi
Zero or 3B+?
Don't sit there being pedantic about calling it "GNU/Linux" twice in a one-line post
Had i not used the term "GNU/Linux", others might have replied "Use the Android client. Android is Linux, right?"
Why would I want to manually download and install a dropbox client manually when I can use my distro's repository instead.
Because the distro's repository doesn't include Dropbox, in turn because said repository's inclusion criteria reject Dropbox's client for its proprietary software license.
You can easily run [the sync master] on a Raspberry Pi.
Is it worth buying a Raspberry Pi and enclosure solely to act as the always-on node for Syncthing? Before I buy one, does it run well on a Zero, or does it require a 3B+?
I have some Sandisk USB drive [...] It works seamlessly on my Linux home computer, my Windows work machine, and my Android phone.
Plugging a flash drive with a USB A plug into the USB micro-B or C receptacle on a phone needs an adapter. Furthermore, several unrooted Android devices cannot mount a USB flash drive. My Nexus 7 tablet, for example, could not.
I still don't get the allure of cloud storage
I can think of at least seven:
Not occupying one of your device's USB A receptacles (and not needing to carry a hub to multiplex)
Working on devices with no USB A receptacles in the first place, such as phones, tablets, and recent MacBooks
Not needing to be unmounted manually (with attendant game of "what app has a file handle open?") in order to avoid file system corruption
Off-site, in case disaster strikes the building containing your USB flash drive
Sharing files with another user is not delayed by half a week or more
Sharing files with another user does not require paying the post office or a courier to ship a USB flash drive across the country or across the planet
Sharing files with another user does not depend on the goodwill of the to mail your USB flash drive back
I have an account with Box that offers me 50GB of storage for free. I get around the encryption issue by creating a Veracrypt container in Box and adding my files to the container.
How do you get around the requirement of Windows or macOS to run Box Sync? (source)
Dropbox storage is backed up in the cloud in order to support sync among devices that are A. not turned on at the same time or B. both behind firewalls that the user does not control, such as carrier-grade NAT imposed by an ISP.
trans content is 1. Overwhelmingly consumed by self-identified straight people.
Why "consumed" as opposed to "viewed"? It's not as if viewing a slideshow of erotic photos of a trans person causes those photos to no longer exist in the same way that food is "consumed".
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Who wants to play the same map every game?
de_dust much? Or in Tetris, who wants to play with the same 7 pieces every game?
imagine how much better F/LOSS would be if commercial users had to fund back to the project based on the income derived from that code. $50 helps.
Consider how many free programs an individual independent contractor uses. Now imagine what fraction of one's income a 50 USD per year royalty for the use of free software would represent, particularly in a country whose currency won't buy a lot of US Dollars.
Unlike GPLv2, GPLv3 is explicitly compatible with AGPLv3. This means that a program is allowed to include both GPLv3 and AGPLv3 components, and if so, it must offer complete corresponding source code to users who interact with the program over a computer network even if the program itself is not distributed to the public. Oracle has changed the license of new versions of Oracle Berkeley DB to AGPLv3 in order to forbid its use in any program with a proprietary component. This allows Oracle to charge for exceptions.
Need contacts? Either get the real ones or a fake empty list. Or possibly get some edited set.
Would all apps on a given phone share the same "edited set"?
Need location? Either get the real location, or just get a static location defined by the user.
If this were to transpire, then movie streaming apps would quickly become exclusive to iOS, as streaming providers would have no way to verify that the user of an Android device is physically in a country (or a digital single market confederation) where the provider has licensed the movie.
Need the network? Either get it, or tell the app that you're offline.
"To continue using this feature, connect to the Internet. For advanced offline capability, subscribe to Offline Pack next time you're online."
This is basically like saying you can only buy parts and accessories for your car through the dealership.
Then how have companies like Nintendo been getting away with the same behavior since 1985?
I imagine Apple set its payment service charge at 30 percent for a few reasons. One of them is that the underlying credit card and ACH payment processors charge roughly 30 cents per transaction no matter the total. This lets Apple not bleed money with a lot of 99 cent transactions.
Except in regulated industries there's no law governing the "fair" share that someone has to offer, or someone has to accept.
Music is a regulated industry pursuant to Title 17, United States Code. In addition, the Sherman Act as amended regulates certain aspects of all industries that engage in "commerce [...] among the several states".
Spotify wants a lower $ charge. Apple owns the platform and controls that access and $ charge.
Specifically, Spotify alleges that Apple is "dumping" the service of negotiating with labels and operating streaming servers by providing it to users for free. (In competition law, dumping refers to pricing a good or service below cost in order to harm competitors.) If the music publishers and record labels get 70 percent, and the App Store gets 30 percent, what does that leave for the service of negotiating with labels and operating streaming servers?
If you owned a shopping mall, and had your own restaurant inside that mall as well, would you charge yourself the same as you charged other restaurants?
The accountants would make up some nominal amount to put down in the "rent" category in order to itemize tax-deductible expenses. And in order to keep privileges that the city's zoning board grants to the mall, a city aware of the possibility of monopoly abuse would require this rent to be within a reasonable range of what Chick-fil-A and other tenants in the food court pay.
they could easily avoid [Apple's 30% cut of IAP] by simply pushing the user out of the app or even taking credit card information in the app.
The App Store Review Guidelines ban "pushing the user out of the app" or "taking credit card information in the app" except for physical goods.
I have made a retail app on iOS, you could put things in your cart, put in your credit card info and check out just like on a web page and apple didn't get a dime for it
Were the "things" physical? If so, that is the material difference between your app and Spotify.
Perhaps artists should focus on making their money on concert ticket sales and merchandising
What steps can a recording artist take toward "making their money on concert ticket sales and merchandising" in each of the following cases?
A. The recording artist is independent and relies on income from a day job, which rules out touring, but seeks a way to recover the costs of further production of recordings.
B. The recording artist specializes in a musical style that is impractical to perform live, such as the second half of The Beatles' discography or several forms of electronic dance music.
When you got your iPhone, you knew you were locked into the Apple Store, right?
No. When the iPhone was introduced, it had no App Store. The "lock-in" was in the other direction: playing iTunes Music Store purchases required an iPhone (or an obscure model of Motorola flip phone), though the iPhone could play music acquired elsewhere. Apple added the App Store came in iOS 2, and its lock-in was and is bidirectional: adding apps to the iPhone requires the App Store, and App Store apps require an iPhone. People who bought an iPhone because of compatibility with FairPlay DRM on pre-2009 iTMS purchases ended up additionally locked into the App Store once iOS 2 came out.
Your comment cites an article on the website cultofmac.com. The website cultofmac.com blocks users of Firefox Tracking Protection. Tab closed.
Having two accounts helps if you don't want Google feeding your Docs activity to its other divisions to help AdWords and DoubleClick personalize ads presented to you.
The Dropbox client is proprietary. Only the installer is free software, and its dependency on the proprietary software that it downloads is why it cannot be included in Debian main or in Fedora.
Just like I am not changing my Email client or my web browser to suits my Email provider.
Microsoft has in the past required users to change their email client in order to use Hotmail (now called Outlook.com) on free accounts. It refused IMAP in order to enforce ad views. The only desktop MUA compatible with the proprietary protocol that Hotmail used at the time was Outlook Express for Windows.
Recently, Microsoft has required users of Skype for Web to switch from Safari or Firefox to Google Chrome, and I doubt that Outlook.com is far behind.
Are you downloading Libreoffice and Firefox from their web sites?
Some people do this in order to benefit from bug fixes and new features that haven't been upstreamed into the distro yet. For example, I was told that Firefox 66 fixed a problem that was causing the "Upload Emoji" button in Discordapp.com not to work. But Ubuntu's repository carries only the release version, and at the time, Firefox 66 was beta, and Firefox 65 was release. So in order to test whether Firefox 66 actually fixed the problem, I had to download the beta from Mozilla's website.
I have used the Dropbox client on Debian and Ubuntu. The website mentions Fedora. That's more than two. In addition, the install page states that the updater can also be compiled from source code.
The official Dropbox client includes an automatic updater. Which service's client comes with major desktop Linux distributions?
while I can't speak for every ISP, the consumer ISPs in my area only block 80 and 25; 443 is open even on consumer connections.
ISPs that run carrier-grade NAT block all ports in order to allow an entire neighborhood to share an IP address. These ISPs are more common in countries with a smaller allocation of IPv4 addresses relative to the population.
Nextcloud works on a Raspberry Pi
Zero or 3B+?
Don't sit there being pedantic about calling it "GNU/Linux" twice in a one-line post
Had i not used the term "GNU/Linux", others might have replied "Use the Android client. Android is Linux, right?"
Why would I want to manually download and install a dropbox client manually when I can use my distro's repository instead.
Because the distro's repository doesn't include Dropbox, in turn because said repository's inclusion criteria reject Dropbox's client for its proprietary software license.
You can easily run [the sync master] on a Raspberry Pi.
Is it worth buying a Raspberry Pi and enclosure solely to act as the always-on node for Syncthing? Before I buy one, does it run well on a Zero, or does it require a 3B+?
I have some Sandisk USB drive [...] It works seamlessly on my Linux home computer, my Windows work machine, and my Android phone.
Plugging a flash drive with a USB A plug into the USB micro-B or C receptacle on a phone needs an adapter. Furthermore, several unrooted Android devices cannot mount a USB flash drive. My Nexus 7 tablet, for example, could not.
I still don't get the allure of cloud storage
I can think of at least seven:
I have an account with Box that offers me 50GB of storage for free. I get around the encryption issue by creating a Veracrypt container in Box and adding my files to the container.
How do you get around the requirement of Windows or macOS to run Box Sync? (source)
Dropbox storage is backed up in the cloud in order to support sync among devices that are A. not turned on at the same time or B. both behind firewalls that the user does not control, such as carrier-grade NAT imposed by an ISP.
trans content is
1. Overwhelmingly consumed by self-identified straight people.
Why "consumed" as opposed to "viewed"? It's not as if viewing a slideshow of erotic photos of a trans person causes those photos to no longer exist in the same way that food is "consumed".