You'll find no GPL-licensed software where the licensor's intent is to blur the distribution/use distinction rather than specifically separate the two.
However, you will find AGPL-licensed software with such an intent. The AGPL requires users to publish modifications even if said modifications are not distributed to the public.
A distributor can't rely on the GPLv3's new forgiveness if it's not providing the GPLv3's newly required Installation Information (aka the anti-TiVo clause).
If you are relying on React to run older versions of MS Office, I strongly recommend you move to some FOSS office package like LibreOffice and ditch the Windows camp alltogether.
Unless the application you need to run is a pile of macros for an Office application. For example, in my day job, I have seen Stone Edge, which was an order processing application for online sellers written as a set of Access VBA macros, and the client-side prevalidation of product listing feeds in Amazon Seller Central, which is Excel macros.
Linux is dominating, but X11 isn't. Servers overwhelmingly run GNU/Linux, and Android/Linux and Chrome OS/Linux clients already outnumber Windows clients.
Wine may work provided your application doesn't use any devices other than a keyboard, mouse, display, audio output, storage, and network connection. A lot of applications for which people keep Windows around are applications devoted to accessing a particular hardware peripheral through a custom driver. As I understand it, ReactOS can run drivers for these peripherals, unlike Wine.
Valve's Half-Life 2 was the first major game to use Steam and was released in the fourth quarter of November 2004. Though mainstream support for Windows 98 ended in June 2002, extended support (including security updates) for Windows 98 continued through July 11, 2006. This makes an overlap of over a year and a half of production use of both Steam and Windows 98.
But in all seriousness, why would anyone bother with MP3 today.
Car stereo with MP3 CD player and no 3.5 mm input. And the fact that two out of the three major recorded music download stores (Amazon and Google Play) deliver purchased recordings in MP3 format.
Let me try to reverse-engineer thewolfkin's argument:
An free application ported to a proprietary operating system containing a licensed encoder can use that encoder. For example, VirtualDub is a free application for Windows, but it can use any encoder implementing the Video for Windows interface. The best known operating system that doesn't ship with licensed proprietary encoders is GNU/Linux.
three orders of magnitude improvement on both storage capacity and network bandwidth.
Peak or sustained bandwidth? True, satellite and cellular data links in the 2010s have a much faster peak throughput than the V.90 link common in the 1990s. But if you pay for a 10 GB/mo plan, your sustained throughput is 10 GB/mo * 8000000 kbit/GB / 30 day/mo / 86400 s/day = 30.9 kbps, which closely matches the usable downstream of a V.34 dial-up modem.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released.
Only in very limited circumstances is this the case. The output of a GPL tool isn't GPL unless the tool copies part of itself into its output. For example, the Bison parser generator copies part of itself into its output, and GCC copies libgcc and libstdc++ into a compiled program. But these are under a dual license allowing linking to proprietary software provided no GPL-incompatible plug-ins affect translation of preprocessed source code to assembly language code.
There's an app called "Google" that performs Google searches and handles the OK Google (voice search) and Google Now (notifications of weather, nearby restaurants, and the like) features.
Name something Trump has done that has ruined your life.
Does overseeing the House's recent gutting of the Affordable Care Act's preexisting condition coverage count? That will financially ruin millions of U.S. residents once the Senate signs off on it.
I suppose there is probably a niche market for actually talking to people on your phone, although I'm not sure who would want that, when it's so much easier to just text them
For calling a landline, which nearly half of all U.S. households still have. Landlines can receive voice calls without having to pay for airtime, but they usually can't receive text messages.
or tag them on a social media post.
Good luck tagging me on Facebook when I don't have a Facebook account. I use Twitter.
It's hard to buy food without doing so. Grocery stores in my area play proprietary music over the speaker system when an announcement isn't going out, and a fraction of the price of groceries goes toward the royalties for that privilege.
You do understand there's a difference between the right to confront your accuser in court when you've been brought up on charges, and harassing and threatening someone who's complained to your ISP, right?
An accusation of hate speech, which one might define as incitement toward bias-motivated crime, is a fairly strong indicator of intending to have the accused "brought up on charges."
It's not less than -$2 (negative two dollars), which is what the local ISP charges for the "upgrade" from Internet-only service to a bundle of Internet and basic TV service.
CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, PBS, CW, etc. are all free with this metal thing in the attic.
Then you need to pay $750 for a TiVo DVR ($200 for the hardware and $550 for the required program guide subscription) or just accept that you'll miss any program aired when you happen not to be at home.
Amazon Prime? Free since I already have it for deliveries
"Super Saver Shipping" for large orders is also free, albeit with a minimum order of $35 and longer delivery time. People rationalize not paying extra for the upgrade from Super Saver Shipping to Prime because they consider faster delivery a luxury that can be dispensed with. Their time/money tradeoff is biased toward time.
PLaystation Vue: $35 with auto DVR to the cloud!
The FAQ implies that one person can have PlayStation Vue service only at two home addresses in his lifetime: "You can only make a home location change one time, otherwise your account may be blocked from service." Thus it might not be practical for people who move often following job opportunities.
how well does that work for someone who doesn't already own a PlayStation 4 console on which to play PlayStation 4 games?
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Unlike access to music, access to GPL software isn't forced on customers in the grocery store.
You'll find no GPL-licensed software where the licensor's intent is to blur the distribution/use distinction rather than specifically separate the two.
However, you will find AGPL-licensed software with such an intent. The AGPL requires users to publish modifications even if said modifications are not distributed to the public.
A distributor can't rely on the GPLv3's new forgiveness if it's not providing the GPLv3's newly required Installation Information (aka the anti-TiVo clause).
If you are relying on React to run older versions of MS Office, I strongly recommend you move to some FOSS office package like LibreOffice and ditch the Windows camp alltogether.
Unless the application you need to run is a pile of macros for an Office application. For example, in my day job, I have seen Stone Edge, which was an order processing application for online sellers written as a set of Access VBA macros, and the client-side prevalidation of product listing feeds in Amazon Seller Central, which is Excel macros.
You don't want to buy a second computer just to play some games.
I'll assume for the moment that you don't claim to speak for millions of people who buy a Sony or Nintendo computer just to play exclusive games.
True, but as far as I'm aware, the most recent Oracle v. Google recognized a fair use defense for interoperability.
Linux is dominating, but X11 isn't. Servers overwhelmingly run GNU/Linux, and Android/Linux and Chrome OS/Linux clients already outnumber Windows clients.
Wine may work provided your application doesn't use any devices other than a keyboard, mouse, display, audio output, storage, and network connection. A lot of applications for which people keep Windows around are applications devoted to accessing a particular hardware peripheral through a custom driver. As I understand it, ReactOS can run drivers for these peripherals, unlike Wine.
Valve's Half-Life 2 was the first major game to use Steam and was released in the fourth quarter of November 2004. Though mainstream support for Windows 98 ended in June 2002, extended support (including security updates) for Windows 98 continued through July 11, 2006. This makes an overlap of over a year and a half of production use of both Steam and Windows 98.
A subscriber could get dial-up pretty much anywhere. There are a lot of residences in the United States still served by no cable company.
Debian (and to a degree Ubuntu) have shipped codecs since ages.
In main, or in non-free and contrib?
But in all seriousness, why would anyone bother with MP3 today.
Car stereo with MP3 CD player and no 3.5 mm input. And the fact that two out of the three major recorded music download stores (Amazon and Google Play) deliver purchased recordings in MP3 format.
Let me try to reverse-engineer thewolfkin's argument:
An free application ported to a proprietary operating system containing a licensed encoder can use that encoder. For example, VirtualDub is a free application for Windows, but it can use any encoder implementing the Video for Windows interface. The best known operating system that doesn't ship with licensed proprietary encoders is GNU/Linux.
three orders of magnitude improvement on both storage capacity and network bandwidth.
Peak or sustained bandwidth? True, satellite and cellular data links in the 2010s have a much faster peak throughput than the V.90 link common in the 1990s. But if you pay for a 10 GB/mo plan, your sustained throughput is 10 GB/mo * 8000000 kbit/GB / 30 day/mo / 86400 s/day = 30.9 kbps, which closely matches the usable downstream of a V.34 dial-up modem.
Less of a shit has never been given about Ogg Vorbis.
egg what?
The codec used for a video of egg-shaped cartoon characters if no patented codecs are installed.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released.
Only in very limited circumstances is this the case. The output of a GPL tool isn't GPL unless the tool copies part of itself into its output. For example, the Bison parser generator copies part of itself into its output, and GCC copies libgcc and libstdc++ into a compiled program. But these are under a dual license allowing linking to proprietary software provided no GPL-incompatible plug-ins affect translation of preprocessed source code to assembly language code.
There's an app called "Google" that performs Google searches and handles the OK Google (voice search) and Google Now (notifications of weather, nearby restaurants, and the like) features.
Name something Trump has done that has ruined your life.
Does overseeing the House's recent gutting of the Affordable Care Act's preexisting condition coverage count? That will financially ruin millions of U.S. residents once the Senate signs off on it.
I suppose there is probably a niche market for actually talking to people on your phone, although I'm not sure who would want that, when it's so much easier to just text them
For calling a landline, which nearly half of all U.S. households still have. Landlines can receive voice calls without having to pay for airtime, but they usually can't receive text messages.
or tag them on a social media post.
Good luck tagging me on Facebook when I don't have a Facebook account. I use Twitter.
It's hard to buy food without doing so. Grocery stores in my area play proprietary music over the speaker system when an announcement isn't going out, and a fraction of the price of groceries goes toward the royalties for that privilege.
You do understand there's a difference between the right to confront your accuser in court when you've been brought up on charges, and harassing and threatening someone who's complained to your ISP, right?
An accusation of hate speech, which one might define as incitement toward bias-motivated crime, is a fairly strong indicator of intending to have the accused "brought up on charges."
You don't need Prime for free shipping on Amazon if you wait until your order total reaches $35 before submitting the order.
The paid television services bury you in bullshit, the advertised price has no relation to what the bill is
Doesn't subscribing to Internet access in the first place bury you in exactly the same bullshit?
Total: $63 so yes it is still less.
It's not less than -$2 (negative two dollars), which is what the local ISP charges for the "upgrade" from Internet-only service to a bundle of Internet and basic TV service.
CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, PBS, CW, etc. are all free with this metal thing in the attic.
Then you need to pay $750 for a TiVo DVR ($200 for the hardware and $550 for the required program guide subscription) or just accept that you'll miss any program aired when you happen not to be at home.
Amazon Prime? Free since I already have it for deliveries
"Super Saver Shipping" for large orders is also free, albeit with a minimum order of $35 and longer delivery time. People rationalize not paying extra for the upgrade from Super Saver Shipping to Prime because they consider faster delivery a luxury that can be dispensed with. Their time/money tradeoff is biased toward time.
PLaystation Vue: $35 with auto DVR to the cloud!
The FAQ implies that one person can have PlayStation Vue service only at two home addresses in his lifetime: "You can only make a home location change one time, otherwise your account may be blocked from service." Thus it might not be practical for people who move often following job opportunities.
how well does that work for someone who doesn't already own a PlayStation 4 console on which to play PlayStation 4 games?
you could rotate through them in succession and binge the shows of interest.
Which I guess is part of the rationale behind the 12-month minimum for Prime.