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  • assuming they have full ownership

    You are mixing things up, I’m not talking about the project, I was exclusively talking about the code someone had made personally.
    Linux for instance can never be made proprietary, because it’s impossible to get permission from all developers.
    But anyone who has contributed a piece of code, can use that piece in other projects under different licenses. Because they retain copyright to their own code.

    So as I stated it is academic to the project, and it’s especially academic to a fork of it.




  • From the blog:

    ONLYOFFICE is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL v3)

    And

    preserving ONLYOFFICE branding in derivative works;

    IDK seems to me it’s not really GPL if you can’t fork it, and that clause is certainly not compatible with any other GPL code.

    If they use any GPL code they are probably in violation of that license.
    Looks to me like they want to appear opensource, while keeping control of the code?

    ensure a balance between openness of the code and protection of the rights of the copyright holder.

    Yep there it is, this is completely contradictory to how GPL 3 works. You can’t call it GPL3 and at the same time claim the copyright.
    ONLYOFFICE is completely misunderstanding how AGPL works.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_License

    The main purpose of AGPL was to facilitate the use of GPL for online services, which wasn’t really possible to make with older GPL versions, because they require distribution of the source code together with the software.



  • Modern batteries are way way better than they used to be, even alkaline is better and were quite expensive in the 90’s.
    But it’s not only how much better they are, it’s the prices, alkaline is standard today, and you barely even look at the price, because they are dirt cheap.
    But you are right that in electronics there have been much improvements, a modern flashlight is easily a 100 times better because of both LED and better batteries. LED improved it probably by a factor of about 10.
    But for many things like a laptop, the power consumption hasn’t gone down that much, because the better batteries have actually made it possible to make more powerful laptops instead. the power consumption of a modest laptop CPU alone id 65 Watt, which would be HUGE in the 80’s.
    I agree the 99% sounds like much, but I can attest to at least 80% probably more like 90% better batteries than the early 90’s.
    Lithium batteries really was a game-changer, especially if you consider only rechargeable batteries.