Finally, Windows will have a package management system that it can call its own! (Steam!) Also, who wants to develop Windows 12 when they can just buy SteamOS? Microsoft has needed to buy their way into the Linux market for at least a decade, and I am surprised that it has taken them this long.
Good for you. If you want to have some non-free software in your home, you should have that choice. Someday, I will be skilled enough to run DDWRT on all my routers. But Everyone should have that choice, and plenty of consumer hardware is hardcoded to always serve their manufacturer, and not their owner. I will never again purchase hardware that I cannot control.
> Someday, I will be skilled enough to run DDWRT on all my routers
You probably already are! It's very easy to run an open-source firmware on a router that you purchase for the purpose. Don't bother with DD-WRT because it supports hardware that can only be driven by binary blobs tied to ancient kernel versions.
Just get something compatible with OpenWrt. My favorite manufacturer of this stuff essentially ships with OpenWrt plus an extra web interfaces, so you can just access the upstream web interface at a different URI if you don't want to install the latest firmware.
The standard OpenWrt web UI is as good or better than what your average router comes with. It's not harder to use.
Why do they even bother? Intuit has skilled coders, that could be put to more productive work. Like rewriting our tax code in Python. (Ha Ha only serious.)
Google was once considered trustworthy. It never was, but we thought it trustworthy. Where can you find a trustworthy source for software? Depends on your platform.
Linux: Your package manager. In my case, apt.
Mac: Apple has an app store of its own. Use that, or one of the BSD package management systems ported over.
Ios: Apple app store is decently curated.
Android: Google's app store is terribly curated. Give up now.
Windows: Nobody uses whatever app store or package management system that microsoft developed. A third party developed a useful package management system. It is called Steam.
Other platforms: see replies below.
Linux package managers are not trustworthy. That is another case where everyone pretends that it is. Usually packages are created and updated by random people and can be pseudonymous.
Yes, but these are the same people who are managing every single program on your system. At some point you either have to compile every single item from source yourself, or accept the fact that you will need to place a certain level of trust into the vetting system your distribution has established.
That really depends on the repos you are using, that's why distros are so important. If using repos from Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora (including RPM Fusion) you are 1000x safer than anyone using winget or google to try and download software from random sources.
Oh crud, you are right. Any idea how to fix this? Perhaps a more curated (and more manageable) list? That would seem to be in conflict with our bazaar model.
The package managers right now ARE that curated list and distributions like Debian have proven themselves to be trustworthy.
Of course, you can always find something wrong with every approach, but the truth that everyone needs to face here is that you need to trust SOMEONE to distribute good software to you.
AUR is one of those "at your own risk" repos where I always check the pkgbuild and comments of a package first before installing something new. I don't know why I should hesitate to trust the default repos though since they're curated by the same people making the distro I use. Either I trust them or I use another distro.
And governments are doing their best to break the app stores, destroying even the basic safely mechanisms such stores can offer. This should be taken as instructive, but is ignored by most.
What a strange argument - with this they're actually opening the market to stores that will ensure secure products like F-Droid with their guarantee for opensource. If anything, the current situation where BOTH Apple and Google store are ridden with malware and poor software doesn't work.
We didn't fix SourceForge problems by allowing a megacorp to kill all competition and enshrine that cesspool, but by creating new sources of software.
I would like to get a 3d printer someday, but I can't imagine bringing running it inside my home. My 3d printer will be in the garage, with the garage door open during printing.
I just want to thank whoever tipped off the judge about these shenanigans. To the mole that I suspect exists within MAVEXAR, you have my thanks. I request that the mole copy all the hard drives that he/she has access to, so that the mole has leverage if caught. It would make a fine letter to your senator.
What exactly are the shenanigans? Patents are transferable. Creating LLC’s for a specific transaction is perfectly legal.
This judge was getting awfully close to invading the attorney-client relationship. I would have to think hard, and review the law, before answering, or letting my client answer some of those questions.
