Why would you convert to decimal naming conventions when using a binary numbering system? Or do you think numeric values like 42(dec) have inherent names? That’s as silly as thinking that the freezing point of water is 0 degrees or, even worse, 32 degrees.

This is programmer humor.

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0. Why are you still here?

I don’t know, I don’t think I want the best IT person in the world performing an appendectomy.

Just because you’re an expert in one field doesn’t mean you’re an expert in every field.

I wasn’t making any judgement on this, although if I were, I would point out that one of the benefits of open source is the ability to fork projects and move away from the elements you have a philosophical issue with, such as what the OpenOffice developers did when Oracle purchased Sun and started imposing their unplayable rules. What I was half-jokingly pointing out was some guy coming in deep into the conversation of highly opinionated people and acting like the conversation wasn’t about their various opinions.

As someone who hasn’t bothered to read any of the detail about this whole mess until just now, the comments from three years ago were all relatively civil, even if the response by the developer was dismissive. That this was corrected within 6 weeks and people are still talking about it is pretty impressive, though. Looks like people are trying to make enemies, not converts.

Do you know what topic brought you here?

“Hey guys, let’s not use this free software, because of their views.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t use this other free software because of their views.”

“Why are you guys worried about which free software you use based on their views?”

“We can all tell you aren’t new, why are you complaining about our unofficial pastime?”

You can always check RPiLocator.com. Looks like there is a reasonable supply in Europe for the Pi 5, and some variant or other is available in many places worldwide.

Well, it works on more than 10 phone models. The criticisms in the post are valid, certainly, but that doesn’t help much if my device isn’t supported.

I’ve been pretty meh on GrapheneOS, haven’t actually used it, usually lean towards LineageOS, but the sandboxed Google Play feature sounds pretty interesting.

Those checks go to the larger YouTube channels, not people like you and me. Did you mean something different?

/s

Where I don’t disagree with anything you say here, someone who contributes to a project with a license like this should already be aware and have accepted that it may ultimately be taken out of their hands, and that’s fine if that’s what they want to do. In fact, I prefer it for some types of software (I can’t think of a better way to promote adoption of reference designs such as TCP/IP). That said, if the idea of working with a group and losing control or access to it is a problem for you, then by all means don’t do so and tell others of the risks.