krzyk 16 hours ago

What's wrong in using Linux. It is an open source project with origins in Finland and still lead by a Fin.

  • woodson 15 hours ago

    …who lives in Oregon, in the US.

    • amanaplanacanal 15 hours ago

      Hey, we'd break away if we could.

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      • tempsaasexample 14 hours ago

        I spend a month in Oregon every year mushroom hunting and elk hunting.

        Once you're away from a few key cities, Oregonians are more conservative and hardcore than even central Californians.

        I think you underestimate your state if you think they're anti American.

akudha 18 hours ago

What is wrong with using Linux?

  • direwolf20 16 hours ago

    Linus Torvalds is very pro–corporate, pro–tivoization, he thinks GPL3 was a terrible mistake.

    • imtringued 16 minutes ago

      He is against the "GPLv3 or later clause" because the FSF could change the license terms if it gets hijacked.

    • palata 13 hours ago

      Is he pro-tivoization, or is he not against it?

      I heard him talk about GPLv3 someday, and what he said was that it was a mistake to call it "GPLv3", as if it was the evolution of GPLv2, because for him it should have been a totally different licence.

      Which I find fair: there are different kinds of copyleft (like MPL vs GPL), it makes sense to say that GPLv2 is a different concept than GPLv3. Whereas I don't know if anyone should use GPLv1 because GPLv2 sounds like it fixed GPLv1 without changing its spirit.

mikeyouse 17 hours ago

Isn’t Sel4 Australian?

  • christophilus 17 hours ago

    All of the things OP mentioned are non-US tech. I think the OP was speaking from a US perspective, though it’s not clear.

hbogert 18 hours ago

what's wrong with using european stuff? (ARM, ASML)

:P

  • dijit 17 hours ago

    Isn’t ARM owned by Softbank? (Japanese)

    • hbogert 3 hours ago

      totally missed this, yep major stake is by Softbank. We europeans like to talk about sovereignty but we sell our stuff pretty easily :D