What is meant by “non-free network service” in this context?
Geometric Weather gets its weather data from AccuWeather and OpenWeatherMap, which are not open source weather APIs. In contrast, omWeather gets its weather data from Open-Meteo, which is open source.
In the version of Vim that I am using (Vim 8.1), the "advertisement" appears to be randomly chosen between "Help poor children in Uganda!" and "Sponsor Vim development!".
Pharo is licensed under MIT hence most of my work needs to be licensed also under MIT.
I believe that this is not true. I thought that it is not mandatory for your work to be licensed under the MIT license in this case. Can anyone confirm this?
For rapid development of web applications, you should probably use a web framework in a high level language. Popular examples of such web frameworks: Django (language: Python) and Ruby on Rails (language: Ruby). These frameworks have huge communities behind them, lots of documentation, and lots of educational resources available (such as books).
Your Linux distribution probably packages the SDK already, just install and use it.
The .NET SDK is still not in the Debian repositories.
I don’t get why big companys are afraid of open source software
Maybe they think that their business would not be as profitable when using open source business models.
I would be willing to pay to have the license to modify my own software even if I couldn’t redistribute it afterwards.
That's source-available software. An example license that you would probably like: The GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) license.
Why is Ecosia on the list?
Quoting from tosdr.org:
- This service can view your browser history
- This service may collect, use, and share location data
- This service allows tracking via third-party cookies for purposes including targeted advertising
- This service tracks which web page referred you to it
- Your personal data is given to third parties
Doesn't look privacy-respecting.
What are the advantages of using Borg instead of Duplicity?