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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I always wondered why Google took this choice. With the help of this article I understand now.

    RSS ist still not dead but many commercial websites and platforms are not interested in this because it is harder to monetize.

    Although the advantages are obvious. An RSS feed is much more accessible in many ways. It is most times better readable, sortable, offline savable and more efficient to get. What is even better for the environment because a with scripts and external content overloaded web page has a much higher carbon fingerprint.

    Google Reader died and so ATOM/RSS will because the lack of commercial success.



  • Historically the GPL seems to be not cermercial in the sense of taking care for developers rights. The GPL is also connected to the term Open Source. Because it was too restricted for some cases a derivation was made witj the LGPL with which it is posdible to use GPL licenced libraries easier in combination with other more restricted or more opened licenses.

    For some looking for Free Software all this was too restricted and the libre BSD license and all its derivations were made.

    There are several licenses which forbid commercial use. But where does this work? When I want to use a piece of software while working on a profitable project it is commercial use. It may be on purpose to restrict this but sometimes it is not meant to be not free.