Notices by kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org), page 17

in fact, if somebody can come up with a plan to launch my truck into space, that they can actually deliver on, i will give it to them to do that with

we can call it "art"

@elomatreb @Elizafox

plus a busted-ass truck that has, for whatever reason, been race tuned with a balanced twin turbo config seems like it is more representative of humanity at this time

@Elizafox @elomatreb

he could have launched my truck instead, i would have been happy to take his roadster ;)

@elomatreb @Elizafox

is there an industrialist who isnt a jerk?

strong, forceful leadership seems to be a requirement for getting things done industrially.

@elomatreb @Elizafox

who cares?

is the fact that they shot a car into space instead of a concrete block harming you personally?

or is this really just bitching because musk won the startup lottery with paypal and therefore gets to do all of this stuff now

@Elizafox

they could have released the cube sats at the same time the fairing was released.

falcon heavy was in low earth orbit for a little while before they adjusted the apogee to prepare for solar orbital injection

@elomatreb @Elizafox

they could have at least launched some cube sats as a secondary payload for those willing to take the risk.

@Wolf480pl @pfigel @mwlucas @mulander @feld

no, but he would have to exercise his rights (to his non-existent trademark) in Sweden

otherwise, he would have to also register his trademark with WIPO (which would give it effective registration in all countries)

@pfigel @mwlucas @mulander @feld @Wolf480pl

while technically true, the palemoon author is Swedish, and from what I have been told, Swedish trademark law says anybody can do whatever they want with your trademark as long as they aren't making money from it

also, pale moon is not registered in Sweden

sooooooo... his threat is entirely meaningless

speaking of, approximately 2 hours until mars-orbital injection

@Wolf480pl @mulander @feld

yes, the branding is the non-free component.

however, based on the overly aggressive attitude that upstream used, they would probably find some other thing to complain about.

to me it seems like they want to be the "official" distributor of their browser and discourage any other distributions through bullying.

for example, the third-party debian packages were pulled through a similar harassment campaign (that according to their website they would "love to work out and get those packages live again")

i still cannot believe they literally launched a fucking car into space

@feld @Wolf480pl @mulander

(and yes, i know that he holds an implicit trademark, but it just seems to me like if you're going to be threatening to sue people you might want to get everything fully proper so you can get max damages)

@mulander @Wolf480pl @feld

you know, for mister "you think trademark law is a joke?", he sure hasn't gotten around to registering the trademarks on his branding package.

but overall, the license required for his branding package makes the software extremely non-free anyway...

https://mastodon.dereferenced.org/media/Kt-KImMQU4HOKQDDlPg

@mulander @feld @Wolf480pl

i mean, not only is the redist license vehemently non-free, it is also being vehemently enforced.

accordingly, it puts freebsd, or openbsd, or alpine, or whoever in a position where the package maintainer may get sued randomly.

so really, it is right and proper for the distribution to protect its users and the maintainer from this kind of harmful litigative threat

obviously trademark law is no joke, and when somebody says "you think trademark law is a joke?" they are basically threatening to become litigious

@Wolf480pl @feld @mulander

the redistribution terms of the software make the software non-free

what are they supposed to do in this circumstance?

we were looking at including pale moon in alpine, but i think we will pass now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c

unfortunately, however, the payload isn't all elected officials everywhere, the ircv3 standards group and the inspircd development team, and the destination isn't the sun.