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  • You're in trouble already as a business, wasting a lot of money, if you don't know where your target audience is. What you argue is that this is used for a business to probe where an advertisement would work. I'd argue that that is a very expensive way of finding your target audience, because you still have to pay for all the ads that didn't work. There are much better ways of figuring out where your target audience is.

    I think most people believe that this obsessive data collection is neccessary, only because Google has repeatedly painted that narrative. This better advertising is just coincidentally the form of advertising that Google is in the best position to supply.

    If you carefully pick the places you advertise and do statistics on how it affect your business while a campaign runs I'm willing to bet you get a much better return. As a bonus to saving money you didn't have to shit on an important principle in democracy, the autonomy of the people, protected by something called privacy.

  • I'm not even buying the premise. Any business can look at its bottomline to see if their advertising works. If they can't, then its not working.

  • Unless someone has registered the trademark for those specific purposes you're clear. A trademarks is only valid within a specific field of purpose. Trademarks are there to avoid consumers mistaking one brand for another.

    There are a lot of entertaining articles on Techdirt about companies not understanding trademark law.

  • I agree and the requirement for an exact placement of attribution is not very friendly to derivate works either. I don't think that section 7 of AGPL allow adding anything other than the exact terms in section 7 and it has a clause that allow removing non-permissive additions to the AGPL, but I've sent an e-mail to FSF asking what their position is. I would be very concerned picking AGPL as a license for my projects, if section 7 allow adding clauses like that. Anyhow the clauses were added in this commit, so anything prior to 7.3.0 is normal AGPL.

  • There is no free and open source version of Only Office. It fakes that it is licensed with AGPL, but they have added the following to the license, which in effect completely forbid you to redistribute it. It can be said to be Source Available.

    The interactive user interfaces in modified source and object code versions of ONLYOFFICE must display Appropriate Legal Notices, as required under Section 5 of the GNU AGPL version 3.

    Pursuant to Section 7 § 3(b) of the GNU AGPL you must retain the original ONLYOFFICE logo in the upper left corner of the user interface when distributing the software.

    Pursuant to Section 7 § 3(e) we decline to grant you any rights under trademark law for use of our trademarks.

    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors/master/LICENSE

  • A solution I've used for the glibc problem, is to build on an older distribution in a chroot. There is also this project which might be of use to pick a specific version of glibc. The project README also explain how to do it manually.

    As for distribution, I prefer something like makeself.sh, that installs to either ~/.local/ or if it is to be installed system-wide to /usr/local or /opt. The concept is just a small shell script appended with a compressed archive, it is easy to modify and even create by hand using standard tools like cat. This is a method widely used by native Linux games.

  • No, it's just a service that's running without me thinking about it.

    My setup is:

    • debian as system
    • exim for smtp
    • courier for pop3
    • mariadb for accounts

    But I'd like to make a point that's not being made in any of the other comments. It does not require an SMTP server to send e-mail. All you have to do is lookup the MX DNS record of the domain, connect to that SMTP server and write a few commands fx.:

     
        
    EHLO senderdomain.tld
    MAIL FROM:<yourmail@yourdomain.tld> 
    RCPT TO:<recipient@recipientdomain.tld>
    DATA
    Subject: Blabla
    
    Bla bla
    .