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  • Linux Mint uses GPL2 LibreOffice uses MPL 2

    Those are licenses for you to use the software. They aren’t licenses for the software maintainer to use your information.

    There’s an important fact you may not know: Politicians often have no understanding of things they are regulating. Why is this important? A future privacy law could easily be written such that a browser doing browser things (like submitting a comment on an unrelated website) could be construed as the maintainer using user data. They are getting ahead of that possibility by requiring that you give them permission to do the things you want them to do.








  • That was a wonderful ride.

    TL;DR: In the late 1800’s, a need for machine-assisted engraving developed. A font was created in tandem with an engraving machine. Over the next hundred years, a huge portion of engraving machines came with something related to this font by default.

    It’s the ancestor of many technical drawing fonts because early lettering guides were made using these engravers. It’s the basis for many classic keyboard caps and typewriter keys. It’s on every nametag from the 1930s to 1990s. But most of all, if you wanted a durable sign and weren’t a graphic designer, it’s what you got for most of the last century.