If people stopped using G in such high percentage, then they would most likely need to adapt back to a more open internet, instead of trying to wall it off around their services.
Reminds me of jabber.ccc.de that stopped providing new accounts because they felt they were ruining a federated system.
I would recommend Wire ( https://wire.com/en/ ). All mobile and desktop OS and web too. In my experience it's reliable and private and the company behind it is extremely open and supportive of its users.
Agreed. I too think that the bullet journal is a great wat to keep track of todos and goals, both medium and long-term ones.
I do not know about the app though.
Man, windows 10 already does that. In the advanced update options there is a distributing method menu and it is pretty clear they are using our machines to distribute updates to others.
Disclaimer: Haven't checked in a while and can not do it now, but it was there until not long ago.
Metered is part of your connection settings, iirc, like when you establish a connection to a new wifi network. Other applications may be effected by metered networks, and iirc updates don't run at all when on a metered network.
Thank you all for commenting on the topic. Reading your words just one thing seems clear to me: very few people here actually know how licenses work (me included) and what consequences could be. That's bad. Very bad.
Thanks mcherm, this is the best counter-argument to the WTFPL I read all day.
I am myself extremely curious about what would happen in these two circumstances:
1) someone uses my work and then sues me for copyright infringment;
2) my work harms people.
Unfortunately, the legal system is intentionally designed in such a way that you can't easily satisfy your idle curiosity on that subject. You can ask a lawyer, who'll give you their best guess, but the only way to tell for sure is to get sued: there has to (with a few specialized exceptions) be an actual controversy before a court considers a question. This was (in programmer language) designed intentionally to protect scarce resources (court time) from certain kinds of denial-of-service attacks.
