Terminals are obsoleted by Arcan:

https://arcan-fe.com/2025/01/27/sunsetting-cursed-terminal-e...

How though? Genuine question; x11 didn't obsolete terminals. Does Arcan do something X11 couldn't?

From a quick read, all I can see is a manifesto for emacs.

Apparently there are folks working on converting ICE vehicles to EV, using open source and reverse engineering to integrate discarded proprietary EV components (battery, motor, inverter etc).

https://openinverter.org/ https://youtube.com/@evbmw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43898280

If you are using Linux, that would probably lead to GPL violations.

> versus x86

At least on ARM there is a chance your boot firmware will be non-proprietary, with u-boot or similar.

Yes, multi-protocol display servers like Arcan are the future.

https://arcan-fe.com/

And adding Cloudflare captchas everywhere.

I note that GNOME are working on a new accessibility architecture for FOSS desktops.

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/

The author seems to not like such distros:

> Not with fragile scripts or one-person distros

As a long-term strategy, such focused distros aren't the best idea. Derivative distros often have single developers, or smaller teams, making them vulnerable to disappearing. Its usually better to get all the changes needed into upstream projects, so that all desktops/distros are more accessible by default, and then contribute to testing/fixing accessibility in independent/major distros, so that all the downstream ones are more accessible by default.

The author prefers NixOS as a solution though, so each individual controls exactly what is on their system so they can roll back if something breaks and add their own tweaks. Eventually that just results in the one-person distro scenario though.

Some analysis of the RHEL situation here, sounds like Conservancy thinks that RedHat are mostly "probably not violating the GPL":

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis...

I think RedHat's theory is that the GPL doesn't entitle you to updates or support, so restricting them can't be considered an additional GPL restriction.

You could say that without the updates, RHEL is not fit for purpose, and therefore you should be entitled to them. Sounds like a complicated legal argument to have though.

I agree that RedHat are certainly not ethical actors in the FOSS community though.

Money talks, I guess. Two of those companies are bad actors in this space (google, with the android rug pull, and user abusing software built on open source, and aws, the repeat open source business killer):

https://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/

Considering who Conservancy are, that is very unlikely. They are the main organisation doing GPL compliance work these days. Everyone else either opposes enforcement, or doesn't have the resources to do it, or does it but doesn't talk about it.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/

GTK were talking about dropping X11 support at some point, so X11 folks using GTK apps would probably need to some sort of Wayland to X11 proxy, or to migrate from Xorg to some sort of multi-protocol display server that supports both X11 and Wayland, like Mir from Canonical/Ubuntu, or Arcan.

https://news.itsfoss.com/gtk-drops-x11/ https://arcan-fe.com/