{"id":4408,"date":"2018-07-02T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T10:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2018-07-02T08:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T06:51:41","slug":"happily-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/07\/02\/happily-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Happily surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, people AND companies do changes over time.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m writing today was a total impossibility twenty years ago: I&#8217;m going to thanks Microsoft for releasing information under a liberal license:<\/p>\n<h1><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/18\/07\/01\/0331214\/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-to-the-openstreetmap-community\">Microsoft Releases 125 Million Building Footprints In the US To the OpenStreetMap Community &#8211; Slashdot<\/a><\/em><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">So today I can say: many kudos, Microsoft!<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be realistic, companies are driven by profit. Companies cannot exist if they don&#8217;t make profit. Everyone need to make a profit from their work. It is <strong>right<\/strong> to make profit from your work.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, they did it because they need to do this to battle giants like Google &#8211; or Baidu in China. I can&#8217;t blame them for their quest for profit, on the contrary I shall praise them for making it while benefitting the entire society &#8211; for a move like this benefits the entire society.<\/p>\n<p>Of course the black night is not entirely redeemed. Their move is merely utilitarian. They will never release Windows or Office with a license like the Affero General Public License.<\/p>\n<p>But I would really appreciate if they will make feasible for free-as-in-freedom operative systems to deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot\">EUFI secure boot<\/a> which requires signed OS loaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Well, people AND companies do changes over time. What I&#8217;m writing today was a total impossibility twenty years ago: I&#8217;m going to thanks Microsoft for releasing information under a liberal license: Microsoft Releases 125 Million Building Footprints In the US To the OpenStreetMap Community &#8211; Slashdot So today I can say: many kudos, Microsoft!<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/07\/02\/happily-surprised\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-196","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8197,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2021\/02\/25\/a-post-mortem-in-5-acts-of-how-microsoft-privatized-open-source-killing-javascript-in-the-process\/","url_meta":{"origin":4408,"position":0},"title":"A Post-Mortem in 5 Acts, of How Microsoft Privatized Open Source, killing JavaScript in the Process","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2021-02-25","format":"link","excerpt":"A Post-Mortem in 5 Acts, of How Microsoft Privatized Open Source, killing JavaScript in the Process After Microsoft\u2019s blitzkrieg take-over, the Open Source JavaScript community, as we know it, is coming to an end. 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