Sorry for saying this in a car-related post, but the solution to car dependency is simply the availability of other forms of thansport.

Specifically, trains, intra-city bike lanes that are 2x faster than a car, ect

If you have that, you get choice and some level of control. (P.S. not in rural areas with no trains tho.)

Here, a person added GPL as a proposed alternative.

I think I see the point you're trying to make. I'm not sure if my question is purely aspirational, though. When you say "political realities of Australia" for example, shouldn't the word "political" already imply that this is heavily influenced by people's thoughts and resolve? I think Australians should evaluate that, not me who is in Europe or you since you refer to Australia as "they".

Maybe, and? Do you believe it can change and/or has the right to change?

The conference's page does not try to pretend that it's all shiny and perfect right now. Quoting:

Hosting this summit in a major coal port, in the world’s fifth-largest coal producer, sends a powerful message: fossil-fuel-dependent nations want to end their dependence on oil, gas, and coal extraction, but doing so fairly requires unprecedented international cooperation so that no one is left behind.

escape the big tech tracking by installing uBlock Origin

Cloudflare and AWS say "Hi" 👋

It's very good tech that I strongly recommend too though. Just gotta be aware of its limits.

F-Droid has a copy of the source code I assume.

Good question, and I'm not fully sure. I think it may be the messengers, E2E or not. I hope it's not the hardware providers such as Samsung/Apple, because those wouldn't be trustworthy.

Upvote for the post and exposing it publicly, downvote for AMD's action towards people without datacenters..

Hey, first of all, thanks for for sharing and I do appreciate both Slint existing and you being able to do software that's usable by both businesses and, to some extend, open-source projects! (The latter depends on whether you consider contributing to the underlying libraries as a requirement for development, and if you're then fine with contributing with these MIT/non-MIT specifics.)

When you contribute to any MIT license project you are in the same situation

I would disagree here. If you're speaking about any MIT project, then many of them would be simply MIT. You contribute like MIT and you can use the code as MIT. Slint is not licensed as MIT-0 though. It's licensed as written here: https://github.com/slint-ui/slint?tab=readme-ov-file#license, and only your contributions are taken as MIT. This does set Slint apart.

It's a fair model though, if the developers are sufficiently aware of the deal. And it's a very sensible business model. I have nothing against it, and I only wish to make the exact deal more explicit. As you see around, I don't think it's 100% clear from the first glance.

Personally, I never open anything from the "X" platform. Using a platform that belongs to a person that makes Nazi salutes is unacceptable for my standards.

Fair enough, thanks for the correction. I should be more careful with my wording. I think it's "open-source", but not an "open-source project". In a sense that, they release the source code under a restrictive license, but they themselves will not have it this way and can stop publishing the code any time they want.

So they publish the source code under an OSI-approved license as you say, but they don't develop it in an open manner and I think it's fair to say that they are not an open-source project.

(Fossify is a fork of the discontinued SimpleMobileTools.)