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Quoting: melkemindBeing derivative isn't copyright infringement.

Well, being derivative is actually copyright infringement. That's why unauthorized translations fall under copyright infringement; they're derivative works.

JK Rowling sued over Tanya Grotter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Grotter#Legal_history [External Link]

In 2003, courts there prevented the distribution of a Dutch translation of the first in the series, Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass, after Rowling and Time Warner's lawyers issued a cease and desist order, arguing that the Grotter books violated copyright law, specifically infringing on Rowling's right to control derivative works.

I think you're veering into straw man territory here, but I'll agree that derivative works infringe copyright. But only if they fit the definition:

Quoting: WikipediaIn copyright law, a derivative work is an expressive creation that includes major copyrightable elements of a first, previously created original work.

(Emphasis mine.)

Does Palworld fail that check? Some of the creatures look very similar to Pokemon monsters, but as Pengling's post showed, even more blatant examples have gone uncontested in commercial products, which works against any copyright claim on that front. The rest is no more derivative in the copyright sense than most games you can find on Steam.

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Quoting: PenglingIt's been several decades now, so I may be misremembering, but wasn't it on the left on the Amiga, too?

There was no X button on Amiga Workbench windows. :grin: But the dot-in-a-square the manual called "the Closing Gadget" was indeed at the top left.

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Quoting: LoudTechieX uses a "network transparant" protocol(X11), which means the protocol it uses could be used for network communications.
X doesn't actually use this feature.

This isn't quite true. X.Org might not have "loads" of network code but it does have some. X.Org's X server implementation can optionally listen to connections on a TCP/IP port. Check the man page for Xorg and their git repository if you don't believe me.

That said, in modern versions the network support is disabled by default and requires a command line switch. X11 forwarding over SSH works fine without it, obviously.

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I didn't find PoE particularly hard, but I didn't enjoy the fights. The optional turn-based battles in the sequel are more my thing. I wonder if I'll ever get around to playing it at this rate...

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: tuubithat would only be a problem if that software still had some practical value to someone.

That quote works on the web, but on local hardware this is a lot less true.
COBOL has been deprecated longer than the Linux kernel exists, endures a full instruction set switch, a developers shortage and the millennium bug. There're currently around 800million of actively maintained lines of COBOL code.
I've encountered phones in the wild with no Android upgrade path beyond Android 7 and users who want to use modern applications.
I've had to save an ancient laptop from the bloat that is Windows 10 without breaking any compatibility.

You misunderstood. What I meant is that it's more or less fine for software to stop working on modern systems if it's no longer useful.

Clearly businesses still have need for their COBOL software or they wouldn't pay for its maintenance. And people want to keep using their hardware longer than manufacturers are willing to support them. That's all beside my point.

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Quoting: EikeBut I have the impression that getting ones DE to work on Wayland is quite some work that little projects might not be able to do. Is this impressions wrong?

Most of the smaller niche DEs can share critical and complicated elements like compositors, but even that is going to require varying amounts of work. TWM, being an X.org window manager instead of a full-blown DE, might not bother. On the other hand there are similar enough alternatives for Wayland already. Same goes for fluxbox and its "relatives". But they're still actively maintained and will serve a purpose as long as X.org is available. And it'll be available for years to come.

Slightly bigger ones like Mate and Xfce have been in the process of adding Wayland support for a while now and they'll be just fine.

I don't really see this as being a problem any more than, let's say, when Linux transitioned from OSS to ALSA and some audio players and libraries never migrated over. That's perfectly normal. I've written software myself that wouldn't work on modern systems because dependencies have gone the way of the dodo, but that would only be a problem if that software still had some practical value to someone.

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Quoting: EikeWhat will run the little DEs in a decade, when X.org is full of problems nobody is fixing anymore?

Just for the sake of clarity, are you talking of any particular DEs here or just some hypothetical ones that will never move on from X.org?

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumDoes anyone actually use the OS's default wallpaper, without changing it? :neutral:

I use the default Mint wallpaper at work. It's pretty neutral and goes well enough with a dark UI theme. I've noticed that I'm not the only Linux user at the office who sticks with the default either.

On my gaming machine at home I'm obviously using the official GamingOnLinux wallpaper from a few years back, just colour-swapped to a deep blue instead of orange, and without the GamingOnLinux.com text layer. (Sorry Liam.) It's relatively neutral and doesn't distract from the more relevant things on the foreground. Not that I spend much time staring at the desktop.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GuestAlso how can you despise Yakuza...

So, after the Fukushima thing, the Yakuza teamed up with the company that owned the reactors to force people they were loansharking to go work at reactor cleanup even though it was a death sentence. Then when they got sick from the radiation, they were laid off so they could go die at home and nobody would record it as having anything to do with work at a reactor. So yeah, that's one thing that might cause a person to despise the Yakuza. As well as nuclear reactor companies.

Meanwhile the Yakuza where launching relief efforts (that the government didn't) when the Earthquake hit Japan in 2011

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE72O6TF/ [External Link]

If you told me Robert Pickton gave lots of money to charity in between his rapes and murders, it would not really make me say "Oh, I guess he's not so bad on balance".

That's just more of the same sort of rhetoric some people used to defend the mafia organizations in Italy and the US. And the triads as well I think. "They took care of their communities." You know, when they weren't doing vicious crime syndicate stuff.

The Yakuza are seen as this romanticized comic book version of the brutal murderers and criminals they actually are. But hey, these games look pretty entertaining.

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Quoting: TriasAnybody else confused about whats happening? What's the difference between "boomer" shooters and normal(?) shooters?

Boomer shooters [External Link] are FPS games from the nineties that weren't made by boomers or played by them. Makes total sense. I suppose Generation X shooters doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

The genre includes modern shooters with gameplay (and often style) inspired by these oldies.

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