Are there any tmux alternatives with features that are close to, or better than the same? When I’m talking about features, I’m talking about:

  • client-server session management
  • good plugin support
  • advanced copy-paste functionality
  • advanced window and pane management

but with GNU license? screen and dtach aren’t what I’m looking for, because they’re lacking in features.

There’s nothing wrong with tmux, and I would like to continue using it with Kakoune, but I want to strengthen my advocacy for software that use GNU license wherever possible.

  • il3fm9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    If you actively try to avoid software that is licensed under BSD or ISC, only Gnu’s Marxist license, then that means you won’t use OpenSSH or the security tools ported over from OpenBSD into both Linux and Android and will not use an operating system or programs that have been compiled with LLVM/Clang.

    OP did say “wherever possible”, not “without any compromises”; I agree that it would be very challenging to try and live on purely GPL software, but it just seems like they’re looking for potential alternatives. I think it’s admirable given their stance on libre software.

    Gnu’s Marxist license

    This seems like such a blanket statement designed to put down copyleft advocates “because communism”. Do you think the right to repair movement - which advocates for control over one’s hardware (in contrast to software) - is also Marxist? I consider these two movements as practically adjacent to one another.

    I prioritize system security, and for that I only care about open source and reject free/libre software due to all of its built-in political implications. But also defend the right for people to make proprietary software. I won’t use it, but defend people’s right to make it.

    I ask the following more out of curiousity than argumentatively, because I still don’t quite understand this position: do you still encourage people to use libre software in this case? If libre software is better than proprietary software, why shouldn’t we strive for a world where all software is libre? Is there any reason for software to not respect its users’ freedoms? I’m not saying that we should all be hardcore GPL-only-or-die enthusiasts, either; rather that it seems reasonable to aim for a life free of proprietary software, one step at a time. In my opinion, copyleft can accomplish that better than permissive licenses would.

    • Sha'ul@lemmy.ca
      11·
      1 year ago

      Thevright to repair thing is wholly distnct from software. Right to reapir is for a physical hardware product. People bought something they can touch, they have full rights to repair it, otherwise people are only paying to use it but never fully own it out right.

      Libre software is not better than proprietary software. I only care about open source software for the sake of security so I can do whatever I want with the code, I reject libre software like GPLv3 and stick to open source.

      If you know the difference between a cracker and a hacker, I always got love for hackers. It’s the crackers that cause so much misery. I’m a big fan if hackathons, as long as the discussions center around hacking and not get into personal digs.

      I’ve noticed a trend that it seems to be end users that don’t have a clue about computer science and software engineering from a programming perspective that got more stuck on licenses than the actual developers and hackers. I even believe there are wonderful devs and engineers at Microsoft, nVidia, and Google, who wod be happy to give away their code if there wasn’t the stockholder reigning supreme over corporate management.

      Until you learn code correctness, you can’t understand the areas where Linux has horrible designing or programming. There’s a reason why the top talent at Def Con completely gave up on trying to get into a default OpenBSD installation.