How did *nix become an inside joke?

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Re: How did *nix become an inside joke?

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Myask wrote:…restrictions like preventing person 1 from giving persons 2-30 copies for less than you were charging or gratis, in a medium where it costs pennies to produce extra copies but thousands to make the first.
If the 30 backers of your application's crowdfunding campaign fully funded its production, why not let backer 1 handle the mirroring?
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Re: How did *nix become an inside joke?

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seeing as, oddly, my Devil's Advocate tendencies have me rehearsing the arguments of the copyright side,
You can let them do that. You'd just point out that you-the-creator are not responsible for any possible malware insertions by the mirror.
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And if backer 1 did insert malware, its SHA-256 value wouldn't match that of the package you distribute anyway.
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Re: How did *nix become an inside joke?

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Now that we've gone through that…

"library exception".
Also, afaik, using FSL'd compiler (…assembler, linker, etc.) does not apply said license to the program it creates.
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