Any proprietary code would have to be code that was added on top of that.

That generalization is wrong. If the license does not state that freedom one can revoke said thing. The author(s) can change the entire license.

If not stated you may be able to fork off a previous version. Depending on the CLA (or its absence) you may have to speak with any contributor prior to publishing your fork!!!

So, you had to choose between the code that was still Open Source and the code that was now proprietary.

You are skipping ahead. The code the userbase follows may become the proprietary one.

If you stick with the Open Source, what you describe does not happen.

And this isn’t guaranteed with a permissive license.

If you moved to the proprietary, well, there you are. You clearly decided that the new features were more important than it being Open Source.

If this change happens without the knowledge on the userbase now the Open Source solution needs to advocade for it. And its competition supports all of its features and more. And will clearly upstream any features it adds as well.

Don’t get me wrong - I don’t mean to abandon all projects done by corporations. But a better license gives safety to all users.

Remember, it is only the new features. All the old code remains as open as it ever was.

You are not considering vendor lock-in, upstreaming open source changes, less transparency in regards of security, attributions, changes to contributer license agreements, conflicts of interest and probably more things.

Good luck picking another license than GPL for this requirement.

And it the fork gets adapted the user base doesn’t use an open source project anymore. Changes which aren’t synced get shipped and you can’t substitute anymore.

Permissive licenses are bad: Someone can take your entire code, build upon it, get hand of the userbase and then make weird changes. They don’t protect the users in any form.

Just imagine someone changed the tools you use daily in such a way that none of your workflows are executed in the same way prior.

You just learn this once you are truly affected. And trust me - This sucks hard.

May I?

A controlling department wasn’t granted any money for digitializing their workflow.

So these guys created their own solution(s!). Things like dedicated “user interfaces” loading data from tables created by hand. After years these people realized that data formatting is quite the issue.

They started to put random rules into different tables:

Two empty lines: New Group Data Record. One empty line: New Subgroup Data Record.

Excel tables aggregating this data via hardcoded links.

A dedicated table to start calculations on parent tables.

They mutated data like this:

Load data from excel files into one. Manually delete, add or change lines (or columns). Start a collection run from dedicated excel file and load new excel file data and replace old excel file data.

They had files where ‘it was easier to read’ when they pivot the data. This was troublesome since some values are intermediate results. Dropping one column may imply dropping another one as well.

All workflows required manual alignments along the way.

They were only able to process 10% of the data from a year within a year. Managing millions in cash.

Their data input came from different internal sources. Programs which were written two decades ago once and without any tests. Talking like VB, macro’s from host servers and copy-pasta data from other internal programs.

And don’t get me started on customer tables… They created a zip-code encoded filesystem hierarchy where each customer data (you guessed it, excel file) was renamed and then saved. In each of these directories where randomly named files if something went wrong; So no actual file patterns to rely on.

I respect them.

They creates a diagram for their tables with word. Word! (Didn’t know either: you can select the web view in the bottom right corner and you get an infitive canvas…) Madness.

I fear this may be the case but since I am not an engineer thought about pulling some opinions here thumbsup

Didn’t thought about a weak seam either! I find that my 4 mm stitch length doesn’t look good and I wanted to have 1 or 2 mm more.

Thank you very much. You have correctly deduced the sliders, yepp.

Re-engineering would indeed be a fun project and that’s why I was asking for advice.

Stitching by hand didn’t even cross my mind so thank you for thinking out of the box! :)

I understand you know how to change the step length that can be changed now, yes?

Yea

You say <2mm to 5mm. My very similar machine can go to almost 10mm but it cannot keep the thread very tight.

I would die for 10 mm. I would be in to adjust the machine while sewing for any step lenght larger then 5 but 10 mm would be perfect.

This is the limiting thing, the machine, every part, is designed for sewing a length of 2-8mm or whatever. A longer stitch step would need a complete change and probably a stronger motor.

I can change gearings, leverages and axles if I understand what to communicate. I am not bound to the current chassis and motor. I can construct a chassis afterwards rezpecting current alignments within nm.

By moving the knob or lever that changes the stitch step length, you will see what is going on.

I circled the change in blue. Leveraging the handle could be the case but axles wind on their own. It is a mind fuc* which can only be put in perspective by Engineers, imo.

Edit: you edited before me!! But I don’t adress it yet, since you explain the context more professionally. Thank you in this regards.

The machine is more then 40 years old. I attached the photo. The right handle adjust the zick-zack-width (I had to adjust the chassis to get it zero’d) and the left handle puts the needle ‘left’/‘middle’/‘right’ in the feet.

I had to cut some chassis on the right handle to the left and adjust the internal screws so that the axle of stitch width is exactly above the front-needle of the geering. It wasn’t exact with a straight stitch prior to this.

I may add again: Me or my friends are capable of changing any axle or gearing to nm but I do not know what to request in the first hand. Engineering is very, VERY, hard… :(

What thing in my machine is limiting my machine step? The rotation on the inside axle?)

I see your point and I just fixed my spelling mistakes for the third time. Please refer to my comment; I wrote this due to an emotion.

It is clear to me that a more powerful motor would not change my step-width. While writing I wanted to offend people.to answer but when issuing the send-button I was questioning my own words - as always.

Hitting two times submit on the summit app may raise two comments. Sorry.

On both pictures I have hands on the clutch. Enlarging the motor doesn’t make sense after reading my own post.

The leverage enable me to fluidly adjust the step-length.

If you explain it correctly, I can do any adjustment but please raise any requirements which raise to you head.

Initial the pictures could not be loaded so I did a comment. I deleted and reused it for this comment.

That’s a projection. I stated that either cultures are mixed or we split by ethics and opinions.

I just talked to my superior about the most urgent thing EU countries are facing currently. I should add that he is 100% disabled but studied in CS and reads everything which is interesting to him and his world view.

When I said that social media dictates the discussions and the media, we agreed on the thought after a short period.

And if we could solve this issue we mostlikely would get awarded a noble price.

What I am trying to say: Social media is run by - at least - flawed people. And used by the evil ones to their maximum, putting the honest Ones into a position to explain.

We are loosing our discourse, we are mixing our cultures - or we split at our ethics.

Social media is a cancer with no current treatment. Civilians will be in favor of social media since it also benefits society directly. But we are diminishing other things with it.

Maybe there will be one more brilliant mind educated who may aid us in these times.

But all leaders have to be on the same page.

And then this needs to be agreed upon once again so that the current president of the european council makes a clear statement.

If they got the balls the transition period will take some time I suppose.

This is what is leveraged currently, imo.

But this isn’t mostlikely the entire world dynamic… Idk.

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Feedback-time:

He had minor hindrances which we addressed today: Printing, Scanning, Icons on the desktop and some windows software for taxes.

Wile loading I showed him some of your selection:

He liked pingus and in a few months he may pick up domino-chain.

Furthermore he may like townscraper but he hadn’t the nerve to figure out the bindings. I think TinyGlade will be more accessible (Nvidia Optimus works otb with Debian + Gnome-Context Menus).

Unfortunately 2048 was too hard for him currently but we tried.

One can travel the world but only got a backpack… Quite offensive then ;)