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  • corvus@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlBlockchain: the wave of the future
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    10 months ago

    With all the information available at your fingertips being ignorant is a choice.

    “this parallel financial system can also serve a tangible social good, offering an onramp to the financial system for people who would otherwise be left out. In countries where the vast majority of the population is unbanked, national currencies are no longer a safe store of value, remittances comprise a hefty portion of GDP, and international sanctions complicate connections to the global economy, a virtual currency that doesn’t require an intermediary to approve transactions can be a vital lifeline for survival”

    Bitcoin is poised to blow up Africa’s $86 billion banking system





  • Unfortunately for them this means that 99.99% of the Linux distributions out there do not qualify as >GNU/Linux, even the ones like Debian, Red Hat, or Ubuntu that did adopt the GNU/Linux name >scheme, because they all host, promote, or allow users access to non-free software in some way.

    You are totally confused. In words of R. Stallman:

    “The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux”.

    “Today there are many different variants of the GNU/Linux system (often called “distros”). Most of them include nonfree programs”.

    https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html