Blackwell Idealist

Posted by Lucine
May 24, 2025 at 09:50 PM

Lucas wrote:
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>There are also recent discussions there that appear to include working
>download links for installations files, such as the following:
> >https://groups.google.com/g/idealistdb/c/W3589hSxdlo/m/gPCCn_0jBQAJ

The installation file mentioned here worked on Win11, thank you!

As for copyright, I’d rather take the long term view that good ideas tend to make the world a better place, and more people should be exposed to them instead of the short term thinking of the potential financial loss incurred by the originator. If people don’t know what’s out there, they are less likely to demand their software be better. This doesn’t apply to everything, but I’d argue that copyright infringement is not categorically a bad thing. People kind of have to claim it to prevent others from abusing your creation for their profit but it hinders knowledge dissemination and even for academics to own their own work(though they go into it with full knowledge and consent beforehand that they won’t have rights to their own intellectual labor). In this case, i don’t think anyone is using Idealist for commercial purposes so I don’t see the harm.