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Songbird Drops Linux Support
An anonymous reader writes "The Songbird developers have announced that they will no longer support Songbird in Linux. This is really a shocking announcement, as Songbird has its roots in open source. Songbird will, however, continue to be available for Windows and Mac."
In their blog post on the subject, the developers said, "We remain loyal to Linux and the ideology it represents, so we will maintain a version of the software for use by our Songbird engineers who develop on the Linux platform. We’ll make that version available to the community. We will keep Linux build bots and host the Linux builds on the developer wiki. That said, those builds will not be tested and may not pick up new features developed by Songbird’s team."
I heard the same problems plague Commodore 64 users, too. It's an outrage, I tell ya.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
According to the songbird wiki, it is licenced GPL. Even so, they can certainly stop development for Linux and continue it for MS-Win/Mac. They're perfectly entitled to decide where they put their development efforts. (And with bloat, they need it) But they'll have to release the source from these developments to whomever gets binaries and allow them (or others) to port the changes to Linux.
It will be interesting if they try to keep anything secret. If they have taken in any community code/patches, the code is no longer theirs to relicence. Even if they have not, users have adopted Songbird partly on the basis of it being GPL, this gives them standing to sue that derivative works also must get source released. Which Songbird has primised anyways.
It's true, kid. Get over it.
No, he's telling the truth. If you worked in the Unix development biz, you'd know that too.
Wait, that can’t be... Let’s translate that to a unit that real humans use: 47 “MiB” = 47 MB.
Aah, now I understand how much that is.
Huh? 47 MB? You mean not swapped memory on a system with a full RAM, and not counting all the core libs, right?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
What's Songbird? Who cares ...
Heh, if you don't know what Songbird is, how do you then know you shouldn't care?
May I guess you're on Linux? ;-)
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
MiB?! We really need an "evil" tag!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating