Why? GPL does not cover neither running the software nor the output of the software. If the hosting provider could get the source if they so desired, the GPL app is fine and dandy running there.
Why do you lie? A simple search would have shown you that the source is available.
Or are you one of the zealots that think that just because e.g. GCC devs refused to commit Apple's patches into their precious baby, that Apple did not make those patches?
Stop using Linux (your Red Hat reference) as an example: Linux uses a modified GPL that allows linking with non-GPL stuff.
The more and more people will want to use third-party distributors (like app stores) for their binaries, the less and less the GPL will allow that unless the store also distributes the source.
they will have to continually patch their modifications back against the GPL source tree.
The same situation as in the common case when they do release their patches, but King Chief Committer does not consider your puny code worthy of notice and refuses to merge in your filthy changes in the pristine head branch, which is only for King Chief Committer and his inner cicrle of nerds.
Only that it seems to be a blatant attempt at avoiding having to pay Sun for the use of Java, and thus we have the lawsuit that Sun could not afford but the Oracle can. Remember that Bill Joy once praised Google because he thought they would be using Java there, but that opinion changed when it became apparent that Google would just use the language (for the "free" developer community) and not pay to license Sun's Sun's code. (Only JSE and JEE are free, JME is the "cash cow" in the Java family).
I dunno: There is no guarantee that when you download a GPL binary, the source you get access to is the same source that was used to build that binary. Or that you will be able to compile the source you get access to.
Can any iOS dev choose to provide the source to their iOS app to anyone? Yes. Therefore: Open source is fine on the App Store. You just won't get the source from Apple, but need some other mechanism (like a URL).
Permission (from the App Store) to distribute (except to 100 "ad hoc" devices), not permission to use. Anyone with XCode can get the source. modify the relevant files to match a provisioning profile they have and build. Not sure if you need to pay the membership fee of $99 to get that certificate and provisioning profile, though.
Maybe software development is the only trade he knows? Meanwhile, musicians around the world are happily creating, using instrument/synth apps and GarageBand. And artists are happily drawing, e.g. the New Yorker cover that was created using Brushes on an iPhone a few years back...
I think the people dismissing the iPad as a photographer tool either do not have iPads or are not photographers. I listen to the This Week in Photo podcast, which has pro photographers as hosts, and most of them enjoy the benefits of a portable digital portfolio they can do work on.
What happens if you try and rip the screen off a laptop? No can do. Does the laptop screen respond to touch input? Very few do. Does the laptop function well in portrait mode? Did not think so.
Of course only programmers do something useful. First, they spend two hours writing bugs, then they spend three hours fixing the bugs, for a total of five hours of productivity. In between they have lunch.
Whoah. That's quite a trifecta you have there. 1) Hiding behind anonymity 2) Coming off as the archetypical elitist prick-nerd 3) Dismissing someone who has a different job because they have a different job
No, it means that providers of web video are scrambling to switch to HTML5 to cater for the large number of non-Flash devices out there (iOS now, Windows 8 Metro later).
Correct, writers do not do "computing". They use computers as the tools they are supposed to be instead of tinkering with them as if the computer itself was the goal.
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and somebody else distributes an improved version of it
FTFY.
Why? GPL does not cover neither running the software nor the output of the software. If the hosting provider could get the source if they so desired, the GPL app is fine and dandy running there.
Why do you lie? A simple search would have shown you that the source is available.
Or are you one of the zealots that think that just because e.g. GCC devs refused to commit Apple's patches into their precious baby, that Apple did not make those patches?
Stop using Linux (your Red Hat reference) as an example: Linux uses a modified GPL that allows linking with non-GPL stuff.
The more and more people will want to use third-party distributors (like app stores) for their binaries, the less and less the GPL will allow that unless the store also distributes the source.
they will have to continually patch their modifications back against the GPL source tree.
The same situation as in the common case when they do release their patches, but King Chief Committer does not consider your puny code worthy of notice and refuses to merge in your filthy changes in the pristine head branch, which is only for King Chief Committer and his inner cicrle of nerds.
Only that it seems to be a blatant attempt at avoiding having to pay Sun for the use of Java, and thus we have the lawsuit that Sun could not afford but the Oracle can. Remember that Bill Joy once praised Google because he thought they would be using Java there, but that opinion changed when it became apparent that Google would just use the language (for the "free" developer community) and not pay to license Sun's Sun's code. (Only JSE and JEE are free, JME is the "cash cow" in the Java family).
I dunno: There is no guarantee that when you download a GPL binary, the source you get access to is the same source that was used to build that binary. Or that you will be able to compile the source you get access to.
Android = J2ME + the more advanced profiles for it, without paying a license fee, which is why Oracle are suing Google.
So what? Does the GPL now have a monopoly on the "open source" definition?
Again with the "open source == GPL" wrongness.
Can any iOS dev choose to provide the source to their iOS app to anyone? Yes. Therefore: Open source is fine on the App Store. You just won't get the source from Apple, but need some other mechanism (like a URL).
Permission (from the App Store) to distribute (except to 100 "ad hoc" devices), not permission to use. Anyone with XCode can get the source. modify the relevant files to match a provisioning profile they have and build. Not sure if you need to pay the membership fee of $99 to get that certificate and provisioning profile, though.
should fall in line. They are there to produce assets for the entertainment industry, not create works of culture.
Yeah, because a netbook is so great for reading magazines in portrait mode on.
Nah. NO SALE.
Maybe software development is the only trade he knows? Meanwhile, musicians around the world are happily creating, using instrument/synth apps and GarageBand. And artists are happily drawing, e.g. the New Yorker cover that was created using Brushes on an iPhone a few years back...
Get over yourself.
You must be new here.
I think the people dismissing the iPad as a photographer tool either do not have iPads or are not photographers. I listen to the This Week in Photo podcast, which has pro photographers as hosts, and most of them enjoy the benefits of a portable digital portfolio they can do work on.
But not when taken out of it.
What happens if you try and rip the screen off a laptop? No can do. Does the laptop screen respond to touch input? Very few do. Does the laptop function well in portrait mode? Did not think so.
Of course only programmers do something useful. First, they spend two hours writing bugs, then they spend three hours fixing the bugs, for a total of five hours of productivity. In between they have lunch.
Why do you write paranoid fantasy like that? Be more creative, just because you are a troll does not mean you cannot write about dwarves for instance.
And I guess programmers are Gods gift to the world?
Do you have a kitchen? You can cook dinner there? I bet it does not even have close to what a professional chef uses, so your kitchen SUCKS!
Well, there is a full-featured Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
Let her knock herself out at how archaic that feels.
Whoah. That's quite a trifecta you have there.
1) Hiding behind anonymity
2) Coming off as the archetypical elitist prick-nerd
3) Dismissing someone who has a different job because they have a different job
Laptop worshipers are the new luddites.
No, it means that providers of web video are scrambling to switch to HTML5 to cater for the large number of non-Flash devices out there (iOS now, Windows 8 Metro later).
You can disconnect/reconnect explicitly in the General -> Bluetooth settings, then it will not get confused and throw up the on-screen keyboard.
Why? That's like saying if you plug your laptop into an electrical socket you have turned it into an underpowered stationary computer.
The tablet still has the touch screen and light weight OS that the laptop or netbook lacks.
Correct, writers do not do "computing". They use computers as the tools they are supposed to be instead of tinkering with them as if the computer itself was the goal.