This doesn't make any sense. If it is HIS source code, then there's no such thing as "holding it hostage". He wants to make his software available under a free and open source license, yet he don't want to loose the income that he needs. Why is this offending? Why is it so wrong that someone else prefers to actually make a living rather than doing the hard work just for the good of it? What you are asking him is basically that he should donate his time and money to you, and hope that you might be generous enough to pay him back a little.
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In the case of personal computing then yes. Since personal computing is moving toward areas where Microsoft doesn't have near monopoly then they obviously don't have monopoly on the personal computing market anymore.
If you're running any form of thin clients then you most certainly need it. We have a couple of Sun Ray clients running that way. The hardware clients are nothing more than a networking stack and a display port, everything else happens on the server.
If the ToS actually had restrictions on bandwidth I can bet they would have shut him down long before he reached this amount. Unless someone actually finds the ToS and where it says how much you're allowed to use I can't see any reason why there would exist such clause. From what I know it sounds like the plan was actually unlimited.
If I understood correctly the problem was not necessarily that he used too much bandwidth. The high bandwidth usage just made them interested in knowing what he was doing. Try leaving your taps open and soon the utility company will call you and ask you what you're doing. In this case it sounded like the ToS specified that you were not allowed to run racks with servers, and that the business plan should be used for such usage.
Why is it so obvious that you should be punished for for breaking a rule? Just actiling like a robot and punishing her clearly wouldn't have made anything better for anyone, cerainly not for her.
Then you might want to use Chromium instead. Chromium is open source unlike Google Chrome, and doesn't include the same tracking system that Google adds to its proprietary product.
If you want a Google Chrome like browser I would recommend Chromium, which unlike Google Chrome is open source and doesn't track you as much as their proprietary product. You will miss out on some of the extra features available only in Google Chrome, but most of it should be the same.
Just be aware that most repositories on GitHub are actual closed source all rights reserved proprietary [1], so unless you check specifically you might accidentally contribute to non-free software.
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This looks like fun.
Is there an open source version of this?
https://github.com/BryanLunduke/Linux-Tycoon
Yes.
This doesn't make any sense. If it is HIS source code, then there's no such thing as "holding it hostage". He wants to make his software available under a free and open source license, yet he don't want to loose the income that he needs. Why is this offending? Why is it so wrong that someone else prefers to actually make a living rather than doing the hard work just for the good of it? What you are asking him is basically that he should donate his time and money to you, and hope that you might be generous enough to pay him back a little.
In what way is it broken by design?
Why do you think that would be the only realistic chance? Apple seams to do fairly well with OS X, and that's not at all like Windows.
Eh, they actually have that too.
http://nuget.org/
In the case of personal computing then yes. Since personal computing is moving toward areas where Microsoft doesn't have near monopoly then they obviously don't have monopoly on the personal computing market anymore.
Actually, they have one.
https://connect.microsoft.com/
If Android is Java and Android is Linux, then Linux must be Java.
If you're running any form of thin clients then you most certainly need it. We have a couple of Sun Ray clients running that way. The hardware clients are nothing more than a networking stack and a display port, everything else happens on the server.
Systemd will most likely be used in RHEL 7.
I bet that in two years there's yet another init system around that will replace systemd. Things don't get to stay for too long in Linux land.
And as of C99 no return is necessary.
Still better than "sorry we can't give you any money anymore" which seams to be the case here.
But it might make it clear that it will fail much earlier and then at a lower cost.
Couldn't they just have two profile settings, country and currency?
If the ToS actually had restrictions on bandwidth I can bet they would have shut him down long before he reached this amount. Unless someone actually finds the ToS and where it says how much you're allowed to use I can't see any reason why there would exist such clause. From what I know it sounds like the plan was actually unlimited.
If I understood correctly the problem was not necessarily that he used too much bandwidth. The high bandwidth usage just made them interested in knowing what he was doing. Try leaving your taps open and soon the utility company will call you and ask you what you're doing. In this case it sounded like the ToS specified that you were not allowed to run racks with servers, and that the business plan should be used for such usage.
Why is it so obvious that you should be punished for for breaking a rule? Just actiling like a robot and punishing her clearly wouldn't have made anything better for anyone, cerainly not for her.
Then you might want to use Chromium instead. Chromium is open source unlike Google Chrome, and doesn't include the same tracking system that Google adds to its proprietary product.
If you want a Google Chrome like browser I would recommend Chromium, which unlike Google Chrome is open source and doesn't track you as much as their proprietary product. You will miss out on some of the extra features available only in Google Chrome, but most of it should be the same.
You probably want to use alpine.
Even C# [1].
[1] http://xamarin.com/monotouch
With great power comes great responsibility.
It has multitasking in the sense that your program can call fork() and expect the same behavior as you would get on a "regular" desktop computer.
Just be aware that most repositories on GitHub are actual closed source all rights reserved proprietary [1], so unless you check specifically you might accidentally contribute to non-free software.
[1] http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/github-needs-take-open-source-seriously-208046