The question is at which point it interfers enough. Lots of things are rightfully illegal even when they interfer with freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is not an out-of-jail card that justifies anything.
The problem with Debian is that it recommends non-free software with its non-free and contrib repositories. That means that the user might be tricked into running software that does not honor the user's freedom. That is considered non-ethical.
My ThinkPad cost about as much as a MacBook and I certainly think of it as a PC. I could have bought another PC at a third of the price, but I like the features of the ThinkPad. MacBooks have similar aspects that actually make worth three times the cheapest PC. There's nothing wrong with that.
You can compare it to flash based players of the day all you want, but there were HDD based mp3 players on the market with bigger capacity than the later launched ipod, so zero points for originality on that.
I never argued that it was original, I argued that it wasn't overpriced.
USB 1.1 was the perfect fit for 95% of people because their computer actually HAD USB.
Seams like a problem with the computer rather than the iPod.
When the iPod was introduced most portable music players stored about ten tracks. The iPad had enough capacity to store 1000 tracks. When everyone else was using slow USB 1.1 connections, the iPod used a fast FireWire connection.
Arch is fine on a single machine, but I've yet to see a site with 100+ machines running it as well as Debian stable, Ubuntu LTS or any of the RHEL clones.
I don't know what this installer does in particular, but there's a lot of things different between Debian and Ubuntu. They are not at all the same system just because they share the same package manager. Ubuntu is no longer Debian with a fancy installer. Most Ubuntu packages are just recompiled Debian packages, they don't even necessarily work on Ubuntu.
For comparison, apt has been ported to Mac OS X as well. That doesn't mean that getting the Linux version of Steam to run on Mac OS X is easy just because apt can run on it.
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It's currently on 4.7.2 and as far as I know has no problem with making binaries.
Sounds like something that should be OK on an open platform.
What is this "work" you're talking about?
The question is at which point it interfers enough. Lots of things are rightfully illegal even when they interfer with freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is not an out-of-jail card that justifies anything.
Dude, there's a lot of Americans and most of them are great.
Why not just run Debian?
The problem with Debian is that it recommends non-free software with its non-free and contrib repositories. That means that the user might be tricked into running software that does not honor the user's freedom. That is considered non-ethical.
It's still a good question. It won't recommend non-free software, but the question is if it actively prevents non-free software from running.
Debian stable is very much up to date, don't confuse it with having the latest version.
Are the N SKUs still available? Never seen them.
My ThinkPad cost about as much as a MacBook and I certainly think of it as a PC. I could have bought another PC at a third of the price, but I like the features of the ThinkPad. MacBooks have similar aspects that actually make worth three times the cheapest PC. There's nothing wrong with that.
You can compare it to flash based players of the day all you want, but there were HDD based mp3 players on the market with bigger capacity than the later launched ipod, so zero points for originality on that.
I never argued that it was original, I argued that it wasn't overpriced.
USB 1.1 was the perfect fit for 95% of people because their computer actually HAD USB.
Seams like a problem with the computer rather than the iPod.
I'm not familiar with iRiver but according to their Wikipedia page they didn't have a 512 MB device until 2003.
The iPod came in 2001.
Some users may find the license more appropriate.
As far as I know they have not even announced it. It's just rumors.
When the iPod was introduced most portable music players stored about ten tracks. The iPad had enough capacity to store 1000 tracks. When everyone else was using slow USB 1.1 connections, the iPod used a fast FireWire connection.
Yeah, totally overpriced.
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The default GTK+ 3 look and feel is just horrible so I'm sticking to GTK+ 2 at the moment.
Arch is fine on a single machine, but I've yet to see a site with 100+ machines running it as well as Debian stable, Ubuntu LTS or any of the RHEL clones.
I don't know what this installer does in particular, but there's a lot of things different between Debian and Ubuntu. They are not at all the same system just because they share the same package manager. Ubuntu is no longer Debian with a fancy installer. Most Ubuntu packages are just recompiled Debian packages, they don't even necessarily work on Ubuntu.
For comparison, apt has been ported to Mac OS X as well. That doesn't mean that getting the Linux version of Steam to run on Mac OS X is easy just because apt can run on it.
USB lacks high speed.
Maybe that's why they haven't announced an iWatch. I've heard Linus rewriting the kernel into VB is a bit long in the tooth too.
Well, with that logic Apple's web browser Safari is open source too.
I would be even more impressed if they open sourced Chrome.
Chrome itself is actually not open source.
Because there is a staging process for adding features to Firefox, so that nothing breaks once something reaches the release builds.