I've always wanted to know how NASA can say that I can't come in each time I try to walk into their hallway, I mean, how can an american agency own a building?
But it can still be argued that there exists some fragmentation and that most Android phones does not ship with Android Android but instead with a more or less heavily modified version of it.
It's like if computers came with HP Windows, or Dell Windows, oh wait, they do!
Not really, just regular patent licensing. It would be extortion if they forced them to pay licensees, they always have the opportunity to stop using Android and no longer infringe on the patents.
How can anyone be so naive to assume that any system that is commercially produced in large numbers these days does *not* have in-built backdoors for the alphabet soup agencies? Living under a rock much, are we?
Because of the huge lawsuit that will follow once it backfires.
Actually, just politely asking them to comply with the license is probably a better way to start. It may very well be an honest mistake from their side.
Why does every distro but Debian have this weird hangup where the GUI cannot be decoupled from the OS? Or rephrased, why does Debian apparently find it easy to do, whereas the big corporate OSes just can't handle it?
(I use Debian w/ xfce and on a netbook with a dead mouse pad, ratpoison)
Does anyone expect this trend to accelerate, perhaps the next Ubuntu will only ship with emacs and if you want to edit with vi, well then you'll just have to install Arch which will only have vi and no emacs? Maybe this game will become popular with languages and if you want Python you'll only be able to select from certain distros?
The code is open, so go ahead and install whatever you want. You don't have to restrict yourself to what your distribution ships.
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Except when Apple sends you a not-so-nice-gram pointing out where you signed-your-rights-away-in-a-EULA
I don't get your point. They don't do that in their developer agreement.
I'm completely with you there. Probably bought my last Apple product.
Free and open source is important, but even more important is open data and file formats.
$99 annual developer's fee later *cough*xcode*cough*
Well, the big difference there is that nothing stops you from cross-compiling your software on other platforms.
I've always wanted to know how NASA can say that I can't come in each time I try to walk into their hallway, I mean, how can an american agency own a building?
That's a good point.
But it can still be argued that there exists some fragmentation and that most Android phones does not ship with Android Android but instead with a more or less heavily modified version of it.
It's like if computers came with HP Windows, or Dell Windows, oh wait, they do!
I don't know anyone who thinks the vendor's locked down version of android is better than the native os....
Most people don't know the difference.
The patent system is sickening, I agree on that.
If you're that guy then sorry you don't. Life isn't fair. Get over it.
Not really, just regular patent licensing. It would be extortion if they forced them to pay licensees, they always have the opportunity to stop using Android and no longer infringe on the patents.
How so? If Microsoft owns patents used by the product you're making you either license the patent or do something else.
That's what happens when an iPad and an iPhone decides to make babies.
How can anyone be so naive to assume that any system that is commercially produced in large numbers these days does *not* have in-built backdoors for the alphabet soup agencies? Living under a rock much, are we?
Because of the huge lawsuit that will follow once it backfires.
Question is how bright the future will be with Oracle effectively going their own way with ZFS.
Look, no duplicates!
Hey PayPal, ever heard of Photoshop?
99.999 % of people would never dream about even downloading the source code to Firefox, yet what makes the difference long-term is that 0.001 % do.
Netscape also did the job back in the 90's.
Actually, just politely asking them to comply with the license is probably a better way to start. It may very well be an honest mistake from their side.
If your program relies on the presence of GCC extensions, you did it wrong in the first place.
Not really, a lot of books cost money. Why would this one be different?
This whole event proves that authorities cannot be trusted during a crisis.
If there is something that this mess shows is that private entities should not be allowed to control nuclear power plants.
Yeah, when I say the title I hoped that he had received 1200 boxes of paper. THAT would have been something.
Why does every distro but Debian have this weird hangup where the GUI cannot be decoupled from the OS?
Or rephrased, why does Debian apparently find it easy to do, whereas the big corporate OSes just can't handle it?
(I use Debian w/ xfce and on a netbook with a dead mouse pad, ratpoison)
Does anyone expect this trend to accelerate, perhaps the next Ubuntu will only ship with emacs and if you want to edit with vi, well then you'll just have to install Arch which will only have vi and no emacs? Maybe this game will become popular with languages and if you want Python you'll only be able to select from certain distros?
The code is open, so go ahead and install whatever you want. You don't have to restrict yourself to what your distribution ships.
No, they are fully supported and security patches are available. I should probably have mentioned that they are not Ubuntu.
You know you can still use Gnome 2 even when you can't apt-get it from the distribution. Just build and install it yourself, it's not rocket science.
I think Mint is going to change to Gnome 3. Not Unity, but not much better.
So? Build your own Gnome 2. You don't have to use what the distribution provides.