Obsolete and old is not the same thing. I'm using a still supported system from 2004 on some of my servers, it's stable and boring but it works and does the job and will continue to do so for many years. And that's actually not that unusual for those kinds of systems. I would day that 10.04 is not even new yet.
Last time I checked Apple runs their stuff on Windows Azure so maybe Kernel.org should do the same. I mean, Kernel.org have been hacked what now, two or three times? How many times have Windows Azure been hacked? Zero. So, just by looking at statistics moving to that platform could be a good move.
I mean, since we just went odd-version and have the Visual Basic rewrite imminent, being open towards new hosting platforms should be an option.
No, not really. Linux itself was not responsible for the incident so that would be inaccurate leasson to learn. The leasson would rather be that it doesn't matter how strong a door is if you leave the key on a bar.
All of the things you mentioned above are _positive_ things, in that you would have to be crazy to use the bios for anything other than loading the os and getting the hell out.
Ehm, BIOS is not even close to "loading the os". It loads the boot sector which is the first 512 bytes of the hard drive and you have even less than that since you need space for the partition table as well. The boot sector is often far from large enough to hold the boot loader so it have to first load it and let it then load the operating system, you often need at least two or three levels of chain loading before you're actually at the operating system level.
With EFI on the other hand you can tell "that file over there, load it" and be done with it.
Different licenses have different purposes. If your business is about putting software together into boxes and sell as products then sure GPL may not be for you. If you are a contractor then it may actually be beneficial since no competitor can get an unfair advantage over you. It all depends on what the original authors goal was. The right license for the right project. Sometimes the right license is proprietary, sometimes it's permissive, sometimes it's copyleft.
Sure. The point is that if you're working on a proprietary project then why do you think you should have the right to take GPL-licensed code? What makes it different from completely closed code that you can't even see at all? By all means use code that is permissively licensed and be thankful for it, if GPL isn't open enough then just don't use it.
The first "rivals" hotlink didn't even mention Apple. And the "downshift" link mentioned only the iPad. But I'm guessing, Apple might get a bigger piece of the pie too.
Apple have limited themselves to selling hardware that runs their software. When they start making servers and pc's that natively run linux and windows then they can have a bigger piece of the pie.
As someone who have run the PowerPC flavors of Linux and several BSDs on Macs since long before they did the processor switch, I have to say that there is just so many ways in which your post is just wrong. And when it comes to new hardware I have no objection on their ability to run it "native", in fact I'm running Linux native on my MacBook Pro. I have no need for Windows but I can tell you that it works just as well.
At some point you have to trust people. Most criminal acts ends up being unnoticed, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a police force and sue when appropriate.
No it's not. If I make a piece of software and releases it under closed proprietary license no one would accuse it of being a virus, however if I opened it up just a bit and said that other people are free to use it just as long as they do the same then it's virus? Don't want to comply? Don't use it.
The guy is just a troll machine not a patent expert. He has an agenda against Linux and Android.
Just because Android uses Linux does not mean that Android and Linux is the same thing. Most Android phones are just locked-in iOS wannabes anyway no matter how free the kernel is.
Nope, but it's OK to have sex with them. It's actually legal as low as 15, even lower if the age difference is not significant. But don't you dare take a picute, that's a big no-no.
This law is flawed.
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Obsolete and old is not the same thing. I'm using a still supported system from 2004 on some of my servers, it's stable and boring but it works and does the job and will continue to do so for many years. And that's actually not that unusual for those kinds of systems. I would day that 10.04 is not even new yet.
Last time I checked Apple runs their stuff on Windows Azure so maybe Kernel.org should do the same. I mean, Kernel.org have been hacked what now, two or three times? How many times have Windows Azure been hacked? Zero. So, just by looking at statistics moving to that platform could be a good move.
I mean, since we just went odd-version and have the Visual Basic rewrite imminent, being open towards new hosting platforms should be an option.
Linux is defective by design, duh!
No, not really. Linux itself was not responsible for the incident so that would be inaccurate leasson to learn. The leasson would rather be that it doesn't matter how strong a door is if you leave the key on a bar.
That's exactly why private and for profit universities should not be allowed to exist.
All of the things you mentioned above are _positive_ things, in that you would have to be crazy to use the bios for anything other than loading the os and getting the hell out.
Ehm, BIOS is not even close to "loading the os". It loads the boot sector which is the first 512 bytes of the hard drive and you have even less than that since you need space for the partition table as well. The boot sector is often far from large enough to hold the boot loader so it have to first load it and let it then load the operating system, you often need at least two or three levels of chain loading before you're actually at the operating system level.
With EFI on the other hand you can tell "that file over there, load it" and be done with it.
Because then Windows 8 will somehow become incompatible with "unsupported hardware configurations".
bool should_installation_succeed() {
if (may_run_non_ms_os)
return false;
else
return true;
}
Microsoft will presumably refuse to 'Windows certify' motherboards which allow you to turn off 'secure boot'. All for the user's security, of course.
So this whole "Microsoft kills Linux" thing is more of a "Microsoft may presumably do something that indirect may be bad for Linux".
That's when the robots starts making humans.
So, you're saying that they should not follow their guidelines just because the app critizizes smartphone production?
Off you go
Oh yeah, Good ol' BSD kernel. The best one in town.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Intellectual Property (tm).
Different licenses have different purposes. If your business is about putting software together into boxes and sell as products then sure GPL may not be for you. If you are a contractor then it may actually be beneficial since no competitor can get an unfair advantage over you. It all depends on what the original authors goal was. The right license for the right project. Sometimes the right license is proprietary, sometimes it's permissive, sometimes it's copyleft.
Sure. The point is that if you're working on a proprietary project then why do you think you should have the right to take GPL-licensed code? What makes it different from completely closed code that you can't even see at all? By all means use code that is permissively licensed and be thankful for it, if GPL isn't open enough then just don't use it.
What about proprietary code, can you touch that?
The first "rivals" hotlink didn't even mention Apple. And the "downshift" link mentioned only the iPad. But I'm guessing, Apple might get a bigger piece of the pie too.
Apple have limited themselves to selling hardware that runs their software. When they start making servers and pc's that natively run linux and windows then they can have a bigger piece of the pie.
As someone who have run the PowerPC flavors of Linux and several BSDs on Macs since long before they did the processor switch, I have to say that there is just so many ways in which your post is just wrong. And when it comes to new hardware I have no objection on their ability to run it "native", in fact I'm running Linux native on my MacBook Pro. I have no need for Windows but I can tell you that it works just as well.
At some point you have to trust people. Most criminal acts ends up being unnoticed, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have a police force and sue when appropriate.
The behavior of a virus.
No it's not. If I make a piece of software and releases it under closed proprietary license no one would accuse it of being a virus, however if I opened it up just a bit and said that other people are free to use it just as long as they do the same then it's virus? Don't want to comply? Don't use it.
Fair enough.
The guy is just a troll machine not a patent expert. He has an agenda against Linux and Android.
Just because Android uses Linux does not mean that Android and Linux is the same thing. Most Android phones are just locked-in iOS wannabes anyway no matter how free the kernel is.
Who said he would have a choice?
I've said it before. Just put Linus Torvalds in charge and it will sort itself out.
How do you get the instant gratification we oldies got when sitting down in front of the early-80s home computers?
Well I have a working Apple ][ around so that's not a problem to fix.
or delete stupid_law;
Nope, but it's OK to have sex with them. It's actually legal as low as 15, even lower if the age difference is not significant. But don't you dare take a picute, that's a big no-no. This law is flawed.