What, so you can legally copy source code because your lazy ass isn't inteligent to code for itself?
Most people find that mindlessly reimplementing everything isn't a good idea not being lazy. Secondly, how does the GPL not let you legally copy source code?
When I found out I'd have to sue everyone who used the patent, in order to keep it, I decided against the patent idea.
Are you sure this was an actual lawyer because this statement is flat out false. There is no requirement to sue people who infringe on your patent to keep it. You're confusing trademarks with patents.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Take your iPhone and get bent.
I don't own an iPhone. I own a G1 developer phone.
There are other considerations than recharging a battery. The big sell seems to be using the device in areas you wouldn't have access to RECHARGE your batteries.
And how many people are consistently that far away from a place to recharge their batteries?
idea of solving a made-up scientific problem with made-up technology.
Isn't science-fiction all about writing about made-up technology? If it wasn't made-up wouldn't that make it no longer science-fiction but science-nonfiction?
I bet you paid a lot more for that iPhone than $99 if it can run for months on end without being drained on power.
They have this new thing called "charging cables" now.
The key to being able to replace the batteries is that they can be replaced instead of recharged.
What a waste of money and resources.
You just don't notice that most consumer electronic devices would last for quite a long time on regular AA/AAA batteries now because they have also switched over to a rechargeable that will fail in 1.5 years so that you HAVE to replace it sooner rather than later.
As I said, by the time the rechargeable battery in an iPhone fails you'll be due to renew your contract and you can just get the latest iPhone for another $99 with your contract.
He's just mad because 100s of millions more people know what Star Trek is than who will ever know or care about him or his works. This is just a way to get publicity.
Does it run on batteries you can buy anywhere for cheap?
By the time one needs to worry about changing the battery in the iPhone one could have just upgraded to the latest one for $99 when they renew their contract.
Except your bias has led you to single handedly chastise Microsoft for a practice that every console maker has done for the last 20+ years. This is hardly a practice Microsoft started and at only 100 dollars it is by far the cheapest modern platform to develop for.
1) Being open source, more eyes are watching for exploits. They can target it as much as they want - I'll trust a project like OpenSSL more than MS Crypto, because a lot of people smarter than I are watching the source and working on it.
You mean like all those eyes watching for the bugs in Debian's OpenSSL that didn't discover it for over 2 years?
So you're advice against being attacked through monoculture is for everyone to move to another monoculture? Why wouldn't these people then not just go and target that third-party library that everyone is now using instead of the Win32 API?
If they would stop trying to be the abby sitters for the media companies and pull out DRM, I suspect it would be an awesome OS.
What exactly is the DRM in Win7 or Vista disallowing you from doing? Now before you say anything about not being able to do this or that with your Blu-Rays or HD DVDs, you must remember that without the DRM you wouldn't be able to do anything with those formats on your computer at all.
But to talk all about how great Google is because of a few token open source gestures is laughable when they make up nothing of their actual revenue base. When they actually open source something of real business importance then we can talk.
Google Chrome is open source, as is Google Wave, Android, and plenty of other things I can't remember offhand.
Basically the products that they derive little or none of their income base from. Come back to me when they release the source code to AdWords, GoogleFS, or their proprietary Linux kernel fork that they run their servers on.
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What, so you can legally copy source code because your lazy ass isn't inteligent to code for itself?
Most people find that mindlessly reimplementing everything isn't a good idea not being lazy. Secondly, how does the GPL not let you legally copy source code?
I wonder who pays these gentlemen.
If you had read the summary you'd see they work for the OSI and the Linux Foundation. Hardly organizations that are anti-GPL, anti-FOSS or anti-Linux.
I'm wondering if this isn't just FUD to try to get people to switch to v3. Which is icky, but it did occur to me.
What would either the OSI or the Linux Foundation gain from such a thing?
When I found out I'd have to sue everyone who used the patent, in order to keep it, I decided against the patent idea.
Are you sure this was an actual lawyer because this statement is flat out false. There is no requirement to sue people who infringe on your patent to keep it. You're confusing trademarks with patents.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Take your iPhone and get bent.
I don't own an iPhone. I own a G1 developer phone.
There are other considerations than recharging a battery. The big sell seems to be using the device in areas you wouldn't have access to RECHARGE your batteries.
And how many people are consistently that far away from a place to recharge their batteries?
But...but...his fiction is less fictiony than Star Trek's fiction!
idea of solving a made-up scientific problem with made-up technology.
Isn't science-fiction all about writing about made-up technology? If it wasn't made-up wouldn't that make it no longer science-fiction but science-nonfiction?
Does the battery really last for the entire length of the contract with no charging?
What is with the strawman argument against me trying to claim I said you never had to charge an iPhone?
I bet you paid a lot more for that iPhone than $99 if it can run for months on end without being drained on power.
They have this new thing called "charging cables" now.
The key to being able to replace the batteries is that they can be replaced instead of recharged.
What a waste of money and resources.
You just don't notice that most consumer electronic devices would last for quite a long time on regular AA/AAA batteries now because they have also switched over to a rechargeable that will fail in 1.5 years so that you HAVE to replace it sooner rather than later.
As I said, by the time the rechargeable battery in an iPhone fails you'll be due to renew your contract and you can just get the latest iPhone for another $99 with your contract.
He's just mad because 100s of millions more people know what Star Trek is than who will ever know or care about him or his works. This is just a way to get publicity.
Quark's Bar would like a word with you.
It has no value to a plot; actually it's the opposite of plot, if there is such a thing.
What happens if you mix plot and anti-plot together?!
The "resulting work" that they are distributing would be the wiki content it doesn't apply to the hardware platform.
How much did your iphone cost?
Probably $99 dollars.
Does it run on batteries you can buy anywhere for cheap?
By the time one needs to worry about changing the battery in the iPhone one could have just upgraded to the latest one for $99 when they renew their contract.
Then there's really no reason to play.
Yeah, it's not as if people play games to have fun or anything.
Toyota has been making the Prius since 1997.
And was only for sale in Japan. The first US Prius didn't come about until 2001. Thus it is not prior art.
I know, I'm just provoking the thought
Except your bias has led you to single handedly chastise Microsoft for a practice that every console maker has done for the last 20+ years. This is hardly a practice Microsoft started and at only 100 dollars it is by far the cheapest modern platform to develop for.
1) Being open source, more eyes are watching for exploits. They can target it as much as they want - I'll trust a project like OpenSSL more than MS Crypto, because a lot of people smarter than I are watching the source and working on it.
You mean like all those eyes watching for the bugs in Debian's OpenSSL that didn't discover it for over 2 years?
Call me when Windows and/or MS Office have been GPLv3'ed.
Oh you mean like how the Linux kernel is GPLv3... oh wait.
So you're advice against being attacked through monoculture is for everyone to move to another monoculture? Why wouldn't these people then not just go and target that third-party library that everyone is now using instead of the Win32 API?
Someone needs to lay off of the Kevin Trudeau informercials.
If they would stop trying to be the abby sitters for the media companies and pull out DRM, I suspect it would be an awesome OS.
What exactly is the DRM in Win7 or Vista disallowing you from doing? Now before you say anything about not being able to do this or that with your Blu-Rays or HD DVDs, you must remember that without the DRM you wouldn't be able to do anything with those formats on your computer at all.
Sure it adds up, but to nothing even remotely approaching a few percent of what an infrastructure upgrade costs.
But to talk all about how great Google is because of a few token open source gestures is laughable when they make up nothing of their actual revenue base. When they actually open source something of real business importance then we can talk.
Google Chrome is open source, as is Google Wave, Android, and plenty of other things I can't remember offhand.
Basically the products that they derive little or none of their income base from. Come back to me when they release the source code to AdWords, GoogleFS, or their proprietary Linux kernel fork that they run their servers on.