If you are a typical professional software developer and your OSX machine saves you five minutes every day in time and frustration compared to a similar Windows system, then the added price of the OSX machine will pay for itself in less than a year.
selling an unlocked phone increases support costs, because you have to support the increased functionality made available by the unlocking
This is why companies like Virgin only sell locked phones, they can sell the phones for $20 because they have very limited functionality and the customer will almost never have to make a service call to figure it out.
"it always comes with it's load of issues and unexpected consequences..."
Here is an implication that someone somewhere maybe should take some sort of action to prevent this! What would that action be?
Water falls due to gravity, which comes with its load of issues and unexpected consequences. If there is nothing to be done about it, what is the point in worrying about it?
If Linux gains market share in the home due to games, then SURELY corporate IT is going to pay attention.
Corporate IT gets ALL wound up about the browsers used by their customers. Ask amazon.com, or any bank, and they will tell you that they care very very much about what software their customers are running. They want to make sure that their products can be delivered effectively to their customers.
Corporate IT will also sit up and take notice when more and more employees start asking for linux VPN clients.
Lastly, corporate IT does not actually run the business and make the business decisions. If IT operations fail to support the company and its ability to generate revenue then they can be fired or demoted or whatever and responsible people put in their places.
"Android is a hack/mash up of crappy unpolished, incomplete and buggy technologies , iOS is clean and works very well and even easier/faster to develop apps for."
So is Windows! There's an easy answer! Don't install the buggy software!
"iOS is clean and works very well"
They're currently on version 6 with no letup in sight so it's hard to say they are "clean" if they have to keep updating it all the time.
"even easier/faster to develop apps for."
OH REALLY??? WHERE OH WHERE ARE THE INTERPRETED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS FOR IOS?? NOWHERE!!! They violate the TOS and are DISALLOWED.
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If you are a typical professional software developer and your OSX machine saves you five minutes every day in time and frustration compared to a similar Windows system, then the added price of the OSX machine will pay for itself in less than a year.
And he revealed how many details exactly about this new phone?
"low-end" refers to price.
Mustangs have big powerful engines but they are "low-end" vehicles when it comes to comfort and safety.
"if there are no Free alternatives available"
then what is the problem???
"you should write that software."
Maybe he can provide some assistance on designing open-source games that can eliminate the possibility of cheating or "gaming" the system.
are you also going to make bitter complaints about not being able to access the source code for your microwave oven or your thermostat?
some people purchase telephones because they are appliances like a toaster or a microwave, not a computer.
selling an unlocked phone increases support costs, because you have to support the increased functionality made available by the unlocking
This is why companies like Virgin only sell locked phones, they can sell the phones for $20 because they have very limited functionality and the customer will almost never have to make a service call to figure it out.
"look at the Android fragmentation"
There are many different versions of android because there are many varieties of android hardware
The presence or absence of an app market has nothing to do with the requirement for different versions of the operating system.
windows taught us to expect better
sure you can!
you don't HAVE to assert copyright in the first place
you can allow your content to pass directly from your lips to the public domain, it does not HAVE to pass though the "copyright" phase.
Talk to google about Google Earth
somehow they manage to field a linux version that works fine on many distributions
Honestly you think "steam games don't work" will not be considered a bug to be fixed by the distribution?
"it always comes with it's load of issues and unexpected consequences..."
Here is an implication that someone somewhere maybe should take some sort of action to prevent this! What would that action be?
Water falls due to gravity, which comes with its load of issues and unexpected consequences. If there is nothing to be done about it, what is the point in worrying about it?
"POSIX is well-defined"
yeah that's why we have to endure enormous configure scripts that poke at EVERY SINGLE API CALL whenever you compile a piece of POSIX software.
"When the underlying specifications (POSIX, C, etc) were well defined"
IS THIS A JOKE OR WHAT???
If you think that POSIX is "well defined" then perhaps you should take a look at the file sysdep.c in the emacs source distribution.
It's actually a big backtrack for him
When he sat down to write emacs, he sat in front of an HPUX system and used the HP C compiler and the HP linker to build his free software.
At the time he had no problems with this apparent contradiction.
Now that free software is self hosting, he can adjust his attitude.
since going to the bathroom is only helping the polluters you should stop going to the bathroom
how can you make the connection that Steam's use of DRM is equivalent to the MPAAs?
The choice is not "free games or paid games"
The choice is "paid games or no games"
Hard to see where "no games" is a benefit to anyone
Your argument does not apply here because Valve is not limiting anyone's choices by offering games on Linux
In fact now you have MORE choice.
did you also rip out your vocal chords so you can't yell or whisper?
Maybe you'd have a point if unlocked phones were unavailable.
BMWs cost more than Fiats. Does that "threaten" enthusiast driving??? Hardly.
If Linux gains market share in the home due to games, then SURELY corporate IT is going to pay attention.
Corporate IT gets ALL wound up about the browsers used by their customers. Ask amazon.com, or any bank, and they will tell you that they care very very much about what software their customers are running. They want to make sure that their products can be delivered effectively to their customers.
Corporate IT will also sit up and take notice when more and more employees start asking for linux VPN clients.
Lastly, corporate IT does not actually run the business and make the business decisions. If IT operations fail to support the company and its ability to generate revenue then they can be fired or demoted or whatever and responsible people put in their places.
Did Google Earth for linux affect software freedom?
How about VMWare Workstation?
Do these products take away our choices?
Do they take away choices from people who don't even use them?
keep talking to straw men
many of us work with paid-for RHEL subscriptions, and our software drives sales of more RHEL licenses
many of us find linux bugs, both in the kernel and in supporting apps, and we report those bugs, providing great value.
do you have any data supporting your assertion that linux users are freeloaders?
windows users got their OS for free when they bought their computer. What makes them different?
that emacs and gcc were written on HPUX systems
what's the "lesson" to be learned from these programs?
"Android is a hack/mash up of crappy unpolished, incomplete and buggy technologies , iOS is clean and works very well and even easier/faster to develop apps for."
So is Windows! There's an easy answer! Don't install the buggy software!
"iOS is clean and works very well"
They're currently on version 6 with no letup in sight so it's hard to say they are "clean" if they have to keep updating it all the time.
"even easier/faster to develop apps for."
OH REALLY??? WHERE OH WHERE ARE THE INTERPRETED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS FOR IOS?? NOWHERE!!! They violate the TOS and are DISALLOWED.
SO MUCH FOR "EASY DEVELOPMENT"
the point is that "respectable" industries rely on unrespectable markets
if you care too much about who your customers are, you won't have any customers to worry about