Each time I see another one of these weird obsessive lawmakers beating a dead horse things it reinforces my impression that Microsoft has not changed at all and is once again up to its old tricks. Maybe its just me.
It's about time old Wintel toady HP went down. HP needs to abandon its half baked delusions of conglomerate grandeur and get back to printers. And how about with ink not subject to DRM this time. I bought my last printer from Brother for that reason alone.
Dell... they should *be* the lowest bidder in China, if they can't figure out how to do that it's goodbye Dell. Another old Wintel toady who every 2 or 3 years waves the Linux flag just enough to sweeten their next secret deal with Microsoft.
Open source can't save these orgs, they have their heads too far up their proverbial butts.
Remains to be seen how well it works at the big corporate leve
That does not remain to be seen, it already has been seen to work well in many cases. Here is just one of many credible links to substantiate that.
It is no longer a question of "if" but "how much". The only reason open source hardware is not exploding at the same rate as open source software is, the toolchains are more effectively locked down. That is partly because the open source software community has not fully focused on the problem yet, and partly because of arguably illegal barriers to entry erected by toolchain vendors. But of course, tearing those down is part of the fun.
Open source hardware? Not so much. Trying to attach to / modify a buzz word to lift the share price a couple of bucks.
So... is there anything more to your content free argument or is that it?
Open source hardware? Not so much. Trying to attach to / modify a buzz word to lift the share price a couple of bucks.
So... is there anything more to your content free argument or is that it?
Excuse me, but that was not off topic. People posting random FUD, typically with some agenda, have to be called out.
And for the record, my opinion is that open source hardware is just as valid as open source software, however the entrenched interests lined up against it are powerful and determined to undermine it. Even to the extent of trolling social sites like Slashdot.
If everything went absolutely against Apple... they would have a situation of nothing to sell. Money doesn't solve that.
Right, in that case the most sensible decision would be to wind the company up and take the cash before it evaporates as it did with Sun for example. And if you think that's actually likely to happen some time in the future, or something close to it, then your smartest move is to sell now while the stock is worth more than the cash and let somebody else hold that bag.
Don't forget about the Java trademark and the odious barriers lathered onto the qualification process to use it. But it's fair to say we're iterating towards a situation where we're free to enjoy/suffer Java clones for free.
Good thing too. I just detest weirdo click-to-sell-your-children licenses for downloading and other stupidity that tends to envelope any otherwise worthy project that gets the loving from corporate drones.
With this I'm now on the edge of my seat now waiting for the legal machine to disgorge its opinion on copyrighting interfaces. Could it be we're on the verge of some sensible result?
Is Kmail1 still being developed? I loved classic Kmail but I've been limping along for months with the badly broken Akonadi based Kmail I got whacked with in a surprise Kubuntu release, long before it was ready. I somehow coaxed it into a minimally tolerable state. It doesn't mean I'm happy.
On the bright side, at least it forced me to learn about Postgres to get rid of the absolutely horrid MySQL backend. All it needs now is a 100 less bugs and 100 times better performance.
You know what's really annoying? The fact that all the Webit browsers identify themselves as "Apple Webkit" when it's really "KHTML", a product of KDE volunteers.
Bluetooth keyboards have worked fine on Android since forever, with a few minor oversights like not having an on-screen way (other than settings) to disable the keyboard if it happens to still be in your backpack but associated.
Maybe "spent a lot of time" meant they copied the work of the "android x86" guys... Reinventing the wheel?
Ah, ahem, that's what you are supposed to do in open source, that's how it works. It's massively parallel, effort is supposed to be duplicated. Good things happen that way.
The Mozilla Suite was a bloated piece of complete and utter crap.
That's the spin, and the spin was that Firefox would be really lightweight and cleaned up. But the fact is, nothing was cleaned up, just some essential components were dropped. The original Firefox fork was really just an exercise in XUL development by an inexperienced developer. Plus loads of spin. I'm not complaining about the final result of course, but let's get our history straight, and please ease back on the vitriol. It's all good.
the Moz Consortium, encouraged by Google, entrenched support against Firefox and basically shunned the old guard developers
For all the spin, and all the actual good that it does, which is considerable, Google actually does a lot of evil in the open source space. Throwing its weight around to influence an open source project like Firefox in the direction it wants is far from an isolated occurrence. But its fair to say that Google can still be shamed into doing the right thing when caught, in contast to some corporations in Cupertino and Redmond I could mention. The key is to know when our big friendly gorilla friend is misbehaving and publicize it. It does work to some extent.
Seamonkey isn't a fork of Firefox, it's the other way round. And by the way, I still use Seamonkey regularly because of the wysiwyg html editor which for some lame reason got dropped from Firefox.
I scanned a long way through that list and did not find a single issue relevant to any of my (considerable number of) Linux systems. So I will stay with my original characterization of your comment.
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Each time I see another one of these weird obsessive lawmakers beating a dead horse things it reinforces my impression that Microsoft has not changed at all and is once again up to its old tricks. Maybe its just me.
It's about time old Wintel toady HP went down. HP needs to abandon its half baked delusions of conglomerate grandeur and get back to printers. And how about with ink not subject to DRM this time. I bought my last printer from Brother for that reason alone.
Dell... they should *be* the lowest bidder in China, if they can't figure out how to do that it's goodbye Dell. Another old Wintel toady who every 2 or 3 years waves the Linux flag just enough to sweeten their next secret deal with Microsoft.
Open source can't save these orgs, they have their heads too far up their proverbial butts.
Speak for yourself, Mr astroturfer.
Remains to be seen how well it works at the big corporate leve
That does not remain to be seen, it already has been seen to work well in many cases. Here is just one of many credible links to substantiate that.
It is no longer a question of "if" but "how much". The only reason open source hardware is not exploding at the same rate as open source software is, the toolchains are more effectively locked down. That is partly because the open source software community has not fully focused on the problem yet, and partly because of arguably illegal barriers to entry erected by toolchain vendors. But of course, tearing those down is part of the fun.
Open source hardware? Not so much. Trying to attach to / modify a buzz word to lift the share price a couple of bucks.
So... is there anything more to your content free argument or is that it?
Open source hardware? Not so much. Trying to attach to / modify a buzz word to lift the share price a couple of bucks.
So... is there anything more to your content free argument or is that it?
Excuse me, but that was not off topic. People posting random FUD, typically with some agenda, have to be called out.
And for the record, my opinion is that open source hardware is just as valid as open source software, however the entrenched interests lined up against it are powerful and determined to undermine it. Even to the extent of trolling social sites like Slashdot.
Open source hardware? Not so much. Trying to attach to / modify a buzz word to lift the share price a couple of bucks.
So... is there anything more to your content free argument or is that it?
The more these companies tear each other apart, the more obvious it becomes to disinterested observers that the system is broken.
But what do you do about disinterested, stupid observers?
If everything went absolutely against Apple... they would have a situation of nothing to sell. Money doesn't solve that.
Right, in that case the most sensible decision would be to wind the company up and take the cash before it evaporates as it did with Sun for example. And if you think that's actually likely to happen some time in the future, or something close to it, then your smartest move is to sell now while the stock is worth more than the cash and let somebody else hold that bag.
The technical term is "what goes around, comes around".
Suck it, Oracle. You lose. Good day, sir!
Couldn't happen to a nicer asshole.
Don't forget about the Java trademark and the odious barriers lathered onto the qualification process to use it. But it's fair to say we're iterating towards a situation where we're free to enjoy/suffer Java clones for free.
Good thing too. I just detest weirdo click-to-sell-your-children licenses for downloading and other stupidity that tends to envelope any otherwise worthy project that gets the loving from corporate drones.
With this I'm now on the edge of my seat now waiting for the legal machine to disgorge its opinion on copyrighting interfaces. Could it be we're on the verge of some sensible result?
Is Kmail1 still being developed? I loved classic Kmail but I've been limping along for months with the badly broken Akonadi based Kmail I got whacked with in a surprise Kubuntu release, long before it was ready. I somehow coaxed it into a minimally tolerable state. It doesn't mean I'm happy.
On the bright side, at least it forced me to learn about Postgres to get rid of the absolutely horrid MySQL backend. All it needs now is a 100 less bugs and 100 times better performance.
You know what's really annoying? The fact that all the Webit browsers identify themselves as "Apple Webkit" when it's really "KHTML", a product of KDE volunteers.
By bundling Internet Explorer with every copy of window it ships to its indentured OEMs, Microsoft artificially inflates its browser share.
Maybe try Opera then.
Bluetooth keyboards have worked fine on Android since forever, with a few minor oversights like not having an on-screen way (other than settings) to disable the keyboard if it happens to still be in your backpack but associated.
Maybe "spent a lot of time" meant they copied the work of the "android x86" guys... Reinventing the wheel?
Ah, ahem, that's what you are supposed to do in open source, that's how it works. It's massively parallel, effort is supposed to be duplicated. Good things happen that way.
The Mozilla Suite was a bloated piece of complete and utter crap.
That's the spin, and the spin was that Firefox would be really lightweight and cleaned up. But the fact is, nothing was cleaned up, just some essential components were dropped. The original Firefox fork was really just an exercise in XUL development by an inexperienced developer. Plus loads of spin. I'm not complaining about the final result of course, but let's get our history straight, and please ease back on the vitriol. It's all good.
the Moz Consortium, encouraged by Google, entrenched support against Firefox and basically shunned the old guard developers
For all the spin, and all the actual good that it does, which is considerable, Google actually does a lot of evil in the open source space. Throwing its weight around to influence an open source project like Firefox in the direction it wants is far from an isolated occurrence. But its fair to say that Google can still be shamed into doing the right thing when caught, in contast to some corporations in Cupertino and Redmond I could mention. The key is to know when our big friendly gorilla friend is misbehaving and publicize it. It does work to some extent.
...I swear I didn't did your post before I posted mine.
And note why I still use it. Thank goodness for open source.
Seamonkey isn't a fork of Firefox, it's the other way round. And by the way, I still use Seamonkey regularly because of the wysiwyg html editor which for some lame reason got dropped from Firefox.
Come to think of it, this curious move by mozilla.org is about the only way to make a Linux dev actually care about web apps. Like they planned it?
And may I point out that you did not name any Linux "entry points". Perhaps because you don't actually know of any?
I scanned a long way through that list and did not find a single issue relevant to any of my (considerable number of) Linux systems. So I will stay with my original characterization of your comment.
how many projects ship with compiler settings that use -O3 by default? The kernel does as it is going for the ultimate in performance
You are pulling "facts" out of your ass.
The kernel is built by default with O2, or optionally Os as a configure option.
You do not have the slightest clue what you are talking about in this, or any other post I have seen from you.