These people are stupid, and everyone knows it, maybe except themselves. The iPhone is a good platform and people having one generally like sticking with it. There is such a thing as being "good enough".
My iPhone 3GS is showing signs of fatigue and I'm getting a 4S whenever I'll be able to get my hands on one. Because I like it. Because I like to tinker with stuff and my phone is not one of this stuff - mostly because of a lack of free time.
So I tinker with my desktop, my servers in my 45U bay in my garage. And I have an iPhone. And I like it. Enough to buy a new one.
I have some kind of love story with ATI graphics, that dates back when I used them on Windows.
I've tried NVidia once on Linux. The thing was more stable, for sure. The card died 3 month after I bought it. It was fanless, but it sure looked like it could have done better with a fan. I went back to ATI.
The problem with GPL is that nobody can take the code private and make money selling it. Many people like me think this is unfair and tend not to provide unpaid work. I sometimes send bug reports to a GPL project, but would never even consider contributing any code.
Admittedly, I leapt from your declaring you'd never consider contributing code to you thinking it was wrong to contribute code, but that's pretty implicit, I think.
You are aware, of course, that numerous projects (GPL or MIT or BSD) are developed by paid-for people, right?
If I develop an open source project, I'd rather have people use it than people not use it. I feel it will be more useful to have real-life users that contribute in feature wishes and bug reports rather than a few users that either violate the GPL and don't contribute or dump me some code blob from time to time that will take ages to incorporate and may violate my guidelines / prectices to the point where I won't even want to incorporate the code.
That's me. Your mileage may vary. So I tend to prefer BSD-type licenses nowadays.
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Ok, you're right. I should have said "The iPhone is a good platform from people wanting a phone as opposed to people wanting a computing platform".
That would have been much longer though and most people got what I said. Not mentioning I explained it later on.
And here I am feeding the trolls again.
Except there is no iPhone 4GS ;-)
Funny how I find many people doing this mistake....
Thanks, I got it this time!
This is probably a disinformation gig, because such screw up it's just too lame to have happened on a such level
The higher the level, the stupidest the screwup, specially a tech one. That's because the higher level, the higher n00bness.
I actually plan on buying the 4S unlocked from Apple. It's less expensive over the course of two years ;-)
Wow. There's stupid, and then there's you. That's something of an achievement actually.
Yeah, I know, thanks. But not an idiot nearly as dumb as you are. Of course. you probably know that by now.
These people are stupid, and everyone knows it, maybe except themselves. The iPhone is a good platform and people having one generally like sticking with it. There is such a thing as being "good enough".
My iPhone 3GS is showing signs of fatigue and I'm getting a 4S whenever I'll be able to get my hands on one. Because I like it. Because I like to tinker with stuff and my phone is not one of this stuff - mostly because of a lack of free time.
So I tinker with my desktop, my servers in my 45U bay in my garage. And I have an iPhone. And I like it. Enough to buy a new one.
I was just trying to give you an advice you know, that's all. I was not trying to dictate anything to anyone.
You sir have mastered the copy/paste. I think it is now time to master your refraining of its use.
Ah. I could have sworn I got it though. It's probably me being this "idiot" you're referring to.
I have some kind of love story with ATI graphics, that dates back when I used them on Windows.
I've tried NVidia once on Linux. The thing was more stable, for sure. The card died 3 month after I bought it. It was fanless, but it sure looked like it could have done better with a fan. I went back to ATI.
Admittedly, I leapt from your declaring you'd never consider contributing code to you thinking it was wrong to contribute code, but that's pretty implicit, I think.
That was not me though.
I still have to reboot my Linux desktop every time my ATI graphic crap crashes and needs the reboot.
Ok, ok, I got it!
You forgot one other crucial point: by default, any moderation from a user account that matches /.*Kristopeit.*/ should be ignored.
BTW, is that a robot or something?
No! My mom's face hasn't been hacked at all! I assure you.
It's probably waiting for a good word from the Oracle.
I'll do just that. Thanks.
you feel it wrong for you to contribute code to GPL'd projects.
Huuuu, where did you get that from?
One group will prevail, but it will be significantly diminished. It's kind of a win-win scenario.
I'm readying the pitchforks right now.
You are aware, of course, that numerous projects (GPL or MIT or BSD) are developed by paid-for people, right?
If I develop an open source project, I'd rather have people use it than people not use it. I feel it will be more useful to have real-life users that contribute in feature wishes and bug reports rather than a few users that either violate the GPL and don't contribute or dump me some code blob from time to time that will take ages to incorporate and may violate my guidelines / prectices to the point where I won't even want to incorporate the code.
That's me. Your mileage may vary. So I tend to prefer BSD-type licenses nowadays.
I guess slashdot has been hacked then. I'm not going to bother answering all your posts though.
Ok.