Just makes them seem like hypocrites and frankly, douches.
More properly, unmasks them. Apple has always been like this since my earliest dealings with them (1984, how apropo). For some unfathomable reason, Apple's true corporate culture has only recently become widely known and properly called out.
You are not helpful. In the real world fsck is an important determinant of filesystem robustness. In your career, your proverbial butt will be saved at least once by a good fsck, and you will be left twisting in the breeze at least twice because of a bad or absent fsck. Why twice? Because that is how many times it takes to send the message to someone unwilling to receive it.
I will so buy a bagfull of these chips if AMD follows through on this smart thing. 28 nm multicore ARMs. Booya! Also looking forward to the integrated low power GPU.
But I'm not sure I understand the argument that is being made here. If Sony is really trying to "rewrite Busybox" -- which makes it sound like they're going to look at the Busybox code and write a new version that does the same thing in a different way -- then surely that's a derivative work of Busybox and it's a copyright violation.
Is that really considered a derivative work just because they can see the source? Genuinely curious here.
It can be. That is why cloning a library under an incompatible license typically requires an expensive "clean room" engineering process. Of course, Sony holding to their well known high moral and ethical standards, would never think of playing fast and loose with this, would they? And of course we would never notice if they cut a few corners to save cost, would we?
Without cheating, without being oppressive and without being a force for evil. Which is the case today, in everybody's opinion but a few shills with an agenda, usually in the form of a paycheck.
Anyway, I encourage Sony to fork Busybox. They will likely be able to make some improvements, however over the long run their fork will likely degenerate to the same quality as their typical software efforts, which to be honest, I am not much impressed with. When they get tired of that work and expense, and their new homemade bugs, they will go back to the real thing and be happy about it. In the meantime, perhaps they will stumble upon some good ideas suitable for rolling back into the Busybox tree.
There are plenty of top notch technical people who like Apple.
Really? I would count myself has having considerable data on the subject and it seems pretty consistent. The techies who are Apple fans are typically the B's who hire C's.
He swore to destroy Android. He got his chinese sweatshot workers jumping to their deaths in herds. He got the apple police to kick in the front door of a journalist. He lied about the antenna.
Hear, hear. And to fill the gap, it would seem that AAA open source and Indie content is nigh upon us. I am doing my part to help make that happen, are you?
He didn't say "phones" he said "iOS devices" which the iPod an iPad both certainly are.
As we both know, iOS is not an operating system, and neither is Android. Both are just skins for an operating system. So if you insist on lumping together phones with non-phones, which is essentially the entire share that BSD has these days, it would only be fair to consider the entire share that Linux has. Which would include DSL routers among other things. Then where do you suppose iOS/BSD sits? Right.
Hey, you Apple fans really should stop trying to compare music players to phones. It makes you sound like... cultists.
Why? Because my phone was crappy? I'm not sure why that's so inconceivable to you--it certainly happened, and a quick Google search shows that it happened to others. For the other guy who suggested that I should have bought a Nexus (on a crappy carrier, no less) the Nexus One also has reports of locking up.
You claimed your phone was locking up. Could you please provide details?
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And a message to Apple spin control in advance: sending in PR drones to Slashdot really just sums up what you have become.
Just makes them seem like hypocrites and frankly, douches.
More properly, unmasks them. Apple has always been like this since my earliest dealings with them (1984, how apropo). For some unfathomable reason, Apple's true corporate culture has only recently become widely known and properly called out.
Most popular Linux filesystems are atomic and should not need fsck, unless something really bad happens.
And something really bad always happens. So please be careful with that word "should".
You are not helpful. In the real world fsck is an important determinant of filesystem robustness. In your career, your proverbial butt will be saved at least once by a good fsck, and you will be left twisting in the breeze at least twice because of a bad or absent fsck. Why twice? Because that is how many times it takes to send the message to someone unwilling to receive it.
They're making an offer: you can use the software as long as you comply with the license. Sony doesn't want to do that...
Why doesn't Sony want to do that? What is wrong with them?
I will so buy a bagfull of these chips if AMD follows through on this smart thing. 28 nm multicore ARMs. Booya! Also looking forward to the integrated low power GPU.
Is that really considered a derivative work just because they can see the source? Genuinely curious here.
It can be. That is why cloning a library under an incompatible license typically requires an expensive "clean room" engineering process. Of course, Sony holding to their well known high moral and ethical standards, would never think of playing fast and loose with this, would they? And of course we would never notice if they cut a few corners to save cost, would we?
Without cheating, without being oppressive and without being a force for evil. Which is the case today, in everybody's opinion but a few shills with an agenda, usually in the form of a paycheck.
Anyway, I encourage Sony to fork Busybox. They will likely be able to make some improvements, however over the long run their fork will likely degenerate to the same quality as their typical software efforts, which to be honest, I am not much impressed with. When they get tired of that work and expense, and their new homemade bugs, they will go back to the real thing and be happy about it. In the meantime, perhaps they will stumble upon some good ideas suitable for rolling back into the Busybox tree.
He got his chinese sweatshot workers jumping to their deaths in herds.
The same factory your M$ Xbox is made?
Haha, that's funny. For reasons that most likely escape you.
I call it dumbing down. It gives me a nearly irresistable urge to break Apple products in two on the edge of a table.
Have you talked to someone about your anger problems?
Oh yes. They said "best thing to do is remove the source of the irritation". So when it comes to Apple products, I just say no.
Oh my, there are B's about with mod points it would seem.
Perl? You're kidding, right.
They had their most profitable quarter ever, the second most profitable quarter in US history, the fourth most profitable quarter in the world...
And the most profitable quarter in their entire corporate history, for ever and ever. Doing my part to help that happen :)
There are plenty of top notch technical people who like Apple.
Really? I would count myself has having considerable data on the subject and it seems pretty consistent. The techies who are Apple fans are typically the B's who hire C's.
I call it dumbing down. It gives me a nearly irresistable urge to break Apple products in two on the edge of a table.
He swore to destroy Android. He got his chinese sweatshot workers jumping to their deaths in herds. He got the apple police to kick in the front door of a journalist. He lied about the antenna.
Nice troll.
180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin - *180*! If I did a 720, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started!
Turning around twice is a ward against evil.
Hear, hear. And to fill the gap, it would seem that AAA open source and Indie content is nigh upon us. I am doing my part to help make that happen, are you?
If they didn't care, they'd be ignoring a market for tens of millions of additional units on which they could be putting their OS...
I think you forgot that Google's business model is selling search terms.
He didn't say "phones" he said "iOS devices" which the iPod an iPad both certainly are.
As we both know, iOS is not an operating system, and neither is Android. Both are just skins for an operating system. So if you insist on lumping together phones with non-phones, which is essentially the entire share that BSD has these days, it would only be fair to consider the entire share that Linux has. Which would include DSL routers among other things. Then where do you suppose iOS/BSD sits? Right.
Hey, you Apple fans really should stop trying to compare music players to phones. It makes you sound like... cultists.
The question is, why do you care about whether iOS or Android is "winning?"
Easy. Because Apple is unabashedly evil and proud of it, whereas Google still has a few shreds of decency left.
Why? Because my phone was crappy? I'm not sure why that's so inconceivable to you--it certainly happened, and a quick Google search shows that it happened to others. For the other guy who suggested that I should have bought a Nexus (on a crappy carrier, no less) the Nexus One also has reports of locking up.
You claimed your phone was locking up. Could you please provide details?
Actually iOS ships on more devices than Android.
What makes you think Google cares how many music players ship?
Fast forward last fall. The Droid was locking up constantly,
I will join the others in calling BS on you. If you're going to troll, please at least try to be a little more subtle.