Hard to keep tabs on government when the lazy and the idiots keep electing people like Reid, Pilossi, GWB, Obama, and Santorum.
So your response is to... sit back and whine?
There was a recent study that showed that of the government programs designed to help people get jobs, the only real jobs those programs actually helped with were for the people running the programs.
It has even been questioned how much this killed Meego development in early stages.
No impact, I imagine. There were Xorg drivers for PowerVR, at least on ARM. But MeeGo wasn't being pushed on their mobile chips with the PowerVR GPU, only on ones backed by their own IGP.
Nokia did far, far more to kill MeeGo than PowerVR ever did.
You seriously don't see what is bad about a million different programmers having to write the same, trivial code over and over and over again?
No, I don't see why he's bitching about the license on something that he, admittedly, could write in a few days and release under a more permissive license.
GPL generally makes code that will die in a hole somewhere because no one wants to work for free unless they are fine living in their parents basement.
So they only do the right then when legally forced to?
Or they do it when they know everyone is in it together and no one's going to be holding back some "secret sauce." Incidentally, they release the only fully open source GPU driver when everyone else holds it close.
Congratulations, you missed the point of CentOS, or rather, RHEL. RHEL/CentOS isn't supposed to be bleeding edge and full of fancy features. It's designed to work, being secure and stable for many years on end.
You did know that CentOS is basically a 1:1 open source release of RHEL, right?
Well, they couldn't revoke what was already out there. They could, however, close the source for all future revisions regardless of who (if anyone) contributed. The same is possible with GPL licensed projects, given copyright assignment.
If I want to use a GPL library that (for example) has nice string parsing I have to publish the code to my entire multi-million dollar software project because of that one small component that I could write in a few days.
Then write it. I fail to see what you're bitching about, other than to bitch that you can't jack someone else's code.
Microsoft cares about loyalty to their own products. They will never exclude them, and will always give them an advantage. But they will support things if they are forced to by the market, which is damn near miraculous given how hard Microsoft has tried (and is trying) to destroy them.
We humans are supposed to be smart enough to learn not only from our own mistakes, but the mistakes of others too, and not repeat them stupidly.
The irony being that despite this, the Chinese pollute like mad despite having repeated examples worldwide of what happens when you allow industry to dump shit just anywhere they want. They can look at the history of virtually every major country from the US to Japan, the UK, etc.
Sadly, the people of China feel the brunt of its effects but cannot complain. The CCP will reap what they have allowed industry to sew.
HDMI supports HDCP but it is not mandatory. That said, this is only the video portion of HDMI which is signal compatible with DVI. There are no DRM concerns here, they are simply using a commonly available socket.
A vanilla version compiled for ARMv6 will run, yes. Those are, of course, pre-prepped images ready to dump straight to an SD card and boot. There is nothing terribly fancy going on here as Fedora and Ubuntu run on the device readily, once you toss in the firmware blob for the GPU and the driver packages (just like any other distro.)
At which point you get everything available to any common Linux platform.
Whereas with Android you get a platform that shares nothing but a kernel with the rest of the world, using a custom graphics API, custom libc, wonky filesystem, and a heavy dependency on Java. Let alone the lack of a package manager and repository to back it with.
Possibly, but it'll be slow as hell unless it includes drivers for the GPU which, very often, if it runs Android to start then Xorg compatible drivers will be nigh upon impossible to actually get.
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I'm disappointed if that's how it's actually going to work. I guess Apple hasn't gotten resolution-independent UI scaling down either.
So your response is to... sit back and whine?
Nice claim, now back it up.
Then be a goddamn citizen and start keeping tabs on your government.
Well, that's why we pay taxes, right? Or are you suggesting something else?
Bullshit. You're saying the only purpose of government is to give money to the lazy?
What about public infrastructure?
Good thing RMS has never done as much.
Instead, we've gotten the other extreme put into legislation, with the same entities demanding even more extreme legislation.
Such monitors better become available soon. I'm annoyed that my 24" monitor has a fraction of the resolution of the iPad 3.
For 120 days, at which point you have to redo the signature. Oh, and you can only give it to a handful of people for the same amount of time.
Yup. Who were they to whine that suddenly the express version was extremely limited in how the software made with it could be distributed!
No impact, I imagine. There were Xorg drivers for PowerVR, at least on ARM. But MeeGo wasn't being pushed on their mobile chips with the PowerVR GPU, only on ones backed by their own IGP.
Nokia did far, far more to kill MeeGo than PowerVR ever did.
No, I don't see why he's bitching about the license on something that he, admittedly, could write in a few days and release under a more permissive license.
This is both false and you being an outright ass.
Or they do it when they know everyone is in it together and no one's going to be holding back some "secret sauce." Incidentally, they release the only fully open source GPU driver when everyone else holds it close.
s/open source/subscription-free/
Congratulations, you missed the point of CentOS, or rather, RHEL. RHEL/CentOS isn't supposed to be bleeding edge and full of fancy features. It's designed to work, being secure and stable for many years on end.
You did know that CentOS is basically a 1:1 open source release of RHEL, right?
Bitch incessantly and post as Anonymous Cowards on Slashdot?
Well, they couldn't revoke what was already out there. They could, however, close the source for all future revisions regardless of who (if anyone) contributed. The same is possible with GPL licensed projects, given copyright assignment.
Then write it. I fail to see what you're bitching about, other than to bitch that you can't jack someone else's code.
Microsoft cares about loyalty to their own products. They will never exclude them, and will always give them an advantage. But they will support things if they are forced to by the market, which is damn near miraculous given how hard Microsoft has tried (and is trying) to destroy them.
It's not UEFI that your system is spending 5 minutes rebooting.
I'll believe what you say when I see an ARM tablet running Windows 8 booting Fedora directly.
Given that virtually ALL hardware is "MS-spec" hardware, this is a moot point too argument.
The irony being that despite this, the Chinese pollute like mad despite having repeated examples worldwide of what happens when you allow industry to dump shit just anywhere they want. They can look at the history of virtually every major country from the US to Japan, the UK, etc.
Sadly, the people of China feel the brunt of its effects but cannot complain. The CCP will reap what they have allowed industry to sew.
HDMI supports HDCP but it is not mandatory. That said, this is only the video portion of HDMI which is signal compatible with DVI. There are no DRM concerns here, they are simply using a commonly available socket.
A vanilla version compiled for ARMv6 will run, yes. Those are, of course, pre-prepped images ready to dump straight to an SD card and boot. There is nothing terribly fancy going on here as Fedora and Ubuntu run on the device readily, once you toss in the firmware blob for the GPU and the driver packages (just like any other distro.)
At which point you get everything available to any common Linux platform.
Whereas with Android you get a platform that shares nothing but a kernel with the rest of the world, using a custom graphics API, custom libc, wonky filesystem, and a heavy dependency on Java. Let alone the lack of a package manager and repository to back it with.
Possibly, but it'll be slow as hell unless it includes drivers for the GPU which, very often, if it runs Android to start then Xorg compatible drivers will be nigh upon impossible to actually get.
Android? Better than Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu/etc?
You're either a fanboy, a Google employee, or utterly unfamiliar with how limiting and inflexible the Android platform is.
FTFY.