Even if every android phone ran the same stock version of android, they could still differentiate themselves with advertising, hardware features, and included apps.
Android seems like it followed the.com startup model: get marketshare, then try to make money somehow*. Well, now they have marketshare and all that "open" stuff they did to get it has come back like herpes. So now they're trying to gain some control back, stuff like "using compatibility as a club to make them do what we want". Requiring the default theme be included or a style guide seem pretty innocuous (and a rather good idea for everyone except the carriers but they have terrible judgement).
* Side note: If your answer is licensing the android app store and advertising, keep in mind that 2/3 of their mobile revenue came from iOS ads.
Even if you hate clang/llvm like Michelle Obama hates whitey, you should be glad that they're doing this. Passing your code through multiple compilers (and multiple OSs) helps to find bugs.
Google gave HTC a couple patents to countersue Apple. So far, Oracle is the only party suing them directly (at least over android -- they were sued over the linux scheduler a couple years ago).
Once upon a time two men wanted to get married. There was no law allowing them to get married, so they sued the (state) government. The (state) supreme court eventually decided that the lack of gay marriage violated the (state) constitution's equal protection clauses and ordered the (state) government to remedy that situation.
distro |distro|
noun ( pl. distros ) Computing
a distributor or distributed version, esp. of Linux software or of webzines: Android is a highly specialized distro of linux.
That said, Kodak also was instrumental in developing the digital camera, invented the *.psd image format (still by far the best quality image format you can get in terms of the dynamic range of colors you can record for any computer imaging data format) and put in the engineering effort to try and change with the times.
Not a particularly good analogy. More like that plumber stands around saying "oh well, nothing I can do about it" while the septic system backs up and covers said town in shit.
You can static link with LGPL code if you provide your.o object files.
If not the MPL, look at the CDDL. It's like GPL but on a per-file basis -- only the original files need be made available; any other files are not infected.
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Even if every android phone ran the same stock version of android, they could still differentiate themselves with advertising, hardware features, and included apps.
Android seems like it followed the .com startup model: get marketshare, then try to make money somehow*. Well, now they have marketshare and all that "open" stuff they did to get it has come back like herpes. So now they're trying to gain some control back, stuff like "using compatibility as a club to make them do what we want". Requiring the default theme be included or a style guide seem pretty innocuous (and a rather good idea for everyone except the carriers but they have terrible judgement).
* Side note: If your answer is licensing the android app store and advertising, keep in mind that 2/3 of their mobile revenue came from iOS ads.
Even if you hate clang/llvm like Michelle Obama hates whitey, you should be glad that they're doing this. Passing your code through multiple compilers (and multiple OSs) helps to find bugs.
Google gave HTC a couple patents to countersue Apple. So far, Oracle is the only party suing them directly (at least over android -- they were sued over the linux scheduler a couple years ago).
Once upon a time two men wanted to get married. There was no law allowing them to get married, so they sued the (state) government. The (state) supreme court eventually decided that the lack of gay marriage violated the (state) constitution's equal protection clauses and ordered the (state) government to remedy that situation.
I buggered an irish girl once. Said she had a fire crotch, she did. Aye, that she did. Course, I was supposin she only meant her quim hair was red.
Twasn't but a day later and me own crotch was on fire too!
Intel stopped focusing on ARM development when they sold XScale to Marvell.
not if they lose... and their ITC complaint against Apple and RIM hasn't been going to well for them.
They just needed to say the magic word (bing!) to triple their google gold.
Will it show my friends dick pics? :(
distro |distro|
noun ( pl. distros ) Computing
a distributor or distributed version, esp. of Linux software or of webzines: Android is a highly specialized distro of linux.
he also continued, "And if you could have three devices, well, let's just say that none of them will be a Dell."
$2 billion / 138 million taxpayers = $14/taxpayer. Of course, 49% don't actually pay income tax. And the top 1% paid 40%.
That said, Kodak also was instrumental in developing the digital camera, invented the *.psd image format (still by far the best quality image format you can get in terms of the dynamic range of colors you can record for any computer imaging data format) and put in the engineering effort to try and change with the times.
I tend to look at the low-rated reviews, too. Often, the reviewer is an idiot but there are also legitimate problems.
Not a particularly good analogy. More like that plumber stands around saying "oh well, nothing I can do about it" while the septic system backs up and covers said town in shit.
That explains France.
It really needs a breakout by state (or some other COLA) to begin to be useful.
See LGPL 2.1 section 6.a or LGPL 3.0 section 4.d.0.
If not the MPL, look at the CDDL. It's like GPL but on a per-file basis -- only the original files need be made available; any other files are not infected.
At least there's not a rope hanging from the ceiling.
It's a tablet running a custom version of android. AKA an "Android tablet"
I see a moderately interesting first post from a subscriber that managed to troll you by stepping outside the slashdot group think box.
If only he had posted "use /dev/null" (+5 funny) or "write it yourself" (+5 insightful). That never gets old.
He binged the news, that's why he didn't know.
Most popular Android tablet. If you ignore the Kindle fire.
throw on an adjective like "organic" and you do.