Android never was open source. It did just look like it would be, to trick some into it, who you will see below, defending more the respect for their decisions than Android.;)
And now Google shows its real face, regarding this.
Now I'm happy I didn't jump on that train, and chose Symbian (although still pretty crappy) as the main platform.
P.S.: Don't ask a free-thinking developer about the iPhone, if you wanna keep your head.;)
I don't understand the point in shutting down at all. Ok, when I sleep, and it's not a server, and it has no work to do, then i will really shut it down. But I adapted that trick, where you not really shut down, but reboot, and then immediately hibernate. In the morning, I usually switch the computer on, and then go to to toilet. So from my perspective, even if I only have to pee, it's always instant-on. During the day, I would never switch it off. It has work to do anyway.
Actually there is a relationship. It's called a "marketing deal". Phoenix and Microsoft promote their work in combination, expecting "bigger than the sum of its parts" effect out of it. Apparently it worked, seeing how some people here think it's really great that an OS boots in freakin' 10 seconds. When Coreboot with Linux does it literally in 3.
No it's a joke! As another poster mentioned, coreboot does it in 3!! And what crazy person would install Windows 7 on a in-car system? What for? So you can brag about the giant graphics card, cooling system and storage you need to do that?
...that those companies usually did not intend to break the license in a bad way. After all there's next to no cost in doing it the right way.
So please contact them in a friendly way, and remind them that the rules to get this software for free, is that you have to continue letting others getting it for free. In case of the GPL, even if you modified it. If they don't want that, which is also OK, they have to use another, possibly commercial, product. Or perhaps BSD (which, when you look at Windows, works also well). But remind them, that the reason they can actually get it free, is that others gave their code away for free. If everybody would do it like them, and not give away the code, then nobody, including themselves, could get any free software anymore.
Only if they then ignore you, and deliberately continue to do it, sue the hell outta them with no mercy whatsoever.
Sun Tzu already recommended this strategy in the 6th century BC, in his book "The Art Of War".
Sad, how Mexico now slowly also approaches US conditions. But I thought the "drug war" excuse was gone... So what is it now? Terrorists from the north? Cheney with full tank armor plating around his wheelchair of doom, going wild, shooting rockets, and harassing constitutional documents, in Tijuana?
Nobody with even a tiny bit of clue orders the censored version anyway.
As with all old "cut/censored" games and even movies here in Germany, you usually either order a uncut version from somewhere else (Austria, UK, etc.), there is a patch to restore cut content, or you simply pull a English version off the net. Sometimes people even recombine a English game with German speech and text.
Game developers are aware of that, and very often, even in German versions, the Swastika-Files are still there, and you just have to patch the EXE or something similarly small.
Problem is: Microsoft specifically targets optimization for total retards. The dumber, the more support they get.
That is why Windows & Office are so hard to use and hated by normal people. Because they went way past "Sometimes simplification optimizes efficiency", to the land of "If you start thinking yourself, I'll slap you with the Clippy of non-usability!". The goal of efficiency for ALL users, got replaced by the goal of simplification, which really only helps and even fosters the dumbest part of the target group. (AOL, for example, did similar things.)
This results in the ribbon being a very half-assed solution. Badly imitating the Lotus WordPro InfoBox (which was a properties box for the state of the current selection/paragraph/page/etc, and allowed live changes, and storing them in a style class.)
Call me, when Microsoft surpasses the InfoBox. And when Mozilla surpasses even that! (Because only then have they left the shadows of imitation. If they want to become leaders, they actually have to lead!)
Don't get me wrong. I love Firefox, am using Linux right now, and could never go back. But this is the "imitation, not innovation" I'm always ranting about, and that I always get modded down for, right there!
Why can't they for once do something new. Something groundbreaking. Something that makes sense. A killer feature. Instead it all too often looks like cherry-picking the most hated "features" from Microsoft (who obviously always had it from someone else), and implementing them badly. Until now, Firefox was the cool exception of this rule.
The worst offenders are still KDE and Gnome, for making their UIs and functionality partially virtually indistinguishable from Windows (even those stupidities like the new Vista start menu are there!), and OpenOffice which recently also imitated the MS Office ribbon, and before that, tried very hard to become more MS Office like.
The big problem is: As long as we keep staying in the shadow of others, that is where we force ourselves to be. I think this is the number one reason we still don't have the Year of Linux on the Desktop: Personal insecurity in the leaders of those projects, to have their own grand vision, and to strongly stand behind their view of reality.
So please, to all you open source developers out there: Stop caring what *everybody* thinks of you! STOP IT! Inform yourself, set your target, and proudly keep going in your direction, still listening to things that make sense, but not letting them throw you off of your things, when *you* know that they make sense!
You forgot, that the actual number of privately visibly bought Microsoft products is close to zero. People either bought it with their computer, or it's bought in a company with a PHB management.
I mean, I have only twice ever heard of someone buying MS software. Once, when someone bought Vista. I ended the friendship, because he thought it would be the greatest OS, and that MS is a nice company. And the other time, it was some crazy beloved employee of the boss, who hat way too much money, and bought every software ever. Even Linux and other open source stuff. He had 4 mobile phones always with him, and even more at home. Needles to say, he was... *cuckoo*.
Everyone else pulls the stuff off a torrent net, or asks a friend to do it.
So actually they are not as successful as you make it sound. (Still too much though.)
Terms should not rely on typography. And the case... what's whit that? You should learn to back your arguments with something, so you can be taken seriously.:)
You can hold either of this stuff in your bare hands and not have any ill effects.
Boy to people always forget the fourth dimension. The question is *how long* you can do that, and *how strong* the effects will be.
Without time, I could say that I can hold my hand into fire. (For some milliseconds.)
The problem with Uranium is that it is a toxic heavy metal, and like other toxic heavy metals (lead, thorium) it will deposit in your internal organs, build up and eventually kill you.
The thing is, that normal software life should go like this:
(The *second* number is the one, that you would use as the 1 in 1.0. the first one is one level higher. More like a new product.) 1.0.0: First good release. here we go. 1.0.9: OK, now it's actually stable and reasonably bug-free. 1.1.x: Add a big function. 1.x.1: Fix some bugs, tweak some things. 1.9.x: Oh boy, this is starting to get messy, let's not develop this anymore, just patch it, and in parallel start a total rewrite. 1.9.9: Allright, the rewrite is done, let's make this the last patch set. GOTO 1.0.0: Yay, all new, completely redesigned interior, let's go!
This goes no as long as there is a purpose for the software.
The problems start, when someone drags one "product" on for too long, without starting the complete rewrite. Examples of what that results in, are Windows ME, and unfortunately (in my eyes) the current Linux kernel. But also unfortunately, I guess that a complete redesign and review of the major principles of the kernel, and all its architecture, is far beyond the abilities of the open source community, and that that is the cause for the problems.
I hope they built them in a way, that will avoid them switching on, while touching anything while not being in your ear. Like dangling on your chest, touching your arm or something hanging in front of you, etc. Oh, and please let them also not use energy to detect touches, because else even non-triggering touches could use up your batteries.
What you call "black pudding" is apparently similar to the German "Blutwurst" (literally "blood sausage"). And there is a variant that is meant to be broiled. If you get offered it, try it. Opposite to what you might think it very tasty, and goes well with boiled potatoes (topped with parsley and butter) and a endive salad (with a bit of mustard in cream, oil and vinegar as a dressing).
We ate it traditionally when we were kids and were on vacation at my Luxemburgish grandma's house. Only some years later did we learn that it was "Blutwurst". We didn't stop eating it.:)
Are they going to go to war with my country? Or is my country going to expel me? (And the thousand others who are also doing it.)
I don't think so.
So nothing is going to happen. The foreign minister is going to demand me to be punished. My foreign minister will laugh into his face. Their head of state will protest. My head of state will laugh in his face. Harder. Their state will declare us "evil" We well laugh even harder at the insanity of a crazy state. People will forget it. The end.
Or would they have been progressed at a far faster rate, because the progress would have been based on competition instead of an arbitrary expected development?
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...it blotted out before the last word.
But I still agree. ;)
Android never was open source. It did just look like it would be, to trick some into it, who you will see below, defending more the respect for their decisions than Android. ;)
And now Google shows its real face, regarding this.
Now I'm happy I didn't jump on that train, and chose Symbian (although still pretty crappy) as the main platform.
P.S.: Don't ask a free-thinking developer about the iPhone, if you wanna keep your head. ;)
I don't understand the point in shutting down at all. Ok, when I sleep, and it's not a server, and it has no work to do, then i will really shut it down. But I adapted that trick, where you not really shut down, but reboot, and then immediately hibernate. In the morning, I usually switch the computer on, and then go to to toilet. So from my perspective, even if I only have to pee, it's always instant-on. During the day, I would never switch it off. It has work to do anyway.
Actually there is a relationship. It's called a "marketing deal". Phoenix and Microsoft promote their work in combination, expecting "bigger than the sum of its parts" effect out of it.
Apparently it worked, seeing how some people here think it's really great that an OS boots in freakin' 10 seconds. When Coreboot with Linux does it literally in 3.
No it's a joke! As another poster mentioned, coreboot does it in 3!! And what crazy person would install Windows 7 on a in-car system? What for? So you can brag about the giant graphics card, cooling system and storage you need to do that?
...that those companies usually did not intend to break the license in a bad way. After all there's next to no cost in doing it the right way.
So please contact them in a friendly way, and remind them that the rules to get this software for free, is that you have to continue letting others getting it for free. In case of the GPL, even if you modified it. If they don't want that, which is also OK, they have to use another, possibly commercial, product. Or perhaps BSD (which, when you look at Windows, works also well).
But remind them, that the reason they can actually get it free, is that others gave their code away for free. If everybody would do it like them, and not give away the code, then nobody, including themselves, could get any free software anymore.
Only if they then ignore you, and deliberately continue to do it, sue the hell outta them with no mercy whatsoever.
Sun Tzu already recommended this strategy in the 6th century BC, in his book "The Art Of War".
Sad, how Mexico now slowly also approaches US conditions. But I thought the "drug war" excuse was gone... So what is it now? Terrorists from the north? Cheney with full tank armor plating around his wheelchair of doom, going wild, shooting rockets, and harassing constitutional documents, in Tijuana?
Nobody with even a tiny bit of clue orders the censored version anyway.
As with all old "cut/censored" games and even movies here in Germany, you usually either order a uncut version from somewhere else (Austria, UK, etc.), there is a patch to restore cut content, or you simply pull a English version off the net. Sometimes people even recombine a English game with German speech and text.
Game developers are aware of that, and very often, even in German versions, the Swastika-Files are still there, and you just have to patch the EXE or something similarly small.
So the whole thing is a non-issue here.
Problem is: Microsoft specifically targets optimization for total retards. The dumber, the more support they get.
That is why Windows & Office are so hard to use and hated by normal people. Because they went way past "Sometimes simplification optimizes efficiency", to the land of "If you start thinking yourself, I'll slap you with the Clippy of non-usability!".
The goal of efficiency for ALL users, got replaced by the goal of simplification, which really only helps and even fosters the dumbest part of the target group.
(AOL, for example, did similar things.)
This results in the ribbon being a very half-assed solution. Badly imitating the Lotus WordPro InfoBox (which was a properties box for the state of the current selection/paragraph/page/etc, and allowed live changes, and storing them in a style class.)
Call me, when Microsoft surpasses the InfoBox. And when Mozilla surpasses even that! (Because only then have they left the shadows of imitation. If they want to become leaders, they actually have to lead!)
Don't get me wrong. I love Firefox, am using Linux right now, and could never go back. But this is the "imitation, not innovation" I'm always ranting about, and that I always get modded down for, right there!
Why can't they for once do something new. Something groundbreaking. Something that makes sense. A killer feature.
Instead it all too often looks like cherry-picking the most hated "features" from Microsoft (who obviously always had it from someone else), and implementing them badly.
Until now, Firefox was the cool exception of this rule.
The worst offenders are still KDE and Gnome, for making their UIs and functionality partially virtually indistinguishable from Windows (even those stupidities like the new Vista start menu are there!), and OpenOffice which recently also imitated the MS Office ribbon, and before that, tried very hard to become more MS Office like.
The big problem is: As long as we keep staying in the shadow of others, that is where we force ourselves to be. I think this is the number one reason we still don't have the Year of Linux on the Desktop: Personal insecurity in the leaders of those projects, to have their own grand vision, and to strongly stand behind their view of reality.
So please, to all you open source developers out there: Stop caring what *everybody* thinks of you! STOP IT! Inform yourself, set your target, and proudly keep going in your direction, still listening to things that make sense, but not letting them throw you off of your things, when *you* know that they make sense!
You forgot, that the actual number of privately visibly bought Microsoft products is close to zero.
People either bought it with their computer, or it's bought in a company with a PHB management.
I mean, I have only twice ever heard of someone buying MS software. Once, when someone bought Vista. I ended the friendship, because he thought it would be the greatest OS, and that MS is a nice company. And the other time, it was some crazy beloved employee of the boss, who hat way too much money, and bought every software ever. Even Linux and other open source stuff. He had 4 mobile phones always with him, and even more at home. Needles to say, he was... *cuckoo*.
Everyone else pulls the stuff off a torrent net, or asks a friend to do it.
So actually they are not as successful as you make it sound. (Still too much though.)
Nah. What's with the plants around you. And if everyone is dead, there will be more food that you could possibly eat.
Well, counted by mass percentage, they might as well be.
Terms should not rely on typography. And the case... what's whit that? :)
You should learn to back your arguments with something, so you can be taken seriously.
You can hold either of this stuff in your bare hands and not have any ill effects.
Boy to people always forget the fourth dimension.
The question is *how long* you can do that, and *how strong* the effects will be.
Without time, I could say that I can hold my hand into fire. (For some milliseconds.)
The problem with Uranium is that it is a toxic heavy metal, and like other toxic heavy metals (lead, thorium) it will deposit in your internal organs, build up and eventually kill you.
Aaah... There's the (partial) answer. ;)
Ok then, but why is the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture (whatever that is) in any way useful? (Honest question.)
That everyone down that river now constantly shits his pants, instead of losing hair, and that that makes them die even quicker. :P
The thing is, that normal software life should go like this:
(The *second* number is the one, that you would use as the 1 in 1.0. the first one is one level higher. More like a new product.)
1.0.0: First good release. here we go.
1.0.9: OK, now it's actually stable and reasonably bug-free.
1.1.x: Add a big function.
1.x.1: Fix some bugs, tweak some things.
1.9.x: Oh boy, this is starting to get messy, let's not develop this anymore, just patch it, and in parallel start a total rewrite.
1.9.9: Allright, the rewrite is done, let's make this the last patch set.
GOTO 1.0.0: Yay, all new, completely redesigned interior, let's go!
This goes no as long as there is a purpose for the software.
The problems start, when someone drags one "product" on for too long, without starting the complete rewrite. Examples of what that results in, are Windows ME, and unfortunately (in my eyes) the current Linux kernel.
But also unfortunately, I guess that a complete redesign and review of the major principles of the kernel, and all its architecture, is far beyond the abilities of the open source community, and that that is the cause for the problems.
...it tries to imitate Windows. And badly too.
*ducks*
*runs away*
*hides*
*buys nuclear defense system*
Can I then ask, what must have happened in one's life, that he considers that to be "fun"? ;)
I hope they built them in a way, that will avoid them switching on, while touching anything while not being in your ear. Like dangling on your chest, touching your arm or something hanging in front of you, etc.
Oh, and please let them also not use energy to detect touches, because else even non-triggering touches could use up your batteries.
What you call "black pudding" is apparently similar to the German "Blutwurst" (literally "blood sausage"). And there is a variant that is meant to be broiled. If you get offered it, try it. Opposite to what you might think it very tasty, and goes well with boiled potatoes (topped with parsley and butter) and a endive salad (with a bit of mustard in cream, oil and vinegar as a dressing).
We ate it traditionally when we were kids and were on vacation at my Luxemburgish grandma's house. Only some years later did we learn that it was "Blutwurst". We didn't stop eating it. :)
Are they going to go to war with my country?
Or is my country going to expel me? (And the thousand others who are also doing it.)
I don't think so.
So nothing is going to happen. The foreign minister is going to demand me to be punished.
My foreign minister will laugh into his face.
Their head of state will protest.
My head of state will laugh in his face. Harder.
Their state will declare us "evil"
We well laugh even harder at the insanity of a crazy state.
People will forget it.
The end.
Or would they have been progressed at a far faster rate, because the progress would have been based on competition instead of an arbitrary expected development?
Oh, besides: Mass-airdropping cheap satellite-routers in cities will not be possible to prevent anyway.