See I just have to LMAO at this one, as you DO realize you are using MPAA logic, yes?
No.
As I responded to the other troll over here, GPL is called Copyleft for a reason, and that's because its explicit purpose is to encourage copying and sharing. It was made necessary by efforts from others, such as theMPAA/RIAA etc to lock up the creative commons and reduce the right of end-users to own and copy their own digital data and tools.
All of this effort to conflate the GPL with restriction is propaganda and doublespeak of the highest order. It's interesting to see you repeating it.
Both act as if copying is stealing, both come up with these giant FUD scenarios of doom
The FUD's on the other foot.
GPL is called Copyleft for a reason, and that's because its explicit purpose is to encourage copying and sharing. It was made necessary by efforts from others, such as the RIAA etc to lock up the creative commons and reduce the right of end-users to own and copy their own digital data and tools.
All of this effort to conflate the GPL with restriction is propaganda and doublespeak of the highest order.
So it clearly is just people who have a different world view to yours.
That's an interesting way of saying "people who would take my work and disregard my goals while distributing it". I choose GPL for a reason...
Wrong, the ability to close it and make it unavailable is absolutely not a characteristic of permissive OSS licenses, that's just disingenuous fear-mongering,
BSD freedoms ARE lossy. There is BSD code in use by Microsoft and Apple that has been extended, closed and made unavailable to the community. That sort of makes BSD code long-term unsustainable.
I mean people who would violate the spirit and intent of the shared software that I and others have developed, by closing it and making it unavailable.
This is a practical necessity, given that patents and copyrights exist as an impediment to the type of knowledge sharing that allowed luminaries such as Isaac Newton to stand on the shoulders of giants.
It doesn't need to be King of everything to be successful does it?
Linux doesn't need to be king, but formats, APIs etc need to be free and open,
The cost to the world of closed formats is astonishing. I can only compare companies who exploit their customers through lockin to the type of thieves who would do $2000 damage to a car in order to steal the stereo and sell it for $100 .
Linux? How many decades has it been for Linux taking over the world's desktops?
Still waiting...
I'm not. I've been happily and professionally using it for more than a decade.
Linux is more than capable enough to be used on the desktop, but will never be selected for the role when there is an established monoculture locking people in.
Get rid of proprietary file formats and APIs, open the world to heterogeneous business computing and allow for real competition in the market, the way capitalism is supposed to work and you'll see a different result.
Valve's Gabe Newell calls Win8 a 'catastrophe,' wants Linux to thrive
The Valve founder started his response by saying Valve owes its success to the inherent openness of the PC as a platform, but going forward, the company will need to take an active part in "[making] sure there are open platforms."
Of course. Much better to damage cheaper, more expendable, replaceable components.
And of course, it's much better to talk about this detector issue than the 36 percent Of Fukushima kids who have abnormal thyroid growths. We don't want people to think there may be negative consequences to nuclear power.
1. "It is extremely rare to find cysts and thyroid nodules in children."
2. "This is an extremely large number of abnormalities to find in children."
3. "You would not expect abnormalities to appear so early — within the first year or so — therefore one can assume that they must have received a high dose of [radiation]."
4. "It is impossible to know, from what [officials in Japan] are saying, what these lesions are."
Dr. Helen Caldicott, pediatrician, about the implications of the study.
In Australia, we're being gouged by just about every private company that can sink its hooks into our wallets. We should be asking for more regulation, not less.
Check this out!
'Mr Levey said in its research Choice [magazine] discovered one Microsoft software development product that was more than $8500 cheaper in the US.
"It would be cheaper to pay someone's wage and fly them to the US and back twice, getting them to buy the software while they're there,” he said.'
Of course if their root key was compromised they're fucked, but that one is deep in a vault deep in the bowels of Microsoft and the only place it'd come out would be in a secure facility to sign a new signing key.
So should we start a dead pool to bet on how long it lasts uncompromised?
What odds are you prepared to offer that it'll still be intact after six months? A year? Two years? The lifespan of a well-made tablet?
Personally, I'd take somewhere around the 9 month mark. I'll be very surprised if it survives much longer than that.
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I can't help but wonder what Apple could make a modernized replica Apple II for.
It'd be funnier if Samsung made one.
Microsoft uses Burson Marsteller. They're very influential, and responsible for much of the big end of astrotuf and sock-puppetry.
http://www.jongreerconsulting.com/burson-marsteller-outed-as-microsofts-sock-puppet
http://www.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/astroturf?page=6
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2012/07/19/microsoft-hires-burson-marsteller-ceo.html
there'd be no such thing as a professional software developer; we'd all have to be monks doing it for free.
Rubbish.
We'd be paid a wage to develop software for companies and organisations that need it. Very few developers are employed writing retail products.
See I just have to LMAO at this one, as you DO realize you are using MPAA logic, yes?
No.
As I responded to the other troll over here, GPL is called Copyleft for a reason, and that's because its explicit purpose is to encourage copying and sharing. It was made necessary by efforts from others, such as theMPAA/RIAA etc to lock up the creative commons and reduce the right of end-users to own and copy their own digital data and tools.
All of this effort to conflate the GPL with restriction is propaganda and doublespeak of the highest order. It's interesting to see you repeating it.
I'll never understand why people whine so much that they have the inability to sell work they didn't do themselves without at a nominal restriction.
They can sell it if they like. They just can't stop anyone else selling it (or getting it for free).
The complainers are just overly entitled, greedy and can't handle capitalism when it works the way it's supposed to.
I see you're a BSD fan...
Both act as if copying is stealing, both come up with these giant FUD scenarios of doom
The FUD's on the other foot.
GPL is called Copyleft for a reason, and that's because its explicit purpose is to encourage copying and sharing. It was made necessary by efforts from others, such as the RIAA etc to lock up the creative commons and reduce the right of end-users to own and copy their own digital data and tools.
All of this effort to conflate the GPL with restriction is propaganda and doublespeak of the highest order.
So it clearly is just people who have a different world view to yours.
That's an interesting way of saying "people who would take my work and disregard my goals while distributing it". I choose GPL for a reason...
Wrong, the ability to close it and make it unavailable is absolutely not a characteristic of permissive OSS licenses, that's just disingenuous fear-mongering,
BSD freedoms ARE lossy. There is BSD code in use by Microsoft and Apple that has been extended, closed and made unavailable to the community. That sort of makes BSD code long-term unsustainable.
No.
I mean people who would violate the spirit and intent of the shared software that I and others have developed, by closing it and making it unavailable.
This is a practical necessity, given that patents and copyrights exist as an impediment to the type of knowledge sharing that allowed luminaries such as Isaac Newton to stand on the shoulders of giants.
It doesn't need to be King of everything to be successful does it?
Linux doesn't need to be king, but formats, APIs etc need to be free and open,
The cost to the world of closed formats is astonishing. I can only compare companies who exploit their customers through lockin to the type of thieves who would do $2000 damage to a car in order to steal the stereo and sell it for $100 .
Ok, so BSD protects software authors from lawyers while GPL protects software users from exploiters?
Because what is the alternatives?
Linux? How many decades has it been for Linux taking over the world's desktops?
Still waiting...
I'm not. I've been happily and professionally using it for more than a decade.
Linux is more than capable enough to be used on the desktop, but will never be selected for the role when there is an established monoculture locking people in.
Get rid of proprietary file formats and APIs, open the world to heterogeneous business computing and allow for real competition in the market, the way capitalism is supposed to work and you'll see a different result.
Free is great, but what you get for free (as far as games go) tends to be kind of.... well... un-polished, ugly, and kind of broken.
You mean, like Angry Birds?
I switched to Xfce (on Fedora) without even trying Gnome 3.
I switched to a fork of Gnome 3 that works and looks beautiful. Isn't it great when open source helps us users the way it's supposed to?
Something which is not going to happen.
They're already looking.
Call quality, reliabilty an stabilty have all fallen dramatically over the past few months. Just about everybody is pissed off with it.
Agreed.
That's the only sensible and ethical response to a company with such a long history of abuse of its customers.
Valve's Gabe Newell calls Win8 a 'catastrophe,' wants Linux to thrive
The Valve founder started his response by saying Valve owes its success to the inherent openness of the PC as a platform, but going forward, the company will need to take an active part in "[making] sure there are open platforms."
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/23315
Don't want to risk damaging them.
Of course. Much better to damage cheaper, more expendable, replaceable components.
And of course, it's much better to talk about this detector issue than the 36 percent Of Fukushima kids who have abnormal thyroid growths. We don't want people to think there may be negative consequences to nuclear power.
1. "It is extremely rare to find cysts and thyroid nodules in children."
2. "This is an extremely large number of abnormalities to find in children."
3. "You would not expect abnormalities to appear so early — within the first year or so — therefore one can assume that they must have received a high dose of [radiation]."
4. "It is impossible to know, from what [officials in Japan] are saying, what these lesions are."
Dr. Helen Caldicott, pediatrician, about the implications of the study.
http://www.businessinsider.com/fukushima-children-have-abnormal-thyroid-growths-2012-7
But if all those herds of boring iPhone users switched to Android, Android wouldn't be oh, so hip anymore!
They already are, and it never was.
Utilitarian maybe, but not hip.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Coke ad stamped on a human face — forever.
everybody else will get 4.1 in a year or so.
I doubt it - most good vendors and carriers are preparing for 4.1 rollouts already.
Even Telstra looks like they'll play ball, which is a remarkable achievement...
http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/mobile-phones/smartphones/
In Australia, we're being gouged by just about every private company that can sink its hooks into our wallets. We should be asking for more regulation, not less.
Check this out!
'Mr Levey said in its research Choice [magazine] discovered one Microsoft software development product that was more than $8500 cheaper in the US.
"It would be cheaper to pay someone's wage and fly them to the US and back twice, getting them to buy the software while they're there,” he said.'
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/downloads-its-cheaper-to-pay-a-wage-fly-to-the-us-and-back-twice-20120718-229in.html
Of course if their root key was compromised they're fucked, but that one is deep in a vault deep in the bowels of Microsoft and the only place it'd come out would be in a secure facility to sign a new signing key.
So should we start a dead pool to bet on how long it lasts uncompromised?
What odds are you prepared to offer that it'll still be intact after six months? A year? Two years? The lifespan of a well-made tablet?
Personally, I'd take somewhere around the 9 month mark. I'll be very surprised if it survives much longer than that.
This is the most concise explanation for Windows I have ever read.
Siri or something similar.
Yeah that'll work. Siri is wrong 38% of the time.
"Navigator to SiriShip; take us to the Cardassian Demilitarized Zone"
"Navigator to SiriShip; wtf, why am I surrounded by heavily armed Klingons?"