In many cases, providing specs that are clean enough to be published externally is as expensive as providing open source drivers and has a lower return.
I've spent a fair bit of time over the past years talking to manufacturers about supporting open source (FreeBSD specifically, but also in general) and I hear the same thing: they need customers to tell them that they want it to be able to devote any funding to it. This is easy for server stuff, as it's easy to produce customers who are going to say 'we want to buy 10,000 new machines this month that have 10Gig ethernet controllers with in-tree drivers'. It's much harder to find people saying the same thing about mobile hardware. No one refuses to buy an Android handset or tablet because it has blob drivers, for example. It's getting slightly easier with GPUs, because customers buying them for compute clusters want open source drivers so that they can verify correctness in certain code paths.
You retain the copyright on them, you grant them a license. Facebook doesn't own your photographs, just the right to do whatever thy want to them. Oh, and you only have to have left them public for a second for Facebook to transfer this license to a subsidiary, at which point the 'unless already shared' clause kicks in.
Because your privacy settings are defined on a scale that Facebook controls, separately to the T&Cs. If they want to sell something of yours, all that they have to do is change the definition of the 'private' setting to mean 'share only with people who pay money, or are on your authorised people list'.
The Facebook T&Cs grant more rights to Facebook than the contract I have with my publisher grants to them. They don't own that content in the strictest legal sense, but they can act as if they do in almost every way.
Are you trying to tell me, that if I upload my pictures to the service to publishes them to my contacts, then the service will have the right to publish those pictures to my contacts?
Yes. They also have the right to sell those pictures to anyone who wants to buy them, such as Starbucks for promotional material, or if you upload sexually explicit photos then they would be legally allowed to sell them to porn sites. The same applies to any music that you upload, along with any writings or other creative content.
Wrong comparison. I'm not sure how it works out in the US, but I just had a look at the iTunes store in the UK for TV. The first series I found that I actually watch was Sanctuary. This costs £2.49 per episode from iTunes. I currently subscribe to LoveFilm's unlimited rentals, 3-at-a-time plan for £13.27/month. I can easily get 6 disks in a week if I'm bored, 4 more plausibly. Sanctuary comes with 4 episodes per DVD. This means that I can watch the entire season for about the cost of 2 episodes from iTunes. Now, you may say that iTunes offers purchase not rental, but I very rarely want to watch something like that more than once, and even good TV shows rarely get put on more than 2-3 times, so even paying again to rent them next time I want to watch them it's cheaper from LoveFilm. Given that the iTunes downloads come with DRM, I'd also count them as rentals, since they prevent many of the things that I'd want to do with purchased content (e.g. format shifting) and can arbitrarily revoke my 'ownership' at any point in the future.
From living in Wales, I can tell you that being massively overweight does not deter a significant fraction of the population from walking around with almost not clothing.
I've seen it harm someone I knew when I was growing up. She was pregnant at 12 and never quite became well adjusted. That's not evidence, but neither are you.
If you saw someone get pregnant by seeing porn, then I know some religions that would be interested in talking to you. It seems more likely, however, tht you saw someone have their life destroyed by not receiving education about contraception by the time they reached puberty.
Even that probably won't give the desired results. The problem is finding children who haven't been exposed to pornography. Even in relatively prudish societies, children share porno mags...
In the UK, all of the carriers provide data-only sim-only plans. They can't tie the plan to a single device because they are not providing a device to tie it to. Don't US carriers do the same?
If your business model revolves around identifying what your customers want and then not providing it, then it's probably time to consider a new business model...
I somehow own two Dungeon Keeper CDs, both of which are scratched. I bought it again from GOG.com because the $3 they were charging was less valuable to me than the amount of effort required to clean the two disks enough to reconstruct the installer and make it work.
I mostly stopped buying games some time around 2003 because the copy protection became too irritating and games would often stop working just because I'd switched to a newer OS. I've bought more games through GoG since they launched (and spent more money) than I had done in the preceding 7-8 years. I actually still have half a dozen games that I haven't got around to playing yet, because they looked fun and were on special offer ($3 is less than a pint of beer: it's impulse-buy territory).
Yes, no one would suggest ZFS as the filesystem for your phone
Actually, some guys at Samsung would. They trimmed a lot of the optional features (made them optional at compile time, rather than run time), reduced the size of the ARC to 4MB, and got ZFS running reasonably well on a machine with 16MB of RAM. We're investigating bringing some of their changes into FreeBSD for ARM systems, but it's starting to look as if it would be one of those things where by the time it's done the hardware has improved to the point that it's no longer worthwhile.
If you want to try FreeBSD with ZFS, I recommend that you use the PC-BSD installer. This can set up a complete FreeBSD environment (with or without the extra PC-BSD stuff - I think the 'server' install is vanilla FreeBSD) on a ZFS root. Doing the same with the current version of the FreeBSD installer requires some manual intervention, which is not really fun for people who aren't experienced with FreeBSD. Or for anyone else, for that matter.
I've been using OSMAnd since I got my current phone, and it's so much more useful than Google Maps that comparing them is a joke. The map data (from OSM) has been better in every city I've visited. For example, visiting a friend in Paris, OSM had his building numbered and marked the bank and bakery nearby so it was trivial to find even without GPS. Google Maps just about had the roads labelled. In Brussels, the roads have three names: the one in French, the one in Dutch, and the one on Google Maps. The OSM data had all three. Oh, and the hotel I was staying in was labelled on OSM, while Google Maps thought it was about 100m away from where it really was. Looking for a tango class in Swansea, the building was labelled in OSM, but Google Maps didn't even show the road that it was on. In Cambridge, all of the college and university buildings and cycle paths are labelled on OSM, Google Maps just about manages to label the big university sites and the roads.
OSMand lets you download vector data, so it works fine with no network connection. I've got about 1GB of map data on my phone currently, covering England, Wales, Belgium and the north of France. It can do route finding either online or on the phone. The latter uses quite a lot of memory for longer routes (it's still marked as an experimental feature), but aside from that works very well. Getting to know my way around Cambridge was made very easy by having a navigation aid that understood all of the cycle routes.
You can get phones that take up to three SIMs simultaneously. If you're travelling between a small number of countries a lot then these are a good option.
If you're really a creationist who believes in 'microevolution' and not just a troll, then how do you account for ring species? They are observable cases of speciation due to evolutionary pressure in action, and with some you can easily nudge the descendants of an example member of one species into the other in a few generations.
I haven't used any Microsoft products for ages, but it's pretty hard to go through the day without visiting a web site that uses Google Analytics or Google Ads, or without sending me a YouTube link.
Someone steals your wallet, now they have all of that information. If the information is encrypted in the database and the key is the QR code then the person who steals your wallet also needs access to the database. If access to the database is controlled, then you need to be a paramedic who steals wallets to compromise the system.
Enforcement of this part of the license relies on the fact that the person distributing the proprietary software would also end up distributing the GPL'd software. They can only do this because they have been granted a license by the copyright holder, which can be revoked at any time if some set of conditions is not met. In this case, the condition is that you don't distribute it linked to something under a GPL-incompatible license. Even without the proprietary program counting as a derived work due to API usage, you still can't distribute the GPL'd library. You can, however, optionally open it on program launch if the user happens to have it installed...
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In many cases, providing specs that are clean enough to be published externally is as expensive as providing open source drivers and has a lower return.
I've spent a fair bit of time over the past years talking to manufacturers about supporting open source (FreeBSD specifically, but also in general) and I hear the same thing: they need customers to tell them that they want it to be able to devote any funding to it. This is easy for server stuff, as it's easy to produce customers who are going to say 'we want to buy 10,000 new machines this month that have 10Gig ethernet controllers with in-tree drivers'. It's much harder to find people saying the same thing about mobile hardware. No one refuses to buy an Android handset or tablet because it has blob drivers, for example. It's getting slightly easier with GPUs, because customers buying them for compute clusters want open source drivers so that they can verify correctness in certain code paths.
You retain the copyright on them, you grant them a license. Facebook doesn't own your photographs, just the right to do whatever thy want to them. Oh, and you only have to have left them public for a second for Facebook to transfer this license to a subsidiary, at which point the 'unless already shared' clause kicks in.
Because your privacy settings are defined on a scale that Facebook controls, separately to the T&Cs. If they want to sell something of yours, all that they have to do is change the definition of the 'private' setting to mean 'share only with people who pay money, or are on your authorised people list'.
The Facebook T&Cs grant more rights to Facebook than the contract I have with my publisher grants to them. They don't own that content in the strictest legal sense, but they can act as if they do in almost every way.
Are you trying to tell me, that if I upload my pictures to the service to publishes them to my contacts, then the service will have the right to publish those pictures to my contacts?
Yes. They also have the right to sell those pictures to anyone who wants to buy them, such as Starbucks for promotional material, or if you upload sexually explicit photos then they would be legally allowed to sell them to porn sites. The same applies to any music that you upload, along with any writings or other creative content.
Wrong comparison. I'm not sure how it works out in the US, but I just had a look at the iTunes store in the UK for TV. The first series I found that I actually watch was Sanctuary. This costs £2.49 per episode from iTunes. I currently subscribe to LoveFilm's unlimited rentals, 3-at-a-time plan for £13.27/month. I can easily get 6 disks in a week if I'm bored, 4 more plausibly. Sanctuary comes with 4 episodes per DVD. This means that I can watch the entire season for about the cost of 2 episodes from iTunes. Now, you may say that iTunes offers purchase not rental, but I very rarely want to watch something like that more than once, and even good TV shows rarely get put on more than 2-3 times, so even paying again to rent them next time I want to watch them it's cheaper from LoveFilm. Given that the iTunes downloads come with DRM, I'd also count them as rentals, since they prevent many of the things that I'd want to do with purchased content (e.g. format shifting) and can arbitrarily revoke my 'ownership' at any point in the future.
From living in Wales, I can tell you that being massively overweight does not deter a significant fraction of the population from walking around with almost not clothing.
I've seen it harm someone I knew when I was growing up. She was pregnant at 12 and never quite became well adjusted. That's not evidence, but neither are you.
If you saw someone get pregnant by seeing porn, then I know some religions that would be interested in talking to you. It seems more likely, however, tht you saw someone have their life destroyed by not receiving education about contraception by the time they reached puberty.
Even that probably won't give the desired results. The problem is finding children who haven't been exposed to pornography. Even in relatively prudish societies, children share porno mags...
In the UK, all of the carriers provide data-only sim-only plans. They can't tie the plan to a single device because they are not providing a device to tie it to. Don't US carriers do the same?
If your business model revolves around identifying what your customers want and then not providing it, then it's probably time to consider a new business model...
I somehow own two Dungeon Keeper CDs, both of which are scratched. I bought it again from GOG.com because the $3 they were charging was less valuable to me than the amount of effort required to clean the two disks enough to reconstruct the installer and make it work.
I mostly stopped buying games some time around 2003 because the copy protection became too irritating and games would often stop working just because I'd switched to a newer OS. I've bought more games through GoG since they launched (and spent more money) than I had done in the preceding 7-8 years. I actually still have half a dozen games that I haven't got around to playing yet, because they looked fun and were on special offer ($3 is less than a pint of beer: it's impulse-buy territory).
Yes, no one would suggest ZFS as the filesystem for your phone
Actually, some guys at Samsung would. They trimmed a lot of the optional features (made them optional at compile time, rather than run time), reduced the size of the ARC to 4MB, and got ZFS running reasonably well on a machine with 16MB of RAM. We're investigating bringing some of their changes into FreeBSD for ARM systems, but it's starting to look as if it would be one of those things where by the time it's done the hardware has improved to the point that it's no longer worthwhile.
If you want to try FreeBSD with ZFS, I recommend that you use the PC-BSD installer. This can set up a complete FreeBSD environment (with or without the extra PC-BSD stuff - I think the 'server' install is vanilla FreeBSD) on a ZFS root. Doing the same with the current version of the FreeBSD installer requires some manual intervention, which is not really fun for people who aren't experienced with FreeBSD. Or for anyone else, for that matter.
I've been using OSMAnd since I got my current phone, and it's so much more useful than Google Maps that comparing them is a joke. The map data (from OSM) has been better in every city I've visited. For example, visiting a friend in Paris, OSM had his building numbered and marked the bank and bakery nearby so it was trivial to find even without GPS. Google Maps just about had the roads labelled. In Brussels, the roads have three names: the one in French, the one in Dutch, and the one on Google Maps. The OSM data had all three. Oh, and the hotel I was staying in was labelled on OSM, while Google Maps thought it was about 100m away from where it really was. Looking for a tango class in Swansea, the building was labelled in OSM, but Google Maps didn't even show the road that it was on. In Cambridge, all of the college and university buildings and cycle paths are labelled on OSM, Google Maps just about manages to label the big university sites and the roads.
OSMand lets you download vector data, so it works fine with no network connection. I've got about 1GB of map data on my phone currently, covering England, Wales, Belgium and the north of France. It can do route finding either online or on the phone. The latter uses quite a lot of memory for longer routes (it's still marked as an experimental feature), but aside from that works very well. Getting to know my way around Cambridge was made very easy by having a navigation aid that understood all of the cycle routes.
You can get phones that take up to three SIMs simultaneously. If you're travelling between a small number of countries a lot then these are a good option.
I believe that they justified it with the symbol above the number 4 on their keyboards.
No problem. You supply the funding, and I'll have it done in approximately four billion years.
If you're really a creationist who believes in 'microevolution' and not just a troll, then how do you account for ring species? They are observable cases of speciation due to evolutionary pressure in action, and with some you can easily nudge the descendants of an example member of one species into the other in a few generations.
I haven't used any Microsoft products for ages, but it's pretty hard to go through the day without visiting a web site that uses Google Analytics or Google Ads, or without sending me a YouTube link.
Someone steals your wallet, now they have all of that information. If the information is encrypted in the database and the key is the QR code then the person who steals your wallet also needs access to the database. If access to the database is controlled, then you need to be a paramedic who steals wallets to compromise the system.
Why introduce a function call penalty unnecessarily?
Because he's using a C compiler that can't do inlining, like, uh, none of them.
Enforcement of this part of the license relies on the fact that the person distributing the proprietary software would also end up distributing the GPL'd software. They can only do this because they have been granted a license by the copyright holder, which can be revoked at any time if some set of conditions is not met. In this case, the condition is that you don't distribute it linked to something under a GPL-incompatible license. Even without the proprietary program counting as a derived work due to API usage, you still can't distribute the GPL'd library. You can, however, optionally open it on program launch if the user happens to have it installed...
And, it seems, the last two terms of the equation...