Marketing FUD. What part of GPLv3 is anti-business?
All of it, its viruslike nature that requires it to infect anything associated with it is why businesses want nothing to do with it. This is by design of your glorious leader RMS, it is intentional because he's a tree hugging hippie who forgets that someone has to actually work so his fat ass can eat.
Has Apple brought FreeBSD to a higher level? Nope. Have they profited massively from the free labour? Yep.
Seriously? You know absolutely nothing about this conversation do you?
The Apple kernel is in no way related to FreeBSD. Its a Mach kernel. A small portion of the FreeBSD Userland provides the 'unix' feel under the hood of OSX.
Apple did however contribute back FBSD's current USB stack. Contributed SMP code that removed the giant kernel lock, filesystem journaling came from darwin, superpages, dtrace support, ARM support, support for more than 16TB of ram, pure 64 bit support.
But heres the thing... BSD licensed people... give for free without silly virus like catches that come with GPL.
FreeBSD doesnt' EXPECT anything back, its not a false openness that really translates to 'If I show you mine, you have to show the entire world yours too!', BSD is a 'heres mine, enjoy, do whatever you want with it.'
Its the difference between giving and pretending to give with expectations on return.
You really have no clue. I haven't even listed the entire OSS projects that apple pretty much eats the maintenance costs for that you certainly benefit from, its not a short list.
You pretend to give, but what you really are doing is bartering for source code using something other than money then pretending to be on some holy God-sent quest of enlightenment. You're just a fake.
LGPL and GPL have succeeded in driving most businesses away from it due to fears of being sued by some asshole. That in and of itself is why GPL'd software is losing. You guys and your 'we're open... but only open in a way that benefits us from your work!' Its a faux openness.
Apple is going to have a hard time extinguishing something they don't own. Your statements are as retarded as saying Apple can extinguish GCC.
Its REALLY fucking hard to make slower binaries than GCC. I do not know ANY compiler on the planet that produces code as slow as GCC. You are sorely mistaken if you think GCC is something special in that respect.
Please explain how apple is going to destroy a project that they contribute to, but do not own. Are they going to invent a time machine that goes back and some how changes the license on existing code?
Not because it was less than useful for anything than your personal domain.
His tools are far from technically superior since they dont' do things required that the others do. Used them all, they have their place, they are not the end all of solutions, they in fact don't fit most situations once you dig under the surface just a bit.
He can do what the fuck ever he wants with his own code, even if its GPL'd. GPL'd code applies to people other than the copyright owner. You really need to get a clue.
Its well known in various climates conducive to mosquitos that what you eat has a direct effect on how badly you are attacked. What gets excreted from your sweat and skin oils attracts or repels mosquitos and its easy to tell if you pay any attention at all.
Want to get eaten alive? Eat a few bananas and then go walk around a mosquito ridden area the next day.
It amazes me it takes years for some scientist to reprint what I read in boys life 40 fucking years ago.
For reference, what your post tells others is that you started this Internet thing late and missed the era where Sun was one of the big boys in the server and workstation arenas.
Just because you were only around for their decline doesn't mean thats the way it always ways:)
As a regular user of Cygwin, I can honestly say GNU/windows is pretty awesome.
Are you kidding me? Cygwin tools are the buggiest, bloated, slowest piece of crap I've seen in a long time. The entire tool chain is crap produced by people who shouldn't be allowed to call themselves developers.
Use a native toolkit rather than that cygwin crap and you'll learn how its supposed to be done.
Most atheists are just tools who treat it as a religion themselves. I've met one maybe two atheists that weren't just as big of douches as someone like Jimmy Swaggart. Most of the rest are just as nut job 'I'm right you're wrong you must be like me' as any religion. They generally worship science. Worship is not the same as understanding it. Worshipping is 'steven hawking says X so X is absolutely true beyond any doubt because science!@$@%!@#^'
OSS will always have the same options as closed source and on occasion more
Not always, only sometimes.
Example #1: It is practically impossible for example to embed the GPL'd Linux kernel into a project with a non-GPL compatible license, such as closed source license.
Example #2: The Linux kernel can not embed direct ZFS support because GPL prevents such combination.
Pretending OSS software is magically different and better in every way just makes you look silly. There are many licensing options and OSS is too vague a term to use the way you want to use it.
This problem is known as priority inversion. Its a common concern in schedulers when critical functions run in their own threads. Its something that they should have known about and tested against. Or they could have used more traditional IO approaches and let the VxWorks IO system, which already has protection against priority inversion by design, do its job.
my wife should be able to look up a destination on her phone, and send it to the car's navigation system. there is ZERO reason we do not have this level of integration out there.
In 2014, cars with Apple's 'car iOS' crap will be able to do just that. It was discussed originally at the WWDC but the actual details are scattered around the web.
I presume someone will do the same with Android devices soon if not already. AppRadio perhaps.
Thats not the issue. If your spreadsheet is SO larger that on a MODERN CPU, its slow... you're doing it wrong.
You can make insanely complex, application like spreadsheets, without noticing 'recalc' time. By the time you get to noticing 'recalc' time, you've fucked up.
Caveat: OO.org is known to have some of the crappiest code in existence, so with the case of Calc, you don't have to make ridiculous spreadsheets to notice recalc time. GPU support won't fix the problem however as its not the math thats the issue, its the shitty logic code filled with stupid crap written by clueless devs that cause Calc to be so slow.
Or you can use AirPlay, which already works in my car, and I don't think it could get any easier than 'turn on ignition, phone links to car automatically'
The guy doesn't even know whats out there already.
Your tablet/phone, with tiny ass buttons designed to be used when you're focused exclusively on the tablet is an absolutely shitty device to use in a car. They are in fact a danger to you and everyone else on the road.
Car 'infotainment' (god I hate that word) devices are designed to be dealt with at a glance, without focusing on the device exclusively. No matter how clunky you think Honda's interface is... its 10 billion times better than your tablet interface after you plow into a tree because you couldn't hit the button without looking directly at the screen and precisesly hitting the right spot.
iPad/Android app developers in general have NO CLUE how to deal with the ergonomics of cars.
WHY do you NEED in car apps. You are supposed to be getting from one place to another. A GPS, some audio and a few other minor things are the only apps you actually should have access to in your car. You should not be able to run any random app just because you're too stupid to realize how dangerous what you are doing is.
I could ramble on for hours about why tablets as carputers are a bad idea.
Just because you think the car makers don't know what they are doing, doesn't make it true. Its your own ignorance thats the problem.
You do realize media centers running XBMC have AirPlay support already, right? And they actually support video and audio, where as this only supports audio.
I've had a Raspberry PI running XBMC with airplay support for at least a year, why would they want to downgrade to something that doesn't support video?
For the Linux fans out there, I've written up some instructions on how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a MagicPlay device.
... My RaspberryPI has AirPlay support... audio AND video...
Great that its a BSD licensed alternative, but being that non of my devices will ever support this protocol, but they all support AirPlay, this is going to have a hard time gaining traction until it does what AirPlay does. Until then its just another silly protocol to do what we already can do, and do it better than this.
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Marketing FUD. What part of GPLv3 is anti-business?
All of it, its viruslike nature that requires it to infect anything associated with it is why businesses want nothing to do with it. This is by design of your glorious leader RMS, it is intentional because he's a tree hugging hippie who forgets that someone has to actually work so his fat ass can eat.
Has Apple brought FreeBSD to a higher level? Nope. Have they profited massively from the free labour? Yep.
Seriously? You know absolutely nothing about this conversation do you?
The Apple kernel is in no way related to FreeBSD. Its a Mach kernel. A small portion of the FreeBSD Userland provides the 'unix' feel under the hood of OSX.
Apple did however contribute back FBSD's current USB stack. Contributed SMP code that removed the giant kernel lock, filesystem journaling came from darwin, superpages, dtrace support, ARM support, support for more than 16TB of ram, pure 64 bit support.
But heres the thing ... BSD licensed people ... give for free without silly virus like catches that come with GPL.
FreeBSD doesnt' EXPECT anything back, its not a false openness that really translates to 'If I show you mine, you have to show the entire world yours too!', BSD is a 'heres mine, enjoy, do whatever you want with it.'
Its the difference between giving and pretending to give with expectations on return.
You really have no clue. I haven't even listed the entire OSS projects that apple pretty much eats the maintenance costs for that you certainly benefit from, its not a short list.
You pretend to give, but what you really are doing is bartering for source code using something other than money then pretending to be on some holy God-sent quest of enlightenment. You're just a fake.
Uhm, Apple HAS moved to LLVM, an OS release ago.
LGPL and GPL have succeeded in driving most businesses away from it due to fears of being sued by some asshole. That in and of itself is why GPL'd software is losing. You guys and your 'we're open ... but only open in a way that benefits us from your work!' Its a faux openness.
Apple is going to have a hard time extinguishing something they don't own. Your statements are as retarded as saying Apple can extinguish GCC.
Its REALLY fucking hard to make slower binaries than GCC. I do not know ANY compiler on the planet that produces code as slow as GCC. You are sorely mistaken if you think GCC is something special in that respect.
Please explain how apple is going to destroy a project that they contribute to, but do not own. Are they going to invent a time machine that goes back and some how changes the license on existing code?
Right, thats why no one really uses his stuff.
Not because it was less than useful for anything than your personal domain.
His tools are far from technically superior since they dont' do things required that the others do. Used them all, they have their place, they are not the end all of solutions, they in fact don't fit most situations once you dig under the surface just a bit.
No it wouldn't, moron.
He can do what the fuck ever he wants with his own code, even if its GPL'd. GPL'd code applies to people other than the copyright owner. You really need to get a clue.
Its well known in various climates conducive to mosquitos that what you eat has a direct effect on how badly you are attacked. What gets excreted from your sweat and skin oils attracts or repels mosquitos and its easy to tell if you pay any attention at all.
Want to get eaten alive? Eat a few bananas and then go walk around a mosquito ridden area the next day.
It amazes me it takes years for some scientist to reprint what I read in boys life 40 fucking years ago.
You end up like California where the public votes for no taxes and a completely government provided existence ... then wonders why it fails to work.
Direct democracy is a really stupid idea.
Sun was in decline before slashdot existed. UID is irrelevant. Thanks for show that you too came to the party late.
No, when the black guy gets a seat in the boardroom, he still needs to wear a suit and tie, not a hoodie.
Depends on the board room. There are plenty of rich black fold wearing hoodies in the 'board rooms' of their businesses, such as record labels.
No they didn't force crusty old white men to wear hoodies, but when its run by like minded people, the rules change and hoodies are the norm.
For reference, what your post tells others is that you started this Internet thing late and missed the era where Sun was one of the big boys in the server and workstation arenas.
Just because you were only around for their decline doesn't mean thats the way it always ways :)
As a regular user of Cygwin, I can honestly say GNU/windows is pretty awesome.
Are you kidding me? Cygwin tools are the buggiest, bloated, slowest piece of crap I've seen in a long time. The entire tool chain is crap produced by people who shouldn't be allowed to call themselves developers.
Use a native toolkit rather than that cygwin crap and you'll learn how its supposed to be done.
Right, cause they weren't very recently fined like a son of a bitch and still under government watching when netbooks came out ...
Your conspiracy theory is absolutely silly considering they were being watched for just such behavior.
No one is a customer of the kernel development team.
And the line where you show that you utterly fail to get it.
So basically, you consider any deployment of US troops for ANY reason to be a major engagement?
You're retarded.
Most atheists are just tools who treat it as a religion themselves. I've met one maybe two atheists that weren't just as big of douches as someone like Jimmy Swaggart. Most of the rest are just as nut job 'I'm right you're wrong you must be like me' as any religion. They generally worship science. Worship is not the same as understanding it. Worshipping is 'steven hawking says X so X is absolutely true beyond any doubt because science!@$@%!@#^'
What magical fantasy world do you live in that has no leeches or profiteering middle men?
OSS will always have the same options as closed source and on occasion more
Not always, only sometimes.
Example #1: It is practically impossible for example to embed the GPL'd Linux kernel into a project with a non-GPL compatible license, such as closed source license.
Example #2: The Linux kernel can not embed direct ZFS support because GPL prevents such combination.
Pretending OSS software is magically different and better in every way just makes you look silly. There are many licensing options and OSS is too vague a term to use the way you want to use it.
Yea, they'll definitely want to let a snitch on one of the most secret things they own.
Russia doesn't want the snitch any more than anyone else does.
This problem is known as priority inversion. Its a common concern in schedulers when critical functions run in their own threads. Its something that they should have known about and tested against. Or they could have used more traditional IO approaches and let the VxWorks IO system, which already has protection against priority inversion by design, do its job.
... it works fine, what are you talking about?
You do realize that the lightening to oldstyle converter is active simulates the required missing pins, right?
my wife should be able to look up a destination on her phone, and send it to the car's navigation system. there is ZERO reason we do not have this level of integration out there.
In 2014, cars with Apple's 'car iOS' crap will be able to do just that. It was discussed originally at the WWDC but the actual details are scattered around the web.
I presume someone will do the same with Android devices soon if not already. AppRadio perhaps.
Thats not the issue. If your spreadsheet is SO larger that on a MODERN CPU, its slow ... you're doing it wrong.
You can make insanely complex, application like spreadsheets, without noticing 'recalc' time. By the time you get to noticing 'recalc' time, you've fucked up.
Caveat: OO.org is known to have some of the crappiest code in existence, so with the case of Calc, you don't have to make ridiculous spreadsheets to notice recalc time. GPU support won't fix the problem however as its not the math thats the issue, its the shitty logic code filled with stupid crap written by clueless devs that cause Calc to be so slow.
Or you can use AirPlay, which already works in my car, and I don't think it could get any easier than 'turn on ignition, phone links to car automatically'
The guy doesn't even know whats out there already.
Your tablet/phone, with tiny ass buttons designed to be used when you're focused exclusively on the tablet is an absolutely shitty device to use in a car. They are in fact a danger to you and everyone else on the road.
Car 'infotainment' (god I hate that word) devices are designed to be dealt with at a glance, without focusing on the device exclusively. No matter how clunky you think Honda's interface is ... its 10 billion times better than your tablet interface after you plow into a tree because you couldn't hit the button without looking directly at the screen and precisesly hitting the right spot.
iPad/Android app developers in general have NO CLUE how to deal with the ergonomics of cars.
WHY do you NEED in car apps. You are supposed to be getting from one place to another. A GPS, some audio and a few other minor things are the only apps you actually should have access to in your car. You should not be able to run any random app just because you're too stupid to realize how dangerous what you are doing is.
I could ramble on for hours about why tablets as carputers are a bad idea.
Just because you think the car makers don't know what they are doing, doesn't make it true. Its your own ignorance thats the problem.
You do realize media centers running XBMC have AirPlay support already, right? And they actually support video and audio, where as this only supports audio.
I've had a Raspberry PI running XBMC with airplay support for at least a year, why would they want to downgrade to something that doesn't support video?
For the Linux fans out there, I've written up some instructions on how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a MagicPlay device.
... My RaspberryPI has AirPlay support ... audio AND video ...
Great that its a BSD licensed alternative, but being that non of my devices will ever support this protocol, but they all support AirPlay, this is going to have a hard time gaining traction until it does what AirPlay does. Until then its just another silly protocol to do what we already can do, and do it better than this.