I'm near enough on my 4th year with my Palm Pro which I also use for ANY/EVERYTHING and can't detect any noticable wear on my 'silky' bit.
However, I have also sharpen my stylus, which I guess must have some damage reducing effects.
If there were to release their modifications back into the open-source community, could it be with the purpose of making linux more secure against everybody else, but leaving opening up the typical NSA backdoor for themselves.
We wouldn't allow a known theif to replace the locks on your doors with their own self-created brand.
Another subject that tackles my mind, is the possibility that software companies opposed to linux could have plants working on projects vital to the future success of linux, ready to strike with damaging code that hits the news/media big time and making potential newcomers shy away. But thats my paranoid side.
China jailed some guy who used the internet for what they consider bad things against their goverment. (Sharing his own views)
When you look at now GPL projects develop, what would happen to those who tried to release additions to project which the PRC wished to keep as their own and promote as home-grown ?
Just like how they have an underground of political activists, they could end up with an underground of GPL project coder who simply want to share their contributions.
The PRC is more fitting to a BSD type license were they could keep their developments to themselves.
I have fond memories of working those nasty beasts becuase it was the only internal memory that could be performed. Me and my ex-PC World workers voiced our concerns two years ago about their blocked ears, but they remained waxed out.
They always bought the cheapest parts that somebody else wanted, such as 4MB modules and i586 60's, 90's, 120's and 150's.
I remember many a happy time taking a hammer and screwdriver to their motherboards so that our customers didn't have to wait another 2 weeks having the system looked at for the 7th time.
Their bundled software always contained old discontinued crap that would die if the user attempted to install something more useful. (Removing MWave from their systems was a registry nightmare that discredited IBM's software)
I remember laughing in the face of their european operations manager a couple years ago, when he told me they would be number 1. I told him the reasons that wasn't gonna happen so he flew in their chief design/support technician from Holland for a meeting (great guy and I wish him to best of luck as he was too good to be there), but his hands were tied by lapless suits with no business sense.
I'm gonna stop now (As bitter as I am about them) because I'm now using and supporting Dell's which I consider just as bad.
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I'm near enough on my 4th year with my Palm Pro which I also use for ANY/EVERYTHING and can't detect any noticable wear on my 'silky' bit.
However, I have also sharpen my stylus, which I guess must have some damage reducing effects.
If there were to release their modifications back into the open-source community, could it be with the purpose of making linux more secure against everybody else, but leaving opening up the typical NSA backdoor for themselves.
We wouldn't allow a known theif to replace the locks on your doors with their own self-created brand.
Another subject that tackles my mind, is the possibility that software companies opposed to linux could have plants working on projects vital to the future success of linux, ready to strike with damaging code that hits the news/media big time and making potential newcomers shy away.
But thats my paranoid side.
China jailed some guy who used the internet for what they consider bad things against their goverment. (Sharing his own views)
When you look at now GPL projects develop, what would happen to those who tried to release additions to project which the PRC wished to keep as their own and promote as home-grown ?
Just like how they have an underground of political activists, they could end up with an underground of GPL project coder who simply want to share their contributions.
The PRC is more fitting to a BSD type license were they could keep their developments to themselves.
I have fond memories of working those nasty beasts becuase it was the only internal memory that could be performed. Me and my ex-PC World workers voiced our concerns two years ago about their blocked ears, but they remained waxed out.
They always bought the cheapest parts that somebody else wanted, such as 4MB modules and i586 60's, 90's, 120's and 150's.
I remember many a happy time taking a hammer and screwdriver to their motherboards so that our customers didn't have to wait another 2 weeks having the system looked at for the 7th time.
Their bundled software always contained old discontinued crap that would die if the user attempted to install something more useful.
(Removing MWave from their systems was a registry nightmare that discredited IBM's software)
I remember laughing in the face of their european operations manager a couple years ago, when he told me they would be number 1. I told him the reasons that wasn't gonna happen so he flew in their chief design/support technician from Holland for a meeting (great guy and I wish him to best of luck as he was too good to be there), but his hands were tied by lapless suits with no business sense.
I'm gonna stop now (As bitter as I am about them) because I'm now using and supporting Dell's which I consider just as bad.