If you are going to write something from scratch, you are going to have to maintain it yourself anyway no matter if the source is open or not.
That is a very different situation from using an existing open project maintained by other people. The big advantage there is that other people have done and will do your work for you to some extent. You lose that by making a non-public fork.
I only wish the company would license the idea as well to established makers, so otherwise conventional laptops could gain the ability to easily become advanced phone screens, too.
"License"? I that here on Slashdot we wish that there were no patents, so that existing companies could just copy the idea more cheaply and put the inventor out of business?
The US versus Japan was nothing like "overwhelming force" for most of the war, it was two forces of similar strength fighting each other.
Japan had mostly lost by the time the nukes were dropped. They did not "win the war", they just ended it a little earlier than it would have ended otherwise.
What they tried to block was people going "lol this number looks sort of like the Tiananmen date if you squint your eyes and tilt your head". Nothing automatic about it, just a knee-jerk reaction to people making fun.
This actually seems like a pretty plausible analysis. Reddit's culture of liars and attention whores is naturally going to make it a much worse venue for this kind of thing.
No, Phoenix was an exercise in actually producing something people wanted to use, and it was massively successful at that, while the suite was a complete and utter failure at it.
The Mozilla devs, however, upon looking at the bastardized, sloppy, memory-leak-filled Firefox pre-2.0 codebase balked. They considered the Firefox devs to be rank amateurs and there was a move to change up the org structure of Firefox.
If those devs were that far divorced from reality, I really have no interest whatsoever in whatever they might have worked on since.
The Mozilla Suite was a bloated piece of complete and utter crap. Phoenix was actually a usable browser, and miles and miles better than the Mozilla Suite ever was.
You know what SeaMonkey is? It's what Mozilla was back when it a complete failure that nobody really wanted to use, and before the Firefox project finally made it relevant again.
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And this makes it not a desktop machine?
rel="nofollow" has nothing to do with Google indexing slashdot.org.
Feel free to point out necessary part of a desktop system it is missing,.
Spammers also don't use names like "NiceAssIWillFuckIt".
The Raspberry Pi is a desktop machine. It costs $35.
Slashdot links are rel="nofollow", which means Google doesn't count them. So no.
The whole thing is a ridiculous propaganda piece. Just the kind of thing Slashdotters love.
If you are going to write something from scratch, you are going to have to maintain it yourself anyway no matter if the source is open or not.
That is a very different situation from using an existing open project maintained by other people. The big advantage there is that other people have done and will do your work for you to some extent. You lose that by making a non-public fork.
Why would those companies want to have to maintain their own forks and keep those up to date?
I only wish the company would license the idea as well to established makers, so otherwise conventional laptops could gain the ability to easily become advanced phone screens, too.
"License"? I that here on Slashdot we wish that there were no patents, so that existing companies could just copy the idea more cheaply and put the inventor out of business?
Or so you've been told, to justify the massive slaughter of innocents.
The US versus Japan was nothing like "overwhelming force" for most of the war, it was two forces of similar strength fighting each other.
Japan had mostly lost by the time the nukes were dropped. They did not "win the war", they just ended it a little earlier than it would have ended otherwise.
Salting does not make brute forcing one password more work. It does make bruteforcing a list of passwords more work, however.
The article is just very, very confused.
What they tried to block was people going "lol this number looks sort of like the Tiananmen date if you squint your eyes and tilt your head". Nothing automatic about it, just a knee-jerk reaction to people making fun.
I'm not sure why you are trying to cite a 16% figure as some kind of generally applicable fact from a site that now lists IE at 18.3%.
Those statistics are in no way representative of general usage.
This actually seems like a pretty plausible analysis. Reddit's culture of liars and attention whores is naturally going to make it a much worse venue for this kind of thing.
No, that is rewriting history. Mozilla was pretty much a failure by the time the Phoenix project started.
No, Phoenix was an exercise in actually producing something people wanted to use, and it was massively successful at that, while the suite was a complete and utter failure at it.
Perhaps, but it had all of the major features that a browser needs to have. Firefox did not become similarly feature-complete until... ever, actually:
Utter nonsense. As evidenced by the incredible success Firefox had over the suite.
Do not use Iron. It is a nonsense fork created solely to earn ad money for its developer, while he spreads FUD about Chrome.
If you don't like Chrome, use Chromium. It has all the privacy features of Iron, but it is not developed by a lying asshole.
The Mozilla devs, however, upon looking at the bastardized, sloppy, memory-leak-filled Firefox pre-2.0 codebase balked. They considered the Firefox devs to be rank amateurs and there was a move to change up the org structure of Firefox.
If those devs were that far divorced from reality, I really have no interest whatsoever in whatever they might have worked on since.
The Mozilla Suite was a bloated piece of complete and utter crap. Phoenix was actually a usable browser, and miles and miles better than the Mozilla Suite ever was.
This is just sour grapes by stubborn developers.
("with blackjack, and hookers")
You win the price for the first actually funny application of this line.
And then they couldn't fit as large a battery any longer, and battery life would be terrible, and people would hate it.
You know what SeaMonkey is? It's what Mozilla was back when it a complete failure that nobody really wanted to use, and before the Firefox project finally made it relevant again.
So basically, since Microsoft has not sued anyone, we can just imagine that they would sue people, and then call them evil?