Sure, developers should care... And Google probably has the law on its side..
But maybe Google should work this out instead of sending a C&D...
It seams to me as Google is trying to control how their apps are experienced kind of like Apple does it... And that doesn't really encourage community participation...
Anyway, I guess that settles it for me... I'm not buying an Android phone anytime soon...:)
Yeah... That may be true... But I'm living on educational support... So I don't pay much taxes...:)
Besides I'm glad my changes of a proper education doesn't depend on my parents ability to support me...
It's not that my parents are irresponsible or unable to help me... But I'm 21... I'm a grown man and have been for a few years... I'm proud that the system we have here, ensures that your changes for an education doesn't depend on your parents ability to support you, it depends on you and your brain, and nobody else (well, yeah, that average tax-payer maybe)...
Lucky you. I did one semester at a local Comunity College. $1200 for tuition and fees, and then another $500 for books.
In my country education is free...
And on-top of that we get educational support, which is just about a 1000USD per month... I have to buy my own books, do my own cooking, laundry and have a place to sleep, but student housing programs and government housing support (on-top of the educational support) makes my education virtually free...
But if you want to go out once in a while... Buy a new laptop, tv, stuff like that it's good to have a little savings, or take a student loan (which the government offers at a favorable price).
By the way I live in Denmark, Europe...:)
I think a lot of the lack of R&D goes back to decisions made many years ago by the government. At one point all employee salaries regardless of how outrageous they were were a deductible expense. Congress decided they wanted to tax high salaried people. Therefore companies found ways around those laws. In comes stock bonuses and stock options. The problem with that is that a highly paid employee (most likely a decision maker) will do what is best for them, which is kick up the stock price so that they get higher effective pay. Easy way to do that, kill long term R&D.
In a capitalistic society management (decision makers or highly paid employees) serves the interest of the stockholders... And most stockholders want money on a short term... Not long term risky investments... I doubt higher taxes on high incomes has much to do with this...
The solution is not necessarily communism... - But government investments can be a part of the solution... subsidizing certain industries might be an idea too... In Denmark the government subsidized every watt produced using wind energy, thus driving research in this area... In Germany it was solar energy...
'Making such a change would require extensive time- and resource- consuming testing.'
Really... Those preinstalled computers have the worst possible configuration... As if the entire software stack was written by a highschool student... Can it really take time to reconfigure them... And are they really tested ?:)
- Those images sucks so bad, are you really going to claim that it take time to make them... (Surely, installed 3 toolbars is difficult)
Okay... I agree that FSF doesn't have the best track record... the BadVista campaign was really ugly!:)
Windows7Sins, is still ugly, but not as ugly as BadVista... And it sounds really good:)
It's time to tell the FSF to stop being stupid about this, stop spreading FUD, and instead *promote* free software instead of just bashing windows.
Apart from a few rather ugly campaigns, I don't think the FSF do much organized Windows bashing... (Slashdot on the other hand......)
For at least two reasons, incompatibility between various browsers, or missing functionality in some browser. Firefox doesn't support SVG defined fonts yet, for example. Hopefully this is just a passing phase.
True, but I doubt that Firefox doesn't want to support SVG... So if more websites starts using SVG, the rendering in various browser will probably be improved..
Is SVG support really considered basic functionality in a web browser? Gif and Jpeg, I'd call those basic functionality for sure.
Okay... But in a modern webbrowser, yes!
Especially, when you advertise for your browser by saying that it is more compatible than it's competitors...
I know MS is pure evil, and doesn't care... But isn't just a little embarrassing when your competitors patches your browser using Javascript and Flash...
Nope. I don't know of any place in the EU where EULA are legal. It is only a few states in the US, and possible a few other countries that has sufficiently messed up contract law where EULAs mean anything.
I'd agree that it's very questionable whether a lawsuit for breaking an EULA is valid... However, if you write an EULA or asks people to accept an EULA, and you then break the EULA, you won't look too bright...:)
Yes, when you don't distribute it not a problem...
If I remember correctly the GPL states that you must grant people you distribute your derivative work to the same rights as you have, e.g. GPL... It doesn't say that you must distribute to everybody. Just that those you distribute to may distribute to everybody.
How many do you want them to respond to?
This guy sent a mail, wasn't satisfied - in 13 days, then sued.
The were notified earlier and a lawsuit have not been filed yet!
They are just preparing the case and going public with the fact that they are...
By all means nail the GPL violators, but yeesh give them a chance to come clean first.
I agree... But if it was my code I would expect them to give some sort of reply within 24 hours, at the very least something like "we are working on it" or "we have send you letter to our legal department".
Don't let them play you around... If they try to make you do a lot of hard work and phone calls, that's just plain disrespectful and it would IMO be better to learn them a lesson by hitting them where it hurts... E.g. get an injunction so that they cannot distribute their product anymore.
No, they can't... A this EULA is written by Microsoft and approved by the EU. When distributing Windows Lenovo is also subject to this EULA... At least that what he argues... Read the entire post... phk has got a pretty good point.
It's easier to outlaw gadgets than to admit you're wrong.
That's why, thanks to recent laws, only criminals carry guns. Pretty soon only criminals will have webcameras or RFID sniffers.
I agree that RFID sniffers should not be outlawed... But the comparison to guns is ridiculous.
By the way, I'm not going to waste my time arguing gun policy with you...:) - Just, merely state that as a Danish citizen I'm happy with the strict gun policy and never regardless of the arguments you may bring up going to find nonrestrictive gun policies sane.
A properly written unit test might have a chance of finding it if you take the approach of writing your unit tests by looking at how the function can fail.
People with 1k friends on Facebook don't really have 1k friends. Anyhow, how hard is it to add a message to your Facebook profile / about box saying, "I've moved to $shiny_new_social_network, and you can also find me at my website foo.com"?
Pretty hard if facebook chose to censor it...
IMO application developers should demand that cloud providers standardize their APIs so that I can implement one storage API in my app and move freely between different storage providers (Just an example).
... PPAs/KoPeRs aren't terrible in moderation, and solve a couple of problems. But if you make them easily available (ie. available to people who don't know what problems they cause) the solution is much worse than the problem.
I agree PPA are good if you want the newest software and understand that installing these packages might break your system... People who don't understand that shouldn't be using PPAs...
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Sure, developers should care... And Google probably has the law on its side..
:)
But maybe Google should work this out instead of sending a C&D...
It seams to me as Google is trying to control how their apps are experienced kind of like Apple does it... And that doesn't really encourage community participation...
Anyway, I guess that settles it for me... I'm not buying an Android phone anytime soon...
Yeah... That may be true... But I'm living on educational support... So I don't pay much taxes... :)
Besides I'm glad my changes of a proper education doesn't depend on my parents ability to support me...
It's not that my parents are irresponsible or unable to help me... But I'm 21... I'm a grown man and have been for a few years... I'm proud that the system we have here, ensures that your changes for an education doesn't depend on your parents ability to support you, it depends on you and your brain, and nobody else (well, yeah, that average tax-payer maybe)...
Lucky you. I did one semester at a local Comunity College. $1200 for tuition and fees, and then another $500 for books.
In my country education is free... :)
And on-top of that we get educational support, which is just about a 1000USD per month... I have to buy my own books, do my own cooking, laundry and have a place to sleep, but student housing programs and government housing support (on-top of the educational support) makes my education virtually free...
But if you want to go out once in a while... Buy a new laptop, tv, stuff like that it's good to have a little savings, or take a student loan (which the government offers at a favorable price).
By the way I live in Denmark, Europe...
Randomly changing the directions of gravity != no gravity.
How is gravity in all directions = no gravity ?
I think a lot of the lack of R&D goes back to decisions made many years ago by the government. At one point all employee salaries regardless of how outrageous they were were a deductible expense. Congress decided they wanted to tax high salaried people. Therefore companies found ways around those laws. In comes stock bonuses and stock options. The problem with that is that a highly paid employee (most likely a decision maker) will do what is best for them, which is kick up the stock price so that they get higher effective pay. Easy way to do that, kill long term R&D.
In a capitalistic society management (decision makers or highly paid employees) serves the interest of the stockholders... And most stockholders want money on a short term... Not long term risky investments...
I doubt higher taxes on high incomes has much to do with this...
The solution is not necessarily communism... - But government investments can be a part of the solution... subsidizing certain industries might be an idea too... In Denmark the government subsidized every watt produced using wind energy, thus driving research in this area... In Germany it was solar energy...
'Making such a change would require extensive time- and resource- consuming testing.'
Really... Those preinstalled computers have the worst possible configuration... As if the entire software stack was written by a highschool student... Can it really take time to reconfigure them... And are they really tested ? :)
- Those images sucks so bad, are you really going to claim that it take time to make them... (Surely, installed 3 toolbars is difficult)
for this stupid "sins" campaign.
Okay... I agree that FSF doesn't have the best track record... the BadVista campaign was really ugly! :) :)
Windows7Sins, is still ugly, but not as ugly as BadVista... And it sounds really good
It's time to tell the FSF to stop being stupid about this, stop spreading FUD, and instead *promote* free software instead of just bashing windows.
Apart from a few rather ugly campaigns, I don't think the FSF do much organized Windows bashing... (Slashdot on the other hand......)
For at least two reasons, incompatibility between various browsers, or missing functionality in some browser. Firefox doesn't support SVG defined fonts yet, for example. Hopefully this is just a passing phase.
True, but I doubt that Firefox doesn't want to support SVG... So if more websites starts using SVG, the rendering in various browser will probably be improved..
The plugin uses native SVG support if available.
My concern is that many websites that use SVG will require Flash on all browsers, not just the ones using IE.
Quote from the quick start:
You can override this manually, but why would anyone do that for other purposes than debugging...?
Google: Please release V8 as a plugin for IE, along with CSS compatibility. Actually, scratch that -- please release Chrome as a plugin for IE.
Yes... let's make a javascript accelerator for IE using Flash :)
Is SVG support really considered basic functionality in a web browser? Gif and Jpeg, I'd call those basic functionality for sure.
Okay... But in a modern webbrowser, yes!
Especially, when you advertise for your browser by saying that it is more compatible than it's competitors...
I know MS is pure evil, and doesn't care... But isn't just a little embarrassing when your competitors patches your browser using Javascript and Flash...
Nope. I don't know of any place in the EU where EULA are legal. It is only a few states in the US, and possible a few other countries that has sufficiently messed up contract law where EULAs mean anything.
I'd agree that it's very questionable whether a lawsuit for breaking an EULA is valid... However, if you write an EULA or asks people to accept an EULA, and you then break the EULA, you won't look too bright... :)
Yes, when you don't distribute it not a problem...
If I remember correctly the GPL states that you must grant people you distribute your derivative work to the same rights as you have, e.g. GPL... It doesn't say that you must distribute to everybody. Just that those you distribute to may distribute to everybody.
How many do you want them to respond to? This guy sent a mail, wasn't satisfied - in 13 days, then sued.
The were notified earlier and a lawsuit have not been filed yet!
They are just preparing the case and going public with the fact that they are...
By all means nail the GPL violators, but yeesh give them a chance to come clean first.
I agree... But if it was my code I would expect them to give some sort of reply within 24 hours, at the very least something like "we are working on it" or "we have send you letter to our legal department".
Don't let them play you around... If they try to make you do a lot of hard work and phone calls, that's just plain disrespectful and it would IMO be better to learn them a lesson by hitting them where it hurts... E.g. get an injunction so that they cannot distribute their product anymore.
No, they can't... A this EULA is written by Microsoft and approved by the EU. When distributing Windows Lenovo is also subject to this EULA... At least that what he argues... Read the entire post... phk has got a pretty good point.
heh, so he never tried to contact microsoft or the microsoft affiliate? This is gonna be a short case.
I think the "microsoft affiliate" is Lenovo, which he did contact prior to suing them.
Nope, never...! :)
- I'm a student, and may still have something to learn...
It's easier to outlaw gadgets than to admit you're wrong.
That's why, thanks to recent laws, only criminals carry guns. Pretty soon only criminals will have webcameras or RFID sniffers.
I agree that RFID sniffers should not be outlawed... But the comparison to guns is ridiculous.
:)
By the way, I'm not going to waste my time arguing gun policy with you...
- Just, merely state that as a Danish citizen I'm happy with the strict gun policy and never regardless of the arguments you may bring up going to find nonrestrictive gun policies sane.
A properly written unit test might have a chance of finding it if you take the approach of writing your unit tests by looking at how the function can fail.
I prefer not to find my bugs...
FTFA: Not about the money?
They probably just wanna make them pay :)
how is Google going to make money off of it???
They will be the only ones who can send SPAM :)
People with 1k friends on Facebook don't really have 1k friends. Anyhow, how hard is it to add a message to your Facebook profile / about box saying, "I've moved to $shiny_new_social_network, and you can also find me at my website foo.com"?
Pretty hard if facebook chose to censor it...
IMO application developers should demand that cloud providers standardize their APIs so that I can implement one storage API in my app and move freely between different storage providers (Just an example).
... PPAs/KoPeRs aren't terrible in moderation, and solve a couple of problems. But if you make them easily available (ie. available to people who don't know what problems they cause) the solution is much worse than the problem.
I agree PPA are good if you want the newest software and understand that installing these packages might break your system... People who don't understand that shouldn't be using PPAs...