What? Bying votes is illegal? Did Microsoft CEO get jail time because they bribed people to vote OOXML in ISO vote? Oh... it was not government issue so go on....
1) Google is not only one who is doing the filter bubble around person (Search Tedtalks about subject) as does Microsoft and Yahoo and almost everyone else do same thing.
2) I made search "Kate Perry" and I got relevant pages in front page (I have instant search in use so I get only 10 results per page) like facebook entry. If you would know the filter bubble, you would know that it depends who, with what browser, with what computer and from where the search has done. Different people gets different results. Even a researched can get totally different results with dozens of friends than what millions of other people gets.
I am all the way for finding a controversial information about subjects. As I do not want to be blinded by my own believes. But it is very difficult thing to do, as wikipedia proofs, people don't care facts, they care only that what most people believe they know. Was topic about technology (mathematics), biology or chemistery.... it does not matter if someone has something different and is it true, as if just public opinion is that it is wrong... it is enough.
I don't mind if I get to Google search results a information about what my friends have done and shared with me or made public, as long as I can turn that off. (My personal opinion is, that should be by default off). But it is just great, as Google is primarily a search corporation, secondly a advertiser. And if people can find related data from google front page without checking googles other services where is same search bad... it is OK.
It is just stupid from Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and others who were offered to include their users public data on Google to deny from that as then Google had no one else to include than own service.
When google went around the town and asked "Do you want to include your customers data to our search" and they say "No". And after the round only one who wanted was Google itself. Others can not blame than itself from being stupid and greed.
USA has very much very loving people, and USA is #1 in the list of countries what has strongest religion believe to God.
But the problem is, most people in USA has been under terrorism since 50's.... USA government and big corporations are terrorizing USA citizens to drive their own policies and bills. To get permission from the people to use country military to invade other countries to support USA corporations. And USA corporations owns media and they use that media to control what is shown and told to people so they would think what is wanted in daily basis. So they would not stop and start thinking freely with others.
In USA, competition is one cause of everything bad what is happening. Corporations and government politicians makes sure that Media delivers to USA citizens a news of accidents, murders... all kind bad news to scare them.
People are afraid to help others, they are afraid to stand up together to get things done better ways, because most believes that they are alone with such toughts that something should be done... but they are so scared that they can't discuss about it to anyone. As if someone would hear them talking about teamwork, about taking care of those who needs help, they could be tagged as communists or supporters of socialism (what is as bad as communism in USA) and no one wants that there.
Terrorism and Competition are keys to control own citizens so they (rich and powerful) can have tough grip of them and squeeze everything out what they want.
The fix is socialism... But it is a tabu among most US citizens who are brainwashed to believe socialism is here to take your wealthy and forces you under government control where you can not choose who is your doctor or where your kid goes school....
In social society, people take care of each other. They give what they can not use or dont need, to those who have needs. They do what they can with their powers to help others. It is not just you give money or you say "here is your apartment, live there". But that you organize a sponsor who supports you on the beginning. It is that you are teached and helped by people who have experience and wisdom to guide you trough hard times.
It is that when you get sick or accident happens, many others will take small part of your work and carry it trough the time until you have recovered and you return.
Socialism is about teamwork and caring others. It is about to help everyone to be independent and strong person where you don't have needs to harm anyone else.
But people who are independent, strong and work together can not be controlled. They can not be brainwashed, you can not terrorize them to accept greedy people demands and be exposed to such people suggestions. So the sociopaths who does anything to come politicians or leaders, makes sure that there is no teamwork, independency, smart people, freedom of speech and thinking. They demand competition, they want people to fight, they want people to follow the show on TV while mens behind the curtains does all the planning for them, just to protect small group of greedy sociopaths who wants to control others.
Terrorism is act of terror what a national leaders use to control own people and drive their own (terrorists) needs over their own people. The terrorists is not the one who lives in other country or who builds bombs... The terrorists is the person who works in government or big corporation and use terror and other similar tactics (like FUD).
In US, 1% of people has over 90% of wealth. While 99% needs to live with under 10% of wealth... It simply should not be possible, but it is because greedy people demands and controls that there is competition on markets, that there is competition on schools, that there is competition among people and they make everything with their power so people would not start work together and discuss freely and change opinions freely and that they would take part to topics what greedy people want them to forget or ignore.
It is easy to think about itself that you are great person if you give now and then few dollars to red cross or some other charity. But it is just lying to itself.
Not all, but neither are all rich people geniuses.
You can be very talented and smart person, but still being overrun by even richer and greed people and you end up homeless. But you can be homeless and overseen by richer and scarier people, but still have more talents and smarter than they are.
Even that Linus controls only the whole Linux operating system, it is still the Operating System job to offer network protocols to every program. The programs can itself then offer own protocols (like http, ftp or ssh).
Operating System offers Transport and Network layer protocols to Session, Presentation and Application layers.
Actually you can point so. There are few things what needs to remember:
1) Good boss is one who knows what is happening and makes sure with all his/her power that workers follows guidelines 2) Fool boss is one who does not know what is happening and makes sure with all his/her power that workers follows guidelines 3) Lazy boss is one who does not know what is happening and does not make sure with all his/her power that workers follows guidelines 4) Greedy boss is one who does not know what is happening and does not follow the corporation guidelines and law 5) Stupid boss is one who does not know what is happening and does not know how to hide his/her tracks about wrong doing
Is it simply possible that Google CEO or any other operative chief in Google did not know that was happening? Is it simply possible that person who called didn't work with Google?
CEO and board should be directly responsible for everything what the corporations does, unless they can proof that workers hide the truth from him/her/them.
In small corporations, such hiding is not so easy to do as you see daily your boss and boss is always knowing what is happening. But in international corporation where you have tens of thousands workers in different countries, it is simply impossible. It is not excuse but a fact. And even then, if CEO/Board did not know something illegal or inmoral was happening, it is their responsible to fix things. If they cant, they need to be changed.
Do you happen to know what was Dennis M. Ritchie opinion about architecture for operating system? Were it monolithic like Linux, FreeBSD, Multics or Server-Client like Mach, HURD, XNU, NT, Minix?
Just wondering as he must have had opinion which architecture is better.... After all, Unix was monolithic operating system...
Nope... The operating system in OS X is XNU. Darwin is just XNU + compilation settings and tools. XNU is Server-Client architecture operating system, instead Monolithic like Linux is.
Any system program, library, application program etc, does not work without operating system. Not even your development programs, text editors or others work without operating system.
You can download XNU operating system from Apple Open Source site. You can study code and even FSF has accepted Apple license what is used as Free Software license (still incompatible with GPL). From here http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.24.8/ you can download whole source code for XNU operating system. You get Mach microkernel, I/O Kit, FreeBSD parts of network protocols, filesystems and so on. The microkernel in XNU operating system is 3.0 by version.
Android is just one distribution for Linux operating system. But unlike XNU, Linux is monolithic operating system. And Open Handset Alliance (what develops Android) is currently bringing Linux back to mainline. The Linux what is used in Android has been hosted as well on Linux GIT but it has just been own branch, now it is going to be joined back.
One reason why Android has been so successful, is that people don't know that they are using Linux operating system. Same thing is with Ubuntu, where people has false believes that they use "Ubuntu operating system" while they really use Linux Operating System and distribution called "Ubuntu". If they would know the truth, they would cry and have sleepiness nights wondering what they are going to do because "Linux" is so 'difficult to use'.
It is just sad that most people are victims of marketing propaganda and they don't have a clue what technology is being used and how it works.
Apple did study Linux operating system and even made own branch with it, called MkLinux what is still available. Apple's idea was to make Linux a Server-Client architecture operating system instead a Monolithic and get Linux to Macintosh. In MkLinux project they sliced Linux functions to servers and used Mach microkernel with them and so on they got MkLinux. http://www.mklinux.org/
Then Apple went, toke a Mach microkernel, Network protocols, Filesystems and few other OS functions from (monolithic) FreeBSD Operating System to as servers and made nice package with I/O Kit and got a XNU operating system what is a Server-Client operating system by architecture instead Monolithic like the Linux is.
It seems it has nothing to do with the license, as XNU operating system is 100% Open Source and Free Software as OSI and FSF have both accepted the license what Apple used to license that XNU operating system http://www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses Apple just wanted to get Server-Client architecture for their operating system instead monolithic. Everyone knows the famous debate between Linus and Andrew about how Monolithic architecture is obsolete for operating systems and Server-Client architecture is the future.
Linux is great proof how monolithic architecture for operating system can be very powerful and flexible, when just watching list where Linux really is... Super computers, embedded systems (DVD players, DVB-boxes, Digital TV's), Desktop computers, Laptops, Workstations, Rendering farms, Home/Corporation servers and not to forget... Linux is most used operating system on smartphones... As Apple chose to use Linux as operating system in Android. There are other Linux distributions like Tizen, Harmattan, Bada (using RTOS operating system as well) and many others. Even Nokia bought few weeks ago a Norwegian software company "Smarterphones" what developed Linux distribution "Smarterphones" and Nokia might be planning to replace NOS (Nokia Operating System) and S40 (software platform + GUI) with it and that would mean Linux gets even more support.
In other hands.... while XNU can probably be second popular Open Source and Free Software operating system on markets... GNU projects own HURD operating system what is as well following a Server-Client architecture like XNU, Minix, NT... Has not get stable or ready at all. FreeBSD is as well monolithic operating system and so is OpenBSD and NetBSD (according wikipedia).
GPL license is great for the community (read it like every human and every country and every government and every corporation) but it is not great for those who are greed, biased and very short sighted people who wants to slave others under their control and control when and what innovation is released and control that with patents and hiding knowledge what other humans has helped them to gain.
And then it should be called as Tubuntu with T for Tablet?
Canonical should go and pull all othes, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu and make a single Ubuntu DVD with a installer what gives a user a choice to choose what to use. On LiveCD user could logout and back in to try other desktops.
Just like how Mandrake made it.... boot, choose and login... logout and try next one. Install what you wanted...
It is not wise to say that Ubuntu could really work on tablets just basing that to Unity.
As UBUNTU is not Unity. It is GNOME 2.x series. And GNOME would not work with tablets. As it is not designed for tablets and you can not so on modify it to work with tablets.
Why did Tablet PC's fail on tablet markets until Apple brought iPad?
Because Microsoft tried to push a WIMP interface with Windows applications to tablet.
A WIMP stands for Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer (if you didn't know). And GNOME (at least 2.x) needs pointer and is about Windows and drop-down menus. That Ubuntu now comes by default a Unity, does not make Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer go away. Unity is just a launcher and a shell.
KDE SC would work on tablets, as it is designed to be customizable and it is possible to make so user does not see windows, drop-down menus and does not need a pointer. (Icons, menus, toolbars... everything is possible to hide or make so big that they come usable with fingers).
And KDE has done great job with the Plasma. As they have different shell for different devices. Plasma-desktop Plasma-netbook Plasma-mobile Plasma-active Plasma-Mediacenter
And thats it.... All KDE applications allows customization well to be possible fit on those device classes. Canonical has not done anything than Unity and it does not fit to anywhere well.
Apple understood the problem, they have XNU operating system (Open Source btw) and lots of closed source sub-systems like Core animations and so on. And then they made a totally new shell for smartphone and tablet with totally new application design rules. They went and throw away the WIMP and toke just IM. Icons and menus (not drop-down).
And now Microsoft is trying to do the same, but totally wrong way. As they get second glass idea for GUI (Metro) and what was designed for smartphone (does not work so well when starting to add more functions and applications... the Zune interface does not work and Metro start screen is hard to understand) and they slaps it to desktop computers and tablets....
Desktop computers can not support Metro either. And tablets.... It is as well second glass GUI for it.
And Microsoft has pushed the "Ribbon" interface for its applications, what it copied from Lotus document writer... And it does not work well on tablets either.... Apple and Open Handset Alliance has understanded this and made new GUI's for tablets what fits for them.
Everyone else than Microsoft and Canonical knows what to do. That every GUI needs to be designed per device class and you can not push single GUI to all of them.
And it is funny, that Canonical what is the Linux communitys Microsoft, does same thing as MS does.... Are they collaborating someway?
So we should remove laws about killing and murdering because the laws do not stop people murdering and killing others?
The law should be a guideline.... something what people respect and honors. The situation has gone bad because people have been brainwashed that competition and international corporations are good thing. As competition and international corporations are those what drivens greed and weak minded people to do anything to be on winning side, were it to rise copyright time from 20 years to 150 years or lobbying politicions to support their cause and their needs instead civilians....
Money talks and bullshit walks.... That is what is left from competition and international corporations.
There is way to fix things, it is not to fight or compete. It is about fixing the problems what were created in the first place.
We need to talk people, we need to write to media, we need to demand rights. We can not allow big corporations to compete and ruin whole world because they beliefe they need to do so.
If someone brakes the law, you dont brake to law to catch him. It is hard to show a good example to your kid when your neighbord or someone else shows bad example. So you dont show a bad example as well, but you explain it to your kid and then you discuss about problem with those who are giving a bad example. And if they dont agree, then you need to talk to people around you and get them to understand that giving a bad example is not allowed by anyone.
Why are you suggesting that other people should join to brake the law and copyright owners rights in those countries?
Are you one of those people who goes and suggest companies to download GPL licensed software, modify it, sell it and license it with own license and never respecting the GPL license?
Is it just OK that we who want others to respect our copyrights what is licensed with GPL, but we should not respect their copyrights?
Can you explain to me, very clearly, what common does freedom of speech and web service what only exist to allow people to share copyrighted material illegaly does have?
Because people should have freedom to speech, they should be free to share others work without permission?
Open Source is very much about copyright what gives its the strong protection. GPL wouldn't exist without strong copyright. Copyright is one of the corner stones in human society where every person has rights to work what they do and no one can not take it away from them. Freedom of speech is same kind. But abusing that freedom, is not allowed. That means you can not brake the law only because you have freedom of speech.
So explain to me and many others. Why it is a freedom of speech that people should be allowed to download (and upload) a copyrighted material without copyright owners right?
(My personal opinion is that copyright lenght has gone too far, 10-15 years would be more than enough, after the work goes public).
'Tim Bird, a Sony engineering veteran and the chair of the Architecture Group of the Linux Foundation's CE Workgroup, has announced a new concerted effort to get Android's changes to the Linux kernel back into the mainline Linux kernel tree.' Android has been using Linux 2.6.x for its devices since its release, with patches from Google. To date they haven't been merged back into the kernel mainline but existed on kernel.org. Some of the features such as wakelocks would help with Linux tablet projects, but other features aren't fully realized and support remains spotty.
Toward the end of November, the core Android code was returned to the staging tree, from which it had been removed at the end of 2009. Since the code's return to staging, changes have been going in and the code has caught up to its state in the Android tree. The code has now reached a point where, as summarized by Greg Kroah-Hartman on December 16:
Now almost two years later, a new effort that seems to have the backing of the Linux Foundation is aiming to bring Android back to the mainline. The project is officially titled the 'Android Mainlining Project' and was announced at the end of 2011 by Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation and Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment.
Android itself use Linux operating system, as does Maemo aka Harmattan, as did MeeGo, as does Tizen and as does all other Desktop and Server distributions and not just those mobile phone Linux distributions.
Even that you are right, I would say 99% of people do not want to learn from history at all. And politicians, rich and CEO's of big corporations wants so as well.
As if citizens, poor and consumers learn history, they learn what has happened and on what direction those are leading us. And that only means they will loose the power to control us if we can think and talk freely outside of the controlled media where they control from what we should think and talk.
Not even today IT journalists know the history. They have so short memory that they forget almost everything what happened 6 months ago. Only purpose is to protect big companies, start flamewars between brands and sell products. Problem is how to do all that in good balance that they don't overthrow each other.
Example, how many journalist really know that the Linux kernel is a monolithic operating system? That Android, Harmattan, Tizen, Ubuntu and so on are just distributions for Linux operating system and not different operating systems? No, people do not want to learn history how operating systems were invented, developed and what got founded on what year and by who. They only want to flame each other (Windows vs OS X) or steal credits (FSF about GNU/Linux) or just sell products (Microsoft FUD campaigns).
Citizens (consumers) are those who are under so huge propaganda that they don't even see daylight trough that shit. Yes, history should be told correctly, from the important parts. Same way the technology should be told by technology point of view instead brands and marketing.
Give the correct information to citizens (consumers) and they can vote correctly basing the information. Give them a falsified information or misguide them and they vote as corporations and politicians wants.
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What? Bying votes is illegal? Did Microsoft CEO get jail time because they bribed people to vote OOXML in ISO vote?
Oh... it was not government issue so go on....
1) Google is not only one who is doing the filter bubble around person (Search Tedtalks about subject) as does Microsoft and Yahoo and almost everyone else do same thing.
2) I made search "Kate Perry" and I got relevant pages in front page (I have instant search in use so I get only 10 results per page) like facebook entry. If you would know the filter bubble, you would know that it depends who, with what browser, with what computer and from where the search has done. Different people gets different results. Even a researched can get totally different results with dozens of friends than what millions of other people gets.
I am all the way for finding a controversial information about subjects. As I do not want to be blinded by my own believes. But it is very difficult thing to do, as wikipedia proofs, people don't care facts, they care only that what most people believe they know. Was topic about technology (mathematics), biology or chemistery.... it does not matter if someone has something different and is it true, as if just public opinion is that it is wrong... it is enough.
I don't mind if I get to Google search results a information about what my friends have done and shared with me or made public, as long as I can turn that off. (My personal opinion is, that should be by default off). But it is just great, as Google is primarily a search corporation, secondly a advertiser. And if people can find related data from google front page without checking googles other services where is same search bad... it is OK.
It is just stupid from Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and others who were offered to include their users public data on Google to deny from that as then Google had no one else to include than own service.
When google went around the town and asked "Do you want to include your customers data to our search" and they say "No". And after the round only one who wanted was Google itself. Others can not blame than itself from being stupid and greed.
Forget piddly sanctions, or even a "breakup". Shut them down once and for all.
You didn't add enough weight to ethically correct action
In 30 minutes I could be over 300 miles from my current position, or just 4 miles... It is all about subjectivity of used transportation.
Just about curiosity... Where I can find statics and documents about NYS budget and social service situation?
USA has very much very loving people, and USA is #1 in the list of countries what has strongest religion believe to God.
But the problem is, most people in USA has been under terrorism since 50's.... USA government and big corporations are terrorizing USA citizens to drive their own policies and bills. To get permission from the people to use country military to invade other countries to support USA corporations. And USA corporations owns media and they use that media to control what is shown and told to people so they would think what is wanted in daily basis. So they would not stop and start thinking freely with others.
In USA, competition is one cause of everything bad what is happening.
Corporations and government politicians makes sure that Media delivers to USA citizens a news of accidents, murders... all kind bad news to scare them.
People are afraid to help others, they are afraid to stand up together to get things done better ways, because most believes that they are alone with such toughts that something should be done... but they are so scared that they can't discuss about it to anyone. As if someone would hear them talking about teamwork, about taking care of those who needs help, they could be tagged as communists or supporters of socialism (what is as bad as communism in USA) and no one wants that there.
Terrorism and Competition are keys to control own citizens so they (rich and powerful) can have tough grip of them and squeeze everything out what they want.
The fix is socialism... But it is a tabu among most US citizens who are brainwashed to believe socialism is here to take your wealthy and forces you under government control where you can not choose who is your doctor or where your kid goes school....
In social society, people take care of each other. They give what they can not use or dont need, to those who have needs. They do what they can with their powers to help others. It is not just you give money or you say "here is your apartment, live there". But that you organize a sponsor who supports you on the beginning. It is that you are teached and helped by people who have experience and wisdom to guide you trough hard times.
It is that when you get sick or accident happens, many others will take small part of your work and carry it trough the time until you have recovered and you return.
Socialism is about teamwork and caring others. It is about to help everyone to be independent and strong person where you don't have needs to harm anyone else.
But people who are independent, strong and work together can not be controlled. They can not be brainwashed, you can not terrorize them to accept greedy people demands and be exposed to such people suggestions.
So the sociopaths who does anything to come politicians or leaders, makes sure that there is no teamwork, independency, smart people, freedom of speech and thinking. They demand competition, they want people to fight, they want people to follow the show on TV while mens behind the curtains does all the planning for them, just to protect small group of greedy sociopaths who wants to control others.
Terrorism is act of terror what a national leaders use to control own people and drive their own (terrorists) needs over their own people. The terrorists is not the one who lives in other country or who builds bombs... The terrorists is the person who works in government or big corporation and use terror and other similar tactics (like FUD).
In US, 1% of people has over 90% of wealth. While 99% needs to live with under 10% of wealth... It simply should not be possible, but it is because greedy people demands and controls that there is competition on markets, that there is competition on schools, that there is competition among people and they make everything with their power so people would not start work together and discuss freely and change opinions freely and that they would take part to topics what greedy people want them to forget or ignore.
It is easy to think about itself that you are great person if you give now and then few dollars to red cross or some other charity. But it is just lying to itself.
Not all, but neither are all rich people geniuses.
You can be very talented and smart person, but still being overrun by even richer and greed people and you end up homeless.
But you can be homeless and overseen by richer and scarier people, but still have more talents and smarter than they are.
Even that Linus controls only the whole Linux operating system, it is still the Operating System job to offer network protocols to every program. The programs can itself then offer own protocols (like http, ftp or ssh).
Operating System offers Transport and Network layer protocols to Session, Presentation and Application layers.
Those ain't commands but system programs.
pingm, tracert, cp, mv and so on are p r o g r a m s and not commands.
Commands are shell (like Bash, what is one program as well) internal functions.
Do not mistake program and command as same thing.
Sorry, meant to say the company what started Android.
And Tizen use Linux as its operating system, so it is not different.
Actually you can point so. There are few things what needs to remember:
1) Good boss is one who knows what is happening and makes sure with all his/her power that workers follows guidelines
2) Fool boss is one who does not know what is happening and makes sure with all his/her power that workers follows guidelines
3) Lazy boss is one who does not know what is happening and does not make sure with all his/her power that workers follows guidelines
4) Greedy boss is one who does not know what is happening and does not follow the corporation guidelines and law
5) Stupid boss is one who does not know what is happening and does not know how to hide his/her tracks about wrong doing
Is it simply possible that Google CEO or any other operative chief in Google did not know that was happening?
Is it simply possible that person who called didn't work with Google?
CEO and board should be directly responsible for everything what the corporations does, unless they can proof that workers hide the truth from him/her/them.
In small corporations, such hiding is not so easy to do as you see daily your boss and boss is always knowing what is happening. But in international corporation where you have tens of thousands workers in different countries, it is simply impossible. It is not excuse but a fact. And even then, if CEO/Board did not know something illegal or inmoral was happening, it is their responsible to fix things. If they cant, they need to be changed.
Do you happen to know what was Dennis M. Ritchie opinion about architecture for operating system? Were it monolithic like Linux, FreeBSD, Multics or Server-Client like Mach, HURD, XNU, NT, Minix?
Just wondering as he must have had opinion which architecture is better.... After all, Unix was monolithic operating system...
Nope... The operating system in OS X is XNU. Darwin is just XNU + compilation settings and tools. XNU is Server-Client architecture operating system, instead Monolithic like Linux is.
Any system program, library, application program etc, does not work without operating system. Not even your development programs, text editors or others work without operating system.
You can download XNU operating system from Apple Open Source site. You can study code and even FSF has accepted Apple license what is used as Free Software license (still incompatible with GPL). From here http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1699.24.8/ you can download whole source code for XNU operating system. You get Mach microkernel, I/O Kit, FreeBSD parts of network protocols, filesystems and so on. The microkernel in XNU operating system is 3.0 by version.
Android is just one distribution for Linux operating system. But unlike XNU, Linux is monolithic operating system. And Open Handset Alliance (what develops Android) is currently bringing Linux back to mainline. The Linux what is used in Android has been hosted as well on Linux GIT but it has just been own branch, now it is going to be joined back.
One reason why Android has been so successful, is that people don't know that they are using Linux operating system. Same thing is with Ubuntu, where people has false believes that they use "Ubuntu operating system" while they really use Linux Operating System and distribution called "Ubuntu". If they would know the truth, they would cry and have sleepiness nights wondering what they are going to do because "Linux" is so 'difficult to use'.
It is just sad that most people are victims of marketing propaganda and they don't have a clue what technology is being used and how it works.
Apple did study Linux operating system and even made own branch with it, called MkLinux what is still available. Apple's idea was to make Linux a Server-Client architecture operating system instead a Monolithic and get Linux to Macintosh. In MkLinux project they sliced Linux functions to servers and used Mach microkernel with them and so on they got MkLinux. http://www.mklinux.org/
MkLinux were Apple's first Open Source project. Today Apple has dozens of Open Source projects http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1072/
Then Apple went, toke a Mach microkernel, Network protocols, Filesystems and few other OS functions from (monolithic) FreeBSD Operating System to as servers and made nice package with I/O Kit and got a XNU operating system what is a Server-Client operating system by architecture instead Monolithic like the Linux is.
It seems it has nothing to do with the license, as XNU operating system is 100% Open Source and Free Software as OSI and FSF have both accepted the license what Apple used to license that XNU operating system http://www.opensource.apple.com/license/apsl/ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses Apple just wanted to get Server-Client architecture for their operating system instead monolithic.
Everyone knows the famous debate between Linus and Andrew about how Monolithic architecture is obsolete for operating systems and Server-Client architecture is the future.
Linux is great proof how monolithic architecture for operating system can be very powerful and flexible, when just watching list where Linux really is... Super computers, embedded systems (DVD players, DVB-boxes, Digital TV's), Desktop computers, Laptops, Workstations, Rendering farms, Home/Corporation servers and not to forget... Linux is most used operating system on smartphones... As Apple chose to use Linux as operating system in Android. There are other Linux distributions like Tizen, Harmattan, Bada (using RTOS operating system as well) and many others. Even Nokia bought few weeks ago a Norwegian software company "Smarterphones" what developed Linux distribution "Smarterphones" and Nokia might be planning to replace NOS (Nokia Operating System) and S40 (software platform + GUI) with it and that would mean Linux gets even more support.
In other hands.... while XNU can probably be second popular Open Source and Free Software operating system on markets... GNU projects own HURD operating system what is as well following a Server-Client architecture like XNU, Minix, NT... Has not get stable or ready at all.
FreeBSD is as well monolithic operating system and so is OpenBSD and NetBSD (according wikipedia).
GPL license is great for the community (read it like every human and every country and every government and every corporation) but it is not great for those who are greed, biased and very short sighted people who wants to slave others under their control and control when and what innovation is released and control that with patents and hiding knowledge what other humans has helped them to gain.
And then it should be called as Tubuntu with T for Tablet?
Canonical should go and pull all othes, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu and make a single Ubuntu DVD with a installer what gives a user a choice to choose what to use.
On LiveCD user could logout and back in to try other desktops.
Just like how Mandrake made it.... boot, choose and login... logout and try next one. Install what you wanted...
It is not wise to say that Ubuntu could really work on tablets just basing that to Unity.
As UBUNTU is not Unity. It is GNOME 2.x series. And GNOME would not work with tablets. As it is not designed for tablets and you can not so on modify it to work with tablets.
Why did Tablet PC's fail on tablet markets until Apple brought iPad?
Because Microsoft tried to push a WIMP interface with Windows applications to tablet.
A WIMP stands for Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer (if you didn't know). And GNOME (at least 2.x) needs pointer and is about Windows and drop-down menus.
That Ubuntu now comes by default a Unity, does not make Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer go away. Unity is just a launcher and a shell.
KDE SC would work on tablets, as it is designed to be customizable and it is possible to make so user does not see windows, drop-down menus and does not need a pointer. (Icons, menus, toolbars... everything is possible to hide or make so big that they come usable with fingers).
And KDE has done great job with the Plasma. As they have different shell for different devices.
Plasma-desktop
Plasma-netbook
Plasma-mobile
Plasma-active
Plasma-Mediacenter
And thats it.... All KDE applications allows customization well to be possible fit on those device classes.
Canonical has not done anything than Unity and it does not fit to anywhere well.
Apple understood the problem, they have XNU operating system (Open Source btw) and lots of closed source sub-systems like Core animations and so on. And then they made a totally new shell for smartphone and tablet with totally new application design rules. They went and throw away the WIMP and toke just IM. Icons and menus (not drop-down).
And now Microsoft is trying to do the same, but totally wrong way. As they get second glass idea for GUI (Metro) and what was designed for smartphone (does not work so well when starting to add more functions and applications... the Zune interface does not work and Metro start screen is hard to understand) and they slaps it to desktop computers and tablets....
Desktop computers can not support Metro either. And tablets.... It is as well second glass GUI for it.
And Microsoft has pushed the "Ribbon" interface for its applications, what it copied from Lotus document writer...
And it does not work well on tablets either.... Apple and Open Handset Alliance has understanded this and made new GUI's for tablets what fits for them.
Everyone else than Microsoft and Canonical knows what to do. That every GUI needs to be designed per device class and you can not push single GUI to all of them.
And it is funny, that Canonical what is the Linux communitys Microsoft, does same thing as MS does.... Are they collaborating someway?
So we should remove laws about killing and murdering because the laws do not stop people murdering and killing others?
The law should be a guideline.... something what people respect and honors.
The situation has gone bad because people have been brainwashed that competition and international corporations are good thing.
As competition and international corporations are those what drivens greed and weak minded people to do anything to be on winning side, were it to rise copyright time from 20 years to 150 years or lobbying politicions to support their cause and their needs instead civilians....
Money talks and bullshit walks.... That is what is left from competition and international corporations.
There is way to fix things, it is not to fight or compete. It is about fixing the problems what were created in the first place.
We need to talk people, we need to write to media, we need to demand rights. We can not allow big corporations to compete and ruin whole world because they beliefe they need to do so.
If someone brakes the law, you dont brake to law to catch him.
It is hard to show a good example to your kid when your neighbord or someone else shows bad example. So you dont show a bad example as well, but you explain it to your kid and then you discuss about problem with those who are giving a bad example. And if they dont agree, then you need to talk to people around you and get them to understand that giving a bad example is not allowed by anyone.
Why are you suggesting that other people should join to brake the law and copyright owners rights in those countries?
Are you one of those people who goes and suggest companies to download GPL licensed software, modify it, sell it and license it with own license and never respecting the GPL license?
Is it just OK that we who want others to respect our copyrights what is licensed with GPL, but we should not respect their copyrights?
Can you explain to me, very clearly, what common does freedom of speech and web service what only exist to allow people to share copyrighted material illegaly does have?
Because people should have freedom to speech, they should be free to share others work without permission?
Open Source is very much about copyright what gives its the strong protection. GPL wouldn't exist without strong copyright.
Copyright is one of the corner stones in human society where every person has rights to work what they do and no one can not take it away from them.
Freedom of speech is same kind. But abusing that freedom, is not allowed. That means you can not brake the law only because you have freedom of speech.
So explain to me and many others. Why it is a freedom of speech that people should be allowed to download (and upload) a copyrighted material without copyright owners right?
(My personal opinion is that copyright lenght has gone too far, 10-15 years would be more than enough, after the work goes public).
Not a fork but a "mother of MeeGo".
Harmattan is Maemo 6.0 + Qt
MeeGo is Maemo 5.0 + Moblin 1.0/1.1 + Qt
Tizen is MeeGo + LiMo
Maemo 5.0 -> Maemo 6.0 Harmattan aka MeeGo/Harmattan
Maemo 5.0 + Qt + Moblin -> MeeGo -> MeeGo + LiMo -> Tizen
Tizen use same Linux operating system as does Android and as did MeeGo and as does Debian, Ubuntu and all other Linux distributions.
Not a new OS, just a new distribution.
'Tim Bird, a Sony engineering veteran and the chair of the Architecture Group of the Linux Foundation's CE Workgroup, has announced a new concerted effort to get Android's changes to the Linux kernel back into the mainline Linux kernel tree.' Android has been using Linux 2.6.x for its devices since its release, with patches from Google. To date they haven't been merged back into the kernel mainline but existed on kernel.org. Some of the features such as wakelocks would help with Linux tablet projects, but other features aren't fully realized and support remains spotty.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/1633235/project-to-mainline-android-kernel-changes-formed
Toward the end of November, the core Android code was returned to the staging tree, from which it had been removed at the end of 2009. Since the code's return to staging, changes have been going in and the code has caught up to its state in the Android tree. The code has now reached a point where, as summarized by Greg Kroah-Hartman on December 16:
http://lwn.net/Articles/472984/
Now almost two years later, a new effort that seems to have the backing of the Linux Foundation is aiming to bring Android back to the mainline. The project is officially titled the 'Android Mainlining Project' and was announced at the end of 2011 by Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation and Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment.
http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/android-set-to-return-to-the-linux-mainline.-will-it-succeed.html
Android itself use Linux operating system, as does Maemo aka Harmattan, as did MeeGo, as does Tizen and as does all other Desktop and Server distributions and not just those mobile phone Linux distributions.
Even that you are right, I would say 99% of people do not want to learn from history at all. And politicians, rich and CEO's of big corporations wants so as well.
As if citizens, poor and consumers learn history, they learn what has happened and on what direction those are leading us. And that only means they will loose the power to control us if we can think and talk freely outside of the controlled media where they control from what we should think and talk.
Not even today IT journalists know the history. They have so short memory that they forget almost everything what happened 6 months ago. Only purpose is to protect big companies, start flamewars between brands and sell products. Problem is how to do all that in good balance that they don't overthrow each other.
Example, how many journalist really know that the Linux kernel is a monolithic operating system?
That Android, Harmattan, Tizen, Ubuntu and so on are just distributions for Linux operating system and not different operating systems?
No, people do not want to learn history how operating systems were invented, developed and what got founded on what year and by who. They only want to flame each other (Windows vs OS X) or steal credits (FSF about GNU/Linux) or just sell products (Microsoft FUD campaigns).
Citizens (consumers) are those who are under so huge propaganda that they don't even see daylight trough that shit.
Yes, history should be told correctly, from the important parts. Same way the technology should be told by technology point of view instead brands and marketing.
Give the correct information to citizens (consumers) and they can vote correctly basing the information.
Give them a falsified information or misguide them and they vote as corporations and politicians wants.