First, AOSP is, it's licensed under a combination of GNU 2.0 (Linux kernel) and Apache 2.0. The problem is the Google Apps package that's required to access Google's app store.
So, it's free, but with restrictions. Which doesn't sound like "free" to me.
Second, the people wouldn't, the manufacturers would
The manufacturers don't pay for shit. Where do you think the money comes from? Every penny, at every step in the development and manufacturing process of an Android device is coming from consumers. This idea that a corporation that makes consumer products is "paying" for anything is something you have to get over. It keeps you in bondage.
Third, that's what AOSP is for.
You mean the "free, but with restrictions" AOSP? Don't be gullible.
First, Android is not free. You pay for it with your personal information. If it's free as in "open", then Google should license it as such instead of fucking around.
Second, if Android is worth anything, people will pay for it with money.
Third (bonus), I do not want my operating system to be an "ecosystem". I want it to be an operating system and get the fuck out of my way.
Today, I can get Internet via a satellite dish, cable company wire, DSL over an AT&T owned wire, over cell transmission services offered by AT&T or Verizon, Google fiber, or a WISP.
No, you can't. There are developed, populated areas that only have one possible broadband provider or 4G. Nothing else.
The options for internet service have only been growing under free markets. More & more & more.
Amazing. Every single word of what you wrote is provably wrong.
No, that's not why. I'm sure the cities full of homeless sure enjoy your high taxes. I'm sure the illegal immigrants there sure enjoy your high taxes. I'm sure your middle class fleeing to surrounding states sure enjoy your high taxes.
People from flyover states sure have a funny idea about what California's like.
I assure you, that when my federal, state and local taxes (including real estate taxes) are factored together, it is within 10% of the Danish tax rate. And worth it.
Here's a pro-tip for all you younger Slashdotters out there. When someone starts using the "socialism works, but only in ethnically pure countries", you can bet you have encountered a white nationalist or neo-Nazi. You can safely ignore everything they say.
You missed a pretty important word in that quote of yours: Welfare. Welfare is not socialism.
You haven't been around that long, so I'm going to indulge you with a response. Of course social welfare programs are part of socialist systems. Where did you get the idea that they are not?
So everyone owns the grocery store, but most people don't get a decision about how it's run?
No, dumbshit. Socialism doesn't require government ownership of the means of production and distribution. Don't they teach fucking anything in school any more? Did you drop out before taking one world history course?
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Yes, that's true. I'm one of the proud, too.
So, it's free, but with restrictions. Which doesn't sound like "free" to me.
The manufacturers don't pay for shit. Where do you think the money comes from? Every penny, at every step in the development and manufacturing process of an Android device is coming from consumers. This idea that a corporation that makes consumer products is "paying" for anything is something you have to get over. It keeps you in bondage.
You mean the "free, but with restrictions" AOSP? Don't be gullible.
First, Android is not free. You pay for it with your personal information. If it's free as in "open", then Google should license it as such instead of fucking around.
Second, if Android is worth anything, people will pay for it with money.
Third (bonus), I do not want my operating system to be an "ecosystem". I want it to be an operating system and get the fuck out of my way.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
No, there are large portions of the country, including in big cities like Houston, Dallas, that don't have any choice of provider.
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
No, you can't. There are developed, populated areas that only have one possible broadband provider or 4G. Nothing else.
Amazing. Every single word of what you wrote is provably wrong.
People from flyover states sure have a funny idea about what California's like.
Hey, everybody's gotta eat. If someone can get people to pay them money to produce shitty modern art, what's the harm?
I was hoping it was a robot that could paint my porch. Turns out that it's a robot that can make bad art.
In 2013, SpaceX launched a satellite into space, only 56 years after a Socialist country did it.
Are you suggesting that people of Nordic ethnicity have an extra bone in the foot that makes them more suitable for socialism?
I mean, as long as we're throwing stuff out there...
Yeah, about that...
https://news.stanford.edu/2016...
https://www.scientificamerican...
Say, does anyone know if Jeff Bezos committed treason in the past few hours? Because if so, you'd think there would be a story about it.
It is unconstitutional to require someone to pay a fee to vote.
I told you.
https://youtu.be/SgpnrOUS2BE
You don't know how percentages work.
I assure you, that when my federal, state and local taxes (including real estate taxes) are factored together, it is within 10% of the Danish tax rate. And worth it.
Here's a pro-tip for all you younger Slashdotters out there. When someone starts using the "socialism works, but only in ethnically pure countries", you can bet you have encountered a white nationalist or neo-Nazi. You can safely ignore everything they say.
No.
For both of us, if you include capital gains.
So, socialism is a good thing. That's my point.
"masculine".
Here is an unretouched photograph of James Damore:
https://goo.gl/images/h21Qbh
You haven't been around that long, so I'm going to indulge you with a response. Of course social welfare programs are part of socialist systems. Where did you get the idea that they are not?
I'm retired, but my income still puts me in the top bracket. And, my wife isn't retired.
No, dumbshit. Socialism doesn't require government ownership of the means of production and distribution. Don't they teach fucking anything in school any more? Did you drop out before taking one world history course?
I live in California, and I pay about the same tax rate as Denmark. And it works. This is nicest place I've ever lived.