Yep, it's simple, for these closed-source commercial offerings, the option of being able to close the source is valued more than features, especially hardware compatibility is not overly relevant, considering the fact that it has to run on a highly limited set of hardware.
Put bluntly, considering that the alternative is either Windows, which has bad license requirements for manufacturers, and is not exactly a high performance OS (just to illustrate, the Win7 here manages to slow down even a nice new SSD by over a magnitude in the filesystem code just copying small files on NTFS), and on the other hand you've got Linux that has license conditions that are not acceptable (or perceived so by the legal dept), and say some performance enhancements and quite a bit of hardware support that you don't need anyway,...
Hard choice, isn't it?
For a generic OS, I'll stick with Linux, because that's where all the advanced stuff is relevant.
First, the question is of the interaction. The apps almost certainly consist of a launcher/helper written in Java/Android and a compiled binary. The normal analysis is that by calling a GPLed program your program does not yet become GPLed. The next detail is that the DOSBox source is probably modified, e.g. to interact with the hardware (e.g. Android is not X11), and to compile on ARM,... => these modifications do need to be released.
Hint: yes. Apple only allows the browser competition to use the Safari browser (in a slower mode than by default, to add insult I guess), hence all these other browsers are slower than Safari (different mode), but offer in the end rather exactly the same rendering experience.
Well, they lost that one in the UK and the US (funny detail, but then the jury has gone so fast through the verdict that they had less than 5 minutes on average for each question, and that does include the time that they should have spent reading the explanations, guess a "quality verdict"), even the US jury found that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe on the iPad design.
Well, adblock OTOH can work way more fine tuned, e.g. it can block only specific url pattern, as sites have started to offer unwanted content on the same hostname that the wanted content is hosted.
My personal combination is NoScript, Adblock+ and Ghostery.
Btw, Windows 8 hosts file are automatically reseted by the system, and using some binary that I would have to run in wine to edit/etc/hosts sounds fishy to me.
The passing of sovereignty to the EU is a very slow process, taking decades usually.
So, there are no federal taxes, there is mostly no federal law enforcement (there are some special offices to combat fraud related to EU money, there is a "supreme" (kind of) European Court, but there is no European police in general).
Foreign policy is still mostly done on the country level. That's why the UK often plays the lap dog for Washington. There is no common currency as such, the Euro is only the currency of a subset of the EU member countries. While for most of Western Europe, border controls are a thing of the past, that's not universal also.
The European Parliament has been for decades only a fig leaf, and has gained powers as a counter weight to the Council in recent years. The EU has been for most of it's existence a system where the governments of the member countries choose EU officials, the Parliament being the only part that is chosen by the population. Think a House that has not many rights (e.g. it at least has now gained the right to veto most of the EU stuff), and a Senate that is stuffed directly with state governors that more or less trade horses for deciding who will be the administration for the next term. Ah, did I mention that for half a century, all decisions in the EU could be vetoed by any member country, decisions by double majority (majority of countries plus population) in some areas are also new stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution the Communist threat was handled by NATO, technically speaking the UK and France are nuclear powers. It's way harder to argue for compromise and solidarity if you are all driving nice cars and have not many pressing problems, OTOH enemy soldiers on the border, pirates and so on are a way stronger motive to cooperate.
But the funny part is, because of the common market, a sale ban in Germany amounts practically to an European wide sale ban, as US companies often choose only one member country as a distribution base.
Well, the interesting part is how much owners of company with legal person status (GmbH/AG) may influence the officers of the company before it becomes legally awkward/criminal.
And prepare to pay heavy fines if you do not fulfill your local obligations, the way US courts behave, many local judges are quite pissed. (E.g. the US court tends not to comply with requests for legal help, but expects the local peons to supply all the stuff pronto.
E.g. the US does not follow court orders concerning giving evidence to the defense in the NZ Mega DotCom case.
The US also has this "funny" notation that it's agents abroad are above the law, e.g. see the verdicts against CIA agents in Italy, somehow the US seems to willing to extradite these so they can serve their sentences.
Well, the question is if it applies to Europe, the license and/or patent. Because patents are quite often differently interpreted even by different US courts, and certainly differently in Europe.
Now you are fucked no matter what you do. Basically discriminating against some because he is Cuban is illegal, potentially criminal, inside the EU, and trying to enforce the US Cuba embargo just does not happens in the EU, actually most US-owned banks in Europe declare to be happy to do business with Cuban nationals.
E.g. China is introducing a law that makes it crime for map service to show territory it claims to be Chinese as anything else. Now they are almost certainly not the only one with laws like these on the books, so how do you draw a map that needs to fulfill multiple incompatible claims?
Well, yes, the question is basically if it's legal from a German point of view, e.g. there are limits how much share owners can dictate behavior to officers of a GmbH or AG (where the companies are basically legal persons, and the officers of the company are kind of guardians for it).
For example the EU does have explicit laws that criminalize applying Helms-Burton inside Europe, the usual way is that the OFAC gives exceptions for US-owned EU companies.
So I guess Motorola could probably construct it in such a way that they enforce the injunction, BUT the question is, do they want to piss of the US judge?
Well, actually, forget the Samsung brainwashing too, there are a number of devices that can compete with the S3 easily enough that cost half of it, e.g. the Nexus.
| Eventually, iOS users who don't want to wait for Apple-Google parity will be able to download native a native version of Google's maps (rather than a hacked version), | but that could be a ways off.
That's not a given. Normally Apps that replicate builtin functionality in the iPhone are banned from iTunes. So Google might be working behind the scenes, although I'd guess that will be the more general applicable merging of Google Earth/Maps data sets, but till Apple commits to allow Google Maps, Google will not say in public if there will be a Google Maps for iOS app.
Apple is probably currently evaluating how big the shit storm versus time to fix Maps data is. The question here is mostly how big they assume fixing the Maps data is. (It's probably bigger than huge, according to Geodata experts for a number of reasons, but it will probably include setting up a big part of the Maps data creation processes from scratch.) When they realize that they'll have iOS7 before the Maps data will be fixed (we are talking outside the US, e.g. in the EU, they've got complete towns missing, misplaced by dozens/hundreds of miles, data that is clearly over a decade out of date, and developing countries seem to be even worse.), Apple will probably allow Google Maps into the store.
Well, that does not really help, so instead of accusing X as evil the evening before the voting, I accuse him of being evil 24 hours earlier, and add that he'll certainly get even more evil in the next day?
Basically, it just moves a deadline around, without much of practical value.
Well, experience in Austria shows that atypical phones even on a contract are not locked. E.g. data centric phones before the iPhone where heavy duty geek stuff, hence sold in small numbers, hence even on contract the carries didn't bother to produce a locked batch.
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Yep, it's simple, for these closed-source commercial offerings, the option of being able to close the source is valued more than features, especially hardware compatibility is not overly relevant, considering the fact that it has to run on a highly limited set of hardware.
Put bluntly, considering that the alternative is either Windows, which has bad license requirements for manufacturers, and is not exactly a high performance OS (just to illustrate, the Win7 here manages to slow down even a nice new SSD by over a magnitude in the filesystem code just copying small files on NTFS), and on the other hand you've got Linux that has license conditions that are not acceptable (or perceived so by the legal dept), and say some performance enhancements and quite a bit of hardware support that you don't need anyway, ...
Hard choice, isn't it?
For a generic OS, I'll stick with Linux, because that's where all the advanced stuff is relevant.
First, the question is of the interaction. The apps almost certainly consist of a launcher/helper written in Java/Android and a compiled binary. The normal analysis is that by calling a GPLed program your program does not yet become GPLed. The next detail is that the DOSBox source is probably modified, e.g. to interact with the hardware (e.g. Android is not X11), and to compile on ARM, ... => these modifications do need to be released.
How does the PlayStore have anything with that? They could easily embed the source in the apk and distribute it with the binary.
Hint: yes. Apple only allows the browser competition to use the Safari browser (in a slower mode than by default, to add insult I guess), hence all these other browsers are slower than Safari (different mode), but offer in the end rather exactly the same rendering experience.
It does not use the oil up.
Exactly, and the perverted criminal competition has changed the landscape all around to make Apple Maps look bad.
So if Hyundai lies about it's cars fuel efficiency, you go and discuss this at your gas station, right?
Well, they lost that one in the UK and the US (funny detail, but then the jury has gone so fast through the verdict that they had less than 5 minutes on average for each question, and that does include the time that they should have spent reading the explanations, guess a "quality verdict"), even the US jury found that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 does not infringe on the iPad design.
Well, lying as such is not covered by the 1st Amendment. Especially if done in the course of commercial activities.
You sure? My Apple-logic(tm) that would make super productive, as the iPad is clearly superior to a mere PC for any use, ....
Actually, FB is not that much quality interaction.
Well, actually I can either tell /. not to serve me ads, or Adblock blocks them for me, ...
Well, adblock OTOH can work way more fine tuned, e.g. it can block only specific url pattern, as sites have started to offer unwanted content on the same hostname that the wanted content is hosted.
My personal combination is NoScript, Adblock+ and Ghostery.
Btw, Windows 8 hosts file are automatically reseted by the system, and using some binary that I would have to run in wine to edit /etc/hosts sounds fishy to me.
Cool idea, that would put the US on the way to a planned economy (see USSR), a decade or two, and the USA is history.
Well, it's a member country of the EU.
The passing of sovereignty to the EU is a very slow process, taking decades usually.
So, there are no federal taxes, there is mostly no federal law enforcement (there are some special offices to combat fraud related to EU money, there is a "supreme" (kind of) European Court, but there is no European police in general).
Foreign policy is still mostly done on the country level. That's why the UK often plays the lap dog for Washington. There is no common currency as such, the Euro is only the currency of a subset of the EU member countries. While for most of Western Europe, border controls are a thing of the past, that's not universal also.
The European Parliament has been for decades only a fig leaf, and has gained powers as a counter weight to the Council in recent years. The EU has been for most of it's existence a system where the governments of the member countries choose EU officials, the Parliament being the only part that is chosen by the population. Think a House that has not many rights (e.g. it at least has now gained the right to veto most of the EU stuff), and a Senate that is stuffed directly with state governors that more or less trade horses for deciding who will be the administration for the next term. Ah, did I mention that for half a century, all decisions in the EU could be vetoed by any member country, decisions by double majority (majority of countries plus population) in some areas are also new stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution the Communist threat was handled by NATO, technically speaking the UK and France are nuclear powers. It's way harder to argue for compromise and solidarity if you are all driving nice cars and have not many pressing problems, OTOH enemy soldiers on the border, pirates and so on are a way stronger motive to cooperate.
But the funny part is, because of the common market, a sale ban in Germany amounts practically to an European wide sale ban, as US companies often choose only one member country as a distribution base.
Motorola Germany.
Well, the interesting part is how much owners of company with legal person status (GmbH/AG) may influence the officers of the company before it becomes legally awkward/criminal.
And prepare to pay heavy fines if you do not fulfill your local obligations, the way US courts behave, many local judges are quite pissed. (E.g. the US court tends not to comply with requests for legal help, but expects the local peons to supply all the stuff pronto.
E.g. the US does not follow court orders concerning giving evidence to the defense in the NZ Mega DotCom case.
The US also has this "funny" notation that it's agents abroad are above the law, e.g. see the verdicts against CIA agents in Italy, somehow the US seems to willing to extradite these so they can serve their sentences.
Well, the question is if it applies to Europe, the license and/or patent. Because patents are quite often differently interpreted even by different US courts, and certainly differently in Europe.
Well, and then something like this happens, that the other country makes it a crime to follow the extraterritorial laws for the first country.
http:/// eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31996R2271:EN:HTML
Now you are fucked no matter what you do. Basically discriminating against some because he is Cuban is illegal, potentially criminal, inside the EU, and trying to enforce the US Cuba embargo just does not happens in the EU, actually most US-owned banks in Europe declare to be happy to do business with Cuban nationals.
E.g. China is introducing a law that makes it crime for map service to show territory it claims to be Chinese as anything else. Now they are almost certainly not the only one with laws like these on the books, so how do you draw a map that needs to fulfill multiple incompatible claims?
Well, yes, the question is basically if it's legal from a German point of view, e.g. there are limits how much share owners can dictate behavior to officers of a GmbH or AG (where the companies are basically legal persons, and the officers of the company are kind of guardians for it).
For example the EU does have explicit laws that criminalize applying Helms-Burton inside Europe, the usual way is that the OFAC gives exceptions for US-owned EU companies.
So I guess Motorola could probably construct it in such a way that they enforce the injunction, BUT the question is, do they want to piss of the US judge?
Well, actually, forget the Samsung brainwashing too, there are a number of devices that can compete with the S3 easily enough that cost half of it, e.g. the Nexus.
| Eventually, iOS users who don't want to wait for Apple-Google parity will be able to download native a native version of Google's maps (rather than a hacked version),
| but that could be a ways off.
That's not a given. Normally Apps that replicate builtin functionality in the iPhone are banned from iTunes. So Google might be working behind the scenes, although I'd guess that will be the more general applicable merging of Google Earth/Maps data sets, but till Apple commits to allow Google Maps, Google will not say in public if there will be a Google Maps for iOS app.
Apple is probably currently evaluating how big the shit storm versus time to fix Maps data is. The question here is mostly how big they assume fixing the Maps data is. (It's probably bigger than huge, according to Geodata experts for a number of reasons, but it will probably include setting up a big part of the Maps data creation processes from scratch.) When they realize that they'll have iOS7 before the Maps data will be fixed (we are talking outside the US, e.g. in the EU, they've got complete towns missing, misplaced by dozens/hundreds of miles, data that is clearly over a decade out of date, and developing countries seem to be even worse.), Apple will probably allow Google Maps into the store.
Well, that does not really help, so instead of accusing X as evil the evening before the voting, I accuse him of being evil 24 hours earlier, and add that he'll certainly get even more evil in the next day?
Basically, it just moves a deadline around, without much of practical value.
Well, experience in Austria shows that atypical phones even on a contract are not locked. E.g. data centric phones before the iPhone where heavy duty geek stuff, hence sold in small numbers, hence even on contract the carries didn't bother to produce a locked batch.