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It’s really refreshing when someone in business actually embraces the open standards that brought us here.
by ironmagma 7y ago
It’s really refreshing when someone in business actually embraces the open standards that brought us here.
- anentropic 7y agoHave they really embraced it though? Or this is an undocumented debugging port which may go away in a future software update?
- Foxboron 7y agoMartin Sandsmark, the CTO, is a KDE developer and long-time Arch Linux community...guy. It's not going away in a future software update :)
- Paul-ish 7y agoThat is just one person, who can leave.
- IshKebab 7y agoOr be overruled.
- subaru_shoe 7y agoor actually do something good. why all the glass half full
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y agoExperience. A great deal of computing has trended towards locking out user control. Hopefully this is an exception, but I understand why people are pessimistic.
- ironmagma 7y agoThe trouble is that you can always assume that systems will become closed. If that's true, there's nothing to be hopeful about ever. It may be true in the majority of cases, but you have to give someone a chance at some point.
- MattConfluence 7y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072748 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13072748
- anentropic 7y agothat is encouraging
- m-p-3 7y agoKobo is kinda open in a way too, some nice stuff from the homebrew community for it.
- Polylactic_acid 7y agoMy kobo device got stuck in a boot loop and when I opened it up I saw the internal storage was a micro sd card. Put it in my computer and found a full linux system. Deleted the user database and the device booted again. I also saw there was a recovery partition so I probably could have fixed it from a button combo but still, cool stuff.