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by adrianmalacoda 9y ago
And by "open source" they mean a proprietary product[0] with "personal" (stripped down and highly restrictive license) and "pro" versions[1], naturally. The old version (which is on github) is GPLv3 apparently.
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by adrianmalacoda 10y ago
JavaScript can do whatever the environment lets it do. Obviously browser based JavaScript is extremely limited but JavaScript running outside of a browser (e.g. on a server, or in a desktop application) can and does do all of those things y
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by adrianmalacoda 10y ago
> Why is "like $X but under a permissive license" something that people champion for? Are we not all in the same boat, trying to replace proprietary software so users can live in freedom? Permissive licenses simply do not help
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by adrianmalacoda 11y ago
I got Uberio[0]: Uber for ubers. As a site which spits out "Uber for ____" is this somehow self-referential? [0] http://www.launchnik.com/uberio
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by adrianmalacoda 12y ago
paint.net is not FOSS [1]. IIRC it used to be, but it was made proprietary at some point. [1] http://www.getpaint.net/license.html
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by adrianmalacoda 12y ago
Most proponents of free software would argue that the difference between free software and open source is a philosophical one, not a technical one [0]. Copyleft is preferable, but not mandatory, for a free software license; the most widely
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by adrianmalacoda 12y ago
Probably the same reason they're using Ubuntu and Chrome: the alternatives, while free, aren't fashionable enough.
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by adrianmalacoda 12y ago
I tend to think when people specifically claim to support "Ubuntu" (instead of "Linux") it means they actively tested it with Ubuntu and have determined that it is compatible with Ubuntu. I guess it's easier to just
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
> I don thinkt that makes any sense. Should we also use js to implement the OS for the server? We don't normally develop the OS ourselves, so what language it was written in is irrelevant. Same goes for runtimes, libraries, etc. If
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
Nah, Android is the other way around. The core Android platform (the AOSP) is free software, but the Google services are proprietary. This looks like they're going to allow people to view the source code, but not actually use it. My im
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
North Korea is an interesting choice, because its citizens do not even have internet connectivity [1]. What they have is a North Korean national intranet which is tightly controlled [2]. I don't believe Tor would be useful for circumve
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
A copyleft license is actually more conductive to Open Core development because it allows the copyright holder to reserve the right to create proprietary addons while shutting the community out of that option [1]. Not trying to insinuate th
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
You might find Project Lombok [1] interesting. It's a library of annotations that can be used to generate boilerplate code. [1] http://projectlombok.org/
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
One of the news articles the Wikipedia article cites [1] refers to Snowden explicitly as a "former CIA employee." [1] http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-06-09/news/chi-nsa-p... However, he says he w
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
This is exciting, especially the CC licensing, which will encourage kids to expand the game themselves. As a kid I've made similar projects, and I know I'm not the only one. Good job! :)
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
That's Python running inside Ruby, while the OP was (ostensibly) Ruby inside Python. Rython [1] purports to run Ruby inside Python, although it hasn't been updated since 2009. Unlike RubyPython it doesn't actually embed a VM.
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
There are various bugs in the game that can be exploited to achieve this, without the need of an emulator or cheating device. The creator of the thread demonstrates how to obtain the special "item" in the game that makes it possib
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
I'm subscribed to HN's RSS feed using a feed reader app on my phone, and when I saw this item the title was truncated at around "written." Somehow I just knew it would be Go. I entertained the idea that maybe it would ha
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
Since then they've shied away from selecting "controversial" figures. Hence why bin Laden didn't get it in 2001, for example.
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
If it's voluntary on the user's part, then I'd be all for it. I was more concerned about the "in the background without attracting attention" part, which implies that it is done behind the user's back. I could
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
I sure hope this doesn't become a thing, and if it does, that existing ad blocking and/or anti-malware tools pick it up and warn the user against it. When you start appropriating other peoples' computers for your own purposes
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
Linux is not quite so anti-commercial as people make it out to be. Many contributions that go into the kernel come from paid developers working at the behest of a company, and there are companies offering support contracts and services for
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
Proud user of Trisquel[1] since 2010. It's a fork of Ubuntu that adheres to GNU's Guidelines for Free System Distributions[2]. While I'm aware that the general opinion of the free software movement ranges from "extreme&q
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
Thanks. I'm not a fan of the whole Unity Amazon integration deal myself, but I think there's a clear difference between a site critical of Ubuntu using their name in the domain and their logo in the header image versus a passing
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
I take it the Debian derivative from Canonical that cannot be named is sort of like a Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor[0] for the average user? I'm curious if there's some sort of backstory to this. [0] http:&#x2F
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
What exactly is that, though? None of the social links in the bottom right corner go anywhere. The only thing on that page is an email submission form. The wording leads one to conclude that it must be some alternative to YouTube, but I d
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
FAQ[1] implies this is not the case, and that the source will correspond to the binary. The only thing the binary will bring that the source itself will not is the MPEG LA licensing. > Q. Why is Cisco making both source and binary versio
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
Most likely the FBI would just demand that they return it. http://boingboing.net/2010/10/09/student-finds-gps-bu.html
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by adrianmalacoda 13y ago
It's an interesting idea for sure, but in my opinion the objections are justified. The problem I (and some others here) have with this is " I easily could have hidden it. In fact, I could install this on every site you visit, and