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16y ago
Being fired - don't know. But if you are a minion at, say MSFT, imagine how many layers of management a sign-off would go up before somebody said - yes you can assign copyright to that little utility to Gnu.
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16y ago
You forgot the bit where if you work for a company you need to get approval from 18levels of management and corporate lawyers on 3 continents who have never heard of free software - and you are on the receiving end of the political flak. Or
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16y ago
I expect all the phones will become linux but you won't know. The underlying core OS will be a linux derivative, but the layers on top will vary so much that switching from one brand to another will be the same difference as switching betwe
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16y ago
Self correcting - first you talk to yourself, then you start answering yourself, then you argue with yourself - then you sulk and stop talking to you.
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16y ago
>The process is to meticulously explain code to an inanimate object Isn't that what students are for?
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16y ago
""Honestly, I don't need a computer more powerful than my Motorola Droid. "" But the phone does. Originally the ARM was a tiny, 30,000gate, cpu core in the corner of the ASIC that did all the phone stuff. If the ARM gets powerful enough it