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by blihp 6y ago
Sony also 'officially' (in the sense that it was targeting hackers/developers) supported Linux on the PS2. IIRC, it was a $200 item which included a hard drive, network adapter and DVD with Linux on it.
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by blihp 6y ago
There's also a premium Apple can charge due to being the gatekeeper on their platforms in addition to market share. Firefox will always be in a weaker negotiating position since they only offer market share.
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by blihp 6y ago
The reason they keep going back to Google is they are willing to cut the biggest check. A few years back they tried kicking the Google habit... it didn't work. So barring new developments, Mozilla's prospects are significantly d
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by blihp 6y ago
Fixing the browser revenue is at best difficult (i.e. significantly increase market share, more hard work to do on the browser which will cost $$$ for labor) while the Fix The Internet initiative could result in a miracle that saves them.
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by blihp 6y ago
If you think of it, post it... so we can all Read It Later
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by blihp 6y ago
IIRC, the stated purpose of the formation of the foundation and corporation was to primarily fund the development of the/a browser product. Over the last 10 years, the corporation has taken in several billion dollars which should have
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by blihp 6y ago
You get flogged for things for-profit companies don't because Mozilla claims the moral high ground and then leaves something to be desired in its actions and results. The rather dodgy non-profit/for-profit hybrid while effective
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by blihp 6y ago
They aren't hurting for money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Affiliatio...
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by blihp 6y ago
Selling the search box brings in on the order of hundreds of millions a year. This alone puts them in a singularly unique category of 'well funded' open source software. Granted, their 3-year billion dollar deal may have been th
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by blihp 6y ago
Not necessarily undo MS, but rather that the deal looks attractive but may actually not be any good. In other words, it could end up being one of those deals where a few years down the road MS has to write the purchase price off as a loss.
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by blihp 6y ago
Second paragraph in the article: malicious media (i.e. video) can exploit it
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by blihp 6y ago
Need has nothing to do with it. They're identifying ways in which people are making money off of the platform and demanding a cut. This is what companies do unless there is competition and/or regulation.
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by blihp 6y ago
For some people, it isn't ever about having enough. It's always about having more. It also might not have been entirely about the money: he could have craved recognition, more power or who knows what else.
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by blihp 6y ago
That's a big part of the issue. Just running a desktop browser like Firefox on these ARM devices is an exercise in pain. While they technically run, they would be described as sluggish on a good day. Then trying to visit a 'hea
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by blihp 6y ago
Ubuntu Touch (UBports) is one approach to security, but not the only one. I have no problem with a 'locked down' OS as long as I'm the one locking it down. Ubuntu Touch locks down the phone, under your control. iOS, and to
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by blihp 6y ago
The Braveheart edition was pre-release (v1.1) hardware with no OS preinstalled. The Community Editions (CE) are based on release hardware with $10 of the purchase price going to the distro that gets preinstalled. The first one, that many
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by blihp 6y ago
Thanks for all of your work! Your blog was one of the first I found after mine arrived and it's been a great resource.
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by blihp 6y ago
The first night I had it, running UBports OTA-4 (the latest at the time), I charged it up to 100% and roughly 12 hours later it was <30% with the modem disabled. Battery life is not anywhere near what you're used to on Android or i
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by blihp 6y ago
You're right that it doesn't feel like a Linux desktop port which is its primary selling point: doing a mobile-centric Linux. They do seem to have a vision for where they want to go once they get fully updated to the final Canoni
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by blihp 6y ago
In theory, but not in practice. Yes, it's a somewhat visual database. But it doesn't have anywhere near the power or ease of use that Access did 20 years ago and its integration with the rest of LO isn't even close to what
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by blihp 6y ago
No. Even if open sourced, no. There would be no benefit to me in doing so (client or server) as it only has value for Windows users, which I no longer am. I was a Windows user long enough to be able to say with a fair degree of certainty
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by blihp 6y ago
It's an approach that works reasonably well in the Unix world of OS X and platform agnostic servers. It plays nicely with non-Apple filesystems including network shares using non-Apple protocols. It also makes it fairly trivial to ke
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by blihp 6y ago
Since it sounds like your objective in CS is primarily career oriented (i.e. 'to make myself more employable'), Lisp probably won't offer you something you or the majority of your future employers are likely to value. You wi
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by blihp 6y ago
Now you know not to ask that type of question there. Next assignment, just focus on hitting your due date and use whatever API seems right to you... ask for forgiveness later, if needed. Since you're new, you can pretty easily get aw
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by blihp 6y ago
Dead in the sense that presumably the last patent expired. So it's now dead like MP3 is dead... free to use by anyone.
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by blihp 6y ago
It's one thing when a tech company with lots of technical talent like Google decides to build its own (core) tools in a language like C++. It's another thing entirely when large numbers of IT departments, who have vastly more bus
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by blihp 6y ago
Virtually any business can eventually be profitable by operating at a loss until their competitors go out of business. Once the competition is gone profit is easy.
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by blihp 6y ago
Two things others have mentioned: - It's an open device so you're not locked out of or into anything (Android devices don't cut it on this front) - It's ARM-based One thing they haven't: - You don't pay for a
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by blihp 6y ago
It's not as nonsensical as it sounds: being an open hardware (iirc, with 2 exceptions) and software device, no one is locked out of doing/running anything they want to. So rather than the typical 'if you can jailbreak and th
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by blihp 6y ago
More likely they want their SV-level paycheck while working from a low cost of living location. The reality is large companies typically don't work (or rather, pay) that way for their employees.

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