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by chatman 13y ago
What are you even talking about?? "Stallman, et. al are also against anyone making any money from building software" This is utter non-sense. I think you are confusing "free as in freedom" with "free as in free beer
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by chatman 13y ago
It is hilarious to see how agrieved Apple (and Android) fanboys here have become to read the FSF post. Android and Apple, both have proprietary code. Both are inappropriate intrusions on users' freedom. Is it so hard to understand?
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by chatman 13y ago
"Bashar Assad gassed his country at night" The matter is under investigation. Stop defaming him without publicly available proof.
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by chatman 13y ago
Looks beautiful and simple.
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by chatman 13y ago
This is just speculation. I don't see any concrete signs of EBay integrating bitcoins support in PayPal in the near term.
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by chatman 13y ago
No.
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by chatman 13y ago
Nowadays, doing just about anything in Go makes it HN worthy.
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by chatman 13y ago
Cool granny with iMac. Well done, too.
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by chatman 13y ago
He might be gay.
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by chatman 13y ago
He has always been, as you describe. Go back in history and see how disrespectfully he talks about free software movement.
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by chatman 13y ago
This sounds like a great idea. Solar energy is abundant and can be easily tapped in India.
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by chatman 13y ago
Everyone should try OpenStreetMap based APIs, e.g. MapQuest Open.
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by chatman 13y ago
> Mac users are much worse than Linux users . I guess GNU/Linux users are smarter than everyone else across the world :-)
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by chatman 13y ago
I don't understand why this post is featured on HN. It is just commentary on a previous essay, and doesn't even sound like a comprehensive commentary; just a few observations.
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by chatman 13y ago
That is for the official record. Even Yahoo won't know how many users' data was compromised via NSA backdoors. A regular user should never trust Yahoo and other such services.
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by chatman 13y ago
Android is "open source", yet there may be restrictions on your ability to compile and run your copy of the source code on your device. Can you trust the OEMs that they are running the same code as you have a copy of?
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by chatman 13y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux , here is the relevant part: "Since the initial release of its source code in 1991, it has grown from a small number of C files under a license prohibiting commer
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by chatman 13y ago
No one is forcing anyone. It is just a courtesy, not a binding, to acknowledge the group who built the OS ground up. The GNU project had built all pieces of the OS, before convincing Linus Torvalds to release his proprietary kernel code in
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by chatman 13y ago
GNU terrorist? Look up the history of the operating system and you'll find that GNU and Linux kernel were both equally responsible for putting together a free and open source operating system. Before the GNU project, Linux kernel was o
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by chatman 13y ago
Because X, KDE, GNOME etc. were all built using the core tools that GNU project provides. Most notably the gcc compiler. The Android system uses the Linux kernel, but should people refer to the OS as "Linux" or "Android"
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by chatman 13y ago
"GNU/Linux" is the OS, "Linux" is just the kernel. The GNU project is responsible for many of the crucial parts responsible for making a complete OS, save for the kernel. Abbreviating the OS with "Linux",
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by chatman 13y ago
Open source software is not same as free software. One needs free software (which is open source, as well as give users complete freedom) to ensure their privacy.
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by chatman 13y ago
Misleading title. A program written by a Russian isn't necessarily "Russian Software".
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by chatman 13y ago
Obese people have a large carbon footprint, perhaps like a Yeti. They should be sent on a one-way space expedition!
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by chatman 13y ago
Wow, what a revelation! Also, a new survey finds that most human beings like to breathe air daily!
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by chatman 13y ago
Is Microsoft in talks for a Groupon takeover? Seems like a Ballmeresque quirk.
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by chatman 13y ago
Do no evil. Google exploring borderline evil tactics.
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by chatman 13y ago
Yahoo's red logo back in 90s was their best ever. All this purple doesn't look good.
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by chatman 13y ago
This is esp. true for dynamically typed languages. An IDE helps a lot more deterministically for a static typed language like Java.
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by chatman 13y ago
Why fix if it ain't broke? I don't think this Wayland port is needed. Would be better to spend engineering effort to add more features to GNOME and make the existing experience smoother.

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