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by cmiles74 6y ago
In the early days, Microsoft was licensed to develop a JVM for Windows. It shipped as part of Internet Explorer, it probably ended up on the majority of Windows machines at the time. Over time, I believe Microsoft started to implement Windo
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In this case the writers are talking about "publishing" rights which are distinct and separate from the sound recording (I believe those are called the "master" rights). ---- Copyright is split into two main sections: co
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Don't the engineers in this situation have more decision making powers than developers in your typical corporate environment? In my opinion, more power would need to be given to developers before they could be held accountable in the s
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> I always wonder whether contributor names to closed sourced software should always be transparent. In my opinion, absolutely not! The company or corporation holds all the cards: they manage the budget, the schedule, the hiring firing a
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I used MacOS for years, out of your list the only feature I ever really used was "multiple desktops". I would group apps roughly by function (email and messaging was on one desktop, the code editor was on another). I definitely wa
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I find it embarrassing that this is the top comment on this post. Not only is this comment mostly incoherent, it's pretty far from the facts at hand. These aren't hard to find, you can search Google or read the paragraph on Stallm
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Was this really the result of a SQL injection attack? I can't find any details on how data was exfiltrated from the site. With all of the tools available today I would have thought this kind of attack would be pretty uncommon.
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I would say that, yes, no one wants "incognito" or "private browsing" to prevent any kind of tracking. Wouldn't this render the majority of websites useless? The average person is probably looking for something that
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My understanding was that the "incognito" mode in Google Chrome (or "private browsing" in Firefox) would prevent data like cookies or saved passwords from remaining on the physical computer when the window was closed. I
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Reminding the rest of us who ESR actually is strikes me as helpful, the link is to one of his projects. In terms of "cancelling" him, isn't that up to individuals who decide they do not want to use his software?
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I don't see how this is related... In this case they are talking about known vulnerabilities on specific Android versions. Here we are not talking about a specific vulnerability but about the way Android works and how custom keyboards
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Signal should place someone who is somewhat technical between the customers of Signal and the development team. Many companies do this and it ensures that the person handling communication with the public has the time and energy to do so. I
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I don't think this framing of the issue is helpful in this case. The people who have installed a custom keyboard likely did so for a tangible benefit, they may not have understood the warning from the phone at installation time or they
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I think the purpose of a healthy company is to make widgets. A company that's unsuccessful or on the path to failure will thrash about and, I think, eventually decide their purpose is simply "to make money". Clearly we should
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Now that they have tied Oculus accounts to Facebook accounts, they may have to revisit this policy of arbitrarily banning accounts from all services unilaterally and without explanation. The headsets from Oculus are not inexpensive and I im
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by cmiles74 6y ago
Since you have mentioned this I have read three more articles and short blurbs about this kerfuffle and _they all_ have used the same "based on Lucene" text when describing Elasticsearch. As you say, Wikipedia seems to be the one
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That sounds fair to me. Perhaps the issue is that Elastic is getting so little from the Amazon product that they resent, essentially, adding features to the Amazon product for little or no return. Elastic noted that, in their experience, so
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I don't think it's fair to say that Elastic wants to be the exclusive vendor of Elasticsearch. They have registered and own the trademark, I believe it is fair to say that they want to be the only vendor who can use that trademark
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Given that Amazon's customers are inside Amazon's proprietary AWS environment, I think it's unreasonable to expect that an outside company can meaningfully compete inside that environment. In terms of customer preference, AWS
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I'm not sure what value the word "chosen" has in this context. Amazon is one of the largest and wealthiest technology companies in the world with a large captive audience of customers locked into their AWS product. On what te
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I have to disagree, I see no reason to think that Elasticsearch is seeking to avoid "the drawbacks" of a permissive license. I believe the project has been using a permissive license since it's first release in 2010. What the
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by cmiles74 6y ago
It's worth keeping in mind that we don't always know which projects will truly become successful. The precursor to Elasticsearch, Compass, wasn't hugely popular. When I started looking hard at Elasticsearch, with plans to act
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Amazon doesn't need to use a proprietary license, the product they have built around Elasticsearch is itself proprietary. They have produced and are selling Elasticsearch-as-a-service for their AWS environment.
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In my opinion, the phrase "based on" implies that a lot of the Elasticsearch functionality is actually Lucene functionality. I disagree that this is the case, I think there is a lot of functionality that Elasticsearch brings that
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The open source project trademarked the name of the project. Because it is trademarked, Amazon requires permission to use the name of the project. This isn't unusual, many other open source projects trademarked the name of their projec
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I would bet that if Elastic disappeared we'd see this offering stagnate. Amazon has put time and energy into work making the service but little (AFAICT) into the Elasticsearch product itself. In my opinion this is a short-sighted way f
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The only obligation that Easticsearch has to the Lucene project is to donate back improvements to Lucene itself. I believe the Elasticsearch project has done this in the past. No one is asking Amazon to share profits with Elastic. Many peop
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Elasticsearch offers _a lot_ above and beyond what you get out-of-the-box with Lucene. For sure, the Lucene library is used by Elasticsearch but this comparison is way off base.
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If it wasn't Apple, it would have been Disney. http://www.mtv.com/news/3020742/fake-nickelodeon-products-pe...
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I disagree that this was an oversight of the of the US Constitution. Newspapers and books were both things when the US Constitution was written and, in all the years since, we haven't seen any amendments that would force a newspaper to

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