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by cooldeal 14y ago
Quite true, Netscape's rewrite was a pretty bad mistake and when it was actually released it was still bad. Must read articles by Joel about it. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/arti
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>They're not restricting Firefox on the basis of some policy that applies to everyone but singling out one piece of software. >Framing this using Apple and it's policies/practices are an attempt at misdirection. If you take this att
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>I believe the whole Metro API browser thing is just more evidence of Microsoft's stagnation. I don't see that. They realize the crap that's thrown at them for malware on Windows and pre-emptively want to cut that off for Windows RT, li
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Microsoft Antitrust Finding Specific to Windows on Intel?(daringfireball.net)
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Microsoft to bring full IE browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls(theverge.com)
4 points by cooldeal 14y ago|1 comments
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by cooldeal 14y ago
The whole situation also reminds of me of how Apple never got in trouble for doing the exact same thing with Safari in iOS in spite of the iPad dominating the tablet market.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
They sure seem to, for Windows RT. That was the point.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Windows 8 can run whatever programs Windows 7 can run. We're talking about Windows RT here, which is targeted at portable ARM tablets with high battery life. Your legacy app won't run on ARM anyway.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Another honest question, are alternative browsers allowed on Chromebooks running ChromeOS?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Are Microsoft actively trying to lose customers? Why would we use this OS when there are open alternatives around? Oh,is that why the iPad is such a big failure compared to Android tablets? /s
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I don't see how leveraging Office is illegal or can be considered abuse. In that case, they should already be on the dock for not having a Office for Linux, yet I don't even see anyone making that claim.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Because if they do, no one will care except a few FOSS fans and it would get flagged to death on HN. But it's open season on MS, that's why we have three different stories on the front page reporting the exact same story, so they know how t
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Every ARM phone has a windows license paid for it, it's just not installed. iPhone is an ARM phone. >Basically, all ARM Windows machines will have an encrypted boot loader All iOS ARM machines have a locked bootloader. All 200M+ of
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Given that Microsoft has already moved to ban Linux from ARM devices at the UEFI level Put that way, Apple has also moved to block Linux from two hundred million+ ARM devices at the bootloader level but I barely hear a peep about it,
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by cooldeal 14y ago
That seems to be quite a stretch. MS is rumored to be working on Office for the iPad. If that's true then will it get them off the hook?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
How is this remotely related to antitrust(any more than the iPad i.e) ? Desktop Windows gains it's monopoly leverage from running Win 32 apps and people are forced to run it for compatibility. None of those programs will ever run on Windows
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Worked quite well on HN.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I guess that the writer is (understandably) pissed, especially at Paydirt using a torn IE icon image on their browser denial page. https://paydirtapp.com/assets/ie_broken-7502950b14013927bbde... You would be pissed too, if someone claimed
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Bizarre internal Apple video shows Steve Jobs rallying the troops against IBM(engadget.com)
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by cooldeal 15y ago
That doesn't include Google's modifications. From http://lwn.net/Articles/357658/ And there's a lot in that tree. Google started with the 2.4.18 kernel - but they patched over 2000 files, inserting 492,000 lines of code. Among other thing
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>Note that it supposes that the first team has access to the specification, source code, or any IP-encumbered indication about how the software in question works. In the case of Skype, the only public information we have is the binary.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
That's fine, but if you publish the modified binaries of OS X's libraries with hacks to make them work in Linux along with the description, you will be in legal hot water.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Here? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3919881
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by cooldeal 15y ago
>so it would get more apps, and the platform would outsell Apple's iPad with its constraints. Apple has that covered. You cannot make your services cheaper on other platforms. You have to charge atleast what you charge iOS users for the
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by cooldeal 15y ago
For what it's worth, Windows 8 App Store will not restrict in-app purchasing like the iOS App Store does.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
So if Apple and Samsung independently do this, there can be norecourse since both of them aren't monopolies even if they have around 90% marketshare together. Even though the harmful effects on the market is the same. I guess that explains
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by cooldeal 15y ago
It does change the scale of things materially because of Apple's high profits compared to other large organizations that you talk about.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
So innovating the double Irish with a Dutch sandwich is "following" the law? It's more akin to hacking or circumventing them while still staying legal. Just because something is legal does not mean that it was the spirit of the law or the i
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Indeed, he seems to love and appreciate good technology and design for what it is, and not through colored lens of being a fanboy or a hater of some company as too often is the case.
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by cooldeal 15y ago
Beauty is a personal preference and lots of people like it and I guess you do not. But I am not with you on the "harder to use/understand" part. It's extremely simple, intuitive and easy to pick up, I've seen non-techies pick the UI up very

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