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by curt15 6y ago
Patents that make it into standards are still fair game for licensing. If copyright is understood to apply to APIs themselves (not just the text of the ISO documentation), then why wouldn't a similar sort of licensing practice apply?
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by curt15 6y ago
I thought Goldstein gave a satisfactory answer here by making the analogy to the difference between English and French.
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by curt15 6y ago
>Interoperability is fair use. That seems incompatible with the text of Section 107, which includes the amount copied as a factor for determining fair use. The more compatible your implementation is, the more you have to copy, so the log
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by curt15 6y ago
>In the long run it's harder to say. The easiest solution if the software industry wants to preserve the status quo is to just lobby Congress to amend the laws to explicitly distinguish interfaces from implementations.
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by curt15 6y ago
If the Supreme Court sides with Oracle, the obvious question question that comes to mind is: What happens to WINE (unlicensed reimplementation of Windows APIs)? What happens to Linux (reimplemented and essentially displaced proprietary Unix
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by curt15 6y ago
Where are such compatibility exceptions articulated? Section 107 lists four factors for fair use, including "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole." Trying to achieve full
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by curt15 6y ago
If one laptop vendor provides a particularly stellar experience, then it would gain in popularity and encourage others to compete. A "jack of all trades, master of none" approach would only condemn everyone to mediocrity.
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by curt15 6y ago
> Linux is expected to work with random crap, that even its vendors have given up upon. What prevents Linux from picking ONE touchpad to optimize for? After all, both Lenovo and Dell are now shipping certain laptop models with official L
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by curt15 6y ago
They have worked under Gnome wayland for while. I don't know about KDE though.
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by curt15 6y ago
Snaps are built on a "base snap" which in turn is derived from Ubuntu LTS. Further, they can bundle debs from the Ubuntu repositories using the "build-packages" and "stage-packages" manifest keywrods. One bonus
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by curt15 6y ago
Another way of saying this is that flatpak and snap try to solve what's ultimately a social or policy problem by technical means. Building an abstraction layer like flatpak does necessarily entails a lot of complexity for at best a 90
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by curt15 6y ago
.deb is a format in the same way that .tar.gz is a format. If Fedora or Arch used .deb the problem would no better because each distro has its own package names, its own package versions, and its own downstream patches.
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by curt15 6y ago
>Common runtimes have un patched security issues. This is an area where Ubuntu's snap ecosystem does better. Instead of essentially trying to create a meta-distribution, snaps provide a way to run software built for Ubuntu LTS on ot
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by curt15 6y ago
This is a fundamental problem of all copy-on-write filesystems. With btrfs, a quick fix is to plug in a spare usb stick whose space btrfs can borrow in order to delete files on the main drive.
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by curt15 6y ago
I.e. the usual smoke and mirrors.
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by curt15 6y ago
What law separates "lawful" from "unlawful" censorship?
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by curt15 6y ago
Is the per-SSID MAC address randomization scheme similar to NetworkManager's "stable" randomization [1]? https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2016/08/26/mac-address-spoof...
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by curt15 6y ago
This is why, despite Apple's admirable record of OS updates, I refuse to buy a computer that's locked into a single source of software.
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by curt15 6y ago
This rush to punish scholars for "incorrect" expression is reminesicent of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
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by curt15 6y ago
As I understand it, dm-integrity is supposed to graft zfs-like checksumming onto any filesystem. How good is its ability to detect corruption and fix them in a RAID setup?
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by curt15 6y ago
Not to mention ChromeOS. Why was the above comment downvoted?
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by curt15 6y ago
Fedora patches grub to read kernel information from drop-in config files ( https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefau... ). This lets them update the list of kernels without modifying grub.cfg.
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by curt15 6y ago
Google still uses ext4 for its servers, while Facebook uses mostly btrfs nowadays.
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by curt15 6y ago
How does ZFS avoid the performance pitfalls of btrfs's CoW implementation for VMs and databases?
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by curt15 6y ago
Can't one apply their "argument" to other intents, for instance to prevent user choice of browser?
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by curt15 6y ago
If OEMs replace the stock camera app, does this mean that users will be stuck with the OEM version?
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by curt15 6y ago
ChromeOS still uses upstart.
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by curt15 6y ago
>Well, if you are building an IoT Device, lots of stuff for reliability. Automatic rollbacks, self-repairing, immutable FS... For that there is ostree, which is already supported by at least one major embedded systems vendor ( https:&#x2
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by curt15 6y ago
This is easy to explain if you think of it as a business decision. Why would anyone pay $30000 for a custom "enterprise edition" snap store[1] -- which among other features restores full control of updates -- if anyone could easil
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by curt15 6y ago
> Please don't tell me you've never encountered post-install errors with Windows and Mac software For most user-facing Mac software that comes with a GUI, there are no post-install. Installation simply consists of copying the a

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