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by curt15 8y ago
>Apple is following the laws of a country they do business in. They are of course free do that, but that certainly reduces their standing if they try to preach privacy. The most revealing test of a company's principles is when they
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by curt15 8y ago
Fruitful negotiations require a rule of law.
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by curt15 8y ago
How much of PC laptops' touchpad quality is due to hardware limitations? I seem to recall back when I owned an Apple laptop (circa 2010) that its trackpad was connected internally via USB. Meanwhile, PC touchpads almost universally use
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by curt15 8y ago
So basically nothing happened in the end?
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by curt15 8y ago
That's basically how the first GPL software came into being -- as a (partial) reimplementation of commercially licensed unix.
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by curt15 8y ago
>but the other 90+% of them are still miles better than Baidu's And you know this how, given that google hasn't operated in china for the last ten years?
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by curt15 8y ago
> If Google is there (1) they can minimize censorship as much as possible by pushing back frequently You push back against the Party in China, you're out of business. It is common knowledge that being in good terms with party offici
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by curt15 8y ago
This. Friends from China tell me that China is less "rule of law" than "rule of people".
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by curt15 8y ago
>Google's J++, not compatible with a large amount of random packages out from Maven Central. Google's implementation is derived from Apache Harmony. Is the same true for Apache Harmony?
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by curt15 8y ago
What are their plans for application development? Will developers be expected to write their apps in C/GObject?
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by curt15 8y ago
Forcing VPNs to be installed only via the app store also means that an authoritarian state like China has a single source to clamp down on when they want to restrict citizens' access to information.
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by curt15 8y ago
Since Gbus is presumably developed internally, what prevents the employees from installing the program via Xcode?
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by curt15 8y ago
Does this mean there is ultimately no way of running your own code on your iDevices without first going through Apple?
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by curt15 8y ago
What would it take for firefox to support Gmail's offline mode?
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by curt15 8y ago
Exposing cyberintrusions is "an act of war"?
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by curt15 8y ago
But forking has always been a fact of life in software. E.g. MariaDB vs mysql
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by curt15 8y ago
>If companies can copyright an API and block competitors from implementing it, that would be very detrimental to the industry as a whole, for the sake of a few rent seekers profiting. The practice of writing drop-in replacements for soft
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by curt15 8y ago
>It takes serious engineering effort just to be able to build that behemoth. Not to mention resources. System requirements for building on Linux: " >>A 64-bit Intel machine with at least 8GB of RAM. More than 16GB is highly re
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by curt15 8y ago
Also what about ssh?
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by curt15 8y ago
>I intend to have the update model of ChromeOS Fedora is testing a "silverblue" edition which implements this model. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-silverblue/
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by curt15 8y ago
How long are flatpak runtimes supported? What is their update policy?
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by curt15 8y ago
>it has established in US law that API interfaces themselves are a copyright/protected concept Only in the Federal Circuit, which adjudicates cases involving patent law. Copyright cases are typically decided by the other courts of a
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by curt15 8y ago
Is GTK intended to be the programming environment aimed at typical developers? Writing object oriented code using lots of boilerplate C macros seems quite a bit more tedious than using a language designed for object oriented programming fro
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by curt15 8y ago
"used to"?
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by curt15 8y ago
Do procurement contracts have clauses that discount the purchase price when proprietary information is lost to reflect the diminished value of the product?
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by curt15 8y ago
I've dabbled occasionally with Fedora's new "Silverblue" edition which provides atomic system updates and expects users to do much of their work in "pet" docker containers. However, I understand that docker sub
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by curt15 8y ago
When I click and drag windows on MacOS, the window moves perfectly in sync with the cursor. On X11 the window inevitably lags behind.
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by curt15 8y ago
Does Linux have the equivalent of WinNT's i/o completion ports to prevent heavy I/O from freezing the user interface?
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by curt15 8y ago
Meanwhile, the Android OEMs that tried to get in front of the Apple Watch by rushing their own products to market seem forever condemned to third-class marketshare. What happened?
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by curt15 8y ago
>Can you imagine how bad Lenovo Windows or Dell Windows would be? Why not just reserve the trademark Windows to Microsoft? If other OEMs want to muck up their own builds they would have to brand it their own and risk their own reputation

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