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by curt15 9y ago
After all, the sole purpose of such reimplementations would be to take business away from Amazon.
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by curt15 9y ago
>It wouldn't be that hard to start with an openjdk repo, and delete all the files as you added in the davlik code. Release it as GPL, and call it a derivative work. They've done just that https://news.ycombinator.com
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by curt15 9y ago
Interestingly, Microsoft briefed in support of Google this round in contrast with the copyrightability round.
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by curt15 9y ago
>Google has started to make it right with the switch to openJDK and Desugar, but in a lot of ways it’s too little very late. What functional changes accompanied Google's switch to OpenJDK? Doesn't Android still use its own inco
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by curt15 9y ago
GNU/Linux is a partial (but incomplete, since no Linux distro is unix(tm) certified) a reimplementation of proprietary Unix, and with billion-dollar companies like Red Hat and IBM it's certainly a commercial endeavor at proprieta
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by curt15 9y ago
Do people actually use Windows Mail?
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by curt15 9y ago
Given that the FCC only recently lost a court case about its authority to preempt state laws banning muni broadband, how would this situation be any different?
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by curt15 9y ago
Tasker on Android is probably comes closest ( http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/change-your-android-phones-set... ).
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Julian Assange warns Trump that full net neutrality repeal could inhibit tweets(washingtonexaminer.com)
2 points by curt15 9y ago|0 comments
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by curt15 9y ago
Why don't people, when pitching the benefits of net neutrality to conservatives, highlight the fact that much of the distrusted "left wing media" (like CNN) is owned by the very ISPs lobbying for permission to give their own
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by curt15 9y ago
Given that Chrome apps are on their way out, a nice demonstration of Progressive Web Apps would be to make Gmail into one to replace the functionality of Gmail Offline.
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by curt15 9y ago
"In an email to The Verge, Google clarified that users will see results removed appropriate for whichever location their search is set to; however, if the country they’re physically in requires results to be removed no matter what, the
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by curt15 9y ago
Gnome shell beta pre-Unity: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JSR8IC77Ub4/TGI7upt62cI/AAAAAAAAA3... Gnome shell after the Unity release: http://linuxbsdos.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11&#x2F
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by curt15 9y ago
>Firefox Quantum feels right at home with today’s mouse and touch-driven operating systems: Windows 10, macOS High Sierra, Android Oreo, and iOS 11. What about Linux?
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by curt15 9y ago
This. Shorter battery life than in Windows is a frequent complaint about Linux on laptops, and for handheld computers battery life really needs to be a top priority.
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by curt15 9y ago
But even incumbent status wouldn't help a pure content provider if the sole ISP of a region decides to slow down or artificially data-cap traffic from that provider while transmitting its own content at full speed.
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by curt15 9y ago
How about this? https://ctrl.blog/entry/wayland-gnome-remote-desktop
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by curt15 9y ago
Does Fedora's GNOME hold up better in terms of performance? The animations on my Ubuntu GNOME setup (in particular when launching overview) get noticeably janky with more than just a handful of windows open.
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by curt15 9y ago
Here's one source: "Speaking of the Linuxes, Ubuntu is tops among them with 12.3% of the entire OS market for developers. Fedora, Mint, and Debian accounted for 1.4%, 1.7%, and 1.9% of all responses, respectively." https:&#x
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From Two Android Permissions to Complete Control of the UI Feedback Loop(cloak-and-dagger.org)
1 points by curt15 9y ago|0 comments
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by curt15 9y ago
>As I run it through my head, the main way Linux would stay free are through the remaining contributors to kernel: IBM and Oracle. What about Google, which uses Ubuntu for its internal workstations?
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by curt15 9y ago
>I also don't know how an ISP would get your actual internet history if the website uses HTTPS. Charge users extra fees for "premium service" unless they agree to let the ISP their traffic.
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Windows 10 S won't let you change default Web browser or search provider(arstechnica.com)
4 points by curt15 10y ago|0 comments
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Proposed “Internet Freedom Act” permanently guts net neutrality authority(arstechnica.com)
132 points by curt15 10y ago|139 comments
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by curt15 10y ago
>Really? how does wikipedia function then, why do lots of people create meaningful content in web for free? I get the impression that sometimes it's barely getting by; very few months I see a banner at the top of its webpage suggest
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by curt15 10y ago
They do have different scopes, however, as flatpaks are currently not designed to deliver system components.
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by curt15 10y ago
It certainly makes better use of space than the thick header bars that gnome ships with by default. At least one Gnome developer seems to think so too https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2015/10/17/time-to
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by curt15 10y ago
>The only things I don't like on an out-of-the-box Fedora installation are the stupid, touchscreen sized title bars in GNOME 3 and SELinux - which is fortunately easily disabled. What does one do to fix the title bars?
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Samsung's Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written(arstechnica.com)
130 points by curt15 10y ago|63 comments
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by curt15 10y ago
"For some unkNown reason, Fedora is considered "bleeding edge" and unstable..While Ubuntu is considered mainstream. The truth is that fedora is probably the most polished Linux distribution out there right now..Including a br

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