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by de_watcher 6y ago
He was talking about bootstrapping. But anyway, JDK and Python? Really?
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by de_watcher 6y ago
How does this extend their walled garden? They want to capture Linux/MacOS users with that development.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
The whole 'online' thing is the soft entry into the OS war by Google by the means of diminishing of the role of the OS: the OS is like a bootloader for the browser. Browser takes the responsibility of the OS shell and main applica
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by de_watcher 6y ago
It's not FUD. It's the Microsoft's never-changing strategy. I don't know how many times people need to experience it to remember this.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
So make these apps work on Linux. They go instead inventing VMs and hypervisors to extend their walled gardens.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
I don't think that flying like a bird is simpler than walking like a human. Flying like a quadcopter is more like walking like a cart.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Just let the distributions maintainers do their job. That's how you get a quality user-centered software distribution.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
I know that cars is the most probable cause of sudden death/injury so I wouldn't do that. How can you 'unintentionally' pull out a phone? I'd probably be looking at the road all the time, but just freeze at that mom
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by de_watcher 6y ago
It works fine in Firefox (send and receive) as long as you don't need to play on multiple output devices. Currently you can enable a feature flag, use enumerateDevices() and play audio files on specific devices, but you can't hook
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Still pretty bad. Firefox can't freely select audio devices per stream. Chrome has some kind of unbeatable adaptation that makes latency fluctuate.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Maybe the structure in that industry has to change to provide value directly?
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Well, you want to look through the itinerary to not get lost in an unknown city when finding a building where you're going to have a work meeting.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Ah, the Streisand effect.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
It's very slow. It was immediately standing out in our automated tests when we've added a json protocol to our system and used jq to test some assertions.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
All the government projects I worked on, they had lost of contractors with proprietary software interconnecting between each other.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
A typical FOSS has already a lot of customizability. Yes, they want to have a lot of specific stuff, but it isn't that dramatic.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Not really.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Well, too bad.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
I've written some proprietary code and I know that my competitor contractors have written a similar thing. I don't know whether it's the way to 'create more jobs'. GPL frees individual developers from the companies.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
I hoped they're making photos of a broccoli from the orbit...
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Well, they've noticed how GPL is bad for their EEE strategy, so they've grasped the first occasion to fight it: can't do much with the code that is GPLv2, but can hinder the license update.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
And did it help to find Walter?
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by de_watcher 6y ago
We have the US for that military thing.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Or you use a power saw to slice it after taking out of the freezer?
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by de_watcher 6y ago
I this case it was probably neither malice nor incompetence. They've probably attributed the quote randomly just for fun.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
You say "no 10x return", "reselling for tiny profit" and then "UK didn't care and didn't know what they had". What do you mean by that?
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by de_watcher 6y ago
Use from C++ just function templates, constants and stricter conversion rules - and you've got a perfect C.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
That's not up to kernel. Most of the slug is from the UI itself doing I/O (UI there is a wooly stuff almost nobody understands completely anyways).
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by de_watcher 6y ago
RMS didn't overplay anything there. His GPL idea has just become too influential and they started fighting it.
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by de_watcher 6y ago
The fear of GPLv3 is just an excuse to pull things into proprietary. They became aware of the success of GPL and started to actively lobby against it with what they were able to come up with.

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