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by embik 11y ago
What kind of people orders such a raid? What's the mindset behind that decision? Their own team wasn't good enough to catch the breach (hell, the whole thing sounds like a train wreck) and now they try to silence people who reveal
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by embik 11y ago
Yes, I agree that this isn't related to Microsoft at all. I was merely responding to the aspect of "hey guys, look, Microsoft got better". > It has to lobby governments for commercial interests and at the same time, it has
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by embik 11y ago
Honestly, it's hard to embrace the "new MS" when there are things like this still happening: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/22/microsoft-... I'm aware that Microsoft i
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by embik 11y ago
This very mail also says PPS: Sourceforge now claims they will stop trojaning software without the developer's permission, but they've broken that exact promise before. He does know about the announcement, but he does not trus
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by embik 11y ago
278 downloads for Fedora 17 32bit this week? Those poor souls trying to get into Linux ...
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by embik 11y ago
We saw it, but why does it matter? They also claimed to never add adware without consent before. Even considering to bundle up malware with FOSS projects is offensive to me. They lost my trust and a simple blog post won't win it back.
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by embik 11y ago
I'm no designer, but this looks great nontheless! Good job. One thing I noted while reading on here was that currently, non-chrome users are "blocked" (if I understood correctly) by a "not supported" message. I unde
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by embik 11y ago
Mh, I agree there should a mention of Ubuntu. As I'm not involved with the ... mh, let's say "marketing" / PR side of elementary, I can only guess, but most likely it wasn't considered an information a potentia
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by embik 11y ago
Mh, as hinted I'm not part of the core team, so I cannot say anything definite, but a lot of money is going into bug bounties: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/elementary/bounties (a blog entry from februar
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by embik 11y ago
I am not sure if anybody considered it, but we have at least one Ubuntu member around. This funding sounds a bit like for single persons doing Ubuntu-specific things, but I will bring it up! Thank you.
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by embik 11y ago
I'm new to HN and do not understand why I cannot edit the post above, but there was something I wanted to add: elementary does try to use its limited funding to support things outside of the project, for example putting out bug bountie
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by embik 11y ago
Hello everyone, I'm a contributor to elementary (did some small coding and sitting around in their Slack). I'm not 100% sure I should post, but I've seen the HN community being very reasonable, so here we go. Please note I&#x