giamma

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   by giamma 3y ago

   Well, my understanding is that right after Oracle acquired Sun it found itself with a free database engine it did not need because it would compete with its own "free" Oracle XE product offering. There was a lot of uncertainty abo
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   by giamma 3y ago

   Well, the same would hold for github or any other open source container. When I find something interesting on github, before deciding to use it, I check the number of committers and the commit history/frequency. Anyone can do the same
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   by giamma 3y ago

   Thank you for pointing out, I fixed the first link.
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   by giamma 3y ago

   I think this is a wrong perceptions. Projects come and go, based on adoption, community interest, technology evolution, trends... There are still a lot of projects at Apache. Check their last annual report [1], especially the sponsors and t
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   by giamma 3y ago

   I think the history recap is somewhat incomplete. I believe that the death blow which lead to the fork LibreOffice was the lack of trust in Oracle commitment to Open Office and open source in general, after Oracle acquired Sun Microsystem
6. 126.▲
   by giamma 3y ago

   2:333/300.15 (or 2:333/329.15)
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   by giamma 3y ago

   80 bytes was the limit in Italy. At that time in Italy we did not have free local phone calls, every call would be billed based on its duration. Now imagine being a Fidonet sysop who on a volunteer basis was running a computer at home 24&#x
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   by giamma 3y ago

   Also, if you build everything in canvas, good luck making your UI accessible and screen-reader friendly
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   Oracle's revised Java licensing terms 2-5x more expensive for most orgs(theregister.com)

   4 points by giamma 3y ago|1 comments
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    by giamma 3y ago

    For the n-th time Oracle revised Java licensing terms, and like any previous iteration, the changes are for the worse.
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    by giamma 3y ago

    I know a Bank in Italy that uses voice recognition but you also have to provide 2 digits from a "voice password" in addition to the voice match.
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    by giamma 3y ago

    Sure, I am not against JavaScript per se (although my preference goes to strongly typed languages), my first comment had a smiley at the end, I just firmly believe that the way we build UI for the Web today is flawed.
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    by giamma 3y ago

    I am not familiar with JS in GTK+, but if it's a JS binding for GTK+ it's exactly what I meant when I said that on the desktop you can implement a user interface using your preferred language as long as bindings exist for a decent
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    by giamma 3y ago

    I think that the way we build user interfaces today on the Web is fundamentally flawed. One need to learn JavaScript/TypeScript, then HTML and DOM, then CSS. Then most likely you need to learn Angular or React or Vue or whatever, some
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    by giamma 3y ago

    It is fully opensource, the opensource code contains also the logic to verify a serial key that you will be given if you purchase the license and if verification succeeds the code will enable the extra features. As such you could fork it, t
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    by giamma 3y ago

    Imagine if time travel was possible and we could go back in time and avoid this :-)
17. 137.▲
    by giamma 3y ago

    It's opensource and AGPL, as long as you do not redistribute it I believe you can fork it and rebuild it.
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    by giamma 3y ago

    The blog post says: "Previously, we obtained the source code for Rocky Linux exclusively from the CentOS Git repository as they recommended. However, this repository no longer hosts all of the versions corresponding to RHEL. Consequent
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    by giamma 3y ago

    So long "Upstream First" principle https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/open-source-participation-...
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    Metaverses are flopping – hard – says Gartner(theregister.com)

    5 points by giamma 3y ago|0 comments
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    by giamma 3y ago

    I am probably looking at it from a too high-level perspective, but the RESTful paradigm was widely adopted in every domain and proved that you can model pretty much any concept as resources, with CRUD primitives and hyperlinks between them.
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    by giamma 3y ago

    Given a complex problem, if there is just one part of it that I fear may not be solvable, then I will look into that part first to figure out if a solution exists and only later into the remaining elements of the problem. If instead the unc
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    Design goals and implementation of the new HPFS for OS/2 (1989) [pdf](web.archive.org)

    1 points by giamma 3y ago|0 comments
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    Apache Skywalking Application performance monitor tool for distributed systems(skywalking.apache.org)

    2 points by giamma 3y ago|1 comments
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    by giamma 3y ago

    An APM solution from Apache Foundation that is compatible with OpenTelemetry.
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    Easy-to-use, high-performance, open source distributed transaction solution(github.com)

    3 points by giamma 3y ago|0 comments
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    Russian Aviation Museam (1996)(ram-home.com)

    2 points by giamma 3y ago|0 comments
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    Arca Noae is modernizing OS/2 Warp for 21st century PCs(theregister.com)

    2 points by giamma 4y ago|0 comments
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    by giamma 4y ago

    Defender maybe?
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    by giamma 4y ago

    Microsoft in 1999 was not the same company it is today and did some very unethical things. For example: https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/ibm-microsoft-warned-p... Other articles report that computer producers were