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by gillianseed 11y ago
The kdbus devs did the right thing in asking for it to be removed from Fedora while they instead rethink the whole design (which by all accounts seemed very flawed).
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by gillianseed 11y ago
I should have specified that I was talking about the compiler toolchain. When distributed 'as a whole' it is distributed under the terms of GPLv2. The runtime libraries (LGPL) and class libraries are indeed not under GPLv2 .
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>Also, Mono is licensed under the LGPL From what I understand lot of code is GPLv2 as well, which would make the project as a whole GPLv2 licensed.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>A direct competitor exploited the free OSS version, hurting our bottom line. Who were they ?
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Even so, I would be very surprised if FLAC did not outperform general purpose compressors if the test is done on a wider range of music than a single piano piece (which should be very compressable overall as audio goes). edit: went and did
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Brotli is excellent at text and does a great job at compressing overall, but FLIF is written directly to excel at lossless image compression, hence FLIF will be much better unless it's a really poor solution (which results show it&#x27
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Get better lawyers. Clean-room implementation has been around for ages, I've done it professionally myself, both from source code and disassembly. Also not every company has clueless lawyers, nor does a clean-room re-implementation of
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>so many companies lawyers will prevent engineers even looking at it to write a clean-room implementation. Maybe you should look up what 'clean-room' reverse engineering is. One person looks at the code, writes down how what it
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by gillianseed 11y ago
In terms of government funded comics, this is my favourite: http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=1026 'PS preventative maintenance monthly' is basically about taking care of army machinery/weaponry, pe
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Well in the case of GPL, what you are not allowed to do is to use GPL licensed code with yours and decide not to give recipients of the resulting code the same rights that you were given. I personally think that makes for a decent 'mor
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>with kernel level RPC to separate modules. Is this what is described as LPC ? Could you elaborate on how it separates the modules (as opposed to unix subsystems) ? >Thus still offering a micro-kernel cleanness in a monolithic space.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>As an hybrid kernel I must ask, what exactly makes the current NT kernel a 'hybrid' kernel ?
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Well since it's one single method that's not documented, and they say you should not call it from a client, I assume they want to make it clear by not exposing the arguments in the client api documentation. If you want to re-imple
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>With no further explanation, apart from one paragraph summary of who shouldn't call it. The CreateSession description states that it should never be called from the clients, but instead be handled through PAM, so assume this is why
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>So there is no stable interface to even implement and there is no commitment that these "interfaces" will not change at any point in time. Isn't this what the systemd 'Interface Stability Promise' does as listed
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by gillianseed 11y ago
I googled for systemd api interfaces and this was the first thing I got: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePo...
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Yes that was a really stupid move, thankfully they seem to be changing this to opt-in rather than opt-out. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-produc...
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by gillianseed 11y ago
I recall reading an article where Opera was highlighted as a company relying hugely on outsourced developers, so perhaps this won't make a difference for Norwegian developers.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Good technical explanation, but why on earth not use a 3D rendition rather than this incredibly flat 2D rendition ?
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>It's partially untrue, yes. There was an actual vote from all the active developers to remove Michael from leadership, and that included the infrastructure developers. Then why did so many remain with the ffmpeg project instead of
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by gillianseed 11y ago
What's the performance in gccgo nowadays, back when I tried it certain things was slightly faster but a lot was slower compared to the official compiler. I read that it mainly had to do with lack of escape analysis, has this changed in
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Yep, 'Scroogled' they called it.
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Incredible, how does this all fit with Microsoft's 'Scroogled' campaign ?
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Are you kidding me ? The argument is what follows that statement, how about we discuss that ?
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>However, JPEG was also patented and that did pretty well. I was under the impression that the free implementations (like libjpeg) did not use and of the patented techniques (such as arithmetic coding which patent recently expired) ? &gt
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by gillianseed 11y ago
We are talking professional competition here, the result of your logic is that anyone who wanted to compete professionaly would have to subject themselves (and their health) to doping. I don't want to see such a future, where young ath
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Nice, so I assume it will now run under 'pure' Wayland rather than XWayland ?
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Sorry for late reply! >It's as if you do not understand that Theo did not comment on that LWN page... The comments in question where in large responses to Theo's claim, which in turn was part of the article on which the comment
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by gillianseed 11y ago
>I'm not sure what is going on when a guy who is apparently a professional pulls a from my parents basement in Wyoming I stab at thee! While 'Oh sorry, I forgot LWN readers require me to do all their homework for them' com
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by gillianseed 11y ago
Wait, so when Theo says 'Some BPF-style approaches have showed up. So you need to write a program to observe your program, to keep things secure? That is insane.' That is fine and dandy, but when someone criticizes Theo's wor

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