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by gribbly 9y ago
As I recall, Nintendo (eventually) had an official NES devkit which had a special ram cartridge and was linked to a pc running ms dos with an assembler and other programs to make graphics and sound, but there were NES devkits from third par
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by gribbly 9y ago
That's an odd phrasing for sure. I assume what they mean is that you can purchase a special license which allows you to use moongoose without GPL (typically for proprietary use), for example, x264 and x265 (well known GPL licensed enco
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by gribbly 9y ago
>>But Canonical's lawyers are not canonical. Hmm... not sure what you meant by this statement ?
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by gribbly 9y ago
Well obviously Linux devs would love having ZFS in the kernel, Linus even half joked that he'd consider trying to relicense Linux to GPLv3 if it meant he could use ZFS and DTrace (this was back when Sun was considering GPLv3 as the lic
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by gribbly 9y ago
But obviously Canonical's lawyers don't think shipping it separately is the same as shipping it in the kernel, because if they did they would not ship it separately to begin with.
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by gribbly 9y ago
>One theory is that Canonical has essentially forced Oracle to decide whether it wants to crack down on inclusion of CDDL-licensed code being shipped with Ubuntu's stock kernel Huh? Are Canonical is shipping ZFS in their kernel now
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by gribbly 9y ago
Red Hat has never spent any real resources on btrfs, they've been all about XFS when it comes to enterprise needs.
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by gribbly 9y ago
As I understand it, the license incompability between GPL and CDDL is that CDDL adds a restriction regarding patents, and GPL does not allow for additional restrictions to be added. So to distribute CDDL licensed code is a breach of BOTH li
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by gribbly 9y ago
>Oracle does not own the the copyright to all of OpenZFS True, but I don't think the OpenZFS developers would be against relicensing their code to be GPL compatible,they are offering a Linux version of OpenZFS after all, so if Oracl
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by gribbly 9y ago
I haven't used PulseAudio until very recently when Firefox started requiring it for audio (chrome/chromium still support plain ALSA), that said I haven't come across any problem, what should I be looking out for ?
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by gribbly 9y ago
It's also a MUCH younger language than those you listed, that said I don't think Go or any other of the 'new languages on the block' will reach anything near the wide use of languages like C++ or Java, atleast not in my
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by gribbly 9y ago
They were offered video link interrogation, which swedish authorities have done many times before, but Marianne Ny refused.
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by gribbly 9y ago
What on earth would they need DNA for ? Assange has already stated that he had sex with both women.
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by gribbly 9y ago
>Assange spent 26 more days in the country and then flew out hours after his arrest warrant was signed. You are spreading many falsehoods here, first of all, it was NOT a junior prosecutor who dropped the case, chief prosectutor Eva Finn
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by gribbly 9y ago
Who knows, the accuser, Anna Ardin left Sweden for Israel shortly after making the accusations and has not made a single comment since then as far as I know.
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by gribbly 9y ago
Wait what ? 'The aquarium suspects' with no evidence whatsoever to back them up. And you then claim: 'the unproven truth is that...' Is this a joke ?
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by gribbly 9y ago
>Millions of people decided they know better than facts. That's it. I don't think people voted for Trump because they think he was spouting facts (when did facts ever factor in a US election ?). I think they voted for him becau
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by gribbly 9y ago
Is Lumina different from say Xfce in this regard ?
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by gribbly 9y ago
True, but this is typically a good thing in my opinion, the code remains fully open all the same and the developers/userbase will determine which project is the better.
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by gribbly 9y ago
>I could be inclined to use GPL if I made some end user application rather than library code. This very much mirrors my own preference. For popular end user applications there is a clear motive to do proprietary forks with extra feature
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by gribbly 9y ago
The 'hardened' kernel he mentioned has recently (~40 hours) appeared in the Arch repos: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/linux-ha... Not a replacement but at least an alternative.
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by gribbly 9y ago
Comes close to what my father-in-law says about porn, 'why watch other people having fun ?'
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by gribbly 9y ago
Because they had Mir under a CLA which meant Canonical (and only Canonical) could offer it under different terms, which included proprietary licences. They can't license Ubuntu any way they want, because Ubuntu is 99% software which co
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by gribbly 9y ago
No one prevented Canonical from making Mir, hence it's existence. Likewise no one outside Canonical bothered to support Mir, because it offered no advantages over Wayland. If you want to use Mir, go ahead, that doesn't mean anyone
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by gribbly 9y ago
I'd say nothing, Wayland is used on mobile and embedded, the reason Canonical made Mir was so that the had full control/ownership of the display solution and thus could charge a license fee to proprietary vendors who wanted to use
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by gribbly 10y ago
>On the other side, one of the problems people have with GCC is that it's run by people who actively want to make worse software for political reasons. Well, for an end user those 'political' reasons are often practical be
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by gribbly 10y ago
Maybe, maybe not. I've been seeing this comment for the past 7-6 years, and GCC still delivers better performance on the majority of real-world programs I benchmark (mostly compression). What I find very strange though is that some peo
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by gribbly 10y ago
>I think it was the first jitting nes emulator. I'm certain it did not use JIT or any kind of recompilation, I believe it's speed came from not being very accurate and also written in hand optimised assembly.
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by gribbly 10y ago
I also had this happen 'live', one of the major problems as I recall was that Windows XP (and earlier) had the bad habit of enabling a ton of internet facing services by default, and these services contained lots of vulnerabilitie
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by gribbly 10y ago
Eh, GSOC is working for a ton of projects, which is why so many projects happily apply each year, and are bummed if they aren't picked. You seem to draw a conclusion solely based upon GSOC not being a good fit for the OpenBSD devs.

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