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by jnky 11y ago
> It exports many symbols for drivers (proprietary or otherwise) to use internally. I fail to see how those symbols being exported makes the relevant functionality public vs. internal to the kernel [1] > Some symbols are exported GPL_
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by jnky 11y ago
The Linux Kernel does not have a public API/ABI apart from the userspace syscall interface.
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by jnky 11y ago
Yeah, but on the other hand one might argue that there is no reason to believe Intel's hardware implementation of such features is more correct and less prone to errors than Xen's implementation in software.
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by jnky 11y ago
You can still run 16 bit applications on Windows 7|8|10, as long as you use the x86 (i.e. 32 bit) flavor of the OS. I'm fairly certain that there are still enterprises large and small that depend on running 16 bit code, because replaci
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by jnky 11y ago
> [...] but I wonder about people who follow this line of reasoning for this release but not for the Manning/Snowden releases. I think it would be easy to argue that the leaks of Manning and Snowden are justified because they expos
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by jnky 11y ago
Maybe taxes on profits were created so that companies invest their profit instead of hoarding it or giving it to shareholders, creating jobs and infrastructure in the process. As far as I'm concerned, Amazon is using its profits (or la
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by jnky 11y ago
> "Yeh, we're not vulnerable, because we've been using the swan library" Yeah, who would name a crypto implementation something stupid like "swan". Oh wait... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by jnky 11y ago
> Is this an aspirational stance? Obviously. > Because at the moment that's not what the law says (in any country I know of) [...] True. But that's also why I'm unwilling to play along and express my views on the matter
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by jnky 11y ago
I don't see why it should be possible to own code. I think the ownership of physical items is an intuitive concept that comes naturally from the scarcity of such items. Code, algorithms or ideas on the other hand are not scarce and I t
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by jnky 11y ago
I understand that there are practical problems with this approach, but I disagree with your conclusion: Adding a free license would express my principles within a framework that I fundamentally disagree with. Your comparison with the freema
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by jnky 11y ago
> So, you accept potential legal hassle for you and the users of your software in order to "protest against the current copyright laws"? Yes. > Exactly. So why not just add a brief MIT license [1] to your code, painlessly cl
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by jnky 11y ago
I don't know about the specific intentions of the author, but I also refuse to put an explicit license on my code, because I firmly believe that code cannot be owned, sold or licensed anymore than the Pythagorean theorem can. In that s
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by jnky 12y ago
The $59.90 account only buys you identity verification so that you can get a cert for your own personal domains. When you want to get certs for a company's domains, you also have to pay for organisation verification for another $59.50
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by jnky 12y ago
I think you are missing a lot. For instance, I have IPv6 set up at home, at work and at some homes of friends and family. I have firewall rules setup such that traffic from subnets I know is generally allowed instead of allowing access to a
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by jnky 12y ago
You setting up firewall rules at your gateway has no influence on whether an address is routable or not.
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by jnky 12y ago
When you consider how long it is taking organizations to move away from XP, a decade for a Linux migration doesn't seem so bad.
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by jnky 13y ago
The problem is that the free market and freedom of choice aren't appropriate solutions to all problems, one of them is standardization. For the EU, the whole Micro USB thing isn't just about defining a connector that is somehow su
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by jnky 13y ago
Yet in practice, I never had any trouble getting products repaired for free after 23 months or something along those lines. It may be that the burden of proof is on the buyer after six months, but in reality no company (except maybe Apple)
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by jnky 14y ago
I hate it when I google how to recover some password only to find hints on how to reset it. Yes I know that not all passwords can be recovered because of hashing etc, but please don't talk about recovering when all this really does is reset
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by jnky 14y ago
Yeah, I meant the time. Sorry I wasn't clear about that.
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by jnky 14y ago
What irks me the most about this whole ordeal is the utter lack of communication from a company that prides itself on being open and transparent. There was no release time, no numbers on the amount of phones after they sold out way too soon
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by jnky 14y ago
I think the income listed is only for donations made to Wikileaks via the Wau Holland Foundation in Germany, while Wikileaks itself may also receive money from other sources.