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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Can't wait until these people try making a kernel patch.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You cannot compare SF and Palo Alto. SF is a major metro with a high-density downtown with corresponding infrastructure. The people who are opposed to greater density in Palo Alto ARE TECHIES. Who do you think lives there?
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Wrong. There are codes describing density and building height. Palo Alto city council will never change these rules, indeed, they seem intent on making them more stringent. You go ask the billionaires in ProfessorVille how many of them are
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Google moved out of University Ave as soon as they exceeded the capacity...they didn't try taking over downtown, they took over boring office park space north of 101 in PA for a while.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Where? Downtown Palo Alto is saturated...and building up won't solve saturation on Alma, University, Page Mill etc. Palo Alto has simply maxed out its carrying capacity...businesses like Palantir would be better off looking at areas li
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
They are worried that a tech company will collapse or move and leave downtown in a shambles. This happened in Mountain View with SGI. Tech companies will also cause rents to explode, driving away many independent businesses....so oddly enou
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Interesting theory but Fuchsia seems years away (unless they have a non-public repo that is much further along)
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Was anyone really hoping for this? It seemed pretty clear that this was a a technology exploration.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
As the Moto Z will likely confirm, no one is really interested in modular phones.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You can run a variant of GNUStep today, yet no one does.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Hire a designer to make Lumina less ugly. Sorry I know that sounds harsh, but it looks very 2005. Make this install on modern laptops. I'm tired of being recommended five year-old Thinkpads. Fix those and I would consider overwriting m
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Of course you can violate your EULA in your own home and get away with it...but you are still violating your EULA and that has absolutely nothing to do with linux or Linus or the GPLV2 anyway
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
The GPLv2 has absolutely nothing to do with the EULA for a product. Your beef is with device vendors, not Linus.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You answered your own question - linux is GPLv2 and always will be. It will never be GPLv3; Linus hates GPLv3. GPLv2 doesn't grant you a right to hack, period.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
You can just say explosion, we're not at the Cape.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
> If you're someone who has a shitty Bluetooth light bulb running a version of GNU/Linux, the person who has given you that device has taken away your software freedom How? You don't have a right to modify the device you p
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
There is no catch 22. You simply have to figure out what the goals actually are. Linus' goal is to have a vibrant community that has access to the changes he approves in the kernel. The FSF's goal is to eradicate non-free software
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
By that argument, every non-copyleft licensed codebase is "dead" with respect to the "people". In reality, the opposite is true even though it burns up FSF folks. Linux is alive and well. You can download, read, edit and
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
> Enforcement of the license people agreed to will cause people to avoid using the license? If it means lawsuits, yes. Companies will either seek out a non-GPL solution, or they will be even more secretive about their use of linux. Eithe
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
The vendor isn't obliged to make their device hackable even if they do publish the source. Some do, and that's neat, but in most cases, access to the source might, at best, only result in the next iteration of device having some c
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
....and Linus' point is that the victory will be pyrrhic, since people will simply avoid the GPL altogether. We've already seen this with the GPLv3/AGPL. Really outside of the FSF, the only adoption is in dual-licensers who u
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
They can already hide behind legal firewalls like the Chinese border. If the Software Conservancy continues, they'll just push more development to places where scofflaws can ignore them.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
The phone makers don't care about specific the kernel used in Android. They care that they can access AOSP. AOSP could use other kernels and other licenses, it wouldn't impact Android's success or value at this point. Go look
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
This is one of Linus' main points in the discussion, it will change the tone and signal to partners that interactions with the kernel community will carry with it interactions with the Software Conservancy, which most companies will se
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
I see this as a stealth attempt by the Software Conservancy to hijack the direction and tone of kernel development, dragging it more to FSF-style militancy. Linus is right, there is no crisis in GPL violation. There will always be violators
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
This book appeared very shortly after Go hit 1.0. It was an invaluable resource at the time. Now, maybe not so much, but thanks to Jan for putting in the work when it was dearly needed by the community.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
She supplanted mainstream gibberish (monotheistic religions) with fringe gibberish, that's all. I've never understood the lofty attitudes of people who engage non-traditional supernatural beliefs. You're just a different idio
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
It doesn't, but if Google keeps feeding moonshot stories to the press, they should expect the press to circle back and see if there is any follow-through. If Google X is really just a nerd-PR exercise, let's call it that.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
Or maybe you can't just put people in a room and say "invent stuff". It may sound hackneyed, but I believe necessity is the mother of invention and it doesn't seem there is that kind of motivation here...it feels forced.
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by karma_vaccum123 10y ago
This feels like the type of operation better suited for a tier-one educational institution like Stanford or MIT. In a academic context, there is no subtext of creating products. Yeah, churning out papers is as contrived...but I still feel l

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