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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> So i guess it just all adds up in a way. It seems to "add up" only for experts from countries that do it traditionally (USA, Turkey, Israel) and recommend it, while basically no European country deems it medically necessary to recomme
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
The point is that GNU is not promoting Gnome, but GnuStep. And Gnome goes against everything the FSF and GNU stand for, so I never understood why they are keeping it under the GNU umbrella. They can throw out Gnome and just keep GTK and gli
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
Only if you still get it directly from the copyright holder. If you get it from someone else, and that someone got their copy under the terms of GPLv2, they still can distribute it under v2.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> GPLv2 has an _optional_ update clause that Ribbonsoft/QCad did not elect to use. Actually, the clause is recommended by the FSF. Projects that remove the clause do that fully intentionally. Considering how long copyright lasts (70 aft
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
So it is effectively their fault for preventing the licence of their project from _ever_ being updated, even in the case where some future legal loophole makes exploiting GPLv2 code possible. It is short sighted essentially freezing the leg
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> Mathematica needs an open-source equivalent. Mathematica _has_ open source equivalents. It has equivalents that predate Mathematica. Their libraries just aren't as extensive.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
OK, let me correct myself: No competitive free implementation existed able to take a leading position and bootstrap the ecosystem, like gcc, cpython, perl and javac did for their respective language ecosystems. I did not intend to imply tha
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> If it is so good why ain't it is used more? * Weird syntax (for most people). * No free implementations existed during a key period (80s, 90s) so no initial traction, no useful libraries and killer apps which would pull the whole ecos
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> How does extending copyright on already created works encourage people to produce new works? You wrongly assume that a reasoning for a law has to actually make sense. You can push basically any logically inconsistent apologetics into
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
IRC died for the same reason Usenet died: some old authoritative farts thumping on some ancient, bizarre rules they set during their youth, some kind of "trve" tech Islam, stopping any kind of progress and scaring away new blood. They could
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> edit videos, edit photos, write documents Canonical doesnt produce video, photo and document editing software. The market's refusal to port that software to Linux has essentially killed it on the desktop for a majority of users. If th
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> ultrabooks are essentially a new name for netbooks. The raison d'être of netbooks was not portability, it was the ridiculously low price. > I don't think the netbook has failed; it's just been subsumed No. Netbooks were new, trend
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> I don't think you have a right to "share" But you should. > when that "culture" is purely commercial. You dont need a justification at all. You want to share with your fellow people, thats it. People love other people and love to
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
CL-USER> (ql:quickload "infix") ("infix") CL-USER> #I(abs(-4)+5^^2-6) -23
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> if it did give some of it back to the artists. I'd guess they would if they legally could. But if they could, everybody else also could, and then the cash cow of "selling copies" would finally die in an era where everybody can produce
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> The only problem with g+ is that none of my friends use it. At one point in time, you and everybody else had the same problem in Facebook, yet everybody still switched. Sometimes, if you really want something but social inertia is aga
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
All the other similar fads before them.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> The CL spec is about 1000 pages printed The spec covers not just the language itself, but the whole standard library. > The R5RS Scheme specification is 50 pages. And with those 50 pages, you can not do anything useful out of the
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> Microsoft spent how many billions of dollars and how many man hours to improve Windows Who cares how much money was spent? What matters whether they have improved something or not. > but for $40, I can still conclude that it's wor
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> We were very careful about that. You still have to have in mind that even knowing that the FB parasite is somehow "in my browser and I cant remove it", even if it is not activated, makes me want to immediately toss it away in disgust
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> Do you want to enrage your enemy into more violence Yes, in a "go on, make my day" kind of way, to justify even more future military action, since Israel is likely to win any future conflict. > This is why the US military didn't r
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> But how much of it is truly your own conclusion You can not make an informed opinion on _everything_. There is too much information out there to fact check all bits of it. Sooner or later you will have to take somebody elses opinion o
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
It would be even more excellent if people for a change wrote more _in_ scheme instead of _a_ scheme.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> Throughout history, people sometimes make bad calls. With hindsight, it's easy to see what those were. Clearly some of his treatment was in the 'bad call' camp, but I don't think that was clear at the time. This is a bullshit argument
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> why include metro in the PC version? To leverage the Desktop monopoly to force users to get familiar with the interface of Microsofts mobile offerings, which had no success to gain user acceptance on their own. > Why would I use a
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> "Blasphemy" is one of those things I do not get. Blashphemy is just another word for criticism and ridicule. You cannot uphold a dictatorship of unsubstantiated claims if everybody is allowed to openly ask questions. This pattern is a
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
The conclusion "no facebook = severe social isolation" (including being cut off from ones own family) only works under the assumption that basically everyone everywhere forgot how to socialize without "social" and that interaction without f
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
Also check out Maxima [1], the GPL'ed version of the venerable computer algebra system DOE Macsyyma, which made the jump to PCs rather late and was therefore overtaken by Maple and Mathematica. Maxima is still under active development, has
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
You, on the other hand, imply that countries around the world somehow have to send random people to Sweden, for no other reason than to save the Swedish prosecutors the effort of traveling there to ask questions. How silly.
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
"our side" is the pro-freedom, pro-copying, information-wants-to-be-free, consumer side. "their side" is the pro-restriction, pro-enforcement, pro-1984 content producer side. > I support that side as little as I support SOPA-like bills.

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