papyruskaleido

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by papyruskaleido 7y ago
I agree, it sucks. All I was saying is I think Google is also at fault for setting the stage for this. It looks like their gambit was litigation would be cheaper than licensing and now we all get to deal with the blowback from that.
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by papyruskaleido 7y ago
I'm not. Please don't be so condescending.
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by papyruskaleido 7y ago
I'm not failing to see any distinction. They were sued over a bunch of things. Copyright is what stuck. Lawyers are going to use every tool in their belt. And since there's a lot around software licensing, copyright, and fair use
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by papyruskaleido 7y ago
Okay. If you need a license for something and someone isn't going to license it to you, you don't have carte blanche to do whatever you want with their IP. > Please don't do this. The irony of making such a silly claim usi
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by papyruskaleido 7y ago
There's a lot more going on here than just implementing an interface. If Google had just used OpenJDK, there wouldn't have been a problem. I fail to see how what they were doing is any different from what Microsoft tried to pull w
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by papyruskaleido 7y ago
The whole thread in about hating Oracle. It's probably warranted, but Google shouldn't get a pass. They induced this situation. Someone did a back of the envelope calculation and decided a lawsuit was going to be cheaper than lice
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by papyruskaleido 7y ago
It's probably easier and cheaper to just use Sanoid though.
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by papyruskaleido 7y ago
Ooh, this looks interesting. I'm a pretty happy OneNote user, but it'd be nice to have something encrypted and with native support in Linux. I don't suppose you know if Standard Notes supports multi-user databases, does it? I