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by rnd0 6y ago
It's easy to avoid, too. I haven't had to deal with any drama using Debian or the BSDs, personally speaking. Which I have been since 2000 or so.
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by rnd0 6y ago
Sounds about like my experience too. I used to use it about half of the time up until 2003 or so when I got tired of having to guess how much hassle it was going to be to deal with frames, etc.
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by rnd0 6y ago
There's nothing to stop them, no. But that wouldn't change that they have to make the sources available to their customers -and it takes one customer to get the source and provide it for a fork.
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by rnd0 6y ago
Politics isn't fine. I'd go so far as to say that politics is inherently destructive to online communities. It inevitably leads to people fighting over which team that they're on.
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by rnd0 6y ago
<quote>Dunno what it will accomplish as those users just go elsewhere,</quote> That's irrelevant. If they go somewhere else, then they're not Reddit's problem. Consider that most "purges" happen to
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by rnd0 6y ago
Or host their project on a site owned by a media company (as Microsoft has been in the past)
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by rnd0 6y ago
It's a problem that is not limited to Adobe, and is a by-product of their commercial nature. The need for artificial scarcity (in this instance really really artificial) .
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by rnd0 6y ago
I'd be surprised if it does. If anything, it seems like this would make it more tempting to move from Linux to FreeBSD (maybe?). But this isn't FreeBSD development -at least not in the sense that you're creating FreeBSD apps
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by rnd0 6y ago
I think it was reasonable up to the end of the SCO trial, considering both their actions with that directly, and the "get the facts"/open source is cancer FUD that they were spreading back then. But for the last ten years or
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by rnd0 6y ago
I feel somewhat more that I'm a customer of Microsoft's and that they've demonstrated (through their shift to open source, through their "Windows Services for Linux") that they're more user oriented. Google has
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by rnd0 6y ago
>In short I would say both (or rather, all three) have their place. I agree with you, and I think that using WINE on Linux probably gives you more options than using ReactOS. But in terms of what is appealing about Reactos is that (in th
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by rnd0 6y ago
Odd, here's the commit history for that file: https://github.com/reactos/reactos/commits/master/ntoskrnl/k... What I'm wondering is if you just chanced upon a submission that wasn't
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by rnd0 6y ago
PCEM[1] and 86Box[2] do an admirable job of emulating 80's and 90's computers ...from the IBM PC up to the amdk6-2 and celeron. I'm not sure, but I believe that both support the 3DFX Voodoo (not sure if just "VooDoo&quot
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by rnd0 6y ago
It seems like it's more for learning and hacking than it is for actually using. At least, that's the appeal to me. I'd love to see it advance far enough that one could drop in the open source code from Microsoft in it and run
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by rnd0 6y ago
I try most new versions in Virtualbox and see how far I can get with setting it up as a practical work enviroment. I get further with it each time, but there's still a lot of huge stumbling blocks (no SMP, for instance) that keeps me f
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by rnd0 6y ago
>I think virtual machines are the best way to keep old software around. You're not wrong. However I think that the appeal of ReactOS (in part, and if it was more stable) is that it's currently updated and (in theory) can be sec
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by rnd0 6y ago
>I know of two specific examples of ReactOS code that as of a couple years ago were identical with Windows code. Cool; if they're specific then you ought to be able to cite them for the rest of us.
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by rnd0 6y ago
My suggestion would be to download the build environment[1], read how to build it[2], try it out in a virtual machine (eg virtualbox) and then work with their jira[3]. [1] https://reactos.org/wiki/Build_Environment [2]
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by rnd0 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Dummies
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by rnd0 6y ago
I'm reasonably sure that large parts of windows were re-written between 2003 and Vista; so I'd assume the vast majority is new.
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by rnd0 6y ago
The arbitary nature of contracts also keeps piracy relevant for people who get exasperated at the "now you hear it, now you don't" problem with playlists. If you pirate something and make a playlist, it won't be full of
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by rnd0 6y ago
Even so, he's wrong according to every thing I've read on the subject. The conventional wisdom seems to be that if you're a musician the primary way you're going to be making money is through touring and selling merch at
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by rnd0 6y ago
Please don't confuse 'liberal' with 'leftist'. In terms of economics liberals can be almost every bit as conservative as republicans. Neither democrats nor republicans represent the interests of the working class at
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by rnd0 6y ago
No. Open Source lost to Oracle instead of Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America#Impac...
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by rnd0 7y ago
We already have simh -what would be gained?
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by rnd0 7y ago
Funny, I'm the opposite. I used to switch between the two for about 15 years or so but these days I'm tired of dealing with issues around Linux hardware drivers each release; so I've settled into just using windows. When I wa
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by rnd0 7y ago
I think that by the time they become stable enough to use as a daily driver, no one will be using 2003-compatible software or hardware. If they're even using the hardware now, that is. I mean we're talking ten years and older. I d
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by rnd0 7y ago
>You're not their customer, advertisers are Then it's high time everyone but advertisers stopped using google search and start using anything but. If advertisers are their customers, so be it; let them have it.
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by rnd0 7y ago
People in power do and believe what they are told to do and believe. For evidence see the iraq war, the war on terror, etc. It's on the people in power. If they wanted, they could use the resources at their disposal (media, etc) to cha
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by rnd0 7y ago
Child mortality is the least of it, however. You have to consider what the world is going to be like in 20,30 and 40 years from now and factor that into your decision. You have to consider what you'd be asking them to live through. Bri

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