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by severino 8y ago
That's true, and that's why I said almost. But many popular languages have big companies behind, like Microsoft, Google or Apple. And we can find plenty of examples of unethical corporate tactics in all of them. But I think we sho
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by severino 8y ago
RHEL is not a synonym for Linux.
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by severino 8y ago
Well, I don't know anybody in the FOSS community which would be worried it systemd became endangered ;)
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by severino 8y ago
So can everybody else, almost. I guess we should stop doing software altogether, to be safe.
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by severino 8y ago
You mean Oracle can one day start suing people for writing programs in Java and using the open source OpenJDK to run them?
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by severino 8y ago
Well, that doesn't change anything about how the reunification was done and how the East Germany history was summarized into the wall and the state police, leaving everything else out of the picture, as this article points out.
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by severino 8y ago
Probably because when his country was annexed to the federal republic 28 years ago, the new governors decided that everything that took place in the 40 years before was worthless and had to be forgotten. Well, everything except the bad thin
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by severino 8y ago
I guess so. I've never used CentOS but it may be somewhat similar, despite being considered more of a server distribution.
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by severino 8y ago
Right. While Office has still some unpaired features, it's also true that not everybody using Office needs Office, specially the home users who need only daily finance, writting letters, etc.
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by severino 8y ago
My dad! :-P For non-technical people, I think there's not much difference between using a computer with Ubuntu, Mac or Windows, for regular tasks like browsing the internet, online shopping, sending email, doing stuff in spreadsheets,
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by severino 8y ago
What I don't like about Fedora is its release cycle, forcing you to upgrade every year or so. With Ubuntu I can still be getting updates for a sytem installed four years ago now. I also don't like the lack of many packages inside
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by severino 8y ago
I don't know much about the issue, but is this fractional scaling thing a problem only in Ubuntu, or Linux in general? (If specific, I guess it should be easier to fix now, once they decided to use GNOME as their desktop environment, r
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by severino 8y ago
Well, here in the west you also had the right to get your own apartment at that age. You only didn't have the bucks ;-)
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by severino 8y ago
It looks like SIGKILL too, now.
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by severino 8y ago
Yes, I could read that kind of stuff, but I would also find opinions of people who also grew up in the SU and miss it. In fact, I've recently read about polls where 60% of the russians regret the end of the USSR. So, I think this is no
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by severino 8y ago
It depends a lot on where you live. I've yet to meet anyone from the former Eastern block who was an adult by the time it collapsed. About books, that's the problem, they're all biased in one way or another. Some will depict
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by severino 8y ago
Written by who? As far as the USSR doesn't exist anymore, it's not like people who never lived there, like me, can form an objective opinion about it.
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by severino 8y ago
I always find myself unable to delete any file on my computer, no matter I never needed it for years, nor I won't need it again in the forseeable future. New features like this one from Microsoft can definitely help.
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by severino 8y ago
You can find some examples of real world (often commercial) JavaFX applications here: https://jaxenter.com/20-javafx-real-world-applications-12365... I don't think you will find any "great" one there, though,
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by severino 8y ago
I think you got me wrong. What I meant was that, when you're browsing the web with IE, it is IE which is draining your battery. However, when you're using Firefox, it's not only Firefox who drains your battery, but also this
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by severino 8y ago
Well, you know, up until recently (don't know if still is) IE was a core part of the operating system, not just the browser itself. That meant that using IE alone will have for example less battery usage than using Firefox, or any othe
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by severino 8y ago
It will always be faster in Windows. When you're running IE, you're running IE. But when you're running Firefox, you're running Firefox + IE :-D
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by severino 8y ago
> Seems nothing much has changed in their approach in 30 years. Well, their PR department changed a lot, so they can keep the same old tactics while having people think they're the good guys now.
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by severino 8y ago
Lol, after reading the headline, I knew somebody was going to make a "time to look beyond Java" comment. It's a classic: it doesn't matter when or where, or if it makes sense or not... somebody has to say it. However I w
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by severino 8y ago
Well, currently there's no much competition with Windows around, right? They managed to get a ~90% share in the desktop market, using debatable practices, which to me looks like a monopoly. It's very difficult to get in there when
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by severino 8y ago
Well, for me, having a company as big as Google providing a solution and commiting to fix the problem a few days after the guy reported the issue on his blog, is quite a good response. It could be better, but we're not talking about th
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by severino 8y ago
Google doesn't fix the problem -> They don't care about their users. They suck. Google fixes the problem -> Yes, but how many users suffered the problem before? They suck.
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by severino 8y ago
If you read the article, you will see they're working to fix it so it doesn't happen again to anybody else. So it's more than a happy ending for just one guy.
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by severino 8y ago
Dying is not always a problem. In fact, lots of people consider it a solution. The same can be said about taxes. They were the solution for problems like giving people access to education and healthcare.
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by severino 8y ago
I know, although I don't think prosecuting dissidents was invented by the 20th century socialists. By the way, may I know which was that place you grew up in?

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