slgeorge

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by slgeorge 11y ago
Your right, but the routes to market for hardware devices are quite limited. It's slightly easier to get tablets into market, but the major OEM's are very conservative. For Phones the issue is that people buy hardware from their n
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It will be a more general purpose computing device. The point of convergence is that you can use it in either mode, 'consuming' as a tablet, or 'creating' with a keyboard. But, _be reasonable_ with your expectations. It&
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The problem with that statement is that the vast majority of the software business world interprets anti-proprietary software as being anti-business. And, not entirely without reason given that it's extremely difficult (almost impossib
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I'm sure your Mother told you 'two wrongs don't make a right' as a child though.
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If you're interviewing someone at a professional level who has more than 5? years worth of experience then commonly a problem in an interview is that the candidate thinks they should "win" by answering correctly. They've
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You answered how you like to work, not what sort job it is. They may be the same thing for you - 'it doesn't matter what I work on as long as I can work in the following way' - which would be worth exploring with you further.
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This question is focused on convincing good applicants to work for them. The structure of the interview is: a. Have candidate define their perfect role b. Explain to candidate how actual role lines-up with desired role they defined It works
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You probably don't want to do this. For stability it's best to keep the system managed through packages from the standard repositories. If you install things that are not from the repositories the packaging system won't be ab
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I think you're trying to say that: a. Graphics requires software and hardware to be integrated b. Open Source communities don't work where you are driving designs in software and hardware - they are uncoordinated I can't comm
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The likely reason that you are not getting any response is that you're struggling to navigate through a large organisation. That's the most likely reason - it's inertia rather and evilness. Somebody in the CSR (or Qualcomm) l
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Honestly, Ubuntu doesn't even try to focus on your type of usage you've defined. Given your companies pattern of doing its first deployment of Linux this year , and needing a very long support cycle - I think it's fair to sa
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"Redhat never had issues such as this that Canonical did about licensing terms not being GPL friendly, which they have since fixed" Sorry, I don't think that characterisation is entirely fair. First, the issues that were reso
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Seeing as you can recall as far back as before the "Enterprise" appellation to RedHat you're clearly a long-term user of Linux! If you've been using Linux for that long I'm pretty sure that all the distributions are
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by slgeorge 11y ago
It's a lovely story, thanks for sharing it. On the "support and enterprise" not being ready. The only comment I'd make is that what you tested was the community of users support e.g. on IRC. In Open source there's f
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I don't know about rail, but I don't think it's true to say we have competition in Internet in the UK. We do have some, but it's "constrained" competition, defined in a way that will never be truly disruptive t
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In your parent post you said: "Liberals want to heavily tax fossil and subsidize renewable energy. Problem with that is that taxing fossil make life and the economy harder in the meantime and subsidizing often goes to cronies which is
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You're right, freedom of choice is a big central benefit of Linux. Perhaps, ultimately because everything is modular due to the disconnected-distributed nature of development. But, giving general users Xmonad and a terminal isn'
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To be clear you're describing advertising to the mass-market "general users", rather than developers. Actually, there is quite a bit of advertising, particularly in BRIC countries to that segment. It works as well. In many ca
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I think it would be much fairer to compare OSX on Apple hardware, to Ubuntu on hardware where it's certified by Canonical. Meaning that the hardware works and you're using the version of Ubuntu it was certified with [1]. An exampl
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IBM's focus is on growing its alternative platforms - more users - not more tech. Tech is necessary but not sufficient. It makes sense to partner with Ubuntu if you want to focus on growing communities. "typical adware" - heh
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I'm not following you. Your examples are of the inherent risk in the activity or device - a person drinks coffee regularly, and then burns herself after drinking safely for years - this is just a risk of a hot drink, it could happen a
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Can you give an example of what the 'multitude of choices' is please? I hear this often about Linux and don't really understand what people mean. Interested to hear someone else's perspective. From my perspective, there
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Canonical has put a lot of energy into open source for a decade - contributing code and putting free software into the hands of millions around the world. It should be entitled (your word, different usage) to write proprietary code if it th
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Only if your focus is open source. UbuntuOne was conceived of as a service, so to make the project go faster and solve problems commercial products were used. As you'd expect you then have to disentangle that code to release you code a
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The Home Office has been tightening up skilled visa's for about three years now. It used to be easy to do, but is becoming very difficult. But, I can see the other side of the coin - there's no way you can claim that skills are in
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It can be confusing operating in the EU. Whatever jurisdiction you're operating in, when it's not your own, it feels confusing! In my experience the EU is at the better end of the scale - but you have to bear in mind that it&#x2
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"Now, I think the incentive structures for FOSS projects are a little different such that the FOSS environment isn't going to converge on the idea of collecting such data. But clearly, throw any sort of system that wants to make m
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"Canonical didn't make Unity to innovate for the user as much as it did to have a unified interface that could run [across all platforms". Sorry, but simplifying and clarifying the interface for users absolutely is a goal for
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The way around that is to get the vendor (IBM, Dell or whomever) to CERTIFY the hardware for the Linux distribution of your choice. That guarantees that the HW vendor will make sure that drivers are available. You can get your hw vendor to
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The purpose of the policy is to protect end-users - they should not download/install something thinking it is "Ubuntu", and it turns out that it isn't Ubuntu. Ubuntu encourages derivation, but there has to be balance in

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