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by slgeorge 11y ago
Totally agree with you Egusa. Perhaps the key thing is to know which publications/sites you are targeting and what counts as 'news' for them. Traditional news outlets (eg TechCrunch or InfoWorld) only want something that is s
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by slgeorge 11y ago
@nhashem - great comment, well thought out and worded, thanks. I'm not going all Wikipedia on you, but can you provide some links or thoughts on the idea that "what's unfortunate to me is that this means some of our society&#
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by slgeorge 12y ago
Yeah you can't ask that. When you read the rest of the document it's clear the 'job definition' has been done by someone whose not a HR professional. It's probably a tech or developer whose inexperienced. The only t
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by slgeorge 12y ago
I think it's a hard business model that's for sure. Most people here think that Freemium works because you have Open Source developers who have 'day jobs' which means they'll be more likely to buy the private serv
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by slgeorge 12y ago
Your point (1) is incorrect, actually the reverse of the truth. Dell specifically deserves credit for sourcing and designing the XPS hardware to natively support Ubuntu. There are no "niggling issues" because hardware components
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by slgeorge 12y ago
That's an absolutely terrible idea if you intend to run Linux on it. If you select the Ubuntu version and it's preloaded with Ubuntu at factory then Dell knows that it's worth working (and paying for) Linux support. If yo
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by slgeorge 12y ago
I think you're totally right. There's a product manager somewhere in AWS whose using the comparison "total cost and productivity of managing own infrastructure" vs AWS. That means cost of people building/managing se
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by slgeorge 12y ago
As it says, "If there is one truism in the technology market, it is that premium pricing just doesn’t last." It definitely has one aspect of a Truism [1] - no-one really looks at the underlying assumptions. The biggest assumpti
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by slgeorge 12y ago
You are probably right, but the law has changed a lot in the UK in the last two years or so as I understand it. It's moved much closer to the US system for employees during the first 2 years of employment. The situations under which
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by slgeorge 12y ago
But, as a small company/start-up you should absolutely stand firm on 30 day payment, 45 at the most. It's completely ludicrous that large companies cannot pay in reasonable time-frames - it's just bullying, and is only done s
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by slgeorge 12y ago
On the Ubuntu side of things it is a full "Linux" stack. The code-base is public and available, and the community is open. On the application front you can develop HTML5 or native (QML) apps. There's more info on developer.ub
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by slgeorge 12y ago
The capabilities for converged devices are getting closer. Will's video (lower down) shows some of the latest software developments. You shouldn't be discouraged - it's on the way - but there is a reason that the major player
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by slgeorge 12y ago
You can write native or HTML5 apps for the phone. Scopes themselves give you different ways of looking at content. The first couple of pages of Ubuntu Developer give the best information ( http://developer.ubuntu.com/en/
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by slgeorge 12y ago
It will be as open as it's possible to be on phone hardware platforms. Which means that some SOC's will have binary drivers. Unless you're currently not using a phone then that's pretty much the same position as with a
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by slgeorge 12y ago
There are fans of everything out there, it's almost the point of the Internet - connecting people together from around the world with specialist interests! You don't have to be a fan to use Ubuntu (as you said) - but there are l
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by slgeorge 12y ago
But since marketeers basically consider "reach" to be the most significant measure of utility the two points are necessarily in conflict. Bottom line could be that if you have more reach, your paid services are more valuable.
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by slgeorge 12y ago
I believe you're talking about communication from management to employees. It's a common frustration that 'management' is not "open and honest". Funnily enough most managers will agree that "open and hones
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by slgeorge 12y ago
That's two different points through from a company perspective. The first is whether you're compliant with well-defined local regulations for the jurisdictions you are within, as well as any industry specific regulations you'
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by slgeorge 12y ago
As part of Ubuntu certification if an altered image is used then we supply that to the OEM. So Lenovo was given an image for the X140e - that's why the Cert page specifies a vendor image. You have to request that image from the manufac
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by slgeorge 12y ago
Totally agree. A lot of technical people miss this. Sales people often (but not always) do this because they don't understand the product - they tend not to have a deep technical background. They compensate by picking up the language -
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by slgeorge 12y ago
I can see the value of having an OSS solution as an API layer for any start-up that has complex billing needs. A lot of start-ups make the "mistake" [1] of locking themselves into fundamental business services at the start: whethe
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by slgeorge 12y ago
What "most Linux distros" are you talking about? Ubuntu has Mandatory Access Control in the form of AppArmor ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor ). It's switched on with a set of policies on the desktop (do sudo
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by slgeorge 12y ago
Your meta comment is probably the most informed one I've read in this discussion. One aspect worth considering is _why_ the article is representing such a different perspective to the perspective USA readers would consider "sensib
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by slgeorge 12y ago
Actually - it's the relative user-bases and the complexity of the user-cases. An APT based system is capable of a system upgrade - but you have to help the system. The previous commenter is completely right that one of the underlying a
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by slgeorge 12y ago
Sure! So how did you go with running Windows or Mac OSX or Android on that Beagle Bone or Raspberry Pi? Linux is the _only_ OS in existence that can run across the variety of hardware it hits. Whether it's from phones through to Superc
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by slgeorge 12y ago
I would estimate (from a relatively well-informed position) that about half the serious issues that users face are due to hardware interactions. You'll remember that a few years ago the famous example was WIFI chip-sets. The reality fo
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by slgeorge 12y ago
We don't have any Apple hardware on our Certification list: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/ In fact, no Linux distribution has ever had Apple hardware certified. If it's not certified it means that the v
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by slgeorge 12y ago
>have just expressed that you are overly concerned The "overly" in that sentence is a value judgement. It may or may not be 'overly' to have a number of concerns over certain advances. The difference between the 60&#x
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by slgeorge 12y ago
> I can't think of many wars that were not the product of politicians run amuck. I don't think you know of many wars then. Let's see: - World War II (Europe) Not caused by a politician, caused by a dictator (a different th
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by slgeorge 12y ago
It's very unlikely to work that way for most jurisdictions. Let's look at the situation if you had a US-based company and you visited the UK. While you were in the UK you did some work. The UK tax office will interpret that as mea

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