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by timonovici 12y ago
> What the GPL does, is set a few (people from the BSD crowd would say restricted) freedoms and try to spread them as far as possible by making people license their own source code they wrote under GPL if they want to work with a GPL lic
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by timonovici 12y ago
> the companies that own the content would never be willing to relicense them for DRM-free streaming. Don't be so sure. People were saying exactly this several years ago about music. We owe it to Jobs that he realized it's stup
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by timonovici 12y ago
More like 8 or 10. There are costs beside that: hardware, hosting, office, internet, etc. etc. The math doesn't work that way ;)
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by timonovici 12y ago
Then you understand nothing of how URSS actually worked. They didn't "employed" 300 people because they were needed, they did so to keep everyone busy. The head of a "colhoz" (I think that would roughly translate to
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by timonovici 12y ago
It's not like they sit around and say: "Oh, f*ck Android, let's find vulnerabilities in other operating systems." I suppose it's long since they have a team working on Android vulnerabilities, but it's not triv
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by timonovici 12y ago
What if other people already know about the breach? Would you prefer the joy of ignorance, or would you rather protect yourself by some means?
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by timonovici 12y ago
The Chromebook pixel... You just hook up a bigger SSD, and you are done ;)
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by timonovici 12y ago
Amen to that. After doing some magic with powertop, I get about 5 hours out of my Thinkpad X201 9-cell battery, which is still less that the 7 on Windows they claim. But it guess the battery is getting older too, I've never replaced it
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by timonovici 12y ago
I always wonder where do people get these quirks... And I suspect mostly that's Ubuntu's fault, which is a shitty OS to begin with. It's the only distro I had problems with my graphics card (an Aspire 5050, several years ago)
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by timonovici 12y ago
That's not always the case, Seinfeld still bring a lot of cash for Sony, and they will never agree to stop at any point, if that still brings in money. Even a thousand years would not be enough, because that's the "raison d&#
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by timonovici 12y ago
But doesn't Rubinius already have a JIT? Why wait for MRI v3?
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by timonovici 12y ago
How does that increases competition? And you turn around the idea at at the end: you say it would be more profitable to make certain drugs, and then you say it would lower the prices , which will make (obviously) less profitable to make&#x2
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by timonovici 12y ago
It's not that Debian lacks things to do, and they are being picky about the licenses: it's that some projects are rather negligent about their terms of licensing, sometimes downright dumb, and then somebody like Debian has to unta
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by timonovici 12y ago
How on earth having an unknown, unsecure, unreviewed binary blob running on your computer be "the more secure method"? Compared to what? But having a blob in the browser running in a sea of proprietary code (MacOS), I don't t
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by timonovici 12y ago
Also, check out Krita; it looks a lot like photoshop to me, but the last time I used photoshop was 7 years ago. https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dBDHsjsOG4w/U1e8ubOrBTI/A... There is a guy, David Revoy, that us
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by timonovici 12y ago
Well, you can change that in a way. Just use the money you would otherwise pay Adobe and fund the feature you need. You can easily contact the developers, there's a list of them here https://git.gnome.org/browse/gi
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by timonovici 12y ago
for chrome? seriously?