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871.
by yarrel 12y ago
4. It's not proprietary and doesn't restrict people's ability to freely use their web browser.
872.
by yarrel 12y ago
The last time I tried to find an office building in Berlin, Google Maps sent me to a primary school. House in London? House in Sussex. Google Maps doesn't work all that well outside the US in my experience.
873.
by yarrel 12y ago
Adding that capability removes any reason for web sites to use any of Firefox's other capabilities. Mozilla just told all its users to install IE, Chrome or Safari.
874.
by yarrel 12y ago
Which adding DRM detracts from.
875.
by yarrel 12y ago
No it's a perfect analogy. Mozilla have added an attack vector on users. They fought for the right to be the people adding the poison. That's not noble or unfortunate. It means that there is no difference between Mozilla and the o
876.
by yarrel 12y ago
But they are not healthy. They have been corrupted by Adobe. We need software freedom to be healthy, not organizations that attack that health.
877.
by yarrel 12y ago
At present they're attacking them. Not having any users is better than that. For the users.
878.
by yarrel 12y ago
"Qt" and "Lightweight" do not go together.
879.
by yarrel 13y ago
Also known as the bargepole license.
880.
by yarrel 13y ago
Haskell has a much more baroque syntax than Lisp and it really doesn't compare to the C family syntactically or executionally. At best it's a kind of Pythonized Prolog that thinks Perl is a model rather than a warning.
881.
by yarrel 13y ago
It's a polarizing and emotive issue that social conservatives lose their minds over. So it's a fair comparison on that basis.
882.
by yarrel 13y ago
"in" precludes that reading.
883.
by yarrel 13y ago
Express kidnappers agree with you.
884.
by yarrel 13y ago
Those systems are not supernatural though. Do you believe racism is rational?
885.
by yarrel 13y ago
Or "MacOS X" as it's known.
886.
by yarrel 13y ago
or 4)They weren't patents on math.
887.
by yarrel 13y ago
Agreed. There's some (alleged) sexism in the full story though.
888.
by yarrel 13y ago
It's so much easier to capture an organization when you can simply buy it.
889.
by yarrel 13y ago
But make sure they can be circumvented by DRM.
890.
by yarrel 13y ago
Both of those criticisms post-date Jobs. Gruber's coverage of the Foxconn deaths was truly something to behold. I stopped reading him about that time.
891.
by yarrel 13y ago
Treating a quality problem as an obedience problem is being an asshole.
892.
by yarrel 13y ago
Investment in riot control gear and militarization of police in first world countries doesn't suggest that this realization is going to come any time soon.
893.
by yarrel 13y ago
How many people are being paid to comment on this thread?
894.
by yarrel 13y ago
They might have the first clue what it is the company does for a start.
895.
by yarrel 13y ago
> DRM only works if you don't know how it works. Which is why it doesn't work. But it is very useful for excluding competitors and pissing off consumers.
896.
by yarrel 13y ago
Now tell me how the landmine in the field prevents grazing everywhere in it.
897.
by yarrel 13y ago
You have a remarkably sexist friend.
898.
by yarrel 13y ago
It's the Opera of programming languages.
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by yarrel 13y ago
The EUCD does. It also has takedown provisions.
900.
by yarrel 13y ago
That's not what "open source" means.

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