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by _Simon 8y ago
What an utter waste of bits this article is?
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by _Simon 8y ago
Are you suggesting that they are, as it were, doomed?
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by _Simon 8y ago
It depends on what freedom. GPL isn't free; it's handcuffware. It's "freedom" on someone else's terms. BSD is a truly free license whereas GPL is an attempt at an anti-capitalist license model.
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by _Simon 9y ago
The sheer volume of these type of post is beginning to smell a lot like astroturfing. The faux outrage is comical. No issues with any Apple device with the lastest software for myself or anyone I know. I can only assume that these are eithe
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by _Simon 11y ago
But "them", "their" and "they" are perfectly serviceable and have been used for a long time.
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by _Simon 11y ago
Like "they", "them" and "their"? English is a wonderfully flexible language, it's such a shame that ridiculous and faddish political correctness is so utterly blind to it.
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by _Simon 11y ago
Nope. Read the opening paragraph again.
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by _Simon 12y ago
Just another iPhone ripoff. I don't think any right thinking iPhone owner (fanboy? please...) would entertain it.
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by _Simon 12y ago
What, they think that 3000 signatures will make Apple change their terms? 3000 devs that in all likelihood will find another reason to whine? 3000 people that do not under what free speech is? Hey EFF! I want my fucking money back.
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by _Simon 12y ago
So don't use Apple kit! Simple, really. But, if you espouse freedom of speech and freedom of choice, you must logically accept that people will want this choice. That's the problem with the OSS Stasi; the choice they mean is the
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by _Simon 12y ago
This again? FFS RTFM...
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by _Simon 12y ago
>" Smartphones that do have email and don't have Microsoft Word are a minority? " You, as already stated, are missing the point. It has been explained and you continue to miss, or obtuesly ignore the point. > "Neit
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by _Simon 12y ago
And neither are you or the OP. In fact, I'd hazard a guess that you are in actual fact a minority. Before you assert higher mobile sales again, think on how many people use their device for anything more than the very basics; photos, m
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by _Simon 12y ago
> "...as the interface is so inferior for getting any "real" work done" Bullshit. Depends on what "real" is.
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by _Simon 12y ago
How utterly ridiculous. Please stop posting your own shitty, over-entitled rants. That you clearly think that you are still "1337" by being so dissmissive of a commonly used tool is arrogant and ridiculous. Also, your list of inst
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by _Simon 12y ago
Are we attempting to create a self-fulfilling prophecy by constantly asking this stupid question? YES!
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by _Simon 12y ago
And you must be a member of this thought police that seem to be invading every aspect of out lives.
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by _Simon 12y ago
No. Mozilla are doing a perfectly good job of that on their own.
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by _Simon 12y ago
Disgusted with the treatment of Brendan Eich by the community. You guys bullied , slandered and libelled and individual. Your behaviour towards him is far worse than his views. As far as I'm concerned, Mozilla no longer exists. I&#x
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by _Simon 13y ago
> I'm not a fucking asshole. The majority of your judgemental and passive/aggressive posts in this thread suggest otherwise.
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by _Simon 13y ago
Have you considered being less patronising?
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by _Simon 13y ago
It's not freedom in any sense of the word. The FSF is at best a fiefdom, but in all reality a dictatorship. Stallmans utopian future is more 1984 than any of the actors he accuses. This whole thing is bullshit.
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by _Simon 13y ago
And in the meantime, how do these companies actually work? What happens when requirements change? What happens with bugs?
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by _Simon 13y ago
No, but the constant posting of pseudo intelligentsia bullshit from the Guardian may be...
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by _Simon 13y ago
I did read it, that's why I posted it. It seems pretty clear to me. Google could've, y'know, joined them. Simple really. Surely a better idea than weaponising them? If you really believe that Google would have used them &#x27
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by _Simon 13y ago
So let me get this right. "Multitasking" isn't fast app switching? Care to elaborate? Didn't think so. My comment was made to illustrate how utterly banal the OP's comment was. I obviously wasn't clear enough t
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by _Simon 13y ago
Am I wrong?
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by _Simon 13y ago
Bullshit. Google were offered a place at the table.
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by _Simon 13y ago
You have a warped sense of time. Multitasking is essentially fast app switching on the devices. Copy and paste was a nothing feature. I'm surprised that you left out MMS too since your going down the trite meme route. Here's some
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by _Simon 13y ago
Those past actions would be backing Motorola's abuse of FRAND patents to 'pre-emptively' attack competitors?

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