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by air 9y ago
You can inspect the WhatsApp binary and prevent updates. Having to trust the server is a big deal.
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by air 9y ago
People want to maximize the time they spend together with their team mates, spouses, friends and children. That requires synchronization.
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by air 9y ago
Proprietary codebase does not deprive original project from potential contributors. Gpl'd fork might
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by air 10y ago
Minor nitpick "The green and blue colors, z-position, and normal vector are all interpolated in the same manner. (Texture coordinates behave slightly differently because there you’d also need to take the perspective into account.)&quot
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by air 10y ago
> The issue here is Software Patents exist. It's possible to not be asshole with software patents. See Facebook and Google.
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by air 10y ago
Netflix begs to differ.
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by air 11y ago
IMHO the hostile takeover of the ffmpeg project by the libav guys (Fabrice Bellard had to wield trademark to force them to rename the fork) and intense FUD campaign were much bigger issues.
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by air 11y ago
To be fair, Firefox can and does ship their own browser engine on Android, something that is forbidden on IOS.
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by air 11y ago
The point was that those are forbidden in E-prime, (they have "am" in them).
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by air 11y ago
How do you introduce yourself? http://eprimedictionary.pbworks.com/My+name+is+Sally Has some suggestions. All seem pretty awkward to me.
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by air 11y ago
Can't you run it under Chromium then?
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by air 11y ago
"The real problem with land [and property taxes] is the fact it tends to flow into the cost of rent and homeownership." The price of property and rent in popular places will be what the market will bear. So with tax, the rent woul
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by air 11y ago
It's discussed in the article: Many people believe that the source of this myth was a 1945 Food and Nutrition Board recommendation that said people need about 2.5 liters of water a day. But they ignored the sentence that followed clos
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by air 11y ago
It's $2B
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by air 11y ago
It's politics. If the default is "don't track", advertisers have a case that the user has not explicitly asked to disable tracking.
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by air 11y ago
But is there evidence that Facebook is willing to use other companies' code under similar grant?
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by air 12y ago
The intent is to prevent man in the middle -attackers from getting access to those features.
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by air 12y ago
To be really fair, out of the four biggest browser vendors (MS, Apple, Mozilla, Google) only Google makes it possible to use the other browser engines on their mobile platform.
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by air 12y ago
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ "Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript"
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by air 12y ago
"And yet he's a super nice guy. In fact, nice is not the word. Ronco is good." So good he supports torture http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/12/09/ron-conway-bla...
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by air 12y ago
"This past spring, Juliano Rizzo (@julianor) and I came up with a cryptographic attack on Telegram's MTProto "secret" chat communications which can be performed in O(2^64) time." Using asymptotic notation without an
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by air 12y ago
> Rendering engines are okay. Its the Javascript execution engine that is not allowed. No, they must use WebKit: "Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript" https://developer.ap
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by air 12y ago
It's not a re-implementation, just a port. Dalvik is licensed under Apache License 2.0 which allows proprietary derivatives.
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by air 12y ago
As an end user: I can combine GPLv2 (eg. linux kernel) and BSD licensed code, and distribute it. I can combine GPLv3 and BSD licensed code, and distribute it. I cannot combine GPLv2 and GPLv3 licensed code, and distribute it. As an end user
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by air 12y ago
Github costs $0 and 0h of admin work for OSS code.
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by air 12y ago
They use the same loophole as with phones. Microsoft distributes Linux VMs through its subsidiary Microsoft Open Technologies, which was created just for this purpose. It does not own the patents so MS doesn't have to license them.
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by air 12y ago
Unfortunatey they created a subsidiary called Microsoft Mobile that sells the phones. The subsidiary does not own the patents, so no patents gets licensed. Qualcomm uses the same loophole.
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by air 12y ago
"Unity 8 uses QML for the shell itself but the applications will still be in GTK." I think GTK will be just for legacy/3rd party applications and new stuff by Canonical will be Qt based.
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by air 12y ago
They probably also oppose any easing of those restrictions.
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by air 12y ago
Per-capita GDP does not matter in the power contest. There are countries that have GDP/capita twice the size of US's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...

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