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by prange 4y ago
Sure - anyone is capable of doing something bad in the future. But, it is utterly dishonest to claim they are doing it now if you have no evidence.
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by prange 4y ago
If it is controlled by corporate interests, it is not free.
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by prange 4y ago
No it isn’t. The direction of development is controlled by the need for funding.
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by prange 4y ago
I agree that submitting bug reports or patches is an important contribution. I don’t see how that relates to market share, since regular users won’t do that.
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by prange 4y ago
It’s not really ‘free’ if it has to produce ad revenue.
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by prange 4y ago
For clarification - if you either contribute code or money to Firefox, you are clearly supporting the existence of a free browser. I don’t see how just using it does. So if you aren’t contributing to it you may as well use the browser with
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by prange 4y ago
> the fact that Twitter is a customer service channel This is circular reasoning. Nowhere is it established that Twitter is a customer service channel. Other parts of your in your first paragraph makes sense, but are also non-obvious a
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by prange 4y ago
What makes you think a customer service rep is operating the official Twitter account for a $40+BN company?
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by prange 4y ago
> I wouldn't seriously consider using a non-free application for something as essential as everyday web browsing. Why? Are you considering forking Firefox?
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by prange 4y ago
When you said that, my first thought was - that would be for open source gun designs. Of course it’s actually already a real thing: http://www.gathub.com/?p=28
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by prange 4y ago
Perhaps the client is an ‘American Jedi’. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/american-jedi-documentary_n_5...
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by prange 4y ago
Very true. My point was that you don’t have to use ticketing as a control mechanism - you can use it however you like and it doesn’t imply distrust. Similarly you can have an overbearing or micromanaging boss whether or not ticketing is u
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by prange 4y ago
It’s not as simple as that. ‘Talking’ doesn’t create a reference where you can see what’s been done yet, and of course people leave teams or get sick etc. so there are many reasons to want to see what was and wasn’t completed.
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by prange 4y ago
> which makes it difficult to learn how to hack This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. It’s true that you can’t rebuild the kernel or os services, or modify the system very much at all so if that is the kind of hacking you want to lear
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by prange 4y ago
It has more features, reviews generally indicate improvements, and consumers are choosing it. Anyone claiming that it is getting worse is making an extraordinary claim that needs data to support it.
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by prange 4y ago
> When your business partners are world governments, unfortunately mass suffering is the table stakes. You haven’t mentioned any suffering Apple is causing. If you mean to say anyone who does business with a government is causing untold
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by prange 4y ago
> Working to manage it seems to be the best alternative. Yeah - I tend to agree.
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by prange 4y ago
You don’t need to explain, but I am actually interested. I don’t see it as hair splitting. My point is that Trump may not be president now, and it seems you see that as a binary. He is currently head of a large political organization that
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by prange 4y ago
“Incredible human suffering”? This doesn’t seem like a serious comment.
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by prange 4y ago
That doesn’t make sense. Saying the FBI should be defunded is explicitly speculating about what hasn’t happened yet.
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by prange 4y ago
> it seems to take only the inevitable one or two odd instances of corruption to start the rot that will bring it down This seems to be based on the premise that there could ever be a system that was somehow perfectly free or corruption
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by prange 4y ago
Apple Maps has traffic jam data. For that matter, my DVD based navigation in my 10 year old car gets real time traffic updates. Neither of them involve using my position data to let ads track me. Additionally nothing stops you from using G
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by prange 4y ago
If you think being concerned about Trump, who is widely agreed to still be in control of one of the two US Political Parties, is just far off ‘speculation’ to you, then I’m very surprised you care about an old FBI dossier on Aretha Franklin
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by prange 4y ago
He wasn’t being investigated when he was in office.
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by prange 4y ago
It’s obviously not declining. More and more people are choosing it.
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by prange 4y ago
“Apple has practically unlimited resources and power” This statement isn’t grounded in reality. If it were, it would make more sense to be angry that they haven’t solved world hunger and ended the threat of nuclear war.
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by prange 4y ago
Are you actually claiming that to be a real event? The only thing of note about it seems to be you personally making a statement at work that honestly doesn’t sound a million miles away from what Steve Jobs or Jony Ive might have said. They
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by prange 4y ago
The question of why this download is such a big deal remains? Honestly if having to download some tools is your chief complaint about their developer experience, they must be doing magnificently.
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by prange 4y ago
He and a large number of his supporters contest that, and believe he should run again. Independent polls suggest he would have a good chance of winning. He is probably the only person who might actually get to enact this policy, whereas no
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by prange 4y ago
That’s a link to someone facing a different issue that it’s fairly clear most people aren’t experiencing. I agree that if there is a bug that causes a download to get stuck in a loop, it should be a priority for Apple to fix it. However tha

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