Not only would it be a better experience for the customers, it would save them a ton of bandwidth as well. I have no idea why App Store doesn't use BT by default and fall back to direct downloading.
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(Unless I'm misunderstanding, you can charge for GPL software, you just cannot charge for the source once they've got a binary. You also can use your own fork of GPL on your hardware without releasing any source.)
tptacek thanks for being the voice of reason in these infosec law threads.
⇧⌃⏏ is insufficient?
Google doesn't seem to do any rent-seeking (as MS) nor does it try to lock down its platform to prevent any competition whatsoever (as Apple). FRAND is a shitty situation, but I think it's fair to claim even with that, Google is a much less threat to freedom than Apple or MS.
Just don't count on them to provide privacy as well.
I'm hoping for Mozilla to become a major player in phones; they seem fairly dedicated to both freedom and privacy.
It seems like closed-source is antithesis to "designed for the every day person who really values their online security and privacy."
I don't understand your point about dogma. I think HN assumes rationality as implied by smartness. Nobody wants to hire a poor coder/communicator to write code, CS degree or no. I bet most readers would find your process to be pretty good and have similar processes of their own.
But should I see a therapist to address my feelings about crying due to the results of a children's athletic competition? I guess I ultimately wouldn't care if my friends knew that one, but I can empathize with people that would feel super uncomfortable.
Why I moved from Mac OS X to Linux (2012): They're obviously pushing for a walled garden experience just like the iPhone, which is reprehensible enough on its own to warrant a boycott against the whole company.
The PC users laughing that you cannot change the parts are right. It reduces quite a lot of the expense if you can swap out just the CPU or just the GPU. But hey, let's glue the ram into out laptops and overcharge for real capacity.
What's this thing Objective-C developers were tweeting this week, you have to be pre-approved to get a certificate that signs kexts? Fuck Apple, I'm tired of it and I have learned my lesson. I'm going with Android or Firefox OS for mobile and Linux or BSD for computing.
In my ideal society the majority has more respect for education and rationality and ergo they would have thought, "hm, maybe this PATRIOT Act and increased surveillance is exactly in line with the goals expressed by the terrorists."
Or they'd at least think, "what's going on with these congressional districts, some sort of Uzumaki?"
But what seems to be happening is that nobody is angry enough to even vote differently. So I'll probably move to Canada or something.
"To the SDOs [standards development organizations], the system works rather well. They take on the burden of developing standards, an obligation that in many other countries falls on government. They convene experts and build systems for collating and distributing these standards. They even offer limited free access... [Malamud] argues, the effect of these standards is felt on the ground each and every day, as well as in the pocketbooks of local governments. In a video posted by Malamud, the head building inspector for Sonoma County, Calif. testifies that the country spends about $30,000 during a code cycle buying copies of building code for staff."
Everything the government uses as a standard should be freely available to the public in a machine readable format. By selling standards to the government I assert the SDO's should be required to forfeit their copyright. But that will never happen; it's the same bullshit as with PACER and court documents, some asshole has found a way to rent-seek on publicly owned IP and the system allows it because few people care out loud.