thomholwerda

Not to be a spoilsport or anything, but is there any confirmation for this? A photograph, or at the very least a Twitter message? Something...?

[author of the OSN article here]

Which is exactly why I always link to the source. Always check the source material, whether you agree with an article or not. Most people on HN (and OSNews) do so, luckily.

He is being paid by Microsoft. He wrote a Microsoft-sponsored report on FRAND patents... Quite coincidentally the very focus of the current strategy by Apple-Microsoft.

http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/10/study-on-worldwide-u...

...and continue onwards with GO Launcher vs. Launcher Pro vs. Zeam vs. ...

The complete and utter inability to come up with a consistent, modern, human-readable, non-arbitrary directory structure comes to mind. People are so blinded by the arbitrarily "designed" [1] FHS they refuse to even entertain the idea that it might just be time to replace it with something better.

[1] http://www.osnews.com/story/25556/Understanding_the_bin_sbin...

EDIT for clarification: layers upon layers upon layers of virtual directory structures don't count. It only adds complexity and makes the system more obtuse.

While your assertion may very well be true, the link you provided is not, in any way, any kind of proof. There's nothing in there - at all - to support your claim that "app store piracy is a huge problem".

Do we have any actual figures to support this claim? I highly doubt its validity, you see.

And ironically enough, the court-ordered block of The Pirate Bay just went into effect in The Netherlands as well (For Ziggo, at least; XS4ALL follows tomorrow).

We at http://www.osnews.com used it as well (we're back up after 24hrs in UTC time). You can still view our version at http://www.osnews.com/?sopa=1 (for posterity).

Great work by Zachary Johnson.

[author here]

Nope. It doesn't mean "reaches the most people". It means "has the most impact on the world". I think that Android will be the technology that allows people in poorer places of the world to have the internet - and thus, knowledge, and thus, power - in their pocket. That is going to change the world in a significant way.

Even something as simple as this: the internet may have information on the best way to treat sick cattle, or how to best treat certain crops. Heck, in more developed areas, it may cut the reaction time of aid services drastically.

(you already see this happening in Kenya, as linked in the article: http://singularityhub.com/2011/08/16/80-android-phone-sells-... ).

[author of the article here]

You're right, and I thought about including it in the article. However, I decided not to include it as to not cloud the waters, for two reasons:

1) Oracle v Google is a US case, and this opinion only covers the EU.

2) Oracle v Google seems to be more about patent infringement than copyright infringement. This opinion only covers copyright.

The Zenbooks ARE unibody aluminium.

The internals of the MacBook Air were designed by Intel, not by Apple. The same goes for the internals of the current ultrabooks. It's basically a reference design.

I don't think you've been reading my posts long enough, then. Every review I've ever written on an Apple product has been positive. Each and every one of them.

On top of that, OSNews barely does any reviews - only a few every year. In other words, your post seems to be of a trollish nature :).

It's actually a much older term than that.

http://www.osnews.com/story/24882/The_History_of_App_and_the...

[disclaimer: I'm the author of both the parent article as well as the article linked to in this comment]