OVH founder on June 19 2016 "@ubuntu asks us to bill you 1e-2e per month for each VPS/PCI/PCC/SD. If not, prohibition to use the mark "Ubuntu" on our website."

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The difference is that CA would not be a 3 year old out in the cold but one the first 10 economies of the world. Take something off that figure because of the negative network effects of leaving such a large market, but it won't be that bad.

However that should happen in a friendly way, at least because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And this leads to the most important fact: do the USA have a procedure to secede, like UE's famous article 50? Last time somebody wanted to leave they had to fight for it and it didn't went well for both parties, right? All I found is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The BSD license explicitly allows ripping, it's the whole point of it. If you publish source using BSD or MIT or similar licenses you should expect and like to be ripped off. Let's say you're very altruistic or you have some plan for profiting by it. If you don't like that, go for GPL.

No cult likes competing cults. What's interesting is that the cult of OCP is stronger than the cult of Apple, that open wins against closed. It's comforting.

It looks better than Eliza from 1966 but it doesn't seem any smarter. A PR stunt?

Tax payers, so the people getting it. I already have 100 Mb/s fiber but it's ok to give it to others. Furthermore with 100 Mb/s everywhere I could start thinking to move into the countryside. What I don't understand is: only 120 M Euro? That's 20 cents per person so it's easy on taxpayers but is it enough to buy and operate the infrastructure?

"Older Windows Won't Run on New Intel and AMD Chips"

Because nobody is going to write drivers for Windows 7 and 8. Any other OS with drivers will work, Linux and OSX among them. Just imagine Intel giving up the whole server market.

Streams were the best surprise when I had to work with Java a couple of months ago after years of other languages. They are good but it's still the worst language with that kind of functionality. I could write in 5 lines what would have taken me a page of code, but it's still a one liner in Ruby or Python. Too much boilerplate, as usual for Java. The problem is that it can't be helped given the nature of the language. Faulty original design.

Fast forward any shooting/fighting scene in a superheroes/transformers/action movie and you get the five minutes with the actual plot.

And the ironic thing is that most of those mobile devices are already Linux, with an Android userland.

Actually Linux is moving so ahead that it's going full circle and reinventing Windows. This snap looks so much like the way Windows manages dependencies.

> , containers, or whatever could be very helpful for small projects that don't have a team of packaging gurus. There are hundreds of useful apps collecting dust on github or on the developer's hard drive because packaging requires too much expertise. Exactly the kind of projects that are likely not to release a new snap for every vulnerable library they are using. Will still have heartbleed versions of openssl in some packages if snap was introduced two years ago. Compare with having the distro updating the only shared library that has to be fixed and every package is fixed as well.

Great, so when there is the next bug fix for openssl I'll get a 10 GB download with all the updates for the snap packages using the broken version. No wait, I'll get only a 1 GB download because most packages won't be updated and they'll keep using the vulnerable library. It's a black hat/spy's wetdream.

And a disk manufacturer wetdream too, with all that space wasted. I wonder if there will be at least a deduplication system, not to have the same libraries stored again and again in the directories of different packages. But I'm much more worried about the security issues.

Given the prices of some phones the margin they could have an higher margin on the software update or an higher return on investment. So why not?

Apparently I can upgrade both the CPU and the graphic card of my laptop (HP ZBook 15 first generation), if there are still CPUs with the same socket when I'll decide to upgrade (I think I'll never want). The manual explains how to do it, even if in the part for Authorized Service Providers and not Customer Self-Repair. A screwdriver is all is needed.
What I did is add 8 extra GB or RAM (I can add another 16 GB and max out at 32 GB) and replace the DVD with a 1 TB SSD. I did the latter recently and I still have the original 750 GB HDD inside. I'll swap them and eventually decide if ejecting the HDD (which is powered off most of the time now) and taking in back the DVD. Not that I used it much, but the model with a DVD burner and the upgrades I did was much cheaper than a custom model with them included.
I don't see me replacing this 2 years old machine anytime soon. It's got enough CPU (i7-4700MQ 2.40GHz), RAM and disk for the time being. Eventually it will run out of service. It's 3 years next business day for less than 100 Euro, I think I can renew for another 2 years then we'll see. It's good enough and my Galaxy Tab S (first generation too) is still fast enough to do everything I don't need a real keyboard for. It's 300 grams and even if it lives mostly at home (8.4" are large) it's a laptop replacement for browsing and viewing videos.
Hardware has got good enough since a long time, the replacement cycles are becoming long.