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Comment Re:Can I Fund Unity a Negative Amount? (Score 4, Insightful) 280

As a counter point, if they found that Gnome was suddenly going in a direction that didn't serve their or their users needs and the Gnome team refused to work with them it makes sense to switch correct?

Now, the same problem they ran into with the Gnome team can easily happen with the above projects, they have little say in how they evolve and in which direction they go and it simply leaves them open to being screwed with again the future. It makes a lot of sense to simply run with your own project.

Comment Re:Keyword: Android (Score 4, Insightful) 140

Well considering the vast size of Samsung, they probably do far more work with Linux than Google does as well.

People forget we're talking about a company that not only builds products in pretty much every home electronics category but also ships, CCTV, aircraft (for a while), artillery and automated turrets. None of this counting the bits and pieces they research and build that go into each of those products.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 201

No not bribes in any sort of monetary form, that would probably create too large of an outcry if it happened and was provable.

People may very well create the associated content for those books but unless the frame work for it is in the bill, good luck getting such extra content adopted by professors/universities/community colleges. Having pre-made tests/quizzes/homework available would be great but there is also the extra work of putting it in a format easily incorporated into existing front end systems. How easy would it be to import something like that into say, Blackboard?

Not to mention needing proper outside verification that the material is accurate and helpful.

Where as all of the above is already provided by publishers of existing text books, it's a long steep uphill battle to get these books adopted by professors.

Comment Re:..and... (Score 1) 201

While they may not offer financial incentives, they offer numerous tools that automate/simply the job of a professor. The last business class I took required practically zero effort on the part of the professor. Without a similar system in place for these free editions, professors are going to be far less likely to make the switch.

Comment Re:..and... (Score 2) 201

Only if someone is going to step up to the plate and start doing automated testing software based on these books as well. Last couple classes I took required that you take the tests/quizes on the publishers website (which btw if you bought a used book, you get to spend $40 for access) since it freed up the teacher from having to go over any of the work.

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