What you get for the extra $1000 is a much lighter laptop.
Which if you need to take the laptop with you a lot can make a huge difference. My housemates 11 inch mac air is a about the same as the dell being advertised but with a smaller screen and only weighs under 1kg. making it a much nicer machine to carry around than the dell. The 13 inch mac air is almost identical to the dell.
As a developer what I would really like is an actual touch screen so that I can test out mobile user interfaces without flipping between the laptop and my phone.
Debian does not have SELinux enabled by default. So that is one barrier that frequently they won't have to cross in getting root access.
Debian might also have been targeted for its large market share and not having security extension installed by default. Considering the wide range of uses that Debian is put to it seems like maybe they should create a "public server" install profile that includes things like SELinux enabled and checkrootkit and other routine auditing tools installed.
The only people that care that Hostess is shutting down are:
It's hard to sell cakes filled with fluffed beef tallow and corn syrup as a premium snack these days.
Also note: This is code they contributed to Linux. They retain rights and can dual license.
As long as the code they contributed isn't a derivative work you are right. (Good luck figuring out if it is or is not a derivative work or not.)
That is probably arguable.
As previously mentioned in this thread the license that give Redhat the right to distribute says
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.
Which is in the view of many (most?) developers means a copy of the git repository.
The whole subject is moot until someone with substantial contributions to the kernel gets upset.
It would be sort of funny to see Oracle sue Redhat for violating the GPL though.
Because that would be the path of least resistance for at least one team.
IIRC LTE is not a standard and thus not subject to FRAND licensing terms.
IIRC the Apple v. world lawsuits caused the cell phone manufactures to decide to implement LTE in an adhoc basis.
and im not buying a smart phone, tablet or iStupid anything , and guess what i buy this pc so i can do work that makes me money rather then spend it like the idiots that sell tablets and such are doing.
And then go post on slashdot.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov
