I wonder how the license for their software would work with the App Store.

I know that there are, or were, problems under the GPL, but potentially the binary they provide could be licensed solely under the MPL. Growl is BSD, so there isn't really a problem there.

Yeah, there was a lot of confusion when the change happened. I think the support issues with Snow Leopard were due to the whole sandboxing thing Apple announced with the App Store, but I'm not entirely sure on that since I don't touch OS X all that often.

I do agree with the basic argument and think it entirely disingenous when a company or group pulls that kind of thing. A good example, although old, is the case of Sveasoft and the GPL. That whole situation wound up getting pretty bad as the owner started attempting to wring money from the software by putting kill switches in the firmware and blocking customers who released the GPL source code. Even worse in that case was that the owner didn't actually own all the copyrights for the software they were controlling.

Growl is still open source, you can find it over at https://code.google.com/p/growl/ and build the source code using the instructions at http://growl.info/documentation/developer/growl-source-install.php. The source tracks the official releases from the developers and is still BSD licensed.

If you don't want to build from source, they do offer a pre-built binary for free, or maybe you can convince a developer friend to build it for you.

Either way, there is no bait-and-switch. The source has always been free. They just decided recently to start charging for the process of building and verifying binaries.

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I respect your decision, but must ask you to think a bit about the larger picture of GoDaddy themselves.

Not only have they come out in favor of a law that allows any company to claim copyright infringement and get a whole domain blacklisted easily, but GoDaddy has also engaged in other negative customer-hostile acts such as selective DNS "blackouts", which at least in the past resulted in the entire country of China being cut off from all domains using GoDaddy DNS.

They've also been accused of not paying overtime for their employees.

Also, keep in mind that with SOPA, GoDaddy still hasn't made an attempt to have their name removed in Congress as a supporter of the bill, so their "reversal" is just a publicity stunt.

Do you really wish to reward a company that's engaged in some fairly unethical behavior and also some behavior that is targeted specifically toward getting their customers to pay them more by degrading their services unless one pays? The company has shown a pattern of making choices that favor itself at the expense of its customers. SOPA may not be in your circle of concern, but their unethical behavior certainly should be.

Still, at the end of the day it is your choice.

The "CPU" that is used in that device won't actually go much beyond 20mbit. It just simply can't handle faster streams, especially if you're using NAT on your internal network. NAT adds a bunch of overhead. Supposedly the GL can go up to 30mbit as it has a newer processor.

On modern Linux DEs, it would be similar to the Alt+F2 shortcut that pulls up the "run command" box. On KDE4, at least, you can do the very same thing by having documents and such show in the results as well. I actually like this change that Microsoft made as it really does improve starting an application or loading a document.

Odd. Maybe it's just the shape/size of the casing on the Captivate. I have the same little door but haven't had the issues you describe.

Comparisons:
Top of the Captivate
Top of the Vibrant

I have the Vibrant (the T-Mobile's variant of the Galaxy S) and have no problems with generic Micro-USB cables. Specifically, I have used the ones sold by Monoprice, and they have a huge block of plastic on them behind the plug instead of the thinness of the one that comes with the phone. Perhaps your cable is malformed in some way. Have you tried a different cable?

HTC uses a special Enhanced mini-USB port. It lets you connect headphones directly, for instance. I'm not sure why they include a special cable when a standard mini-USB would work just as well.

GarageBad? Does that happen to be the software StrongBad uses to compose music?