Not even that.

The Dalvik VM doesn't accept Java VM bytecode. The Java language is what all the tools work on currently for creating executable images for the VM, and precompiled class files are also converted. If someone were so inclined, Dalvik could use lisp or c or befunge in much the same way that other languages have been compiled to work on the Java VM.

That's just it though, Oracle wants to be able to collect a fee. There isn't one now, but if Oracle wins then they could demand a fee for use of Android.

At the risk of spoiling everyone's funhey're md5 hashes of numbers.

md5("1") -> c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f75849b
md5("2") -> c81e728d9d4c2f636f067f89cc14862c
md5("3") -> eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3

I'm always looking for good drone and ambient. So agreed; make a torrent, link us.

The Android OS doesn't. Your carrier usually does. AT&T only "allows" tethering on their system if you pay for it. If they catch you doing it they'll just add it to your account and backbill you for how long they think you've been doing it. Verizon is the same way (with their Blackberries, anyway).

Ah, but who trolls the fair trolls?

When I was in high school we were required to wear our id badges on lanyards around our necks. The lanyard was small plastic tubing with a break in it "for safety". My sister and I were not particularly interested in wearing it, and began just clipping the badges to our shirts. Still clearly visible, just not on the lanyard.

Instantly, a shit storm erupted. Detentions and a suspension for insubordination and for failure to follow school policy (and for destruction of school property when we told them we'd thrown the plastic lanyard away).

Our father went to see the principal; he was told that the lanyards had "a safety release" to prevent choking and that we should feel safe. My father offered to demonstrate how holding on to the lanyard's "safety release" would allow someone to successfully choke a person wearing the lanyard. The principal declined (sadly), and back pedalled on his original stance. If we wore the badges "visibly" and carried our "excuse notes" for the lanyard, we would be excluded from the policy.

Ironically, within two weeks, a student was strangled during a fight with another student using the plastic lanyard from their id badge.

Just like the Spanish Inquisition?

And look at you now. You don't even have a name...

I already am...

Really, who is surprised by this? What's the cost of an ad and fake credentials compared to getting a chance to infect millions of computers?

Given the amount of work that goes into replacing all content of the game, I wouldn't call it a "free ride" even if it did get to use the same code.

However as has been established, the gamecode is being redone based on non-GPL sources to ensure that nothing is "ripped off", even though this means the game may differ more significantly than intended, further fracturing the community of players.

The relicensing of the GPL gamecode for the game was intended to preserve the authenticity of the gameplay experience, not to harm anyone, but since a few of the contributors don't want to play ball, the ball goes elsewhere.

I only want to point out that in a recent analysis of the DarkPlaces engine source, 1.29% of lines that are not license headers or blank lines, have never been modified.

Put another way, the engine is no more than 2% Quake1 codebase, and a vast majority of the code was written by me, especially the platform independent core portions.

Tracking down contributors when there is one primary author of the entire codebase, who knows almost every line of it by memory, is not as hard as it sounds.