Comment Re:What about our software freedom? (Score 1) 296
The correct link is http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html sorry for the typo.
The correct link is http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html sorry for the typo.
You are most certainly wrong here. From what I heard, they will use nVidia Terga GPUs, for which it will be pretty easy to have a driver.
Yeah, I must be wrong. Surely. That's why nVidia GPUs are fully supported by Free Software, and I wouldn't have to loose my rights to nVidias's proprietary software licensing. NOT! On all accounts. Nouveaux isn't really Free Software (it still carries blobs), and nVidias's drivers are as proprietary as it can get.
Besides: What is all that talk about “software freedom”?
It's my rights to run the software for any purpose, study, modify and distribute it. Software licensing that forbids any of these actions is just plain immoral and I can't accept it's terms and conditions.
It’s just a driver. If you really thought that to the end, you would have to only use hardware with all the specs available!
Just a driver, hey? Well, that just only hides that you have a horribly slow interface, perhaps not so energy efficient, without any bells and whistles! Is it still just? Not important at all?
And which are buildable with openly available tools, whose specs are available too, etc, etc, etc. Basically the ability do dig stuff out of the earth, to build machines with it, that build machines, that build your laptop, where you can put your free software on.
Please tell me where I can legally get nVidia's, PowerVR's etc... as Free Software so I can build it with openly available tools. Oh, heck... I don't need code, just get us those specs which are available as well...
Everything else is just ignorance.
And to say the best about you, you must be an ignorant.
Here's one (and I have the SmartQ7 model): http://www.smartdevices.com.cn/
Where to purchase: http://en.smartdevices.com.cn/Buy/
I'm not in China, Singapore, or "Hongkong".
Sorry. I should have specified "in the US." How about this: when I can get one at Best Buy, THEN post the story.
If you had cared to search before you posted... http://www.allpmp.com/
Here's one (and I have the SmartQ7 model): http://www.smartdevices.com.cn/
Nice and cheap.
Most (if not all) of those ARM devices have proprietary graphics cards, so the only way to maintain our software freedom is to use framebuffer (when possible at all).
It'll mean nothing [to dominate the ARM devices market] if our software freedom has bow before the shackles of a few companies.
BadOS? Was Windows Mobile rebranded?
Bada is a GNU/Linux, running E17. Anyone used to program with EFL already heard the news a while ago, and will be able to recognize familiar Elementary elements in some of the screenshots.
They are zip files. I've used several times plain ZIP to change jar files. No problem at all. Since you said that, are you a Java developer? Seems so...
This is not a technology problem. This is a business problem. If you are running a shopfront, online or offline, in a competitive marketplace, you need to make it as accessible as possible to all the customers you want. For eBay, that is "everyone" (for a hot-dog stand, it is also "everyone"; for a Rolex dealer, it's only people who can afford a Rolex). The higher you make the barrier to entry, the fewer customers you will have.
Now if you're a person wanting a partner to sell your stuff with, do you want the stupid partner, or the smart one?
If you're a customer wanting to buy, do you use the easy website that works, or the one that doesn't work right? What incentive is there for you to use the hard-to-use site?
eBay thinks they have incentives (product range, large base of existing users, etc) to overcome these things. They may be right. They could be wrong. It's their business choice to make it work less well for some people. If they are unable to make it both work better for some people and well enough for others, they may have a serious business problem; if they choose to make it better for some people and worse for others, that's a courageous business choice. If it makes them, or their sellers, less money, it's stupid.
Search for Terrestrial Intelligence is currently in progress but has not produced any good evidence of intelligent life on that planetary object yet.
Kill X, login in the console, rmmod the kernel module, insmod the new one, start X.
Voit-lá, no reboot for upgrade of graphics card driver.
How come whenever software patent defenders are challenged on the merits of software patents, they *only* come up with hardware as an excuse?
Get the &"%# off software, you leeches.
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