Comment Re:A fool and his money... (Score 4, Funny) 148
A libertarian and his money...
A libertarian and his money...
Except now you're going to claim that GPL'd apps are "worse" on averege than proprietary ones without a jot of evidence.
You'd have to be very lacking in experience of software to not realise it. Pick pretty much any category of app and the best app is a commercial one for OSX or Windows.
GCC is low quality because it's a virtually unmaintainable mess of #ifdefs. It's being maintained by old hands because no-one new has a chance.
LLVM has a decent modular architecture. It's in a different league to crappy old GCC.
Sure GCC has accumulated more languages and targets over the years. But that's features, not quality. It's just a matter of time before LLVM has the non-obsoltete ones all covered.
But that is clearly contra-productive for the whole community,
What community? Virtually no one wants to be part of RMS's community. They just want to use software. That's what the GPL is dying.
and also for the poor users of your software.
What did the users do to deserve access to my source code by right?
it benefits only to you.
Bullshit. 99.999% of people only ever want executables. They wouldn't know what to do with source if you gift-wrapped it for them. The only people who MIGHT want my source are other developers. And I choose if they get it not RMS.
What you're actually saying is that the GPL doesn't allow you to take some code someone else wrote, modify it, then distribute it and stop people seeing it.
No one should have any right to see the modifications and additions I make. It's that unreasonable virality, that is killing GPL.
You either don't know LLVM or you don't know Android. They are not the same.
LLVM was a postgrad student project, and remains an open project, that anyone can contribute to http://llvm.org./
Android was a commercial product bought be Google, and they occasionally offer source copies of parts of the project.
So? The GP asserted that the code is low quality (it is not: Linux is about the highest performing kernel out there and GCC is about the best compiler out there).
In general the quality is low. Including GCC. LLVM is far better.
The Linux Kernel and Apache are good. Most GPLed stuff, particularly apps, are poor.
If LLVM were a Microsoft product instead of an Apple product
LLVM is not an Apple product. It's an open source project which Apple, amongst others, incorporate into their products, and to which they contribute source improvements.
GPL only serves users, it does not serve people who program for a living. And it doesn't serve users very well either, due to it's generally poor quality.
For all the country code top level domains the answer is obviously the appropriate country.
The watchdog only fires if a single runloop takes that long. The poster is talking about the delay whilst a web-page is being loaded, during which time he can't interact with the web-app. But the browser is performing runloops properly.
It is nonsense through mutual reviews for the public to know which party was to blame for a bad transaction.
That's not the purpose. The aim is to provide ratings both for drivers and for passengers. The rights or wrongs of a particular transaction is irrelevant next to the stats over time. A rude or unhelpful driver or passenger will end up with a lower rating over time than a police and helpful one.
There is a right want and a wrong way of implementing it though. Obviously reviews will be limited to actual rides that took place. But beyond that raters need to be anonymous. Ebay ratings suffer from revenge ratings, and from too many positive ratings in the fear of getting revenge ratings. Complete power is in the hands of the second person to rate a transaction. That needs to be avoided here.
Another reason for keeping raters anonymous is for personal safety in case of real world revenge, given that drivers and passengers have a fair chance of coming into contact again.
And we've all experienced many web servers that are down. Most of which are running Linux.
Microsoft has always endeavoured to have Windows on as many PCs as possible, no matter who manufactures them. Now the Raspberry Pi is supposedly PC spec (even if not X86 architecture) it's not too surprising to see Windows for it.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.
