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Comment Re:is it shipping to customers ? (Score 1) 394

This is probably what Red Hat thinks needs to be proven.

Yes, and RTS has no obligation to comply. Red Hat could sue, but only if they have basis for claiming that they own the copyright of the "stolen" code.

RTS could make Red Hat happy by running a Black Duck analysis on their proprietary code and sharing the result.

Comment Re:This is what Benjamin Frankin warned us about.. (Score 1) 1160

They're not at all concerned about freedom of speech in general, they just want to avoid fines and prison terms after their typical antisemitic tirades

You do realize that the whole point of Free Speech is to allow and protect antisemitic tirades? That is exactly the kind of speech that the U.S. Constitution is designed to protect. We don't need fancy laws to protect inoffensive speech.

Comment More like PowerPC (Score 2) 82

enabling the new kernel to not only target multiple platforms but also be more in line with its x86 counterpart

It would be more accurate to say that is more in line with its PowerPC counterpart, since device tree support is the primary reason why multi-platform works on ARM today, and that support was ported from PowerPC last year. Very few x86 platforms use device trees, but they have been pervasive on PowerPC for over five years now.

Comment Re:Hope it lights a fire... (Score 2) 263

I used it on both my slow-speed 56k dialup and 750k DSL so your presumption is false.

The plural of anecdote is not data. It makes sense that disproportionally fewer people with slow Internet connections use speedtest.net. Just because you, a single person, do not conform to that profile, that does not mean that the common-sense argument is invalid.

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