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Comment Re:UPDATE: It worked! (Score 1) 34

The Phoenix OS kernel is a derivative work of the Linux kernel. Linux is released under GPLv2. Therefore under the GPL they must release the source for their changes.

The only way it would be possible to release their modifications under a different license would be:

a) Go back and get agreement from everyone who has copyright in the Linux kernel and persuade them to agree to re-releasing under a new license.
b) License their changes under a GPL-compatible license - which would mean releasing their source anyway.

Comment Re:Is this sarcasm? (Score 2) 564

It's quite easy to not know about a technology from before your time.
In this day and age, with information literally at one's fingertips, there is no excuse for not being informed on a multitude of subjects. If you don't know something, you look it up..

In order to look something up you have to know it exists.

Comment Re:Stallman is RIGHT. (Score 1) 247

He has a valid opinion and is right about some factual points. However most of what he talks about is a political/moral approach to life, not an issue of pure fact. Therefore I consider it a category error to say he is "right" (or "wrong" for that matter). I think it's more appropriate to talk about where I agree or disagree and why.

I don't hate him, but I do find him hard to listen to because he'll never concede any opposing view point has any validity at all. Also he sees things in black and white terms. For example he talks a lot about freedom as if a) freedom is an absolute and b) has an agreed definition. We compromise freedom all the time. We balance different kinds of freedom. We negotiate freedom of one individual or group against another. Acknowledgement of this kind of nuance seems missing from his analysis. Software is either Free or it's not, un-Free is bad and it's unethical to use it, regardless of other factors. That's too simplistic for me.

Comment Re:I'm dying of curiousity (Score 1) 188

As someone said the technical FAQ is light on details, however they also link to this article from 2007 http://www.freerepublic.com/fo... which is how far back Hellwig's complaints about GPL violation go.

Based on that, it wasn't a case of whether VMware had included Linux code in their binaries, so much as they were distributing binaries which depended wholly on Linux to run but not GPLing them.

Comment Re:Hang on (Score 2) 445

But they are different kinds of conversation.

Here's something that happens to me a lot. I get an IM asking me a question, in order to answer it I need a bit more information so I ask a question. I wait. Just at the point where I think there's no reply coming and I can re-focus on whatever I was doing before I get an answer. I reply, adding a further request for information. Repeat a couple of times until I finally say "Send me an email".

If that was a phone conversation the person would generally answer immediately or at least I would know what was happening. Silence on IM might mean they're thinking about my question, or it might mean they've been distracted by an email.

The problem with IM for me is that it's somewhere between email and phone in terms of being "live". It can come across as passive agressive because it demands attention right now but the person at the other end can more easily split their attention across other things. A phonecall would require both my and the other person's attention equally. An email requires my attention but I can prioritise when I reply.

Comment Re:What if they are right? (Score 1) 529

Nope its all written in this mess of VB 1-6 by some guy named Chuck who thought comments were for pussies and when in doubt GOTO it, thus proving we actually live in the evil mirror verse. haven't you noticed all the goatees man? Its a dead giveaway.../strokes goatee while having an evil smirk/

I think you mean Goatses.

And he was STROKING them?!

Comment Re:great i live in germany :) (Score 1) 331

The knowledge is shared. The only reason Samsung know that a device nobody other than a handful of journalists have held in their hands outside Apple is because it's impossible to implement standards without doing so. Those standards state that Samsung have to offer a licence under RAND principles to Apple, however, and they haven't done so.

Samsung have just pulled their pants down before challenging Apple to a "kicking each other in the balls" contest; not very wise.

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