Comment My favorite quote from the movie "The Candidate" (Score 1) 726
They are supposed to teach and not to preach.
They are supposed to teach and not to preach.
Princess Leia + Kinect = red hot blob changing shape in real-time
If you think this is a bad development, just do your job and outbreed them.
Another problem is that you need to be able to evacuate the airplane swiftly. If it wasn't for this, the Airbus A380 would have a wider body today.
I'd rather recommend Kubuntu 10.04 (Long term release). I admit that it didn't work flawlessly out of the box. Also Canonical offers desktop support for 88.42£/year. And once your kids grow up they'll be able to fix your computer for free anyway
Why? I mean, it's not like they didn't know that as soon as they released their software under the GPL then anyone could modify and compile it for any platform they liked? If they wanted to retain control they should have picked a different license.
Porting VLC to another operating system is good for the project and that is not the issue here. The issue is that VLC should remain free software and it should not be controlled by anyone.
And: what 30% Apple tax? You mean the cut they take from paid apps (in case you missed it VLC is free) for providing all the services (payment, bandwidth, iTunes presence) you otherwise would have to get elsewhere?
Bandwidth? Give me a break. Have you looked at Amazon EC2 prices for hosting bandwidth recently? And they are not even the cheapest. If Apple's offering was so great, they wouldn't use DRM to technically lock out potential competitors.
That cut is small compared to what a J2ME developer has to live with for instance. Do you also consider the 50% of CD proce that the store gets to be a "record store tax"?
AFAIK GetJar charges 0% for hosting paid J2ME applications.
However, the spirit of the GPL software is that anybody should be able to get the source code, adapt it, and use the modified software. Here we have a developer who actively prevents people from doing just that. You can argue all you want about app store rules and walled gardens and so on, but this guy clearly does not want people to have the freedom to modify software that he participated in developing and to make it work on the device that they want it to work on.
What prevents you from just downloading the application from somewhere else? It's not as if the binaries are not available any more.
for cursing the banks?
The developer requested compliance with the GPL. I.e. customers should have the same freedoms when Apple distributes GPL software to them. The problem is that Apple wants to be the sole distributor of software. If I where a software developer of VLC, I would be really pissed off about my work becoming the carrot to Apple's stick.
I understand Apple and why they are doing this. I think the company's survival instinct has turned to greed at some point in time.
What I don't understand is their customers. Why do they side with Apple when they are at the receiving end of a policy which is designed to prevent them from bypassing the 30% Apple-tax they are paying on every song, book, and piece of software? What do faithful customers gain from this? A job at Apple for one in a million? A simple life where somebody else makes decisions and takes their money? A sense of community by paying the bill together?
This kind of things make me think that mankind is doomed.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones