Comment Re: "Certificate", not "License" (Score 1) 312
Comment Re:Good for you Mr. Dell... apk (Score 1) 175
Can't it be both? At the time when the 777 was being created, Mulally was the director of engineering for the project.
Some corporate executives worked to get where they are today.
Comment Re:Latin (Score 1) 98
Comment Re:Uh ... What? (Score 1) 320
"We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. However, by setting your pages to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view your Content. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories."(emphasis mine)
So technically, even if you do scream bloody murder, by uploading the content to github, you have given blanket permission to users to not only view, but fork your code.
Comment Re:You may... (Score 1) 597
Most software that returns results from/sends queries to an outside source is opt-in. You're asked on installation if you want to send anonymous usage statistics to improve later versions of <software_package> You're asked if you want to send a crash report to <software_vendor>.
Even Microsoft is asking you what search providers you want to use when you first run IE. How difficult would it be during the ubuntu installation to ask "Do you want to include results from Amazon in dash searches?" and only install the package if the box is ticket? Like Debian does with popcon?
Why Opt-in Marketing Matters. Point 1.b in the comparison in this short article seems to apply perfectly to what RMS is saying.
Comment Re:Where are the mid-American datacenters (Score 2) 186
Comment No, I'm New Here (Score -1) 189
No, I'm New Here
Comment Re:Correlation is not causation (Score 1) 684
All three of those cause concussions with an alarming frequency as well.
Comment No, I'm New Here (Score 1, Informative) 120
No, I'm New Here
Comment No, I'm New Here (Score -1) 437
No, I'm New Here
Comment passwd -e (Score 1) 231
Comment That's amazing (Score 5, Funny) 231
Comment Re:who uses Linux on PS3? (Score 2) 348
PS3 Users report latest Firmware disables some USB adapters