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Submission + - Does Microsoft have the best app store for open source developers? (infoworld.com) 2

Submitted by

WebMink

on Friday January 25, 2013 @12:50PM

WebMink writes: "Microsoft seems to have been in combat against the GNU GPL throughout the history of free and open source software. But that may be changing. They have recently updated the terms of use for software developers in their Windows Phone app store to allow any OSI-approved open source license — even the GPL. They include extraordinarily broad language that gives the open source license priority over their own license terms, saying:
if your Application or In-App Product includes FOSS, your license terms may conflict with the limitations set forth in Section 3 of the Standard Application License Terms, but only to the extent required by the FOSS that you use

Could it be that the most open source friendly app stores will be the ones run my Microsoft?"

Submission + - Gamers May Get a Charge Out of the Gauss Rifle (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @09:30AM

Zothecula writes: Well, Patrick Priebe might have outdone himself with this one. In the past, the German cyberpunk weapons-maker has brought us such creations as a wrist-mounted mini-crossbow, a laser-sighted rotary-saw-blade-shooting crossbow, and a flame-throwing glove. His latest nasty futuristic device? A video game-inspired electromagnetic weapon, called the Gauss Rifle.

Comment Re:smear campaign (Score 0) 109

by serialhex on Saturday August 11, 2012 @11:54AM (#40957603) Attached to: Nathan Myhrvold, Do-Gooder

ohh.... for mod points! +5 funny plz!!

Comment AJAX and speed... (Score 1) 476

by serialhex on Sunday August 07, 2005 @11:00AM (#13263768) Attached to: Will AJAX Threaten Windows Desktop?

i honestly dont know if it will or wont do anything to help decline microsofts monopoly. but i DO know that properly implemented, any AJAX app should be sufficently fast for most users. in fact, if people switch to vista like microsoft expects/wants then they will need a sufficently fast computer to do so. these people will probably end up having some form of broadband, so in this scenario, the users pc & internet connection are fast enough for most purposes. all you need then is a backend that's sufficently fast (mabye making use of some client-side things like spellcheck or whatever - just so you dont have to ask the server if every word is correct as an example) then AJAX apps should be fast enoug for the user to not be able to tell if office or weboffice is faster.

tho, i'm waiting for some cool ajax apps to come out, because i think it'd be neat to have a few apps running as a server on my laptop, such as a web-interface to share files (as samba dosnt work 100% of the time, and nobody i know uses NFS 'cept me). there are possibly other things but that's about it. hmm... rails comes with a webserver... mabye i should go make one...

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