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Comment Re:What OSS project can pay $2.4 million? (Score 1) 62

According to the Ars article:

The Yuzu Patreon currently brings in about $30,000 a month, making a $2.4 million settlement a significant expense for Tropic Haze LLC, the US company set up to coordinate those Patreon donations for the emulator's development. But in the proposed settlement, the Yuzu developers say this figure "bears a reasonable relationship to the range of damages and attorneys’ fees and full costs that the parties could have anticipated would be awarded at and following a trial of this action."

Comment Re:Who? (Score 1) 149

Thanks, glad you liked it. The site is still online, but the amount of time and effort that goes into finding a dozen or so news stories per day then writing up and editing a proper "story" post turned out to be quite a lot. I'm more interested in the technical side of things, like programming and hosting, so when our amazing volunteer editors decided to move on, the site has been kinda frozen in time since then.

Comment Re:Sign of the times (Score 1) 170

Personally, given the choice between a "smart" and "dumb" TV for the same price, I'd buy the dumb TV in a heartbeat.

I would choose the dumb TV even if it was significantly more expensive than the smart TV. I already have a separate Nvidia Shield box that blows away the performance of anything built into a TV - plus it runs an uncorrupted stock Android TV.

Comment Re:Don't wait for government, force it (Score 1) 163

Except that violates a fundamental reason behind the philosophy.

Freedom #0 of the Four Freedoms of the Free Software Definition:

The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

Item #6 of the Open Source Definition:

6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

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