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For kickbacks. The title says it.

OpenOffice is under LGPLv3 which has even stronger patent grant than v2. There is nothing Oracle can do to it, and if they stop development it can be forked easily. There is no divide between desktop...

I don't see how this links relates to what I said... or you are just posting it as an update?

Problem with Dalvik is exactly that is not derived from OpenJDK and that is incompatible with Java....

OpenSolaris never got any help from outsiders. Debian guys wanted to make GNU/sunos port and play with sunos kernel, but incompatible license turned them away so they gave up when Danese Cooper...

First, the thing you quoted apply to proprietary implementations. Like for example IBM j9. Ones that are not under GPL (and Dalvik is in that group too, that is why they are getting sued). GPL...

In short, all that is false. You need to read FAQ.

GPLv3 is not dead or blacklisted by anyone important. In fact, half of Google summer of code projects are GPLv3. Nuff said.

I got infraction for this post. What I did wrong? It was outrageous claim, so I was pretty astonished by lack of clue displayed there.

This particular admin has been harassing me before, giving...

Wow...

Have you ever developed software? Did you even remotely know how patents work? What you said doesn't make ANY sense. Unless if I failed to detect sarcasm...

No, I think they just slipped new implementation of wake locks, but curent android still uses old one. And it is unclear if they will even use this new one they are pushing in the mainline now.

No. Google didn't approach community before it was to late. They just forked kernel and made aggressive changes which caused breakage. Then Android got removed from the kernel because it couldn't...

What Google did here is same as Microsoft did before. They tried to embrace extend and extinguish Java by making incompatible implementation.

Microsoft did that by ripping off and perverting the...

Lets use the same reasoning that is used by MS/Apple/whatever apologists to defend Microsoft/Apple/whatever when they do evil, and then see if it sticks:


BP is a company so they are allowed to...

Unless it is FSF campaign. Then it's evil and FUD.

I think this here is trademark issue. But other than that, I agree.

Registered Trademark wears of if not aggressively protected, and since Skype is around for years under that name, I think...

Which people? Which facts? I don't see any facts, and I see a lots of people. Would you care to tell me those facts?

Or maybe you just want to feel superior and insult everybody?

Exactly. When it stops calling home, that means Ubuntu got dumped. That is enough info.

They probably want to check how much Ubuntu preinstalled computers continue runing Ubuntu after purchase, and how much get Windows installed.

Hmm... I missed that part. Shame :(

Android has non-standard bastardized Linux and non-standard bastardized Java. On top of that, mfrs and carriers are having DRM party with it.

So it doesn't excite me that much. I like MeeGo,...

Umm, there is a thing called Foresight Linux and it does exactly what you described.

I stopped watching when they said that Red Hat is company which makes money from "closed source Windows software". If they are going to talk about FOSS, they should learn not to confuse Red Hat with...

When customer has a problem and wants things fixed, they want vendor to do it. That is what they are paying. When vendor do it, they push upstream. All that code Red Had contributes, big part of that...

Just some thoughts:

If set Wine as defualt for games (or regular programs for that matter), Linux will never ever get native ports. History has proven this, in few occasions: OS/2 or Tru64 with...

But convert them to what? If the only goal is to move people away from Windows, then you don't need GIMP nor Linux. There's OS X and it runs Photoshop.

But if the goal is deeper and more...

What is wrong with his views on commercial software? He said it's ok, and also said that he is proud of companies like Red Hat commercializing free software. FSF even have a page on how you should...