Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Jun 2007 10:29 UTC, submitted by binarycrusader
Simon Phipps of Sun has responded to the recent criticism of Sun's openness, pointing out that even releasing information that they may already have costs a lot of money. "Jonathan asked me to look into this, to ensure we're pursuing an open path across all of Sun, not simply the software group. We take all input seriously, and we can't solve all problems for all parties, but we're committed to doing our best to faithfully engage with all the communities we serve, in the same spirit as the existing Open Source Ombudsman Scheme. With the support of my team and others in the community I'll try to build a new scheme that is fair and transparent."
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RE[4]: Come clean about SCO
by 2fargone on Tue 19th Jun 2007 19:13
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Member since:2006-02-20
Yes, I did read the link, and have since the beginning of the SCO trial. I've read every stinking last piece of it. Briefs, motions, filings, exhibits, financial statements, and so on.
If you want to wave SUN's flag and hold them harmless, so be it. I still cannot, and will not, say SUN is trustworthy until they clear the air about SCO. If you don't like that, then I can't help you.
And I never screamed at the top of my lungs. And you're the one saying grand conspiracy. All I see is business manuvering, which is why I said they didn't even need to apologize.
RE[5]: Come clean about SCO
by kaiwai on Wed 20th Jun 2007 00:22
in reply to "RE[4]: Come clean about SCO"
Member since:2005-07-06
Yes, I did read the link, and have since the beginning of the SCO trial. I've read every stinking last piece of it. Briefs, motions, filings, exhibits, financial statements, and so on.
Good for you, but it seems that all the reading doesn't seem to actually have informed you.
If you want to wave SUN's flag and hold them harmless, so be it. I still cannot, and will not, say SUN is trustworthy until they clear the air about SCO. If you don't like that, then I can't help you.
Hey, I'm not the one with the chip on the shoulder; it was you screaming and yelling over how 'evil' and 'underhanded' Sun was.
I mean, geeze, Sun does some stupid things, and if you've ever tuned into me on my blog or other forums, I'm going to be the last one to appologise for Sun - but if you do want to attack Sun for flaws, the SCO conspiracy is nothing more than that, conspiracy theories.
And I never screamed at the top of my lungs. And you're the one saying grand conspiracy. All I see is business manuvering, which is why I said they didn't even need to apologize.
Excuse me, but you're the one jumping up and down over non-existant conspiracy's. Sun has already 'cleared the air' - they bought some IP - end of story, full stop.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 15:53 UTC
The new WebKit Opera for Android has been released. "Opera 14 for Android is built on top of Chromium 26, with a total overhaul of the UI in native code, making it fit well with the latest Android design guidelines. Go get the build from Google Play or point your browser to m.opera.com, and give it a spin!"
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 22:43 UTC
The Verge pointed me to a blog post by Leap Motion - which reveals how their Kinect-like motion control works with Windows 8. "From the second you plug in your Leap Motion Controller, you'll be able to browse the web and interact with your computer just by moving your hands and fingers in the air. With Leap Motion technology and Windows, you can do everything that's possible with multi-touch inputs - without actually touching anything. This also means that existing applications in Windows 7 and 8 will respond to your natural hand and finger movements. Soon, we'll show you how Leap Motion will work with Mac OS X." Quite cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/20/13 21:50 UTC
PocketNow interviews Marc Dillon, and there's an interesting note about why Jolla is keeping the display properties under wraps: "We're leaving some of those details out because we do understand that there are a lot of really big players in the market and they tend to take certain components in the market and dominate them. We created the ability to actually be able to run Sailfish on multiple hardware displays and be able to swap components, so this is part of the demand and supply planning phase. We are committed to this industrial design which is a 4.5-inch display, an 8 megapixel camera on the back and a front-facing camera at the front, and the exact specs of the display we'll provide when we're close to delivery." Something you rarely hear anything about.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:15 UTC
"This is my NeXTstation Turbo Color booting the Mac System 7.1 Operating System using a hardware add-on called 'Daydream'. The Daydream has a Mac ROM and a few custom ICs in it and hooked up to the NeXTs DSP port. Turns your NeXT into a full fledged 68k powered Mac." So cool.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/19/13 23:11 UTC, submitted by Drumhellar
"The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Please note that all fixes in the prior security/bugfix updates (NetBSD 6.0.1 and 6.0.2) are also in 6.1."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 21:06 UTC
"At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn't developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the software engineers in EA Sports' Canada studio, in a series of since-deleted tweets, disparaged the console as 'crap' and suggested Nintendo should give up on hardware altogether. 'The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet', tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. 'Nintendo are walking dead at this point'." The Wii U is turning into the 21st century's Virtual Boy.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/18/13 7:37 UTC
"In NixOS, the entire operating system - the kernel, applications, system packages, configuration files, and so on - is built by the Nix package manager from a description in a purely functional build language. The fact that it's purely functional essentially means that building a new configuration cannot overwrite previous configurations. Most of the other features follow from this." Interesting approach. A Linux distribution, sure, but with some very refreshing ideas about system configuration.
Linked by fran on 05/18/13 1:38 UTC
Appfour added, among other features, C/C++ support to its new version of AIDE. From Android-IDE, "Now you can write parts of your app or your whole app in C/C++ on your device. AIDE supports the Standard Android NDK toolchain (GCC 4.6 + Bionic, STL, ...). No changes are necessary if you want to build an app developed on a PC with Eclipse. C/C++ development is fully integrated: Build errors appear in the error list and files can easily be navigated to with Go to file. The editor supports C/C++ syntax highlighting."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/17/13 23:35 UTC, submitted by kragil
Ars nails it: "The answer is that Google did announce what amounts to a fairly substantial Android update yesterday. They simply did it without adding to the update fragmentation problems that continue to plague the platform. By focusing on these changes and not the apparently-waiting-in-the-wings update to the core software, Google is showing us one of the ways in which it's trying to fix the update problem."
Linked by MOS6510 on 05/17/13 22:22 UTC
"It is good for programmers to understand what goes on inside a processor. The CPU is at the heart of our career. What goes on inside the CPU? How long does it take for one instruction to run? What does it mean when a new CPU has a 12-stage pipeline, or 18-stage pipeline, or even a 'deep' 31-stage pipeline? Programs generally treat the CPU as a black box. Instructions go into the box in order, instructions come out of the box in order, and some processing magic happens inside. As a programmer, it is useful to learn what happens inside the box. This is especially true if you will be working on tasks like program optimization. If you don't know what is going on inside the CPU, how can you optimize for it? This article is about what goes on inside the x86 processor's deep pipeline."More News »
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Oh please, did you actually *read* the link - do you know what it is actually *ALL* about? what SCO says and what the relity is, as you and I well and truely bloody know, can be as far apart as New Zealand from the United States.
Microsoft licenced code from SCO to improve their services for UNIX offering; and Sun needed to purchase components that were still owned by SCO. Please, if Sun and Microsoft were *really* going to bank roll a litigation suite, wouldn't you think that firstly they would do it in an alot more concealed manner, and secondly, wouldn't you also conceed that they would need alot more money?
Sco will say any damn thing; of course they would say that "this is an IP purchase for UnixWare AND Linux" to make their case seem more legitimate - make it appear that two of the IT world largest companies are purchasing IP related to UnixWare AND Linux - when in reality, it is just UnixWare. Sun and Microsoft see the IP purchased as purely from UnixWare, SCO on the other hand seen that purchasing of UnixWare IP means they're also purchasing Linux IP.
Again, do a little reading analysing before screaming to the top of your lungs whilst claiming that there is some sort of grand conspiracy against Linux - if Linux isn't successful, it will have nothing to do with law suites or so-called 'voodoo' happening behind the scenes. It'll be something of its own making.