Forum: Competitors
2011-03-04, 04:39
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-03, 23:54
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Replies: 297
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Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
Prey on those who do? Is that your assumption of permissive license users?
I worked as a defence contractor and licensed as much of the code under BSD license as possible so it could be used in...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-03, 22:21
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Replies: 297
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Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
Of course, that's other people having the ability to use it however they want, hence the term 'permissive', but it all depends on your point of view. Personally I prefer a more permissive license...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-03, 05:21
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Replies: 297
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-03, 02:42
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Replies: 297
Views: 68,922
Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
Not really...the "restrictions" in the various BSD licenses are pretty much just author acknowledgement. So really the only restriction is places on you is to prevent you from taking someone elses...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-03, 02:21
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Replies: 297
Views: 68,922
Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
You said this:
"Restrictive" and "OSS" do not belong in the same sentence. Anyone who tells you they do, doesn't understand them.
Quite clearly the OSI defines the GPL as a restrictive license, so...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-03, 02:18
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Replies: 297
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Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
I think the GPL is fine for its purpose, of course it is less free but it restricts use of that code to the GPL's terms rather than allowing that code to be used entirely freely. But of course im not...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-03, 00:33
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Replies: 297
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Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
That's the same thing. The redistribution restrictions are part of the license, therefore the license is restrictive, just as the OSI quite clearly says. How are you not understanding that?
So...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-03, 00:22
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Replies: 297
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Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
Well then why is the GPL considered an OSS license then? Can you use GPL code in any way that you want? No, it places *restrictions* on how you can use that code.
EDIT: And just so you don't try...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-02, 22:27
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Replies: 297
Views: 68,922
Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
Well yes, they have restricted the licenses that don't fit the app store model and haven't excluded their own just because it's their license. So they haven't been hypocritical.
There are...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-02, 04:51
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Replies: 297
Views: 68,922
Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
Actually i missed that, that does rule out GPL-only - same as Apple's app store - GPL licensed software is still very much acceptable so long as it is dual-licensed under a license that conforms to...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-03-01, 23:16
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Replies: 297
Views: 68,922
Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
But you can have GPL programs on MS devices, just not GPLv3 and the like, if you understand the license itself it should be pretty obvious why that license is not compatible with the single app store...
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Forum: Alternatives
2011-03-01, 23:05
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Replies: 90
Views: 80,106
Re: Windows Phone 7 on N900??
What do you think WP7 is currently running on? x86? It's ARM already.
My understanding is that they set minimum requirements in order to license the OS to avoid what has happened with Android...
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Forum: Competitors
2011-02-24, 05:42
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Replies: 297
Views: 68,922
Re: The future of your Nokia Windows phone
Can't we get some more informed and justified productive comments rather than blind nerd rage?
A more productive thing to do is list the deficiencies of WP7 (both in software and in development...
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Forum: General
2011-02-22, 05:50
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
Which you said can never happen, because - according to you - you can never justify the limit of a system.
And just as much chance that the ability for everyone to access everything could be...
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Forum: General
2011-02-22, 03:58
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
Explain how a limitation of a system can only be justified only by a lack of imagination. For one it can be - and indeed often is - quite clearly justified by a need for security. Security is - by...
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Forum: General
2011-02-22, 00:31
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
Yes, the same way users have access to their own documents but can access a shared area for shared data. That limitation means some data is accessible by everyone and access to some data is limited,...
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Forum: General
2011-02-20, 22:16
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
I'm not saying it's a good solution, im saying it's a compromise - and a widely acceptable one given the abundance of devices that employ such a system. The fact is most people will make such...
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Forum: General
2011-02-18, 22:55
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Replies: 14
Views: 6,054
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Forum: General
2011-02-17, 11:05
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
Of course it is, sharing data between applications means every application has access to all your data, that is inherently less secure than running applications sandboxed...that's about as obvious as...
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Forum: General
2011-02-17, 07:40
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
That will happen when it's so blindingly obvious why you indeed CAN justify the limitation of that system. In fact such a thing has been widely successful.
Note: I haven't said it's a better...
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Forum: General
2011-02-17, 02:59
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
Your own lack of imagination leads you to that conclusion.
The fact is plenty of users value the added security over lack of flexibility, which is of course the justification of these restrictions...
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Forum: General
2011-02-17, 01:34
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
Well yes, if you're the sort of person that for some reason needs to use multiple different pdf readers to read a single document then yes it could be annoying. In the broad sense it's usually not a...
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Forum: General
2011-02-17, 01:22
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Replies: 20
Views: 9,114
Re: No free software on windows phones
Because it isn't an anti-free software thing, it's an anti GPLv3 thing. You see you can't have one single app store and have GPLv3 compatibility, it's the same with Apple's app store.
Free...
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Forum: General
2011-02-16, 06:11
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Replies: 215
Views: 54,438
Re: Nokia Plan B
It's not broken, it's just different. The idea is that sandboxing applications means that users don't have to worry about what a particular application could be doing or what data it has access to,...
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