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[Michael_S]

Freedom is always defined by what the user can't do. Your freedom to swing your fist exists but ends at my face. etc... etc.... Even the MIT/Apache/BSD...

[Michael_S]

Yes and no. I can get LLVM directly from the LLVM sites and GCC (a GPL project) from GCC sites. But let's say some other person, group, or company incorporates...

[Michael_S]

That's not quite true. GNU shafts commercial software developers on an individual basis, but still helps us all on the whole. If I work on MacOS and you...

[Michael_S]

The market is too small, that's why the vendors don't care.

One broadly applicable problem for hardware like this is a similar problem to...

[Michael_S]

Once you hate something badly enough, everything it does is offensive. Not sure if this link will work.

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[Michael_S]

I like systemd but choice is good. More power to them.

[Michael_S]

It's funny how the 1990s and early 2000s spoil us. My parents' first computer was ludicrously expensive in 1996 with its Pentium processor screaming...

[Michael_S]

Hey everyone, you're looking at this all wrong. This is great news. Hooray!

It's criminal that the great bulk of the open source software...

[Michael_S]

As Kendji said, the problem is that it doesn't work reliably. It's improving over time, but it may never be good enough for most companies with legacy...

[Michael_S]

I currently do remote work. Once my kids are all past high school I'm open to moving to find work. That's ten years out, though....

[Michael_S]

Sorry, when I listed potential areas to explore I meant in general terms, not specific to this particular hardware. I agree this gadget fits AI and machine...

[Michael_S]

This is sort of off topic, but why not? I'm a software developer in my early 40s, and I enjoy my work (and really, really enjoy my paycheck). I figure...

[Michael_S]

One HTML5/CSS advantage is that it allows people familiar with web technologies to contribute to the desktop environment design. I don't know if that...

[Michael_S]

We're off on a tangent. I think Android conquered the world market because it was cheap. I don't think it competed with iOS for ease of use, responsiveness,...

[Michael_S]

You don't know until you've run it. https://github.com/codesardine/Jadesktop and https://github.com/codesardine/Jade-Application-Kit on first glance...

[Michael_S]

I agree with all of your points, but I think even with all of that proper investment it wouldn't have been good enough to be viable by the planned launch...