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Your point was that a licence which enforces source code availability isn't compatible with proprietary software, wow, you are really on to something......

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No it doesn't, Tivoization works _one_ way, which is to prevent the end user from running his/her own code on the hardware they bought, this in turn is...

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wizard69 can't, because he is just spewing his usual bs, there are two major things which GPLv3 changed versus GPLv2, one is that it prevented tivoization...

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The NVidia supplied PTX backend was introduced as a major new feature of LLVM 3.2, under the name NVPTX, here is the documentation: http://llvm.org/d...

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Obviously they want to make their hardware more attractive to buyers by having GCC support their solution, but that is not 'vendor lock in' anymore than...

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The only 'crap' is that which is coming out of you, LLVM have already added a NVidia supplied PTX backend. Your Apple 'reality distortion field' is indeed...

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There's a software patent risk with all code, but Google themselves has given a perpetual patent grant for the patents they have in conjunction with Webp,...

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While I have absolutely zero interest in another NVidia proprietary solution for GPU acceleration (which is also why I have no interest in CUDA), the...

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Hmm... it's very early morning here so I may be missing something, but can someone explain to me how OpenACC will 'force multiple closed source dependencies'...

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Why so?...

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Sadly this is unlikely to be the last time Michael 'misrepresents' someone in order to further his agenda, thanks for the update which allowed the developer...

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Sorry for late reply, sometimes I actually have to work at work, I hate it when that happens


Heh, ok I guess I should dust of...

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I'm not spending much time on IRC these days but I have popped into the channel on a couple of occasions, I was kind of surprised as the first time I...

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While I don't like working in either language, I can't agree with them having 'overstayed their welcome', it's when developers stops using them that this...

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No problem, I can go along with that.


No need to be sorry, I'm not an english native speaker either, I repeated your misspelled...