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You can inspect the WhatsApp binary and prevent updates. Having to trust the server is a big deal.

People want to maximize the time they spend together with their team mates, spouses, friends and children. That requires synchronization.

Proprietary codebase does not deprive original project from potential contributors. Gpl'd fork might

Minor nitpick "The green and blue colors, z-position, and normal vector are all interpolated in the same manner. (Texture coordinates behave slightly differently because there you’…

> The issue here is Software Patents exist. It's possible to not be asshole with software patents. See Facebook and Google.

Netflix begs to differ.

IMHO the hostile takeover of the ffmpeg project by the libav guys (Fabrice Bellard had to wield trademark to force them to rename the fork) and intense FUD campaign were much bigge…

To be fair, Firefox can and does ship their own browser engine on Android, something that is forbidden on IOS.

The point was that those are forbidden in E-prime, (they have "am" in them).

How do you introduce yourself? http://eprimedictionary.pbworks.com/My+name+is+Sally Has some suggestions. All seem pretty awkward to me.

Can't you run it under Chromium then?

"The real problem with land [and property taxes] is the fact it tends to flow into the cost of rent and homeownership." The price of property and rent in popular places will be wha…

It's discussed in the article: Many people believe that the source of this myth was a 1945 Food and Nutrition Board recommendation that said people need about 2.5 liters of water a…

It's $2B

It's politics. If the default is "don't track", advertisers have a case that the user has not explicitly asked to disable tracking.

But is there evidence that Facebook is willing to use other companies' code under similar grant?

The intent is to prevent man in the middle -attackers from getting access to those features.

To be really fair, out of the four biggest browser vendors (MS, Apple, Mozilla, Google) only Google makes it possible to use the other browser engines on their mobile platform.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ "Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript"

"And yet he's a super nice guy. In fact, nice is not the word. Ronco is good." So good he supports torture http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/12/09/ron-conway-bla...

"This past spring, Juliano Rizzo (@julianor) and I came up with a cryptographic attack on Telegram's MTProto "secret" chat communications which can be performed in O(2^64) time." U…

> Rendering engines are okay. Its the Javascript execution engine that is not allowed. No, they must use WebKit: "Apps that browse the web must use the iOS WebKit framework and Web…

It's not a re-implementation, just a port. Dalvik is licensed under Apache License 2.0 which allows proprietary derivatives.

As an end user: I can combine GPLv2 (eg. linux kernel) and BSD licensed code, and distribute it. I can combine GPLv3 and BSD licensed code, and distribute it. I cannot combine GPLv…