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Google releases new device. Top comment: "but the proprietary x doesn't work with the proprietary y." Proprietary software is the trap.

But if I'm expecting a UPS package... How do you authenticate that everyone you email or text hasn't had their computer hacked or stolen?

> it would be extremely confusing if Otto was called Vagrant 2.0 But that is the closest thing anyone thinks of when you say "successor." Then having to explain that it's not a suc…

> realize you on the path to make $100K on an app that, rightly or wrongly, could impact other people's livelihoods Because someone giving me 100k for an app which wrote, to use it…

If you want something cool without building yourself, NeuG is an implementation of a true random number generator, a tiny USB 32-bit computer based on a free (as in freedom) hardwa…

> it doesn't work that way. Again, the folks you mentioned generally only work for non-profits and individual hobbyist devs "that way" which I said it worked, was for non-profits a…

I don't know win 10, I use xmonad. There, virtual desktops are 1 per monitor by default. It sounds like what you are saying is that windows virtual desktops span all of your monito…

really? You can't open 2 browser windows and put them in different desktops?

I see. This plus an official trademark policy might help.

Agreed. I could see this being possible with a pre-existing trademark policy, and an explicitly different trademark for "test quality" code, and being very careful about it all, bu…

In practice, yes. First of all, all those organizations have enforced the gpl on behalf of "a team volunteer/hobbyist developers" from large companies. In fact, it's the primary ki…

This is not at all true. They are liable for significant monetary damages for violating copyright, and you can find a lawyer to take up the case if you own the copyright. There are…