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Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

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Re: Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

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Post by kgo »

spot wrote: post #4

One problem with releasing your code as open source is it can get used in ways that you don't approve of, eg weapon systems by the military or crapware by the carriers.

And if you sell chalk, it might get used on the chalkboards for the Manhattan Project...

I don't think it's a problem at all that you can't enforce morality. I'd be much more offended by licenses that tried to enforce some sort of morality by forbidding redistribution to particular groups, whether it be the military, Amnesty International, Saddam Hussein ( http://www.google.com/search?q=saddam+hussein+playstation ), or even the Situation from Jersey Shore.

Theo De Raadt put it best:

But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.

Re: Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

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Post by astine »

anamax wrote: post #27
astine wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then they would have to share it with the contractor under the terms of the GPL. The contractor could then release it further. More likely though, the contractor would be brought in to work on the project and the military would argue that it wasn't distributing the code.

> The contractor could then release it further. Unless the contract said that they couldn't. And even if a specific contract didn't stop a given contractor from redistributing some GPL technology, how many contractors are going to risk being banned from future contracts because they redistributed?

> Unless the contract said that they couldn't.

I was going to mention that, but I wasn't sure whether the GPL would prevent that or not. As for the later point, yeah, no shit.:)

Re: Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

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Post by regularfry »

mahmud wrote: post #6
bhiggins wrote: post #3

I still have a problem with using a VM on a phone and having GC on a phone. (I also have a problem with Objective C's function call overhead.)

Macho. But a phone is exactly where you want a VM. In fact, I would love to be able to push vm images for my phone from my desktop machine. Wake up, plug phone, push image. Security upgrades, new GPS data, my downloaded podcasts, news, emails, etc. I want to be able to come home with a new handset, plug it, and have my "phone" back.

Totally different use of the term "virtual machine". You're talking about a virtualised execution environment, or hardware virtual machine (as executed by virtualbox, xen or whatever); he's talking about a runtime virtual machine (like the CLR, JVM, or Dalvik).

Re: Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

#37

Post by glhaynes »

sliverstorm wrote: post #36
ary wrote: post #29

Apparently "real men" can't be pacifists. Good to know.

I do not understand. I do not see where the article suggests that all "real men" are in the armed forces.

Apparently "real men" can't be iPhone users. Good to know.

:)

Re: Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

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Post by jasonjei »

glhaynes wrote: post #37
sliverstorm wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do not understand. I do not see where the article suggests that all "real men" are in the armed forces.

Apparently "real men" can't be iPhone users. Good to know. :)

Back in AF, pilots in training would be obsessed with their iPhones playing X-Plane. It actually is a fantastic simulator considering that many of these pilots could very possibly be flying your commercial jet someday :) My buddy who went the cargo AF pilot route is a heavy iPhone user, but I guess the rest of the military doesn't consider the AF a real branch and call it the "Air Farce." The AF is going towards the UAV route, so pilots in the service are less and less.

Re: Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

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Post by spoiledtechie »

Pretty good article. For one that works directly with the troops as well as building tools for the R&D department for my company. We are building and showing off tools just like what is explained in this article to try and win contracts just like this.

We are always looking for more things and ways to help the troops out. This article does a good job of actually telling the public what the private sector builds for the troops.

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