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He was talking about bootstrapping. But anyway, JDK and Python? Really?

How does this extend their walled garden? They want to capture Linux/MacOS users with that development.

The whole 'online' thing is the soft entry into the OS war by Google by the means of diminishing of the role of the OS: the OS is like a bootloader for the browser. Browser takes the responsibility of the OS shell and main applications (mail, drive, docs, chat...). So that's a slightly different topic.

It's not FUD. It's the Microsoft's never-changing strategy. I don't know how many times people need to experience it to remember this.

So make these apps work on Linux. They go instead inventing VMs and hypervisors to extend their walled gardens.

I don't think that flying like a bird is simpler than walking like a human.

Flying like a quadcopter is more like walking like a cart.

Just let the distributions maintainers do their job. That's how you get a quality user-centered software distribution.

I know that cars is the most probable cause of sudden death/injury so I wouldn't do that. How can you 'unintentionally' pull out a phone?

I'd probably be looking at the road all the time, but just freeze at that moment where I'd need to take over.

It works fine in Firefox (send and receive) as long as you don't need to play on multiple output devices. Currently you can enable a feature flag, use enumerateDevices() and play audio files on specific devices, but you can't hook up WebRTC streams to the devices.

enumerateDevices() should enumerate audio output devices (feature behind pref): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1152401

Enable by default setSinkId pref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498512

Alex Chronopoulos: "We keep it off because it does not work for everything. It works when we playback a file but not for webaudio or WebRTC. We want to add those too and we keep it off till then."

Still pretty bad. Firefox can't freely select audio devices per stream. Chrome has some kind of unbeatable adaptation that makes latency fluctuate.

Maybe the structure in that industry has to change to provide value directly?

Well, you want to look through the itinerary to not get lost in an unknown city when finding a building where you're going to have a work meeting.

Ah, the Streisand effect.

It's very slow. It was immediately standing out in our automated tests when we've added a json protocol to our system and used jq to test some assertions.

All the government projects I worked on, they had lost of contractors with proprietary software interconnecting between each other.

A typical FOSS has already a lot of customizability.

Yes, they want to have a lot of specific stuff, but it isn't that dramatic.

Not really.

Well, too bad.

I've written some proprietary code and I know that my competitor contractors have written a similar thing.

I don't know whether it's the way to 'create more jobs'.

GPL frees individual developers from the companies. It changes the tempo of competition process because there is less of inertia.

I hoped they're making photos of a broccoli from the orbit...

Well, they've noticed how GPL is bad for their EEE strategy, so they've grasped the first occasion to fight it: can't do much with the code that is GPLv2, but can hinder the license update.

And did it help to find Walter?

We have the US for that military thing.

Or you use a power saw to slice it after taking out of the freezer?

I this case it was probably neither malice nor incompetence. They've probably attributed the quote randomly just for fun.

You say "no 10x return", "reselling for tiny profit" and then "UK didn't care and didn't know what they had". What do you mean by that?

Use from C++ just function templates, constants and stricter conversion rules - and you've got a perfect C.

That's not up to kernel. Most of the slug is from the UI itself doing I/O (UI there is a wooly stuff almost nobody understands completely anyways).

RMS didn't overplay anything there. His GPL idea has just become too influential and they started fighting it.

The fear of GPLv3 is just an excuse to pull things into proprietary. They became aware of the success of GPL and started to actively lobby against it with what they were able to come up with.