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Linux receives 20th Birthday video from Microsoft

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  • #32
    spoonbadger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭spoonbadger


    That video is one of the most retarded things I've seen in quite a while. Even aside from any actual meaning or sentiment, in terms of quality it watches like a mentally retarded social-media-engineer's final year project.

    Must be a troll.


  • #33
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Pygmalion wrote: »
    tbh their willingness to provide the source (and some of them seem not to even do that until threatened) means absolutely nothing without the right and the means to load custom code onto the device.

    That said, in many cases it has little to do with the manufacturer (with the possible exception of Apple, who need to save users from themselves), I very much doubt phone manufacturers care whether users load custom firmware, but service providers will insist that it be possible to lock a phone to their network or disallow certain applications.

    That was my problem with BT. I had a cool device, that was already running Linux, that I wanted to do more stuff with, but couldnt, because they didnt provide any information which could help me tweak it, or access the underlying system. Ok, so they got around the legalities, by providing the kernel, but it was only to the letter of the law, and not in tune with the whole open source community thing.


  • #34
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    iPwnage wrote: »
    ive read the kernel for Windoze 8 comes from an upstream fork of the Linux kernel !

    :D
    :rolleyes:

    Everyone knows the Windows NT family (Vista being the child they don't talk about) has lots of IBM / VMS / BSD roots :pac:


  • #35
    ShooterSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,824 ✭✭✭ShooterSF


    Naikon wrote: »
    This video is not from Microsoft. Why is this even a worthy of a thread?

    Can you link to where you are getting that info?


  • #36
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,024 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    Naikon wrote: »
    This video is not from Microsoft. Why is this even a worthy of a thread?

    Well its generated 3 pages of discussion.
    So it evidentially was worthy of a thread.


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