Posts by Tom King 2

Google Android chief smacks Steve Jobs with Linux speak

Padded

More like, he needs a padded cell with Steve Jobs' picture all over the place.

Way around the point

Lots of tunnel vision there, Steve "smelly farts"!

I'm no dev but I personally care that stuff I purchase (yes, ***purchase***!!!) is open. I may never touch the source but I do care that others can so someone can tell if your smelly fart app is actually mining all the data from my phone and sending it to China.

Same game as MS

He's just using the same game MS does with their TCO "studies". Take the worst case, make it look like that's the norm, inflate it a little, throw in some hyperbole, and that's great marketing, right?

Google dubs Oracle suit 'attack on Java community'

Oracle wants all Android instances destroyed

From page 9 of the complaint:

"An order that all copies made or used in violation of Oracle America’s copyrights,

and all means by which such copies may be reproduced, be impounded and destroyed or

otherwise reasonably disposed of;"

Whether that means just the alleged bits or the whole Android OS, it's not completely clear here. If that does indeed mean all Android instances, this isn't just about the Java anymore.

Linux game-time refined with latest Wine

Diversity

Just have a look at genetic diversity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_diversity

Much the same can be applied to the FLOSS environment and the, oh horror!!, choices people have.

Google vanishes Android apps from citizen phones

So no one "sensibly" develops for iPhone?

Assuming you read the article (please say you did read the article and didn't comment after just reading a paragraph or summary...please!!), should developers never develop for the iPhone, then?

And, since the kill switch was used on some software (research notwithstanding) with a sole purpose of tricking users into downloading an app that actually could damage your phone's OS, do you then have a problem with having a framework in place used to remove such cruft? With the tons of apps that allow you to download pr()n that haven't been killed like this, is there some pattern you are imagining that makes you think Google would arbitrarily kill apps even though they do exactly what they say without the app stealing your info or otherwise infecting your phone? Compare that to what the pr()n apps Apple kills before they ever hit the app store. And, no, I don't watch pr()n on my friggin' phone.

Kill some malware, tin-foil-hat wearing psychos yell, "Google is the devil!" Let the malware be, maybe put some warnings up but give the user a choice that allows their personal information stolen, wannabe-victims yell, "Google is the devil!"

Microsoft's FUD goes mobile

M$ says it covers Android directly

The patent agreement covers "HTC’s mobile phones running the Android mobile platform," and "expands HTC's long-standing business relationship with Microsoft," states Microsoft.

Google to open source $124.6m video codec, says report

Video without plugins

The gist of video and audio tags in HTML5 is to have video and audio play from the browser *without* plugins or other 3rd-party code/apps/whatever.