Posts by r_a_trip

ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

Re: It's an opinion.

Except ReactOS is a Windows NT clone and has nothing to do with Linux. Linux is a UNIX like clone and predominantly clean as the SCO Group lawsuit brought to light.

Oracle suit outs Google's closed source Android tactics

Not what the GPL says

***...then don't they have to release that beta version to everybody?***

No. They only need to release the GPL sources to the selected partners. GPL creates obligations between the distributor and the recipient, not between the distributor and just anybody.

Since Android is not a pure GPL play, they can put distribution restrictions on the Apache parts. So selected partners can't redistribute the whole package, merely just the GPL parts, as these may not be further restricted.

But what good is just the low level plumbing, when the magic is happening within Dalvik?

iPhone users richer, brainier, more tasteful than Android-ers

Humans aren't interesting

***Whining is really boring and self-indulgent, please find something interesting to say.***

I could say the same to you. Coming in here with that up beat, better-than-you positivism. You are just one uninteresting specimen of humanity among the rest. We all come in to this world naked, we live meaningless lives and we leave this world lying flat. Welcome to a random, meaningless universe.