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Quote: Originally Posted by Darryn Lowe It says something when a large company like Opera who is a major developer of the HTML5 standard has ditched their own rendering engine in favour of WebKit. Opera is moving to Blink. The…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Stef Fair enough: Amazon and Facebook and Samsung will all stick forks in Android; Google does it to Webkit. But Google is an honorable co and so it will be open ... no matter what. The difference is …
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Also, these conspiracies about Google wanting to 'control' the web are silly. Google has released more open source projects than any corporation of it's size that I'm aware of, and has consistently pushed open source solutions over proprietary on…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy I think I mentioned it a couple days ago. "Rust" is the new programming language. For now it's still webkit altho I don't think Mozilla mentions it in the press release. At some point I think I read…
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Mozilla is doing a from-scratch rewrite of their engine as well, in collaboration with Samsung...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Robin Huber Sounds evil-ish to me Forking is part of open source. In a sense, it's a Darwinian mechanism that ensures the evolution of code... Plus, if Google succeeds in making a better …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Was there this much fuss over Chrome when Google replaced WebKit's JavaScriptCore with their own V8? I certainly can't recall any? Has JavaScript been fragmented and the web broken by Google desig…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tzeshan Will Google make Blink open source too? They have to, the core parts of Webkit are LGPL licensed (from the KHTML days).....
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Piper Jaffray looked at Answers.com, Tumblr, ChaCha, Examiner, LinkedIn, Bleacher Report, Hubpages, White Pages, Squidoo, and Dictionary.com. Among those sites, Apple's iOS platform averaged bet…
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'Phablets' aren't a fad, but they'll never be the mainstream smartphone form either. Phone size falls into the 'preference' category, people will like the size that works for them.
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macrulez wrote: » What are the first five words of my original post? Using the Linux kernel doesn't require them to release any OS source code. Try educating yourself.... Open source licenses are complex with lots of exceptions...
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacRulez Aliyun uses the Linux kernel, which obliges them to release their source. Last I heard they have not done so. So the very best that could be said about their intentions isn't flattering to them o…
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They've already released 'Facebook' phones. One was the HTC Status, a Blackberry lookalike with a dedicated Facebook button... It will likely just be another phone with a bit of Facebook branding and integration. Or it could even just be anothe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui More than a bit ironic since Samsung are the only company I know of that could make or supply the display that would be required to make this feasible. Indeed. Apple patenting…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Relic Working in bank with a secure intranet that doesn't talk with the internet except through a very secure FTP site the Chrome-uters have been very successful in dealing with those two worlds and with us…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MJ Web Of late I've come to the sad conclusion that Tim Cook is utterly incompetent without Steve Jobs' vision and paint by number directives. Been holding AAPL since it was $119 and re-upped at $514 so sav…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin The focus is on why it's good, not why it's better. Why is it better than a Macbook Pro, which can act as a terminal, a Mac, Linux or Windows machine, a video editing machine, a development machin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by igriv Re Google. I still don't think it is relevant, since it is not relevant to the merits of the machine, but actually they do it with other people (e.g., Google Drive is a response to dropbox, Goog…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Also when people talk about installing Linux being fairly easy, are you running it from an SD card, which really isn't an ideal storage device for an OS or using the stateful partition, which is e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lightknight Of course they don't, they're nazis, I read. http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/9680-interface-nazis-in-torvalds-line-of-fire Sometimes, Torvalds just…