Quoting: TheRiddick

Quoting: tohurthere is NO way that can stand.

Perhaps their strategy is simply to bankrupt them in legal fees. Not to win.

Wouldn't be the first time.
Or, to use the fact that a full trial would bankrupt the opponent with legal fees, to force concessions in a settlement.

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Quoting: EagleDelta

Quoting: RuohtasThis is especially egregious for those of us that backed the KS specifically due to the native Linux client. They only met their funding goal by about $45K, and that could have been due to the Linux version availability.

And I can tell you now as I've spent a LOT of time on developing to improve margins. 45K isn't enough to fund a Linux version itself.

The idea that they were being either stupid or dishonest in promising a Linux version for a small funding goal does not imply that them failing to live up to their promise is optimal behaviour.

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Patents have gotten kind of twisted since the old days. I mean, originally one of the conditions was, you show a working model. By those rules, show us a working pokeball or pound sand.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around why an entirely fictional idea should be a patentable kind of thing.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderHope Gabe is prepared to fight the Emus...... After their victory in the 1930's...... [External Link] They now control the land....... They are a tough adversary.......

Pengling can help, I expect. Isn't her gaming all about Emus?

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Quoting: CaptainClassy

Quoting: Marlockbut most windows users don't even know what an OS is

The vast majority of PC users just see their OS as a bootloader for their web browser of choice.

To be fair, browser makers seem to have worked hard to turn the brower into an OS. So it's a fairly natural mistake at this point.

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Quoting: reaperx7The GPL is a very flawed license when it comes to allowing a developer to have absolute control over him/her project. For some projects its fine, but for others it's a total headache.

This is why many developers in the past have used BSDL, MIT, and other more restricive licenses to maintain control and prevent unauthorized forking.

So, first, it's hardly surprising that the GPL is flawed when it comes to allowing a developer to have absolute control over a project, because it was designed precisely to stop developers (and companies) from having absolute control over projects. The point of the GPL is for users to have modification rights, much the way recipe users have modification rights over recipes. Lots of people use Free Software today because they like the way it can be developed collaboratively, with lots of people contributing to some central repository that is somewhat controlled by someone, but that was not the point.

Second, the BSD and MIT licenses are not more restrictive--to the contrary, they are more permissive. They do, particularly the BSD licenses, make it easier to fork a project to a different, more restrictive one . . . but the original code in the permissive license would remain.

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Quoting: ShmerlAnd Tim Sweeney can move to Canada and get lost.

If you do that we will send you Justin Bieber!

I'm starting to see the possibilities here. Can we throw in Pierre Poilievre?

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Quoting: ShmerlAnd Tim Sweeney can move to Canada and get lost.

Hey! We Canadians have enough problems, thank you very much!

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Quoting: ZeloxI know there is a lot of Microsoft hate here

Yes indeed. And proud. Let's see (digs in wallet), I know I've got my MS-hater card around here somewhere. :grin:

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Quoting: Cato-the-youngerMost "equality" movements are actually supremacy movements masquerading as a "equality" movement to make it more palatable.

Well that's a whole lot of projection. The only movement I'm aware of that is like that is the white one.

So here's the thing: Pretty much everything you're saying is objectively false. The statistics, when not cherry-picked carefully, make this clear. Also the history--that stuff about women, WTF?! So, you are either deeply but aggressively ignorant, or you are lying like a rug on the assumption that your audience is ignorant. In either case, I'm really not interested in talking to you any further.

There is one true thing--it seems these days that more women than men are going to college. And yet, the wage gap between men and women, with men getting paid more, remains pretty steady. But none of this implies that women somehow owe men relationships. If you're an incel (maybe you're not, maybe you're just promoting their stupid memes for other reasons), what you should do is quit whining and bitching about women and instead try learning to be a decent person that women won't have strong reasons to dislike . . . which might require exiting a culture that seems to actively promote being a total racist sexist asshole that most women, and decent men, are unlikely to want to spend time with. Because you get in relationships with women when they want to be in a relationship with you.

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