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Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

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Originally Posted by ZShakespeare (Post 704610)

Explain to me how that is not exactly what has happened.

You're making the assertion here, you show how it's true.

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

i swear there is no sense to be made in there. there's no point beyond trying to ridicule opensource. i honestly believe you wrote that, making high pitched voices. next time, try to make an comprehensive argument.

i'm out. see ya, tex.

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 704614)

You're making the assertion here, you show how it's true.

Hint: I'm Nokia, My widget is my symbian phones, the other two companies are apple and google, the doohickey is the NIT, and the half-finished doohickey-widget thing is the n900.

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone os brought us?

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Originally Posted by PradaBrada (Post 704577)

Medicine student, the psychiatry lecture on the syndrome which my professor gave was quite fascinating.

Do they still qualify people as psychiatrists after they take one or two psych courses?

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 704614)

You're making the assertion here, you show how it's true.

Oh, but proving negatives is more fun! Almost as entertaining as "debating" with sarcasm and obtuse metaphors. :D

Pass the popcorn, the zealotry is just heating up!

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

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what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

Trolls .

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

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Originally Posted by ZShakespeare (Post 704618)

Hint: I'm Nokia, My widget is my symbian phones, the other two companies are apple and google, the doohickey is the NIT, and the half-finished doohickey-widget thing is the n900.

Wait, so you've suddenly gone from wide, general attacks to something very, very specific. Please, keep a consistent line here or you'll lose people.

Realize also that the N900 is pretty much directly descended from the NITs with a cellular modem added and has NOTHING to do with Symbian. If you ask me, it is and always has been what the NITs should have been.

I mean, you can ***** at Nokia for their poor handling of things but that has nothing whatsoever to do with open source software.

YHL, HAND.

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone os brought us?

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 704582)

And yet there are always people building custom cars and restoring old ones found at the scrapheap. Do you normally insult them as well?

As a matter of fact, yes, I do, especially if they are doing so solely to not pay for a real car and so leave a chip in the economy.

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 704582)

Use of OS X is a reaction to Windows. Windows is a result of their monopoly, really, and familiarity.

So what? Cry wolf moar.

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 704582)

So essentially you are doing to the field of computing what you claim people do to medicine with Wikipedia. Please stop. It's what you'd want us to do, right?

Except for the fact that I actually took several years of Computer Science classes :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 704582)

What?

No work = no paycheck

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Originally Posted by wmarone (Post 704582)

What idiotic nonsense is this? I hope you're better at medicine than looking at how the computing field works, or you might kill someone. How is someone making money writing open source software being no better than the "big bad closed corporations?"

They are both making software to make money. That is all that matters. Hating on closed corporations is simply hating on the competition for naive reasons, which is childish at best.

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Originally Posted by Bourdain (Post 704593)

Professor Byagam Gokulden is indeed an amazing luminary. :ohpek

He's simply the best :D

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

It's not even an assertion. it's history. painted in a cute little story to make the big business world more easy to understand for the people who apparently don't.

Re: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?

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Originally Posted by ZShakespeare (Post 704561)

you called me ignorant. Show me one sucessful open source product that is a commercial sucess, and isn't half finished. Just one.

OpenOffice.org, Blender, Ubuntu, . . .