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2016-03-20 , 02:03
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CloudLinux needs a registered licence attached to an email address and credit card too but it's not your regular kind of distribution.
 

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2016-03-20 , 02:22
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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
This isn't true. You just select 'none' as a payment method. This is what we do on our office Macs.

See https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204034
Well... today I learned. Thanks for this.

We do not deploy Apple's typically in our office - it's usually a one for one situation.
 

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2016-03-20 , 02:30
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Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
This is true. Without a valid credit card and/or PayPal, you cannot set up an Apple ID even if only for the free updates to the operating system and/or free apps in their store(s).

This is often a rallying point against Apple by those that find this requirement disgusting or unnecessary; if not both. It's become the same for Windows as well whereas that is not a requirement on any Linux distro (for the most part - I'm sure some example exists) as of yet.

The whole "require a login" by Jolla is somewhat off-putting to those that hate this kind of corporate behavior.

So to pull this all together, do any other Linux devices require an account?
Ubuntu phone requires an account and login to upgrade or add/update a new application.
Until now they do not require financial details...

Although the requirement for an account+login
is a bit dismaying, it is easy to recognize the basis:
anyone putting efffort into supporting a package
would want(+need) to know their effort is being used
by actual living+breathing people. (How many !?)
Requiring financial details registration
is a whole different kettle of fish, however.
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2016-03-20 , 07:30
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#284
Originally Posted by gerbick View Post
So to pull this all together, do any other Linux devices require an account?
N9?

Originally Posted by theonelaw View Post
Ubuntu phone requires an account and login to upgrade or add/update a new application.
And now Ubuntu. The cancer is spreading

Originally Posted by theonelaw View Post
anyone putting efffort into supporting a package
would want(+need) to know their effort is being used
by actual living+breathing people. (How many !?)
That sounds like the lamest excuse for requiring an account.
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2016-03-20 , 11:35
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Ubuntu one accounts are required for push notifications, besides the provisioning of updates.
 

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2016-03-20 , 12:47
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Originally Posted by handaxe View Post
Ubuntu one accounts are required for push notifications, besides the provisioning of updates.
Centralised communications: another unnecessary "cancer".

Unfortunately, we seem to have lost that battle when it comes to instant messages, very few people use XMPP.
 

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2016-03-20 , 13:51
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Originally Posted by theonelaw View Post
Ubuntu phone requires an account and login to upgrade or add/update a new application.
As long as they don't force you to use it by locking down stuff and there are alternatives (app stores) it doesn't bother me that much.
 

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2016-03-20 , 21:25
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#288
get rid of mac os, stick on xubuntu, make sure macs dont touch your skin in the morning cause their ****ing freezing.
 

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2016-03-20 , 21:29
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Originally Posted by m4r0v3r View Post
get rid of mac os, stick on xubuntu, make sure macs dont touch your skin in the morning cause their ****ing freezing.
Matters on your line of work, this is an option. For my work, not a real ****ing option at all.
 

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2016-03-21 , 01:15
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Originally Posted by Feathers McGraw View Post
Centralised communications: another unnecessary "cancer".

Unfortunately, we seem to have lost that battle when it comes to instant messages, very few people use XMPP.
Isn't it done because it's just one background push message task instead of each app having it's own?

IE. There's solid engineering reasons not just because a single company wants to look at all your messages... allegedly.
 

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