jollyrogue
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- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 weeks ago:
The primary ways in which the Mozilla Foundation earns money is through search partnerships, donations and grants.
Yes. It’s the same thing with the Linux kernel and other large FOSS projects. There isn’t a perfect fit for Android, but it would be better than the way ASOP is run now.
As for Red Hat, this comes down to subscriptions or enterprise offerings, neither which really apply to a consumer OS unless you’re willing to pay a subscription fee out of pocket.
Consumer devices ship with proprietary software which is licensed all the time. It could be a library or an entire OS. Consumers are not the target market, like consumers aren’t the target market for RHEL.
The prime example is Windows. It’s licensed to Dell or whomever and ships with the hardware. The license is baked in.
Some people might be willing to pay if the price is reasonable enough. Android has support for major vendors, so using it as a base would be a boon to people doing things like media boxes and signage.
I doubt there will be much to be earned from offering consulting or training, either, unless they make Android exceedingly confusing to use.
It’s the opposite. Make it easy to use. Companies pay for tools which reduces developer time.
The only companies that would pay for Android are OEMs who are already making thin margins, and effectively it’d drive the price of non-iPhones up.
The smaller OEMs would pay for licenses, PS hours, and backend services. They don’t have the expertise or budget.
Samsung? They’re going to keep doing what they’re doing because they have the expertise and budget to fork from upstream. It’s possible they would rally around Android, like companies have rallied around the Linux kernel.
OEMs do this with Linux already, so it would bring Android more inline with the norms.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 weeks ago:
It could be profitable the way RHEL or the Mozilla Foundation is profitable.
Companies will pay for OS support, and companies will pay for access. Android as a foundation with a company selling OS support and services which could be rebranded would be profitable.
I’m thinking about the wider IoT space here beyond only mobile.
- Comment on US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, MS would probably buy Android to get back into the mobile market.
I agree. Ideally, Android would be something like Debian or a mobile project of the Linux Foundation. It would really be better off if it wasn’t beholden to a company.
The mobile OS wars have already settled on Android and iOS. Closing off Android would destroy the market, and I don’t want to go back to the days when Windows Mobile was the leading mobile OS.
Odds are low of anything good happening because of this administration.
- Comment on Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle 4 weeks ago:
How was the interview? Did they pull questions from HackerRank?
Asking for me, because I’m an old CS grad in a bad job market.
- Comment on Nonsense 2 months ago:
That name goes hard!
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 2 months ago:
Indeed. Capitalism breeds this crap by focusing on competition excessively and creating an environment where it’s almost mandatory to participate. People need to be looking to exploit people at all times and that is a deflating concept for people.
People also need to go offline. The apps have been taken over by scammers and bots. It’s time to flush again. Which is also related to capitalism.
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 months ago:
Oh yeah. No one appreciates blue sky research. We don’t know where the question will take us, which is why governments fund the research. They can take on the 0.1% chance something useful is created 20 years later.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 2 months ago:
Google is about to become AOL. 😂 The walled garden is going to get destroyed by the open web, again.
Ads already destroyed the web. Developers wanting to make web apps instead of web pages already destroyed the web. Google is trying to prop up the corpse of its dead brand by capturing people in their chat bot.
- Comment on If your dog realizes that your leather jacket is the skin of another animal then it probably thinks you're a psycho. 4 months ago:
They would. Mine love to roll around in dead things when I’m not watching.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 5 months ago:
NIN is the blue ring. 😆
- Comment on What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab? 5 months ago:
The daemon maintains state, so the transfers start quicker because rsync doesn’t have to scan the filesystem.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 6 months ago:
Okay cool, but post the random IOPs please.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 6 months ago:
Isolating the US and breaking US hegemony. Trump is a Putin puppet, and what’s best for Russia is crippling the US economically and diplomatically. Alienating the EU cuts off the EU from the US who would otherwise help the Europeans against the Russians as they try to reclaim their former territories.
This also helps China who is trying to replace the US as the world superpower. BRICS is doing a good job of creating a competing economic alliance, and the US falling apart helps make it more attractive.
Not a conservative, by the way. Just someone who follows the news.
- Comment on Hmmmm 11 months ago:
Do you have a book? Can people donate brick funds?