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Re: Disney features anti-open source propaganda in kids' sitcom I'd complain about your pedantry, but It'd make me a hypocrite.  |
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me1212
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Its disney, one of the most evil companies in existence, is anyone really surprised? |
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said by JohnInSJ:said by BronsCon:It's more along the lines of "It's open source, so more eyeballs will have reviewed it by the time you run it than just the people who created it, increasing the likelihood of any potential problems being noticed and fixed".
Yep. Were they YOUR eyeballs? They sure weren't mine. The assumption is that someone is reading that code. The reality? Not so much. Depends on the code. You can bet many people read the kernel code.
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Oh, yes...most certainly.
Open source or not, can you really trust your compiler?
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At the same time, it's one of the neatest hacks I'd ever heard of, and very disquieting.
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| Precisely, but it goes a bit farther than that. even if you entered the ones and zeroes that make up the compiler executable into the machine by hand, yourself, you still must trust the microcode on the CPU to not recognize that you're inputting a compiler and alter the bits as you enter them.
This line of conversation is a wonderland for the truly paranoid. I say we keep it going and see what theories start flying. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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said by JohnInSJ:said by BronsCon:Good point about the EULA, though that's a separate issue. If more people read license agreements, less people would buy software.
If there's a EULA, then you're not buying software, you're buying a license to use software. If more people understood that, then they'd be less surprised over what they were handing money over for. This will never be something you will get people to believe. Because people go to a store and buy software just the same as they buy a blender. As such its only natural for them to see their retail copy of windows as like a blender.
Someday people might understand they only license it, but as long as they can clutch something in their hands they will see it as product.
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| said by Kearnstd:Someday people might understand they only license it, but as long as they can clutch something in their hands they will see it as product.
Yep - and with the death of physical media, this becomes more abstract - and possibly easier to understand.
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Disney and FOSS: Fun and FUD in the Magic Kingdom?:
They say it's a small world after all, but in the Magic Kingdom, it appears to be a FUD-filled world as well. |
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| I think the answer is contained in the linked article:
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On the other hand, "maybe we're just all overthinking this; it's possible that this is a combination of bad writing and worse editing, producing a completely nonsensical line of dialogue that the authors thought would sound amazingly hip," Espinoza added.
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| said by No_Strings:I think the answer is contained in the linked article:
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On the other hand, "maybe we're just all overthinking this; it's possible that this is a combination of bad writing and worse editing, producing a completely nonsensical line of dialogue that the authors thought would sound amazingly hip," Espinoza added.
No, clearly this is a full out assault against FOSS... by brainwashing a legion of children who will grow up using Apple devices and never touch let alone know what FOSS is. Because it's not in the app store.
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said by No_Strings:I think the answer is contained in the linked article:
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On the other hand, "maybe we're just all overthinking this; it's possible that this is a combination of bad writing and worse editing, producing a completely nonsensical line of dialogue that the authors thought would sound amazingly hip," Espinoza added.
Bad writing out of Hollywood!? What will they think of next. |
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 rexbinaryMod KingPremium
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But Disney's movie called TRON was about the fight for open systems! Well system. A fictional ENCOM mainframe, but still. |
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davePremium,MVM
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Second link, #8 - two people typing on one keyboard. That's just part of the Extreme Programming cult, only with greater throughput |
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