Hi, I recently bought an Android machine (a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0),
and am quite enjoying it. Superficially, it isn't very similar to what
we've come to expect from Linux machines, but in my opinion the Linuxness
still shows through in many ways that are hard for me to enumerate.
Anyway,
On Dec 28, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
I think that there are things that can be done on both points, and I
wonder
what other people think:
IMHO the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad drives the Android market. People
invest large sums of money developing apps for iOS and if they are a
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about Re: Free Software on
Android:
There is nothing to stop anyone from developing a free app for
Android but there currently is a high cost of entry into the market,
the price of the device. As Android devices go down in price, and
Actually,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 13:18, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote:
Hi, I recently bought an Android machine (a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.0),
and am quite enjoying it. Superficially, it isn't very similar to what
we've come to expect from Linux machines, but in my opinion the Linuxness
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011, Shlomi Fish wrote about Re: Free Software on Android:
Well, note http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html - I think we shouldn't
discourage Android FOSS developers from trying to sell their applications (as
long as they also provide the source, which means that other
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 14:25, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote:
I looked for a Wikipedia browsing app, and found a nice
one, but with ads, and of course not open source. What the ??
Thousands of people spent millions of hours writing this encyclopedia without
making a penny,
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011, Dotan Cohen wrote about Re: Free Software on Android:
I looked for a Wikipedia browsing app, and found a nice
one, but with ads, and of course not open source. What the ??
Thousands of people spent millions of hours writing this encyclopedia
without
making a
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011, Shlomi Fish wrote about Re: Free Software on Android:
Nice. Did you try sending your improvements to that widget upstream?
I didn't, like I said this is basically a 50 line program, and I
rewrote almost all of them, and changed all the graphics - so I doubt the
original
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 18:04, Nadav Har'El n...@math.technion.ac.il wrote:
I am angry for the Wikipedia contributors (I'm also one of them...) not
because they are swindled out of their money but for a more subtle
reason: they developed wikipedia wishing that people enjoy it.
By adding ads to
