Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-04-22 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: Greg Kroah-Hartman's got a good blog post about this: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/android-kernel-problems.html On the other hand...

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-17 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: Greg Kroah-Hartman's got a good blog post about this: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/android-kernel-problems.html On the other hand...

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Android devices are currently in more pockets than the sum total of all previous efforts to make Linux usefully portable, so one could argue that the evidence isn't on Harald's side. Do we know *why* the Android people did

[silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Well well .. way to go. suresh http://www.pcworld.com/article/191633/meet_tim_bray_new_face_of_the_googleapple_rivalry.html http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google starts off with a bang .. As of this morning I work for Google. The title is “Developer Advocate”.

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Danese Cooper
I'm worried that Tim is just trading evils. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: Well well .. way to go. suresh http://www.pcworld.com/article/191633/meet_tim_bray_new_face_of_the_googleapple_rivalry.html

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm worried that Tim is just trading evils. If he's picked the lesser one, that's the best possible outcome. There's no business organization that's totally not evil. -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm worried that Tim is just trading evils. If he's picked the lesser one, that's the best possible outcome. There's no business organization that's totally not evil. -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Well well .. way to go.        suresh http://www.pcworld.com/article/191633/meet_tim_bray_new_face_of_the_googleapple_rivalry.html http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google starts off

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Tim Bray
Well, I suspect that moving from Oracle to Google does involve a net decrease in evil. I wonder what units evil is calibrated in? On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: I do hope he teaches 'em how to play better with upstream -- right now they're doing a

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Nathan Torkington
On 17/03/2010, at 9:41 AM, Tim Bray wrote: Well, I suspect that moving from Oracle to Google does involve a net decrease in evil. I wonder what units evil is calibrated in? milliBills :-) Nat

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Nathan Torkington
On 17 March 2010 09:41, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Well, I suspect that moving from Oracle to Google does involve a net decrease in evil. I wonder what units evil is calibrated in? I can't believe I missed the opportunity to answer: the SI unit for evil is the Soft. However it

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Well, I suspect that moving from Oracle to Google does involve a net decrease in evil.  I wonder what units evil is calibrated in? I propose that the units of evil are fuds. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Biju Chacko

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Nathan Torkington nat...@torkington.comwrote: the SI unit for evil is the Soft. However it is such a large unit that workaday evil is now more commonly expressed in microsofts. That's logical...I thought evil was measured in dents, with multiples of

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Indrajit Gupta
--- On Wed, 17/3/10, Nathan Torkington nat...@torkington.com wrote: From: Nathan Torkington nat...@torkington.com Subject: Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Wednesday, 17 March, 2010, 2:22 On 17 March 2010 09:41, Tim Bray tb

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: I do hope he teaches 'em how to play better with upstream -- right now they're doing a lousy job of it. Upstream... huh?  Expand please? -Tim

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Biju Chacko
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: I do hope he teaches 'em how to play better with upstream -- right now they're doing a lousy job of it. Upstream... huh?  Expand please? -Tim Greg

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Tim Bray
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: Upstream... huh?  Expand please? -Tim Harald Welte (netfilter hacker) had linked to a good presentation called Android Mythbusters[1] sometime back. Not sure if the issues mentioned have changed since then. -- Vinayak

Re: [silk] Tim Bray the new face of the google apple rivalry

2010-03-16 Thread Tim Bray
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: Greg Kroah-Hartman's got a good blog post about this: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/android-kernel-problems.html On the other hand... http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5992tag=trunk;content -T