![](/static/253f0d9b/assets/icons/icon-96x96.png)
![](https://fry.gs/pictrs/image/c6832070-8625-4688-b9e5-5d519541e092.png)
Nokia sealed their fate when they spent $8bn on NavTeq. Switching to Android would have made the purchase valueless, and the people responsible for the acquisition were still in charge.
Nokia sealed their fate when they spent $8bn on NavTeq. Switching to Android would have made the purchase valueless, and the people responsible for the acquisition were still in charge.
Uh, it’s been coined for decades now.
The only theft going on is the ongoing theft from the public domain, due to corruption of copyright law by special interests enabled by law for hire. Your analogy is irrelevant as the marginal cost of operating a park for an extra visitor is not zero.
I will gladly take a position of moral superiority, because copyright has evolved from a very limited monopoly, intended to encourage creativity while balancing public access, into a licence for corporations to seek rent.
So, call it stealing if you like, I will sleep well tonight regardless.
But stealing is not owning so QED
Bankruptcy court?
If your business model needs undercover advocates to fake grassroots legitimacy you may have a problem.
If buying is not owning, copying is not stealing. Simple as that.
Virtualize fun things for projects
You’re right and it’s a pragmatic approach to the problem. They only need broad technical effectiveness to change user behaviour.
I’d argue that it’s not strictly cost cutting but cost transferring. The total client resources most likely exceed that which would be needed on servers.
If your security relies on software in the control of the end user you have a problem.
Probably. It’s in f-droid but increasingly looking not quite unmaintained, but not developed actively enough.
I had to create one this year after discovering that connectbot (ssh client on Android) didn’t support agent forwarding otherwise.
I use the native wireguard client on Linux
Philips took a risk with their brand letting Signify use it.
If you like Edge that’s ok. Let us uninstall it if we don’t need it.
Gretchen, stop trying to make X happen. It’s never going to happen.
Ah! Well, apologies.