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Anon84
59,871karma·8,263submissions·May 7, 2008
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My name is Bruno Goncalves bgoncalves AT data4sci DOT com
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This is why Windows or OSX beat Linux on the desktop. Practicality beats philosophy. There's also another consideration, incentives. Compare Apples incentives with, say, Red Hats. Apple makes money se…
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By this I meant putting philosophy in front of practicality. 99% (or some other arbitrary percentage) of users want just that... to use software X to do Y. For them, software is a tool, not an end i…
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And this is why open source is doomed to fail in practically any commercial setting. Industry requires innovation, and paying costumers demand it.
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Another one "bites the dust"...
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Check out the search.wikia.org project. They make their crawler (and crawl data) available. Maybe you can get away with using theirs. That would really be cheap!
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Aren't you just conceeding the point? Patents are crafted like that precisely to prevent people from reproducing the work without violating them. Precise statements are easy to get around... fuzzy ide…
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This is also where IP comes in... can you reproduce someones product without violating their patents?
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By "some" they probably mean all.
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Apple can make kindle out of the Kindle with a free (or cheap) PDF/eBook reader for iPhone/iPod touch. Millions of people already have the devices, many millions more already have thousands of PDFs on…