You got a very good point here. Look like the big names, it's good for image. Especially when you have a terrible image like oracle starts to have. ( or did it have it since a few years already? )
It goes further than that: There's a certain set of people and corporations that started out with Red Hat Linux, and prefer to stay in that ecosystem (known tools, available work force).
By claiming you're RHEL compatible, you "merely" compete against Red Hat, Cent OS and some other clones that some might not even have heard of (eg. Scientific Linux).
You automatically exclude Ubuntu, Debian, Suse and so on, but while reasserting that RHEL compat is somehow important, you push them to the defenses, not yourself (except from the point of view of Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, ... fans, but you won't convince them anyway, so why bother?).
That might be a reason why Red Hat doesn't bother too much about the clones: they make the RHEL ecosystem stronger, provides incentives for RHEL certifications, and RH can still try to upsell Oracle Linux users for the "original".
"People have done amazing things with low-spec hardware before, but it certainly doesn't help if the hardware is poor along with the other poor decisions on display here."
I think that guys like Sony or Nintendo had so much more budgets/experience/talents to create super-optimized low-spec custom hardware and SDK going along allowing to create great piece of software with these specs.
I am quite sure that the SDKs that will go along the platform will be "as-good" as the stock SDK provided by Google. Meaning "good" but not in the same game with Sony/Nintendo's SDKs.
I agree with Mindstab.
"Amateur" or "Semi-pro" or whatever console gaming breaking-ground kickstarter campaign ( 3M$ after 2 days ) with some great game designers ( Brian Fargo being one of the most eminent ) appearing to follow a "post-iphone" gaming trend sounds very very not cheerleading to me.
Lots of great game-development teams ( most of which being indie ) have joined iOS game development trend because it's a great platform but also because it seems to be a huge and very potential trend/market. I think that the WHOLE scene is looking forward to see the success of this platform. It could mean a huge game trending for Android. And it could also just mean that "amateur"-hour is powerful.
I just hope they'll deliver. ( They say that their proto is "up-and-running", which is a very good sign ). But with 28 more days to go, and already 3M$ of cash, I think that they can easily ramp up to 5-10M$, which is "not too much" to create a game industry, but it's a lot to start. ( + I believe that kickstarter brings a LOT of marketing value to the project, meaning that they'll need less cash on Marketing to promote the gaming console, it's already famous, and the viral effect will surely make it boom even bigger )
I think even if Yahoo have had terrible direction during last 5 years, this product could be their salute. I'll give it a try to see what they can do now.
Hehe. In the end, the Karma is the main reason in either scenarios. Maybe PG could check these articles and the posters to extrapolate out some possibilities.
Is there so many HN readers out there?
Not only that but also devices fragmentation. Google is doing much to address this, but there's still an ocean of troubles in this field.
If a guy would have enough patience and traction to get an "android compatibility framework", he would surely be a hot shot. I'll dig into that maybe :)
Or does that exists already? AFAIK not yet. Any input?
Seems to have been tried out before with not enough traction to get relevant.
But I believe that now that Android tools and community are getting stronger, it could make sense.
Ruby Toolbox is just great. So it's a very good model to base on. imo.
One this I ( and I believe everybody? ) was very worried when I first read the claims of the lawsuit was: "Oh my god, if Oracle win, it could change the whole Software industry".
The EFF is today relaying their fears over the whole open source world that could be at threat for softwares like Samba - that EFF mentionned - but many others like NTFS drivers, or interoperability layers that make deep use of the claimed "APIs" to work.
Hope that the judges will come to reason about the implications of their decision.
Sounds GA black hat methods to me. But I'm not quite surprised about this. Monetization is the master word.
I'm wondering whether selenium would fit their need. ( I believe one have to change the UserAgent to look more real ).
Google's mission at a very early stage.
Do you know if google is able to detect such behaviors? Is it even possible? Maybe detecting patterns issued from a particular IP. Or using smart cookies to track down users with definite patterns.
