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High power line workers

Posted on March 9th, 2012 at 20:22 by Paul Jay in category: News


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  1. Kash on March 9th, 2012 at 22:37:

    Wow

Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’

Posted on March 9th, 2012 at 13:26 by John Sinteur in category: Apple, Google

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Thanks heavens it’s only for photo-tagging: Apple has tossed yet another gauntlet onto the ground in its ongoing spat with Google, dropping Google Maps out of iPhoto for iOS and opting for OpenStreetMap instead.


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  1. Desiato on March 9th, 2012 at 13:55:

    Aside from the well-known “you ripped off the iPhone” spat, is this possibly also because Google has started charging for Google Maps pageviews?

  2. Mr. n on March 11th, 2012 at 18:01:

    Please consider they dind’t just “opted for”. They STOLE the maps, removing the licensing informations and any link to OSM.

  3. John Sinteur on March 11th, 2012 at 23:43:

    You’re quite a bit more harsh about this than OpenStreetMap themselves are:

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    Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone… and we’re rather pleased to find they’re the latest to switch to OpenStreetMap.

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    It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get that on there.

LKML: Linus Torvalds: What OS kernels are for

Posted on March 9th, 2012 at 12:24 by Desiato in category: Commentary, Software

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Stop right there.

This is *not* about some arbitrary "30-year backwards compatibility".

This is about your patch BREAKING EXISTING BINARIES.

So stop the f*&^ing around already. The patch was shown to be broken,

stop making excuses, and stop blathering.

An entertaining read.


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  1. Spaceman Spiff on March 9th, 2012 at 15:08:

    The link seems to be broken. It keeps getting timeouts (error 7).

  2. Desiato on March 9th, 2012 at 15:44:

    Site’s overloaded. Took me 2 or 3 reloads.