No subscribing via url. No opml import/export. No playlists. It has the advantage over Google Play Music that I can actually use it (I'm not in the US) but I'll stick with Pocket Casts for now.

The Phoenix OS kernel is a derivative work of the Linux kernel. Linux is released under GPLv2. Therefore under the GPL they must release the source for their changes.

The only way it would be possible to release their modifications under a different license would be:

a) Go back and get agreement from everyone who has copyright in the Linux kernel and persuade them to agree to re-releasing under a new license.
b) License their changes under a GPL-compatible license - which would mean releasing their source anyway.

In order to look something up you have to know it exists.

He has a valid opinion and is right about some factual points. However most of what he talks about is a political/moral approach to life, not an issue of pure fact. Therefore I consider it a category error to say he is "right" (or "wrong" for that matter). I think it's more appropriate to talk about where I agree or disagree and why.

I don't hate him, but I do find him hard to listen to because he'll never concede any opposing view point has any validity at all. Also he sees things in black and white terms. For example he talks a lot about freedom as if a) freedom is an absolute and b) has an agreed definition. We compromise freedom all the time. We balance different kinds of freedom. We negotiate freedom of one individual or group against another. Acknowledgement of this kind of nuance seems missing from his analysis. Software is either Free or it's not, un-Free is bad and it's unethical to use it, regardless of other factors. That's too simplistic for me.

So not a "newbie" then.

"Semi-unlimited" (with quotes) was a phrase used by the article not Scribd. So it may be BS but it's not (Scribd) marketing BS.

... Alphabet's new "personal re-vivification" project is making good progress. The project leader, V.Frankenstein was unavailable for comment however.

As someone said the technical FAQ is light on details, however they also link to this article from 2007 http://www.freerepublic.com/fo... which is how far back Hellwig's complaints about GPL violation go.

Based on that, it wasn't a case of whether VMware had included Linux code in their binaries, so much as they were distributing binaries which depended wholly on Linux to run but not GPLing them.

Hardly a surprise since theoldreader was set up when Google dropped the social side of Reader (in favour of G+ integration).

But they are different kinds of conversation.

Here's something that happens to me a lot. I get an IM asking me a question, in order to answer it I need a bit more information so I ask a question. I wait. Just at the point where I think there's no reply coming and I can re-focus on whatever I was doing before I get an answer. I reply, adding a further request for information. Repeat a couple of times until I finally say "Send me an email".

If that was a phone conversation the person would generally answer immediately or at least I would know what was happening. Silence on IM might mean they're thinking about my question, or it might mean they've been distracted by an email.

The problem with IM for me is that it's somewhere between email and phone in terms of being "live". It can come across as passive agressive because it demands attention right now but the person at the other end can more easily split their attention across other things. A phonecall would require both my and the other person's attention equally. An email requires my attention but I can prioritise when I reply.

Use Calibre to convert it.

A digital camcorder that fits in your pocket in 1994? They'd go crazy for it.

Thing is even if they did (are?)

a) we're talking about a lot of money to fill even a small proportion of the missing apps

b) for the health of the Linux software eco-system there needs to be many developers of such apps, not just IBM and a few other big corporations

Thing to realise is this is a keynote speech at a conference. Despite the tone of "I'm tired of waiting" he's not really talking about what applications he personally, or IBM as an organisation want/need, he's trying to throw out a challenge to the community in general. I'm sure if there are specific apps that IBM need on Linux they are willing and able to develop them.

Indeed "I'm tired of waiting" sounds to me like an attention-grabbing phrase rather than anything else.