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They could use V8.

Or they could just use webkit for free.

I think simply looking at the final price and saying consumers have lost is being naive. and short-sighted.

It’s not the mic icon, it’s the whole UI, the rounded surround and pulsating light.

In a rounded surround with pulsating light.

And what’s to stop customers from moving to other ebook sellers then?

DRM lock in.

“nut job” is my opinion, not slander.

Is Stallman your daddy or something?

Why?

Truth defeats any claim of defamation always in the US and English Common Law.

who can lure customers off the web

And therein lies the problem. Rather than understanding the world has changed, they are trying to change the world back to how it was. They will fail.

Well, it’s not slandering his character if it’s a fact that he ate his toe jam in front of an audience.

Though I will grant you that my ad hominem against him isn’t relevant.

I have no idea. I know he did it in front of an audience that one time. Nut job.

Just stating a fact.

Stallman is a nut who eats in toe jam in front of an audience.

Or put another way, free as in speech, not as in beer.

I think you do, actually. Unless you’re in the Stallman camp.

I’d call this a net loss for FOSS supporters. Why would any company or person want to open source their code if any other company can simply side step any licensing requirements and get away with it?

My first thought exactly.

Exactly. I’m not an Android or Samsung fan, but they do make pretty good phones and I was hoping they would make the Galaxy brand the iPhone equivalent, high-end, good quality, but they aren’t. So a normal person sees “Galaxy” and it could be a piece of crap like this phone rather than a nice model like the S. They then compare it to any iPhone, which will always be good quality.

I think it’s just really a terrible marketing decision.

The thing that makes them common in name is the “Galaxy”

I think Samsung is making a mistake by calling every Android phone they make “Galaxy” something. Galaxy should be reserved for their higher end models. By associating with cheap crap like this cheapens their higher end models with the same name.