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O8h7w reacted to golfbravobravo's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.That's a small world connection too. I led the team that negotiated the establishment of the the BT forum. Microsoft led the charge in...
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O8h7w reacted to Barnstormer13's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.I’ve got an unanticipated consequence to deal with. I upgraded to a Yggy LIM and now my portable sound gear (DAP + IEM) no longer...
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O8h7w reacted to theeclone's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.The difference is, if a *nix system behaves as expected, nobody really cares if it's 100% posix compliant. Now if you want to sell a...
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O8h7w reacted to golfbravobravo's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.BSD was and remains a specific fork of a proprietary system. It conforms to SOME standards, to varying degrees, (depending on which...
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O8h7w reacted to theeclone's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.Again, I made no claims as to origins of Unix being anything other than the private sector. The distinction I'm talking about is open vs...
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O8h7w reacted to Ableza's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.The contradiction, if you want to call it that, is the ORIGIN is Unix, developed by a commercial enterprise or group.
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O8h7w reacted to theeclone's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.As you say, they are now open standards. Not sure where the contradiction is.
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O8h7w reacted to golfbravobravo's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.It's the inverse of that! BSD is a fork of a proprietary system - UNIX. UNIX was developed and owned by AT&T, then sold to Novell...
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O8h7w reacted to Paladin79's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.All things are relative and ad hominem attacks are not welcome here, I will just say the amp weighs a lot and the nearby air becomes...
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O8h7w reacted to KoshNaranek's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.I Love this album
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O8h7w reacted to bcowen's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.Joking? Me? Really? :laughing: I simply said they looked like the Q-tip jar my wife had on the bathroom counter, and wondered where...
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O8h7w reacted to Paladin79's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.Oddly enough, no. He kept joking about the tubes I used so I named it after him. I designed it with components handed to me in a bucket...
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O8h7w reacted to theeclone's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.If you like iOS, you have in large part FreeBSD to thank; based on (you guessed it) open standards 🙂
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O8h7w reacted to earnmyturns's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.Just the foundation that makes it possible for us to spend our time here: TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, HTTP/HTML, ...
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O8h7w reacted to sixergixer's post in the thread Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up with Like.As an example of Steven Wilson's - and band's - absolute professionalism and skill, I saw Porcupine Tree live in Portland when they were...