Carpetsmoker

Why would it be impossible? The only time I ever happened to stumble upon a GPL violation (more than 10 years ago) I explained it and they said "oops, sorry, we'll fix that". Worth a try, no? I don't think it's naïve. The cost of explaining is minimal and you lose very little by trying. Even if the odds of success are low, it's still makes sense to try as the cost of a lawsuit is so much higher both in time and money.

It's also just basic common courtesy IMO to assume someone made an honest mistake even when you suspect they didn't (because sometimes your suspicions are incorrect).

Why solve matters with lawyers if you don't need to? If there's a failure of understanding, possibly due to language issues as the previous commenter suggested, then trying to establish a dialogue and trying to explain the matter to them would be a far easier (and cheaper!) option for everyone, regardless of locality.

It doesn't help that the GPL is not an easy document to read by the way :-/

According to the Reddit thread linked in this thread, no one has ever been blacklisted:

> We have in fact never had to terminate a relationship with any customer of ours. We build trusted relationships with our customers, so any talk of "threats" or anything else is simply completely fabricated (as you obviously noted, anyone repeating such claims has no evidence whatsoever for them).

The comment they're replying to is also not exactly smelling of roses. It makes some pretty unsubstantiated claims.

I read Peren's claims, and IMHO they're very thin. It seems to be a classic case of "I don't like this" (which is fair enough) and then trying to find "objective" arguments to support that position. Not impressed.

I assume he's in his current position by choice. He pretty much says so: "It is an interesting job".

He still deals with plenty of code; he just doesn't write original code. Calling it a "managerial or administrative type role" as the previous comment did is somewhat lacking in nuance, IMO.

Yeah, maybe. Probably. I'm just not a fan of this kind of stuff shrug.

I also don't like "God save the Queen" by the way, or "God be with us" (short for "If God is with us, who shall be against us?" from Romans) we have on the Dutch Euro coins :-)

Perhaps this is a cultural difference, but the entire thing just seems strange from my own (European) perspective. Only in the US do people seem to take pride in their measurement system as some sort of patriotic symbol, which is why I originally thought it was a parody shrug

I'm not even going to get started with all the problems I see with "God bless America", which would be long, tedious, probably inflammatory, and fairly off-topic.

This problem is easily solved by just not loading images by default but on-demand.

I guess ... but "God Bless America!" seems like a statement to me.

I can't tell if this is intended to be serious or a parody? "All units set in inches" makes it sound like a parody, but the "God bless America" footer makes it sound serious? Hmmm

Would it matter? I can release all the source I want, but what guarantees this is also what's running on the actual endpoint?

What advantage does this give you? DDG just gave you a list of URLs, so how can it be "tracking" the results it just presented to you?

The issue, as I understand it, is that the Android app loads the favicon service for search results you actually open in the app.

> Fair question, you shouldn't be getting downvoted for it imo.

Well, the question is pretty much answered in the actual article. From the looks of it, this seems to be responding to just the title without having actually read the page.

The device was released in Oct 2018 though, so at the time it was the newest Android version (9 was just released, probably too late in the Palm dev cycle).

The $280 price tag is a biggest show-stopper IMO (and according to the Palm website that's a "sale" from the $400 price tag, although I never quite trust that). I paid $70 for my basic Android device (Samsung Core A2) and that works just fine as well (with some minor caveats/limitations of Android Go, such as the screen not lighting up when there's a notification).