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Alibaba launches new mobile operating software
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...who the hell is Alibaba and why should anyone care? Seriously, first time I've heard of this company.
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Foxi4 said:
on UK TV all the time
basically a place to get anything for a business
like a HUGE warehouse where smaller companies that say "make food cartons" a business can contact um easy though it and say "i wants 10million"
You have to consider a few things
It's from China, who have been caught stealing the Cisco OS, claimed Freescale and Motorola chips were 'inventions' by sanding off their logos, and where Baidu basically just copies google's search results into their website (when google 'opened' their china searches Baidu got slammed because they were just copying google and had no idea how to actually filter results because of it)
Note also Alibaba is a B2B warehousing company. They aren't a software technology company. Which then raises the question, where did this sudden 'expertise' in designing a smartphone OS come from?
Thus one has to wonder what this OS is 'based' off of. The odds of it being an original Chinese product are ZERO percent. I'd assume it's probably a rip of Google Chrome or Android.
It's from China, who have been caught stealing the Cisco OS, claimed Freescale and Motorola chips were 'inventions' by sanding off their logos, and where Baidu basically just copies google's search results into their website (when google 'opened' their china searches Baidu got slammed because they were just copying google and had no idea how to actually filter results because of it)
Note also Alibaba is a B2B warehousing company. They aren't a software technology company. Which then raises the question, where did this sudden 'expertise' in designing a smartphone OS come from?
Thus one has to wonder what this OS is 'based' off of. The odds of it being an original Chinese product are ZERO percent. I'd assume it's probably a rip of Google Chrome or Android.
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doyama said:
Well you can't really say a rip off of FOSS software if the parts they copy are still open. A fork maybe? There's plenty of other OS's about too, just because everyone loves Android now doesn't mean everyone has forgot about them.
What I'd be worried about would be the monitoring tech they would have to put in there being a Chinese company making something targeted at the Chinese domestic market.
More competition on the market makes dev teams and hw designers are working harder.
I'm using Vibrant and if other phones pretend to bew awesome then no problem for me.
I'm using Vibrant and if other phones pretend to bew awesome then no problem for me.
eggsample said:
More competition also means less compatibility, and compatibility is what you should be aiming at when choosing a mobile platform.
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My prediction, albiet often wrong prediction
Again, I am likely to be completely wrong, which is why you shouldn't use me as a end-all to crystal balls. Of course can anyone count the number of times a company has violated a FOSS license? I certainly cant recall for sure...too many really.
Not saying they wont "not" comply either, they might.
Still want to see Mozilla's more than anything though.
- Alibaba rips off Android, or some FOSS OS.
- Alibaba takes out all GPL references, breaking the GPL license in several parts of the OS
- Someone finds this all out
- FSF and relevant parties are informed
- C&D letters are sent to Alibaba, as well as GPL violation letters
- Alibaba refuses to comply
- FSF and relevant parties pursue legal action
- FSF and relevant parties win, Alibaba's OS is forced to cease to exist
- ?????
- Profit and hilarity ensues
Again, I am likely to be completely wrong, which is why you shouldn't use me as a end-all to crystal balls. Of course can anyone count the number of times a company has violated a FOSS license? I certainly cant recall for sure...too many really.
Not saying they wont "not" comply either, they might.
Still want to see Mozilla's more than anything though.
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heh. wants all of what the internet has to offer.
except their internet pretty much offers PG13 stuff. anything else is either filtered, censored, or barred entirely.
except their internet pretty much offers PG13 stuff. anything else is either filtered, censored, or barred entirely.
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