You should have read the submission. They say that the price is now fixed until the end of the campaign and anyone who paid more than $695 will get a refund of the difference. So, if anything, this alleviates any uncertainties about the price and no one should feel hurt.

You can't blame capitalism for that. In a free market, consumers can just stop buying Qualcomm products for a month, and I can guarantee you that a choking Qualcomm would release all they have as FOSS as fast as they could.

But most of the population is uneducated in that regard. Blame the lack of enthusiasm for FOSS.

FOSS? The source code isn't the issue here. Qualcomm isn't allowing Google to distribute their proprietary binaries.

It's obvious what the OP was trying to say. He is saying people don't care about rooting, source code, binary code and hacking in general.

I was saying that with enough pressure, they wouldn't just allow redistribution or even publish the source code, they would even release it under the GPL and kiss the buyers' feet if asked to.

And normal people and smaller companies need their addresses even more.

Then they can bid for them.

Awesome, that will push IPv6 adoption.

And big companies that need this sort of routing for millions of addresses can surely afford paying for these addresses anyway.

Weird, the French part looks like the output of a translator. There are a few faults of vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure.

Your translation is correct though.

French is my mother tongue, and I think it sounds alright. It's everyday speech though, not something you'd write in a press statement.

Fellow Frenchie here- it does look like it was written by a high schooler rather than a CEO- awkward phrasing ("dans le cas de la pedo", wtf?!?), conjugation mistake ("liées"), use of "on va" instead of "nous allons" in a formal written statement...

Seems commonplace in the French IT sphere. On the new "42" school forums, the mods are downright trolling.

Oles (Octave Klaba, the CEO)'s French is always terrible. This is probably one of his best written sentences.

The fact that he arrived in France from Poland at the age of 15 may explain that. Plus that his whole family works with him. Does anyone know if he speaks polish with them at work? The company is 100% family owned! Not bad.

His story in french: http://www.capital.fr/enquetes/hommes-et-affaires/octave-kla...

The first interview I ever heared from him, on a french radio/Tv: http://www.bfmtv.com/video/bfmbusiness/it-for-business-lhebd...

His views on the french state subsidized cloud attempts: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/584765/octave-klaba-un-fourni... "That is not enough to put on the table a big amount of money."

http://www.vaporcloud.info/ "Vous aussi vous en avez marre des annonces franco-françaises autour du Cloud financé par l'argent public ? Adoptez le Cloud français d'OVH.com. "

His twitter with nice pictures of OVH infrastructures: https://twitter.com/olesovhcom

Keep on Oles!

The IDF's ICT unit also has a very large budget (it's actually the only unit with an increasing budget despite a 2 billion overall budget drop), and with access to all kinds of technologies that only a government can afford. When the engineers get out of there, they know things that few people know about.

Yep. This is why many people believe that Stuxnet was developed by Israel - it was so advanced that only a country like that could have done it.

According to Snowden it was co-written by Israel and the US.

I dislike Nathan Myhrvold as a whole, and that's what I think that guy meant too: with the information we have, we can only hate Myhrvold.

And I, for one, do not excuse Bill Gates for all the bad he's done to the world of software, among others, just because of his charity. But that's my personal opinion.

For all the bad he's done to the world of software? I appreciate that Microsoft illegally bundled a browser with their OS, driving their biggest competitor from the market, and subsequently stalling browser innovation for ~5 years, but to think that Gates was a net negative for the world of software is a bit heavy-handed.

Gates' originally mission was a personal computer in every home and on every desk. I don't mean to detract from Apple, or IBM or any other company, but Microsoft accomplished that goal, in a remarkably short period of time.

And even if you believe that Microsoft did somehow damage the world of software (which I dispute), his charitable work has saved millions of lives, and will continue to do so. I understand that the ends don't justify the means, but whatever ill will you feel towards him for not being a champion of free software can't possibly overwhelm his positive contributions to humanity, even if they don't live in this country.

Microsoft just won their place in the market, in part by using ruthless business tactics (and lots of luck). Everybody wanted everyone to get a computer, it was the default vision of the future. It would have happened without Gates, maybe with better software, maybe not.

Exactly. The NSA can't use their funds however they feel like. They have to account to several governmental entities for their (secret) precise funding, and I doubt they would lie about it and take their resources from their useful tasks in order to reallocate them to spying on non-suspect citizens.

Me too! I'll soon be buying a small home server and I am still wondering how to begin building my setup, since I've never used anything else than FTP hosting.

Google had been around for over 10 years when it started doing bad things with its services too.