They might have been forced to do this, remember, Spotify is not an independent company, they are a puppet of the recording industry, they have a strong interest in connecting with the social graph.

"Spotify is not an independent company, they are a puppet of the recording industry"

Well put.

"It took me (years?) to upgrade from Firefox 3.x to 6, but then only a week to upgrade to 7."

It's just numbers, they dont mean much.

Yeah but they used to mean something which is hard to unlearn.

Now I just mentally shift them to the right so they are minor version numbers in my head:

ie. 1.6 1.7 1.8 etc. and then I can deal with it.

But 3.x to 6 is a big jump. Took me an entire weekend of fiddling, tweaking and lots of googling and research to replace extensions and get everything just right.

Yeah, I wish the numbers didn't matter. I love that Chrome auto updates and I never see an extension update dialog box pop up. I love that I don't have to hack XPI zips to change the manifest to allow installation (the instructions for getting Firefox to ignore version checks are no longer accurate for the latest version).

I think they're working on the new extension framework to allow reboot-less installs, etc, but their extension developers aren't adopting them quickly enough.

Don't you have even an old spare computer to put aisde in the attic/closet for your personal ssh/web/git serving needs?

And kicking on Redhat for providing support is just lame.

Redhat develops just as much if not more as other people and free software developers. From Linux the kernel to gnome Redhat is a company that performs work, and for that they earn alot of money.

Unlike his other examples of highly unethical companies leveraging benefits on others misfortunes.

Highly unethical reasoning confuses the author from noticing difference between a successful scalable business and a succesful scam.

If you install and configure 2000 plugins. Might as well make your own editor.

yes, clearly installing plugins is only barely easier than writing them yourself.

plugins let vim users pick and choose what they want from their editor. I'm not bashing kate; it's just a different way of doing it. (vim user myself, though I used to be a big fan of kate)

Back to cfdisk and mkfs.lol then.

I would assume making weapons of destruction would be the least preferable field to spend your talent on.

It is a JavaME app and so any phone that implements JavaME can run it.

What phones have easily installed JavaME apps?

As far I know very few S60 users actually install apps, despite Nokia apparently having an app store.

He looks worried on his profile picture.

I too noticed that people don't seem to care about their picture resolutions, or perhaps they just do not know about it, they dont see resolutions. The hundreds of millions see pictures.