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Perhaps if someone came up with a little more open version of it, that ran Linux and let people create homebrews and sell them cheaply through the service it could actually do pretty well?

Someone did. It failed.

Which one is it? A desktop OS, or a server OS? Perhaps it's time for Linux to split into two seperate camps. A version for Linux for servers, and a version for the desktop.

And don't forget the "Linux for cell phones" fork! People are asking a lot when they think one piece of software can fulfull all of the requirements of a Windows XP desktop, a Solaris server, and a real-time embedded operating system.

I post the news last time as soon as LinuxDevices has news on this and got rejected.

Now zdnet featuring this old news and got spotlighted? What's up with you editors?

So it isn't a worthy news until your Greatest ZDNet featuring it?

Mod me down if you like, you ZDNet dude.

I post the news last time as soon as LinuxDevices has news on this and got rejected.

Now zdnet featuring this old news and got spotlighted? What's up with you editors?

So it isn't a worthy news until your Greatest ZDNet featuring it?

Mod me down if you like, you ZDNet dude.

Open Source Advocate Has Yet To Rebut Craig Mundie

Jeff Parns considers himself a model for free software advocacy: helping out at installfests, answering questions on the Central Kansas Free Unix User's Group mailing list, working in his spare time on a user-friendly graphical interface to cron. Why, then, has he yet to write a long-winded essay rebutting Microsoft exec Craig Mundie's recent remarks about open source?

Our crack interviewing team cornerned Parns in his home, where he was conspicuously not combing through the text of Mundie's remarks, just as he had not been in attendance at NYU's Stern School of Business on May 3 to hear Mundie speak. What justified this weird behavior?

"I really think there are enough rebuttals already, " said Parns. "I mean, have you even read all those things? "

Eric S. Raymond, whose two preemptive rebuttals sparked the craze, was pessimistic about the chances for a Parns rebuttal in the future. "Obviously, we can't force him to write a rebuttal to Mundie's wrong-headed remarks about open source," said Raymond. "However, it's possible that my new paper, 'How I Rebutted Craig Mundie's Wrong-Headed Remarks About Open Source In Copious Detail--And How You Can Too' will give him some ideas. In fact, there's sort of a little form rebuttal in Appendix C which he can sign his name to and get it linked from Linux Today."

"As a full-time programmer, my day is pretty busy," said Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Software Foundation, whose anti-Mundie remarks were picked up by Infoworld. "Yet even I managed to stop by Mundie's speech and make a few remarks to the press. I don't think this Parns is even trying. I mean, even Steve Ballmer published a 3000-word Mundie rebuttal. Sic transit gloria Mundie, I guess."

Even Parns' neighbors have begun to notice this gap in the open source ranks. "The way he helped me with my Red Hat install, I was sure he was some sort of hot-shot free software advocate," said Millie Leman, a local dominatrix and mother of two. "But I haven't heard one word from him about this Mundie thing. It makes a person wonder."

"Look, it's spring, my son's about to graduate from junior high, I'm trying to get KCron to 1.0," said Parns, shooing this reporter out his front door. "Just leave me alone."

Will Parns rebut? Already, rebuttals with his name on them have begun showing up, though he denies authorship. Watch for the rebuttal signed with Parns' Gnu Privacy Guard key, and keep reading Segfault.org for complete coverage of every Mundie rebuttal ever written.

Tomorrow: An in-depth look at the rebuttal that Mark Billings of London saved to ~mark/mundie.txt, but never showed to anybody.

(This 'story' was first shown at Segfault.org here, and was written by Leonard Richardson)

From the same site, this piece suggests that ex-GRiD-exec-turned-Gartner-analyst Ken Dulaney thinks Handspring may be considering a switch from palm OS to Linux.

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TrollTec h CEO Haavard Nord said that after Qt was GPLed, they are now selling MORE commercial licenses, which "affected revenue in a positive way."
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"They have to give the OS and any kernel patches away, sure, but don't expect to see libraries and documentation for free."

from http://alllinuxdevices.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=20 00-08-15-013-03-PS-LF-GM :

"The IESDK, composed completely of open source tools, will be freely available to anyone who cares to download it, though use of the package isn't mandatory to program for the Indrema. Gildred explained that developers are free to use whatever tools they choose. Those already comfortable with some common API's found in many desktop Linux games will have little trouble adapting to coding for the Indrema, which takes advantage of OpenGL and OpenAL, among others. In addition, Indrema is currently working on OpenStream Video, a technology Gildred describes as "pioneering," which it will release under an open source license. "

Indrema does have a couple things that won't be open source, like Extrema their xserver. And of course the games that people write for it.

They may also have thought that the watch could have an overly simplified menu system, and display data as requested. Since it is just a prototype demonstrating that it's possible to run Linux on a wrist-watch, it makes sense that the user interface isn't well thought out yet. If they ever planned on marketting it, they'd probably need to add some more buttons. Plus the battery only lasts two to three days, making it not the most useful of watches.

They may also have thought that the watch could have an overly simplified menu system, and display data as requested. Since it is just a prototype demonstrating that it's possible to run Linux on a wrist-watch, it makes sense that the user interface isn't well thought out yet. If they ever planned on marketting it, they'd probably need to add some more buttons. Plus the battery only lasts two to three days, making it not the most useful of watches.

http://a lllinuxdevices.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-08-07 -005-03-PS-WL-WB

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Another link with info is All Linux Devices.

Chris

We have the fact sheet on AllLinuxDevices.

Some of the features:

• 2.2 kernel
• 8 MB Flash, 8 MB DRAM
• 1.5 oz.
• IrDA

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Michael Hall

It's funny that I see this article just 1 minute after reading this one about the Yopy. It uses the W Window System

Now off I go to read this article before I post anything else.