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Eazel Tells All
Ur@eus writes: "We have just put up an interview at Linuxpower with some of the people at Eazel. This is the first interview they've done after the release of Nautilus 1.0 and their recent restructuring. So if you want to know more about Eazel and how they plan to move forward I think you will find this interview interesting."
I'm afraid i mostly agree on this observation. Most of the new linux users seem altogether happy to slam every move a linux developer makes. Wether its the question if the 2.4 kernel can run embeded devices or on 65000 cpu's, mozilla not being standard enough, or to bloated cause of trying to folow all the standards, or now nautilus.
And the odds are very big these are all people who will never contribute a single line of source code, or documentation, or help fellow linux users out. Obviously they just see open source as 'free software', and not as open source, as we come to know and love it.
I think the most apropiate responce would be a old timer responce from the linux-kernel list
"Don't talk, code"
Show us in code what is the 'better' way, fix those bugs, add those features, trim the bloat, document and translate and be welcomed in the world of open source!
None of the apps you love using today (enlightenment, gnome, kde, bind, wuftpd, apache etc) came into existance by hords of users complaining about bloatware and bugs, they came into existance because people disliked bloat and bugs and -did something about it-
just my 2 cnts (Hfl)
-- Chris Chabot
"I dont suffer from insanity, i enjoy every minute of it!"
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Two years ago, we were happy about advances in Linux usability and technology. We were a happy band, encouraging and helpful.
Now? Well we've grown out of the innocent outskirts and hit the big city. Screams of "this is bloated", "this sucks", "this doesn't work" and "this will never work, fall from the greasy windows of tall concrete buildings.
Some from MS plants, some from idiots that want us to stop and look at them, and some jealous that they will never get true credit for something good.
Its been a year since we noticed the change from real hackers to wannabe managers on slashdot. And in the confusion, I sit back like many unheard others that think 'I could use this' and 'this is actualy pretty cool'.
So for anyone who is wondering if slashdot shows a cross section of the linux community, rest assured it doesn't. You are invited to join us and let the trolls stamp around in their own go-nowhere lives.
~^~~^~^^~~^
There are a lot of issues that need to be addressed like instability, inability to compile on various platforms, bloat and other things.
Be careful before you rush in to embrace it.
They plan to make money off of Eazel Online Storage and Eazel Software Catalog.
Eazel Online Storage
This is similar to the technology made popular by X-drive that allows users to create a virtual drive that actual exists on a remote server. The problem with this technology is that it is expensive for the service provider (hard drive space and bandwidth) and from what I've seen from the online file storage market is that a lot of them (e.g. X-drive) have given up on the consumer market because of economies of scale and will instead try to capture the business market. Online file storage seems to be at best a break-even part of teh business instead of one that will generate enough profits to cover the cost of software development.
Eazel Software Catalog
This seems similar to RedHat's download page, where one can obtain software from a web interface instead of via FTP. One hopes that they also plan to have something like RedHat's up2date or Debian's apt-get to distinguish themselves, if not then it isn't worth signing up for. Again, I don't see this as a great profit generator.