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"Future Tech" vs KDE Developer
I've been a huge fan of Liquid for some time. I've been compiling releases and using on my laptop. The project isn't nearly as ambitious as Enlightenment, but it has some interesting UI ideas and it looks good. I was really pleased when I found out that Mosfet was going to have a shot at continuing the development of the program for FT under the KDE License. At this point, FT ("The Total Linux Company," according to their website) mentioned a few of the features in Liquid as being part of the benefits of FT's distribution. This was to set them apart from "Other" distributions, although even at the time I found it funny, as The final decision in selecting one RPM based distribution over another would rarely be tipped in favor of the one with translucent menus ;)
Anyway the Changelog contains the following line:
* Future Technologies' name has been removed. They hired me to do KDE development, but failed to pay me after promising to do so three times over the span of several months :( I still haven't seen any of the paychecks they said they would send me, and they even went as far as sending me a fake FedEx number. Now they are saying they can't afford to pay their employees.
And soon after Mosfet's website announced that he was leaving Linux and Liquid was dead. Unable to afford to develop Liquid for free, he was seeking work in the windows world.
According to the site, on 10/28, Dr. Giovanni asked Mandrakesoft, the host of Mosfet.org to take down the site, under threat of legal action. But since I see the site still there, it looks like they are standing their ground which is a good thing.
Anyway, I don't know what the moral of the story is, beyond a warning to keep both eyes open. There is a lot of questionable stuff that goes on in this world. Be careful.
(I've emailed Giovanni from FT but have yet to hear back from him.)
"Enlightenment is here [enlightenment.org], not here [enlightenment.com]." (links not copied. Look at the parent to understand)
No, I believe you're wrong. They were actually trying to link to Alex Chiu's site, not the Enlightenment Window Manager. They still got the wrong link, but you don't have the right one either.
They that quote Benjamin Franklin on liberty and safety deserve neither.
of companies with self-signed certificates!
-Peter
I especially like the Noatun skin section, I had no idea that there were such cool skins out there that Noatun could use. Now if only Noatun would stop skipping and get more playlist features, it would be better than XMMS.
Oh, and for a cool wallpaper no matter what desktop you are using, try this artful take on a crash :-)
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Yes, if your reasoning is twisted enough, the US is the number one cause of terrorism, and no matter what it does, it cannot escape that position.
.5-2% of their GDP *yearly*.
:)
As the worlds most powerful nation, it can be blamed for anything and everything, for doing actions, for not doing actions, for each and every action of commerce or trade it does or doesn't do.
Those who do no such trade, those who have no power are few lucky people who cannot be blamed for being terrorists. Because of their powerlessness.
IE, those with power are also the ones with the greatest percentage of international interactions, even if they have a lower percentage of 'evil interactions', they may still end up responsible for a great share of international strife. Not because of their innate evilness but just because they are involved in so many places and so many ways.
As for random other statistics, a couple of thousand Afghan *infants* die a week, even before this recent hell. (Computed from population, birth rate and infant mortality rate statistics taken from CIA world factbook.)
Are we terrorists for not helping to save the poor children. Do keep in mind that we've been sending enough aid to account for
The US sucks, and screws up, but don't fall into the trap of automatically blaming the powerful for all deeds by confusing the 'rate of misdeeds' (#misdeeds/#interactions) with the 'absolute number of misdeeds'. For example, there are more airplane crashes a year, even though the accident rate is slowly falling, based soley on the number of flights increasing.
If you argue that the US is responsible for a the largest share of misdeeds, I could believe it.
I won't believe without more evidence a claim that we have a high rate of misdeeds. There are too many petty dictators destroying their populations, or their neighbors populations for me to believe that the US is anywhere near the top of that list.
It is fallacious reasoning to blame the US for everything just because it is involved in everything. A big fish makes a lot more eddies swimming gently than a sperm swimming frantically.
Scott
PS: got a reference on the statistic of only being 2500 deaths?
PPS: And, better take this to email.