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Bart Decrem on the Linux Business

Posted by michael on from the big-picture dept.

Anonymous Hero writes "Co-founder of Eazel and now vice president of Hancom Linux, Bart Decram gives his views on a whole lot of things related to desktop Linux in an interview at Linux and Main. He talks abour what went wrong with Eazel, why everyone should work together to build Microsoft Office filters, how anti-U.S. sentiment can be used to promote Linux throughout the world, and how he thinks KDE is 'butt-ugly.' Long read, but worth it."

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  1. Re:If it were anybody else... by bunhed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Bwaaahaahaa. Bib laden vs. the USA. 1 guy takes on the superpower of the planet and they, after 7 months of war, are not sure where he is. Holy crap. And how many people have written code under the GPL and M$ still exists. It's funny. Oh yeah, it's funny alright.
    Femnix, Blacknix, Fagnix. It's all about America. Isn't everything?

  2. Re:If it were anybody else... by Qrlx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To echo your comment about Churchill and India...

    Gorbachev was faced with a similar situation towards the end of the Soviet Union. Once the eastern bloc and the smaller SSRs got a little taste of freedom, they all had to have it, now, and USSR collapsed. If he could have meted out reform over years, perhaps decades, the Soviet Union might still be around today.

    I'm no expert, but last I heard, Russia as a "free country" isn't doing much better than the USSR. Let me rephrase that: The people of Russia aren't much better off as Russians then they were as Soviets a dozen years ago. THey may even be worse off, even though their country isn't "evil" anymore, they're just as poor, maybe moreso.

    For my money, the one thing that counters your argument about British Imperialism "adding value" to its colonies is the "Divide and Conquer" aspect of it. Look at all the crazy borders between nations in Africa and the Middle East. The Brits drew them that way to keep internal strife at a maximum, thus Britian could reign supreme at the International level. Afghanistan for example, why is it even a "nation" when as we keep hearing it's just a bunch of warlords? Perhaps there are some parts of the world that aren't easily integrated into Western Civilization's paradigm of how society works, but the Brits just drew the lines on the map anyway, put their man in power, and said "here's your counrty!"

    Funny how we're all getting into these rambling political discussions; definitely wasn't that big a thread pre 9-11...