If You Port It, They Will Come

An anonymous reader submits "An excellent rant^H^H^H^Harticle is up over at LinuxLaboratory.org, encouraging proprietary companies that make software for Windows to provide a full-featured equivalent for Linux. The argument being made that users aren't cheap skates, they will pay for good software. But many companies that port software to Linux will only ship stripped-down versions, leading to people not buying the software when they can buy the complete version for Windows, then the company not providing the software for Linux because it didnt sell. The argument is made that if the Linux version were equivalent to the Windows version, then people will buy it."

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[Anonymous Coward]

First Post!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Again with the Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

Again with the Windows. Linux needs a champion in the world of software publishing to lead the way.

Re:Yippee

[Anonymous Coward]

The capture by CIA operatives and Pakistani forces ended a one-year global manhunt for Binalshibh, who authorities alleged provided money and logistical support to the Sept. 11 hijackers.

The arrest of Binalshibh was a coup for U.S. authorities who have searched for him for months. Officials said he was not wounded during the capture.

Binalshibh, 30, who was born in Yemen, was frustrated in his attempts to receive a visa to enter the United States in 2000, where, U.S. officials allege, he planned to join the other 19 hijackers.

He is considered an aide to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, officials said. Mohammed is still at large.

Officials declined to discuss Binalshibh's whereabouts, or whether he was providing information to authorities.

To catch him, police commandos fought a pitched battle with al-Qaida suspects holed up in an apartment Wednesday, with combat spilling out onto adjoining rooftops, officials said. They said two suspects were killed and several more captured in the fighting, as Pakistan stepped up pressure on the remnants of the terrorist movement.

At least six officers were wounded when police stormed the top-floor apartment and the rooftop where the gunmen held out against hundreds of troops in the street and on the roofs of nearby apartment blocks, they said. Two of the wounded were reported in critical condition.

U.S. personnel were not hurt in the raid, American officials said.

Pakistani Police Commandos capture Al-Quaeda suspect! US forces hid behind their skirts! How long will you Americans use proxies from other countries to do your fighting for you? And you wonder why everyone considers your country a paper tiger! Somewhere Saddam is laughing!

Look Ma! I'm a 1337 do0d!

[Anonymous Coward]

I use ^H^H^H^H^H! aren't I so trendy! Hell, I'm gonna go buy me a brand new pair of fashionably ripped jeans now.

Unreal Tournament 2003 Linux Demo

[javilon]

You can grab it here:

ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/ut2003/UT2003-Dem o- Linux.sh.bin

This is One of the excellent games that will be released for Linux. This one and whatever Carmack does are the flagships of PC first person shooters. And both run in Linux. Things are improving quick.

Go support them. I did buy my copy of Return to Castle Wolfenstein for linux. And I will buy Doom III packaged for Linux if they sell it. This way they can tell that there is a Linux market.

Re:Buzzword is as buzzword does.

[timothy]

Terry wrote: It's like the staunch Democrat, whi won't pass up an opportunity to get his picture taken with the President of the United States, even though that president is a Republican. Or the staunch Republican, who gets his picture taken with Teddy Kennedy, to put on his Christmas cards."

Terry, not every Santa Claus is portrayed by Teddy Kennedy -- only the ones with the rosiest cheeks and noses.

timothy