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Six Barriers to Open Source Adoption
securitas writes "ZDNet/CNet's Dan Farber describes the six barriers to enterprise open source software adoption. Briefly, the reasons are 1) Lack of formal support, 2) Speed of change (not 'velocity'), 3) Lack of roadmap, 4) Functional gaps, 5) Licensing caveats and 6) ISV endorsements. The article makes an interesting counterpoint to Marc Andreessen's 12 reasons for open source adoption."
w00t! New Star Wars!
is that when you adopt children from communist countries?
Reason is that I eat pickles.
Daily.
Big dill pickles
Nummy...
Chomp chomp chomp
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since only rump rangers use open sores, it will always be limited to competing with Apple for 10% of the population, especially the "power users" (that means pedophiles)
err... that should be 12 is greater than 6 obviously
There are no decent HTML/PHP Editors - something that even remotely compares to HTML-Kit or Homesite. All the editors - yes, all - suck in comparison. HTML-Kit's ftp site support is the best and nothing near that exists in the Linux world. I prefer GNOME apps, so Quanta is out and it doesn't even have the features. Hell, I would go for a good editor with syntax highlighting and tabbed documents and a treeview for ftp site filesystems and nothing more. I don't want much - just a very basic editor with those features and I would be happy, but no one creates anything like that. Sad. And I wont do it - I don't have time, so I will stick with Windows and HTML-Kit until something better comes along. Maybe someone can add that stuff to MonoDevelop - that would rock. Have a nice day.
Don Farber is an asshat.
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I wouldn't mind getting either (or both! ;-) but then again I'm a bi...
Reason # 5.7 : lack of drivers for my USB Fleshlight!!!
-Mom
Figures, a Flamebait comment gets modded Informative just because it bashes MS and not beacuse it actually contains any real information.
Courtesy of The Guardian
Blair meets Gadafy
Historic handshake
Shell's 110m deal for Libyan gas
Police to visit Libya over killed PC
Mark Oliver and agencies
Thursday March 25, 2004
Tony Blair and Colonel Muammar Gadafy in Tripoli. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
Tony Blair today shook hands with Colonel Muammar Gadafy, in a symbolic end to three decades of the west's isolation of Libya.
The prime minister said a stable "new relationship" had become possible with the former pariah state after its promise last December to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction programme.
Since then there had been "full and transparent cooperation", Mr Blair said.
Mr Blair met the Libyan leader in an elaborate Bedouin tent on farmland near the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for the historic talks. "You look good, you are still young," Col Gadafy told him.
It was the first visit to the country by a British leader since Col Gadafy came to power in 1969 and follows decades of rancour and sanctions as a result of Col Gadafy's support for terrorism, including the bombing of Pan-Am flight 103 over Lockerbie.
Mr Blair held talks with Col Gadafy for around 90 minutes. Then at a solo press conference, the prime minister admitted that while it was "strange" being in Tripoli after the estrangement of the past, "remarkable" progress had been made.
The trip has been controversial and while many relatives of victims of the Lockerbie bombing supported it, there were some who accused Mr Blair of betrayal.
But Mr Blair said that "if a country is prepared to put the past behind us
He said they now had common cause in the war against terror and that the improved relations with Libya should be an inspiration to other states seeking weapons proliferation. Libya has said al-Qaida is an enemy.
When the two leaders first met there appeared to be a little tension but Mr Blair smiled as he shook hands with a man the former US president Ronald Reagan once described as a "mad dog".
They then sat alongside one another at a photocall and Mr Blair said "it's good to be here at last".
With an interpreter standing behind him, Col Gadafy first spoke in Arabic before switching to English to say: "You did a lot of fighting on this issue and seem exhausted."
Mr Blair replied: "There's been a lot to do." Col Gadafy said: "You look good, you are still young."
Local officials said Col Gadafy had spent some time in the tent "meditating" before Mr Blair's arrival. The prime minister's officials said Mr Blair was aware he was meeting one of world's most unpredictable leaders.
After the photocall, the two had private talks then strolled to a separate tent for a lunch of olives and salad, followed by fish couscous.
There had been speculation that Col Gadafy might join Mr Blair at the press conference but in the event the prime minister appeared alone and listed progress made in dismantling Libya's WMD capabilities.
He also spoke of the news that oil giant Shell had agreed a 110m deal for gas exploration rights off the Libyan coast and future deals with the British defence industry.
Mr Blair said: "Libya's voluntary and open implementation of that decision [to dismantle WMD] gives us real hope that we can build a new relationship with it, one for the modern world."
He said he kept in mind the pain that people had suffered in the past. "Of course, we must be aware of the pitfalls," he said. "Trust on both sides will take time to establish. But the signs are better than they have been for many years. And the future prize in terms of security not just of this region but the wider world - indeed our own country - is great."
He said terrorists were also a threat to Arab countries and wanted to t
.. yawn ... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
They call me the working man. I guess that's what I am.
Where can I find Open Source children available for adoption?