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Nat Friedman on the Future of Collaboration

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the listen-up dept.

sp3298622 writes "Nat Friedman, co-founder of Ximian, expresses his excitement about the Hula collaboration Server, talks about the plugins in development for Evolution 2.2, the potential of XGL and the revolution of the Linux Desktop. The interview is a 30MB MP3 file."

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  1. use this link by fearanddread · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    to destroy the server...

  2. This GL stuff is diluting the strength of Linux by Kip+Winger · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    One of the main advantages Linux and FreeBSD have over Microsoft systems is that they are backwards compatible to nearly an infinite extent, and almost anything can be done on the most minimal of power.

    What it seems like all these new developers are trying to do is pre-empt Windows Longhorn, which of course has the whole philosophy of creating a system with a high starting point -- targeted at machines with 1GB of RAM, a 64 bit processor, and a pixel shading graphic scard.

    A few OSS developers are not going to catch up to Windows Longhorn -- they should stick to what they do best, and not alienate their base, which includes users of old PCs and small, cheap embedded devices by trying to standardize the minimum requirements of a GUI on some bloated XML/XUL/C#/Mono system with OpenGL as the minimum requirements for spinning around text. By doing that, they're going to lose on both fronts.

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