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Kevin Carmony Responds to Criticism
sharkscott writes to tell us that LXer's Don Parris took a few minutes to get Kevin Carmony's response to the large amount of criticism he has been taking over offering non-free software in Linspire. From the article: "Essentially, Carmony's position is that, in ten years of holding out, the FOSS community has made relatively few gains, in terms of convincing vendors to release libre codecs and drivers. In other words, the strategy doesn't seem to be working. Additionally, while some will be patient, most users would prefer to have something - anything - that works in the meanwhile."
Personally, I think Linux is already almost completely user friendly. Have you checked out the new Fedora Core 5 installation, or any installation using anaconda or something similar. I have to say setting it up was a breeze, and with tools like yum and guides like these (http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_insta llation_notes.html) I find it surprising that people find it difficult. Plus, I haven't tried it myself, but we've all heard of how great Ubuntu is. Linux has come a long way.
Before you die, you see DoubleRing...
You're missing the point. Free software people are interested in spreading Free Software. Why would they sacrifice the Free Software part of that, just to spread more proprietary software?
most users would prefer to have something - anything - that works in the meanwhile.
Jesus fucking Christ! Is this something that has slipped past the great minds behind the Linux revolution!?!? Yet you fucktards STILL don't understand why Linux isn't catching on. Man, this kind of stupidity really burns my ass.
So how much did they pay you to say that? Do you have to wear a sponsored by Linspire hat?
Wow it's interesting to see the yahoo board PJ bashers are now trolling here. If you want to see a bunch of losers complaining about PJ hang out at the yahoo SCOX bulletin board. They also used hang out at ipwars, I don't know if that site is still around but they were sued by Merkey and folded like a house of cards despite all the chest beating and braying about freedom and well "ip wars".
evil is as evil does