Hilf Claims Free Software Movement Dead

moe1975 writes to mention that Bill Hilf has taken a rather aggressive stance with regard to the status of the Free Software movement. With claims like; "The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today" it would certainly seem that the next offensive is going to be sponsored by denial. "For the desktop, Hilf sees a new frontier in terms of rich client programming. With more and more services by Amazon, Google, Yahoo and, of course, Microsoft being run as services rather than as software installed locally, it will be up to the desktop to provide richer functionality."

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Move along folks, nothing to see here.

[OrangeTide]

There term is called Grandstanding.

BLAH BLAH

[bekenone]

you and you weirdos!! you cant see in the future so stop acting like you can. you get everyone all paranoid for nothing. besides all th sites you mentions "NEED A OS" to function. go with the flow and stop bitching. except technology or DESIGN YOUR OWN and stop preaching.

Re:omg I should've kept reading

[Frosty Piss]

The FOSS devs are mainly interested in writing software people want to use.

Really? You must not hang around too many FOSS project forums. FOSS developers develop for themselves, and if you the tiny little "user" dare suggest am improvment to functionality or the UI, it's almost always "shut the fuck up and contribute some code, leach!" or "write the patch yourself if you want it that bad". That doesn't sound at all to me like they are developing software people want.

Now, a lot of the time what they develop is what people want, but that's not the same thing.