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Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender
dmbasso writes "Continuing its strategy to support FOSS application on the Windows platform, Microsoft mailed the Blender developers asking how they could help improve the experience of Blender users on Windows. Groklaw puts it in perspective using Steve Ballmer's own words."
Really? Looking at how awful and ugly some OSS user interfaces are (see Pidgin as a prime example, or KDE4 - yuck!) I can see why M$ wouldn't be seen dead letting the open-source community fiddle with the Windows interface. True, things like the glassy window borders are pointless, but at least it's mostly aesthetically pleasing, and a lot cleaner and more intuitive than anything written in Qt.
Those using pirated Tinysoft signatures(TM) are a real threat to society and should all be thrown in jail.
Yes.
It was Linux that promoted Open Source to the masses not the FSF. Even though they would want to take credit for it. The fact that Linus chose the GNU license which allowed its growth. If Linus used the BSD licesnse then the BSD License would get all the press.
Linux sucess was the fact that it was a free(as in beer)/stable Unix Clone with a good development support structure. It was a Free OS without the danger of Old Unix code that was close enough to Unix to be useful and it was stable enough to give PC's a first taist of good Multi-Tasking and its timing with the rise in the popularity of the internet. Big companies went GPL not because of FSF but because they wanted to get in the ground floor with Linux (IBM for example) After getting creamed by Microsoft killing it OS/2 platform wanted to still fight and Linux was the best choice. So they had to go GPL to make legal changes to Linux to work better with their stuff.
FSF just went and took credit and telling people to put GNU in front of Linux's name, just so they can get some creds off the Linus and other developers work.
Granted the GPL License did allow developers feel comfortable about writting code for Linux to expand it but for the most part giving money to the FSF is just paying people to Whine more vs. getting real jobs.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.