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Open Source Victories of 2008

Posted by kdawson on from the brief-look-back dept.

Meshach writes "Ars Technica has an interesting run-down on the major open source victories of 2008. Some, like Firefox 3, we can probably mostly agree on. Others — KDE 4 comes to mind — will be more controversial. And Mono 2? What else should be on the list?"

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  1. Re:I like KDE 4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    KDE, the K stands for Krap.

  2. Re:There are no "victories"... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Those Gaza towel-headed camel-humping mooselimbs are getting the bejeezes kicked out of their sorry Allah luvin' asses. They know there sure as hell ain't no victory. But trying telling them there ain't no war . . .

  3. KDE simply isn't a factor by Rix · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    KDE is a very nice desktop environment, but that's academic. QT's restrictive licensing essentially blocks all non-GPL activity on KDE.

    QT is a very nice library, but it doesn't have anything over it's competitors to justify $4,000 per developer per year (or whatever it is now; Trolltech is too ashamed of itself to publicly list its fees). Until that changes, Gnome will necessarily be the de facto open source desktop.

  4. Re:Wine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You ARE an oppressed minority. There's just about barely more mac os users on the interwebs than linux users.

    It's like this. You know those fashion clothes you see on TV that look really trendy that in their right mind would buy as they are madly expensive and probably not even practical. This my friend.. is you.