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33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org
dkd903 writes "We all knew it would come to this, and it has finally happened — 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days. After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way."
All you SuSE people are a bunch of whack-jobs anyways. I mean that in a negative way. You're command line is a joke.
There was a part of the world where anti-choice people used to rule. There was only one car company, only one kind of toilet paper, only one kind of shoe to buy, etc. These choices (what kind of products to produce) were all made by the government for the people. If the people didn't like it, too bad. As there was no such thing as an election, they didn't have a choice; the government knew what was best for everyone.
After the Iron Curtain fell, that part of the world changed to a free-market economy, with tons of choices (and elections for their leaders too).
However, there are still many people who want to bring back Communism, and remove peoples' freedom to choose what's best for themselves. As we see here, many of them are on Slashdot, and don't like Linux or open-source software.
I'll give this one more shot, then, for your mom's sake.
You have no intellectually honest grounds upon which to say that Redhat 5.1 and Redhat 5.2 are fundamentally different enough to be different 'operating systems'. Same for Redhat and Whitebox or Centos. Same for Debian and Ubuntu. Same for Ubuntu and Fedora. And so on.
These are simply too similar to constitute separate categorization within a system as imprecise as the one you're using. This isn't genus/phylum stuff. These are terms with a common usage as well.
operating system
–noun Computers .
the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources.
All of the above is handled by the Linux kernel. All of it. In all of the examples I gave, from Redhat to whatever, none of the features on the list I quoted are missing. None.
You're discarding the word 'dog' in favor of 'Canis lupus familiaris', and you're not actually communicating anything of value.
When you notice that your mom is continuing to use the word 'hard drive' and is not relenting to your will, please remember this conversation and consider how you might better communicate with her and others.
Thanks for your time. No need to reply.