But as the corporate world began to look for ways to market Linux-based distros, it was Gnome's relative purity (not any of its technical merits, which are few) that got KDE pushed to the sidelines.
It was not "purity", it was greed: You used to have to buy Qt licenses to develop closed source software for KDE. No investment like that was necessary for Gtk apps. This has of course changed now that Nokia has put Qt under LGPL.
We did in fact not learn all that much from their little street intreviews. Apart from that people feel uncomfortable with Vista (what did that lady say -- "hard to get user-friendly with"?) we learnt that they seem to like the default looks of KDE 4. That's interesting, but not all that surprising.
Still a nice little laugh, that video.
Because google still hasn't indexed my website at home, several months after I filled out the form to request that they do so.
That form has been rumored to be rather useless anyway in the past (sorry, no references at hand just now). Get your website linked to by sites with high page rank and Googlebot will be there in no time.
If my website was hosted by google, and resided on google hardware and storage, they would presumably index my page a little quicker.
Why? Googlebot isn't visiting sites sooner that are less hops away, or does it?;-)
There are six pages of interview with Linus. Him now using Gnome instead of KDE is covered in three and a half paragraphs. Come on, this is a little sensationalist, picking on this rather minor issue for the headline, isn't it? No, I'm not new here, I just like to point out how childish that seems.
Linus says KDE 4.0 was a "half baked release". Yes it was. He complains he got the update pushed through Fedora and that it "was not as functional". I'm sure it wasn't. He also might want to reconsider his choice of Linux distribution if he isn't happy with their update policy.
We've been through this a million times here and on most any other tech site on the whole of the web: KDE 4.0 wasn't ready for general use, KDE themselves said so, it might have been a mistake to release it anyway, or not, the communication could have been a lot clearer, yada yada yada.
1. Are any of the people involved with the original in on this? I know TFA says that they were in contact with Activision regarding backstory, but that's not necessarily the same thing.
I think that's rather unlikely. Mr. Collins explicitly says in the interview that he's "continually searching for people who were involved in the games over the years" and quotes only Activision as a source for the "entire mythology". None of the original Zork Implementors works (or has worked in the past) for Activision.
Also, the artwork on http://www.legendsofzork.com/ makes you wonder if Mr. Collins has really caught up with the "entire mythology". This adventurer is from anywhere but from Zork -- not with that torch in his hand.
Probably not. Krita used to be called Krayon, but the name had to be changed due to some trademark reasons. SUSE even got sued in Germany over the name -- which was in the KDE menu, although the application wasn't shipped with the distribution at that time. Must have been a couple of years ago (SUSE 7.x, I think).
Before it was called Krayon, the name was KImageShop. AFAIK, it was never called "The KIMP";-)
I find it distracts me to have too many open windows. Right now, just surfing and wasting time, there are 11, some of them minimized, on two 19" displays, their respective machines being connected via synergy.
When I'm programming, it's usually KDevelop full screen on one display and some misc stuff on the other, like Konsole, chat application and mail.
Oh, and there's the notebook... Nearly forgot. It only has Outlook open mostly, the only reason I need a Windows machine around. *sigh*
PHP is licensed under the GPL, so we don't need to worry about an MS-proprietary version of it.
PHP is not licensed under the GPL. It comes with its own license, called "The PHP License" (3.0 in the sources I have here). Looks like a BSD-like license to me at a quick glance.
I vaguely remember PHP not being GPLed the reason that MySQL made an exception in their licensing of the database to allow PHP to work and talk with it (MySQL consider communication over TCP/IP as derivative work, IIRC).
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But as the corporate world began to look for ways to market Linux-based distros, it was Gnome's relative purity (not any of its technical merits, which are few) that got KDE pushed to the sidelines.
It was not "purity", it was greed: You used to have to buy Qt licenses to develop closed source software for KDE. No investment like that was necessary for Gtk apps. This has of course changed now that Nokia has put Qt under LGPL.
We did in fact not learn all that much from their little street intreviews. Apart from that people feel uncomfortable with Vista (what did that lady say -- "hard to get user-friendly with"?) we learnt that they seem to like the default looks of KDE 4. That's interesting, but not all that surprising.
Still a nice little laugh, that video.
Because google still hasn't indexed my website at home, several months after I filled out the form to request that they do so.
That form has been rumored to be rather useless anyway in the past (sorry, no references at hand just now). Get your website linked to by sites with high page rank and Googlebot will be there in no time.
If my website was hosted by google, and resided on google hardware and storage, they would presumably index my page a little quicker.
Why? Googlebot isn't visiting sites sooner that are less hops away, or does it? ;-)
There are six pages of interview with Linus. Him now using Gnome instead of KDE is covered in three and a half paragraphs. Come on, this is a little sensationalist, picking on this rather minor issue for the headline, isn't it? No, I'm not new here, I just like to point out how childish that seems.
Linus says KDE 4.0 was a "half baked release". Yes it was. He complains he got the update pushed through Fedora and that it "was not as functional". I'm sure it wasn't. He also might want to reconsider his choice of Linux distribution if he isn't happy with their update policy.
We've been through this a million times here and on most any other tech site on the whole of the web: KDE 4.0 wasn't ready for general use, KDE themselves said so, it might have been a mistake to release it anyway, or not, the communication could have been a lot clearer, yada yada yada.
Linus thinks so, too. Fine. Also, yawn.
1. Are any of the people involved with the original in on this? I know TFA says that they were in contact with Activision regarding backstory, but that's not necessarily the same thing.
I think that's rather unlikely. Mr. Collins explicitly says in the interview that he's "continually searching for people who were involved in the games over the years" and quotes only Activision as a source for the "entire mythology". None of the original Zork Implementors works (or has worked in the past) for Activision.
Also, the artwork on http://www.legendsofzork.com/ makes you wonder if Mr. Collins has really caught up with the "entire mythology". This adventurer is from anywhere but from Zork -- not with that torch in his hand.
Also, what's "pariah military"? Isn't that just a little bit tautological?
Probably not. Krita used to be called Krayon, but the name had to be changed due to some trademark reasons. SUSE even got sued in Germany over the name -- which was in the KDE menu, although the application wasn't shipped with the distribution at that time. Must have been a couple of years ago (SUSE 7.x, I think).
;-)
Before it was called Krayon, the name was KImageShop. AFAIK, it was never called "The KIMP"
I find it distracts me to have too many open windows. Right now, just surfing and wasting time, there are 11, some of them minimized, on two 19" displays, their respective machines being connected via synergy.
When I'm programming, it's usually KDevelop full screen on one display and some misc stuff on the other, like Konsole, chat application and mail.
Oh, and there's the notebook... Nearly forgot. It only has Outlook open mostly, the only reason I need a Windows machine around. *sigh*
I vaguely remember PHP not being GPLed the reason that MySQL made an exception in their licensing of the database to allow PHP to work and talk with it (MySQL consider communication over TCP/IP as derivative work, IIRC).