Because EU is the only other part of the world (apart from USA) who has excess money to give to some lawyers (*puking upon pronouncing the word*) who want to fight (read: get paid) against greedy pigs for who ('which' would be more suitable) 50 billion dollars just isn't quite enough. First put food in every belly in the world and then it will take about two seconds for the world's parasites such us Microsoft to be exterminated...The point is one those not bother with "high level stuff" if one is hungry and EU is well fed.
GNU/Linux is open source and is under GPL. From a Hacker/Developer perspective it can't get better than that. What would be the purpose of forking for the sake of forking?
One reason, why there are multiple forks even inside the GNU world, could be the fact that promoting decentralization is an imperative principle of hackers.
Main Linux distributions come with couple of THOUSAND packages. Do your grandmas really need that one extra package?
I am relatively new here on Slashdot but I noticed a strange behaviour that developed in me during my Slashdot experience. Whenever a new entry of low value gets posted such as this "PC World's 20 Cheapest Advertisements of 2006" I get an uncontrollable desire to click "Read More" to read the comments of Slashdotters. I do that in spite of knowing for the most part what the comments will be like and that I won't gain anything from reading them. The problem is that more often I would click on "Read More" of such petty topics than the really inspiring/exacting ones such as "Long-lived Super Heavy Element Created".
It makes no sense...
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Because EU is the only other part of the world (apart from USA) who has excess money to give to some lawyers (*puking upon pronouncing the word*) who want to fight (read: get paid) against greedy pigs for who ('which' would be more suitable) 50 billion dollars just isn't quite enough. First put food in every belly in the world and then it will take about two seconds for the world's parasites such us Microsoft to be exterminated...The point is one those not bother with "high level stuff" if one is hungry and EU is well fed.
A good way to combine the strengths of both GNOME and KDE at the same time is to use a file manager Krusader running in GNOME.
GNU/Linux is open source and is under GPL. From a Hacker/Developer perspective it can't get better than that. What would be the purpose of forking for the sake of forking?
One reason, why there are multiple forks even inside the GNU world, could be the fact that promoting decentralization is an imperative principle of hackers.
Main Linux distributions come with couple of THOUSAND packages. Do your grandmas really need that one extra package?
I am relatively new here on Slashdot but I noticed a strange behaviour that developed in me during my Slashdot experience. Whenever a new entry of low value gets posted such as this "PC World's 20 Cheapest Advertisements of 2006" I get an uncontrollable desire to click "Read More" to read the comments of Slashdotters. I do that in spite of knowing for the most part what the comments will be like and that I won't gain anything from reading them. The problem is that more often I would click on "Read More" of such petty topics than the really inspiring/exacting ones such as "Long-lived Super Heavy Element Created". It makes no sense...
Does this mean Ballmer will be Secretary of Defence?
...Air Force has won the War on Terror by utilising Ballmer's ingenious combat strategy "Fly-by Charing (© 2008-2012 MicroSenate Corporation. All rights reserved.)"
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