As an OSS based business, examples being Google and Red Hat, you sell a product or service powered by Open Source software. There is nothing wrong with that and it is highly profitable if done well. Usual business logic applies like everywhere else.
And yes, I can seamlessly copy content between KDE and Gtk applications (for example Firefox and Kate).
Not a fair comparison. While there was surely lobby pressure behind ODF that led to a few gaps and irregularities in the standard, Microsoft went and single handedly fast-tracked a legacy bloated document with five times the pages, effectively hosing and corrupting the whole ISO process. That's really a difference.
I think you haven't followed Microsoft's career for very long, else you would have known that we would be in for bitter disappointment - like again and again and again before.
What do you think drove me to FOSS and Linux years ago?
Well, I don't know how the setting is called in English as I run German KDE, but somewhere in systemsettings in the applet where you can choose your icon set there is a second tab where you can set the size of the toolbar icons.
It's just the vaporware and buzzword machine kicking in again. Their current product isn't even released yet and apparently it's going to suck, else they wouldn't have gone into full marketing mode so early.
KDE 4 has an unhyped but quite neat semantic desktop too. You can rate, comment and tag files and do full text search. And indexing doesn't slow down the system.
Here in Europe, they are very common everywhere with a lot of species. However they are too big to pollinate many important plants, as opposed to bees.
From what I understand, Android is a Linux kernel with a Java based userland. So either you wait for an appropriate solution to appear, or you install a real Linux distribution and install... MythTV.
It's probably just an XPish skin, like on the first Asus EEE. I hate that. They should just use the damn window manager's default skin instead of fooling potential buyers.
Well, why SHOULD have Microsoft placed a bid for Sun? Their software stack doesn't run on SPARC, they are surely not interested in maintaining open source Unix and selling big ass servers is not their specialty either. A buyout would also have consumed at least a third of their remaining warchest, not to speak of aftermath losses. And that in the middle of a recession and massive layoffs. Even Ballmer is not that stupid.
You don't have to wait for a few hours. Just play a flash game that displays a lot of sprites. At some amount of onscreen content, all of a sudden the framerate collapses to near-zero and the symptoms you mentioned occur.
You're either stuck with the lowest common denominator of fonts (Times Roman, Arial, Courier, or Comic Sans MS), or you can put a font into an image, which is silly but standard practice.
Not exactly. The lowest common denominator are the generic CSS font families: serif, sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace.
On Open Source OSes you can't assume that a font of the Arial or Times family is installed. Always specify one of the above as a last fallback, so you can at least ensure that DejaVu, Bitstream, URW or Nimbus are substituted where the widespread Win/Mac fonts are not available. It will still look fine although the kerning may be slightly different.
It's like people hating on pop stars, Windows, and Kraft Parmesan cheese.
Offtopic, but the grated cheese you can buy in the supermarket doesn't have much to do with real parmesan. It's just an arbitrary kind of cheap grated hard cheese.
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As an OSS based business, examples being Google and Red Hat, you sell a product or service powered by Open Source software. There is nothing wrong with that and it is highly profitable if done well. Usual business logic applies like everywhere else.
And yes, I can seamlessly copy content between KDE and Gtk applications (for example Firefox and Kate).
Not a fair comparison. While there was surely lobby pressure behind ODF that led to a few gaps and irregularities in the standard, Microsoft went and single handedly fast-tracked a legacy bloated document with five times the pages, effectively hosing and corrupting the whole ISO process. That's really a difference.
"Support for OpenOffice(TM) Legacy Formats (write-only)"
I think you haven't followed Microsoft's career for very long, else you would have known that we would be in for bitter disappointment - like again and again and again before.
What do you think drove me to FOSS and Linux years ago?
I rather like to call it "Spamming an international audience with nerving threads about US politics".
I see you never used Amarok or Kaffeine.
Definitely agree. I tinkered with Kubuntu for two releases, then went back to Mandriva because it is a KDE distro that Just Works.
And the Control Center is awesome :-)
Well, I don't know how the setting is called in English as I run German KDE, but somewhere in systemsettings in the applet where you can choose your icon set there is a second tab where you can set the size of the toolbar icons.
You used a vulgar word. Turn in your cultivated person card and let the door hit your forehead on the way out.
The computing industry is more than just end user desktops, you know.
Yep. I was almost disappointed when they didn't buy Yahoo! - that really would have been 2 plus 2 equals 1.
Or like glueing two stones together in the hope it makes them swim.
It's just the vaporware and buzzword machine kicking in again. Their current product isn't even released yet and apparently it's going to suck, else they wouldn't have gone into full marketing mode so early.
KDE 4 has an unhyped but quite neat semantic desktop too. You can rate, comment and tag files and do full text search. And indexing doesn't slow down the system.
Here in Europe, they are very common everywhere with a lot of species. However they are too big to pollinate many important plants, as opposed to bees.
From what I understand, Android is a Linux kernel with a Java based userland. So either you wait for an appropriate solution to appear, or you install a real Linux distribution and install... MythTV.
Because Wintel fanboys can only run Windows CE on it.
It's probably just an XPish skin, like on the first Asus EEE. I hate that. They should just use the damn window manager's default skin instead of fooling potential buyers.
Well, why SHOULD have Microsoft placed a bid for Sun? Their software stack doesn't run on SPARC, they are surely not interested in maintaining open source Unix and selling big ass servers is not their specialty either. A buyout would also have consumed at least a third of their remaining warchest, not to speak of aftermath losses. And that in the middle of a recession and massive layoffs. Even Ballmer is not that stupid.
How then do you explain Microsoft's overwhelming share of the market, versus Linux?
Exclusive contracts with just about every OEM, and a nice portion of FUD as a topping.
Good ol' rock. Nothing beats rock!
Except of Metal.
You don't have to wait for a few hours. Just play a flash game that displays a lot of sprites. At some amount of onscreen content, all of a sudden the framerate collapses to near-zero and the symptoms you mentioned occur.
It means "cunt" and can also be used to refer to a woman in an extremely despising way.
You're either stuck with the lowest common denominator of fonts (Times Roman, Arial, Courier, or Comic Sans MS), or you can put a font into an image, which is silly but standard practice.
Not exactly. The lowest common denominator are the generic CSS font families: serif, sans-serif, cursive, fantasy, monospace.
On Open Source OSes you can't assume that a font of the Arial or Times family is installed. Always specify one of the above as a last fallback, so you can at least ensure that DejaVu, Bitstream, URW or Nimbus are substituted where the widespread Win/Mac fonts are not available. It will still look fine although the kerning may be slightly different.
My Freundin would not be very erfreut if I had a Harten when interacting mit a virtual character.
It's like people hating on pop stars, Windows, and Kraft Parmesan cheese.
Offtopic, but the grated cheese you can buy in the supermarket doesn't have much to do with real parmesan. It's just an arbitrary kind of cheap grated hard cheese.