The visionary goal I don't mind... it's the damn dogma from the free software users that bogs me down.
I've noticed that people that actually WRITE free software such as myself aren't in the category, it's the idiot user forcing their choice on others that is the problem.
For example I read this about slashdot the other day..
/. long ago lost any credibility as a news source in my eyes. I can't believe my flightgear 1.0.0 release did not get considered "newsworthy" on/. This article isn't even one of the worse ones to make/. lately - it's become a place for geek junk and popular news/games and long since lost it's FOSS identity.
Wow, sorry we didn't get down on our knees and worship your OSS game! FFS.
Microsoft paid Thailand to stop taking Linux laptops and instead take a crippled Windows XP.
Afraid you're talking BS there. The reason the Thai Government stopped the purchase of the OLPC was because they were thrown out of government.
All spending projects were stopped and all actions from the previous government were reversed as they were very corrupt. The OLPC got cut simply because the Thai government couldn't afford it. The new guy was an idiot and had to be told what Open Source was after making his stupid speech about how "open source is bad and how Thailand could do better".
Now there WAS a meeting with the new mister of Technology with Microsoft in the first week after he took office but I doubt it has anything to do with the OLPC and more to do with trade negotiations with the new government and what's going to change in their country that would effect MS.
The stupid thing is it's been more then one year after the old government were forced out of office by gun point. You know what happened? THEY VOTED THEM BACK IN! FFS idiots..
No conspiracy, pure facts
lol, you know what? I'm glad they didn't buy the OLPC. You know why? Because now maybe they'll buy some damn pumps so it doesn't flood during raining season.
The UI was designed for kids that can't read! Windows is designed for Western adults. That's it.
Ripping apart sugar to run on Windows would be a complete waste of time when they could iron out the problems they DO have..
How many times have we heard this from DailyWTF where management gets to decide on going in a completely different direction to where the system design spec is going. This is going to end in death for the project as they walk backwards and forwards changing their minds all the time.
Some people hate the email reading thing, but I find the ads on gmail sometimes extremely helpful at times I want to look at something new. For example I clicked on one the other day about booking flights relevant to where I actually wanted to go.
the amount of radiation is about the same as flying for an additional 5 minutes at altitude in a plane
That's 5 minutes too long in my opinion.
Although it hasn't happened yet, I'm personally waiting for the next news post.. "New scanner shown to cause various cancers, millions of people already scanned".
I have no idea what the hell you are trying to say with your weird logic, but no voting was allowed by the VP because he wanted a yes vote on his country's vote on the spec.
The OP was completely wrong thinking that 80% of the experts in the meeting voted "no" when in fact they weren't given a vote in the first place and were told to leave the room.
The VP alone voted "Yes" for Norway and was the only voting done. He voted "Yes" even though 80% of people in the room would if given the chance have voted no.
A "No" Voting for Norway would have resulted in action by the ISO. You logic doesn't make sense and I think you too also don't understand the situation.
If you built an app properly in the first place you wouldn't need that.
The problem is developers saying "lets get it working on X first then we'll port it to Y and Z". The problem with this being that by the time you come to release it only works on the OS you chose and porting it becomes much more expensive then it would have to write portable code all the way through in the first place.
So then, why did not the 80% form a consensus that they should vote 'no'? Saying that they were not satisfied enough to vote 'yes', does not mean they vote 'no'.
Because there was NO VOTING, IF YOU READ THE ARTICLE YOU WOULD KNOW THIS!!!!!
The discussions about policies of Novell are certainly worthy of discussion and maybe even relevant to the topic, but it has been discussed so much on slashdot that one would have to be foolish to expect anything new. Anytime a story featuring Novell (even superficially) appears here, the discussions end up looking like a rehash of some discussion that happened last week which in turn was a rehash of a discussion two weeks ago and so on. What's the point?
Welcome to any discussion on GIMP, Vista, GNU vs BSD, etc.
They constantly show Microsoft adverts and the whole website is a mess. Sourceforge relevance to the open source community is sinking further and further into the deep...
The simple fact is that you can quite easily choose to play games on Linux only..
What do you think a person with a 360 does when they want to play a game on the PS3? They go "oh well, that sucks" and play something else, it's not a big deal.
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Photoshop CS 2 already runs in wine.
I've noticed that people that actually WRITE free software such as myself aren't in the category, it's the idiot user forcing their choice on others that is the problem.
For example I read this about slashdot the other day..Wow, sorry we didn't get down on our knees and worship your OSS game! FFS.
1) They can't speak English
2) They can't read
3) They have no idea of technological concepts (Eye icon instead of Camera icon)
How the hell would they use windows?!!
All spending projects were stopped and all actions from the previous government were reversed as they were very corrupt. The OLPC got cut simply because the Thai government couldn't afford it. The new guy was an idiot and had to be told what Open Source was after making his stupid speech about how "open source is bad and how Thailand could do better".
Now there WAS a meeting with the new mister of Technology with Microsoft in the first week after he took office but I doubt it has anything to do with the OLPC and more to do with trade negotiations with the new government and what's going to change in their country that would effect MS.
The stupid thing is it's been more then one year after the old government were forced out of office by gun point. You know what happened? THEY VOTED THEM BACK IN! FFS idiots.. lol, you know what? I'm glad they didn't buy the OLPC. You know why? Because now maybe they'll buy some damn pumps so it doesn't flood during raining season.
I thought that was kinda the point from the start... so they could go home and read more books on it.
Mission complete?
I agree.. There's some many things wrong here..
The UI was designed for kids that can't read! Windows is designed for Western adults. That's it.
Ripping apart sugar to run on Windows would be a complete waste of time when they could iron out the problems they DO have..
How many times have we heard this from DailyWTF where management gets to decide on going in a completely different direction to where the system design spec is going. This is going to end in death for the project as they walk backwards and forwards changing their minds all the time.
Some people hate the email reading thing, but I find the ads on gmail sometimes extremely helpful at times I want to look at something new. For example I clicked on one the other day about booking flights relevant to where I actually wanted to go.
What nonsense, they'd have to describe how they got to B in the first place at which point you could see that they've taken your work.
The "old" system is just as bad for theft anyway so it can't get any worse. You make it sound like the end of the world.
and we're it..
Think about it, we eat everything technologically dumber then us on this planet. If something landed that's technologically superior to us...well..
"moooo!"
Sounds to me like the opposite is true, because everything is timestamped it's very easy to tell and claim that the work is yours.
Stop forcing your ideals on me.
As a vegetarian it's not about ethics for me. I don't want to eat a corpse.
Although it hasn't happened yet, I'm personally waiting for the next news post.. "New scanner shown to cause various cancers, millions of people already scanned".
I have no idea what the hell you are trying to say with your weird logic, but no voting was allowed by the VP because he wanted a yes vote on his country's vote on the spec.
The OP was completely wrong thinking that 80% of the experts in the meeting voted "no" when in fact they weren't given a vote in the first place and were told to leave the room.
The VP alone voted "Yes" for Norway and was the only voting done. He voted "Yes" even though 80% of people in the room would if given the chance have voted no.
A "No" Voting for Norway would have resulted in action by the ISO. You logic doesn't make sense and I think you too also don't understand the situation.
If you built an app properly in the first place you wouldn't need that.
The problem is developers saying "lets get it working on X first then we'll port it to Y and Z". The problem with this being that by the time you come to release it only works on the OS you chose and porting it becomes much more expensive then it would have to write portable code all the way through in the first place.
Don't post malware links to boost your karma asshole.
They constantly show Microsoft adverts and the whole website is a mess. Sourceforge relevance to the open source community is sinking further and further into the deep...
Yes, if you tell them. The same way everyone knows vista sucks.
Since this is obviously suppose to be about helping the police catch criminals, I fail to see the problem here..
Wow, he's actually right on that.. Global warming IS blown up out of all proportion.
Thanks for posting that, it really opened my eyes to all the BS.
"for all eternity" doesn't necessary mean "afterlife"
I'm confused. I thought Linus worked on Linux, not Lunix
The simple fact is that you can quite easily choose to play games on Linux only..
What do you think a person with a 360 does when they want to play a game on the PS3? They go "oh well, that sucks" and play something else, it's not a big deal.