The only reason to use Windows is DirectX for gaming. I don't plan on gaming on a tablet so I doubt they are going to get anywhere with their plans. The fact that Linux isn't crushing Windows and MacOS at the moment is a testament to the Linux communities own dis-functionality. Please, we're begging you, get your act together.
Hear, hear. They were almost there back in the late KDE3 era but then snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with PulseAudio, KDE4, Hal/Udev/whatever, and a whole string of other half-baked turds.
The biggest problem is that Mozilla's argument isn't technical. It's political.
Of course it's political. It's power. Power that a whole lot of people have spent the past decade voluntarily building up, to counterbalance corporate attempts to monopolise the web.
If that work hadn't been done, and Firefox didn't have the market share -- and therefore power -- that it has today, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Because this entire issue would have been decided behind closed doors in some boardroom at Microsoft.
We're on the brink of seeing the last piece-of-shit corporate dependency -- Flash -- removed from the web.
Anyone advocating throwing that away in exchange for some minor technical advantage is either young, stupid, or suffering from a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome.
This is a case where the FOSS community wants all of the benefits of patented software which is in this case technically superior without having to pay for it.
What? Seems clear to me that the entire issue is that the FOSS community does not want the patented software.
Also, what is an "open source patent free license"?
You don't really know what you're talking about, do you...
> I don't know of many other institutions that attempt to bully a national government, you know?
I take it you're not a member of a union?
I'm no fan of unions, but I think concerns that they wield some dangerous, overwhelming amount of power in our societies is misplaced in this day and age, and I have to question where people are getting the idea from and, then, why a comment like this ends up 5:Insightful.
I think it's obvious to anyone paying any attention at all these days that concerns about government manipulation, undemocratic power, etc. belong squarely with large corporations.
For example, I live in Canada, and a cursory search brought up the following list of top lobbyists, the majority of whom represent large, destructive corporations (oil, mining, etc.). I don't think I saw a single union on there.
What terms do you want instead? Tell them those are your terms. If they don't agree, don't work for them. It's called negotiation. I think there's even a saying, something to the effect of "Good things don't come to those who deserve them; They come to those who negotiate for them".
I like the advice about being a subcontractor too... It means an equal relationship between two businesses, rather than the lord-serf relationship that "employment" seems to be these days. I'm a developer who's worked under both types of arrangement, and I'll be a subcontractor rather than an employee any day (once I've negotiated an equitable agreement).
and I don't know how many other ethnic illegals. I know of one from Canada right now(she overstayed her visa by about 18 months and is workin a decent job Which means you have one more intelligent person in your country to add to the existing 5, you dumb fuck.
I'm not interested in commercial drivers. I'm interested in hardware documentation.
To me, selling a piece of hardware without (available) documentation is like selling DRM'd media: Through secrecy, the seller maintains an ability to effectively change, post-sale, a product which the buyer has already paid for in full. To add insult to injury, the seller deliberately deceives the buyer by concealing that fact from them.
I guess that's what passes for "business" nowadays, although they used to have a separate word for that kind of activity:
Ah, the beauty of globalism and free trade... Slightly lower prices and much higher profits at the expense of hungry people and our world. What progress humanity is making!
And LaTeX sucks for this. It is hard to use and nonstandard to PDF. Correct me if I'm wrong (perhaps using this new Wikipedia tool?) but isn't LaTeX still quite a bit more capable than PDF in terms of typesetting?
Canada's agriculture has done very well for the past couple of centuries WITHOUT GM crops, thank you very much, and introducing dubious products from The Friendly Folks Who Brought You Agent Orange(tm) is not my idea of progress.
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"systemd" and "good open source citizen" in the same sentence? Irony.
I'm a software developer. Most of the (well-paid) work I do involves communicating with others and thinking, neither of which requires more monitors.
The only reason to use Windows is DirectX for gaming. I don't plan on gaming on a tablet so I doubt they are going to get anywhere with their plans. The fact that Linux isn't crushing Windows and MacOS at the moment is a testament to the Linux communities own dis-functionality. Please, we're begging you, get your act together.
Hear, hear. They were almost there back in the late KDE3 era but then snatched defeat from the jaws of victory with PulseAudio, KDE4, Hal/Udev/whatever, and a whole string of other half-baked turds.
Ahh -- the typical "open zealot" response -- let's talk about how things "should be" so that we can avoid discussions about how things are.
Ahh, the typical "serf" response: Be content with the lease your lord offers you.
The biggest problem is that Mozilla's argument isn't technical. It's political.
Of course it's political. It's power. Power that a whole lot of people have spent the past decade voluntarily building up, to counterbalance corporate attempts to monopolise the web.
If that work hadn't been done, and Firefox didn't have the market share -- and therefore power -- that it has today, we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Because this entire issue would have been decided behind closed doors in some boardroom at Microsoft.
We're on the brink of seeing the last piece-of-shit corporate dependency -- Flash -- removed from the web.
Anyone advocating throwing that away in exchange for some minor technical advantage is either young, stupid, or suffering from a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome.
Wake up, Serf.
This is a case where the FOSS community wants all of the benefits of patented software which is in this case technically superior without having to pay for it.
What? Seems clear to me that the entire issue is that the FOSS community does not want the patented software.
Also, what is an "open source patent free license"?
You don't really know what you're talking about, do you...
I'm not familiar with this particular issue, but considering the source I'd say one would want to take this story with a big grain of salt.
> I don't know of many other institutions that attempt to bully a national government, you know?
I take it you're not a member of a union?
I'm no fan of unions, but I think concerns that they wield some dangerous, overwhelming amount of power in our societies is misplaced in this day and age, and I have to question where people are getting the idea from and, then, why a comment like this ends up 5:Insightful.
I think it's obvious to anyone paying any attention at all these days that concerns about government manipulation, undemocratic power, etc. belong squarely with large corporations.
For example, I live in Canada, and a cursory search brought up the following list of top lobbyists, the majority of whom represent large, destructive corporations (oil, mining, etc.). I don't think I saw a single union on there.
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/page/view/.2009.february.16.top_lobbyists_2009
More links to data appreciated.
For the love of christ, this site should know better.
...along with (much-needed) licenses to use patent-restricted codecs.
The "much-needed" part is old FUD. With the possible exception of some pro applications, the free codecs punch their weight just fine nowadays.
If your device or software doesn't play them, install one of these and complain to $company_trying_to_lock_you_in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Actually the font rendering is being done by Xft using Freetype according to settings configured through fontconfig.
Well said, sir.
I'm Canadian, just back from 4 years in Australia, and I couldn't agree more.
I never realised how miserable Canadians are (and I was) until I'd left. It was like waking up from the Matrix. Fitting, since I lived in Sydney.
<sarcasm> Compensation should match your expectations. </sarcasm>
Hear, hear.
That the parent is (currently) modded "-1 Troll" scares me.
Yeah, what he said...
What terms do you want instead? Tell them those are your terms. If they don't agree, don't work for them. It's called negotiation. I think there's even a saying, something to the effect of "Good things don't come to those who deserve them; They come to those who negotiate for them".
I like the advice about being a subcontractor too... It means an equal relationship between two businesses, rather than the lord-serf relationship that "employment" seems to be these days. I'm a developer who's worked under both types of arrangement, and I'll be a subcontractor rather than an employee any day (once I've negotiated an equitable agreement).
Troll? Are you serious? That's quality material!
My bad - I was reading news about the US invasion of Iraq at the time.
I'm not interested in commercial drivers. I'm interested in hardware documentation.
To me, selling a piece of hardware without (available) documentation is like selling DRM'd media: Through secrecy, the seller maintains an ability to effectively change, post-sale, a product which the buyer has already paid for in full. To add insult to injury, the seller deliberately deceives the buyer by concealing that fact from them.
I guess that's what passes for "business" nowadays, although they used to have a separate word for that kind of activity:
Racketeering.
Ah, the beauty of globalism and free trade... Slightly lower prices and much higher profits at the expense of hungry people and our world. What progress humanity is making!
...to American labor and environmental standards... Do you guys actually have any of those left?Because you're a whinging cunt and you talk too much.
Hear, hear.
Canada's agriculture has done very well for the past couple of centuries WITHOUT GM crops, thank you very much, and introducing dubious products from The Friendly Folks Who Brought You Agent Orange(tm) is not my idea of progress.