This is what I wrote using their feedback form. I think it might be a good idea to make judicious use of their feedback system to let them know of our side of the story (politely, of course;)
Hi,
I was dismayed to read the article tiled "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty". The author has distorted the truth to the extent that it is no longer recognizable as such; made direct accusations aimed at the Linux community without a shred of evidence (and in fact considerable evidence to the contrary, e.g. http://www.linuxworld.com/story/42125.htm ) and stated biased opinions as facts. A quote: "There seems little doubt that SCO was targeted - illegally and unacceptably, lest anyone be in any doubt - because it has enraged many people devoted to the Linux operating system."
Little doubt, indeed ! Internet security experts have repeatedly claimed that the MyDoom virus is most likely to have created by professional smammers, not Linux advocates (see link above). It is clear that MyDoom is a Windows virus and targets known security vulnerabilities in the Windows Operating System, and hence unlikely to be written by a Linux expert. If the author had done a little research before openly attacking the Linux community, he would easily have found that out. Unfortunately, it is apparant that he did nothing of that kind.
The most disturbing thing about this article that it appears as normal news item, not even an opinion piece, and still the author is audacious enough to make bold direct accusation which can only be termed as slander, and thinks of getting away with it.
A choice quote from the article: "There's no proof, of course, but it must be one of the theories at the top of any investigator's list.". Well, if there is no proof, then why make such direct accusations which flies in the face of all evidence ?
All this is from a organization which allegedly deals in "news" ?
I must express my deep dissapointment that a respected organization such as the BBC would make such a blatantly ill-researched and biased article appear on its site, without a thought about the damage that such articles could inflict on the image of the Linux community. I am afraid articles like this can only be attributed to one thing: sensationalism, something one does not expect from an organisation of BBC's stature.
As a IT professional from India, I can assure you that you're bang on target on all issues:-( Cost factor or source availability almost never counts at the individual and small business level because everyone gets all software for free. The only places where free software is making some headway are:
Government programmes, where they need to be on the right side of law and have little cash.
Hobbyists who try Linux because it's the 'in' thing.
Problem is, it doesn't work. Try installing it on a Mandrake system, then building even the simplest project. It barfs all over the place.
I tried asking the developers for assistance as to why nothing would freakin' build. Or any clue as to how to use Glade with it - and received NO REPLY.
Any websites out there as to how to get Anjuta to actually WORK?
Care to elaborate on your problem ? I assure you that we try to answer as many user queries as possible. Please join Anjuta-List and post your problem there. There is also a bug tracking mechanism available which is regularly monitored - you might file a bug there with full details.
You might also consider downloading the nightly CVS tarball available from the website and building it - to see if your problems have been addressed there. If you have the necessary libraries, it should be as simple as './configure && make && make install'.
My company has already decided to adopt Star Office at the corporate level. It is pretty significant since out strength is 10000+ . The main plus for MS Office is that it's ubiquitous. Add a few more adoptions like that and SO will cross the adoption threshhold, and then, goodbye to MS:-)
Anyone remembers Turbo Pascal 3.0 ? It was a full blown Pascal Compiler for DOS back in '90. The compiler was somewhere around 39K. For 2K more, you could do graphics as well. It generated pretty well-optimized native code. In those days, all my programs + DOS boot (io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com and some other stuff) used to take one 360K floppy disk. I'll bet Kylix is going to be as good. I think Borland has made Turbo Pascal 3.0 and Turbo C 1.0 free, but can't remember the URL. Try it out if you find it and haven't used them before. You'll be impressed.
I loaded this page on my machine (latest nightly on WinNT 4 SP 6a on PII 64 MB RAM) - It worked fine. Have you tried the standard methods (deleting C:\winnt\moz*.dat, users50 directory, etc ? )
To run mozilla from anywhere, here is a patch: go to/package edit mozilla (yes, it is a shell script) and change: dist_bin="" to: dist_bin="`pwd`" ; cd $dist_bin That's it.
Slashdot Mirror
I think Elop took over in 2010. The rapid decline started after that.
Of course the iPhone looked nothing like phones created four years ago .. not!
This is what I wrote using their feedback form. I think it might be a good idea to make judicious use of their feedback system to let them know of our side of the story (politely, of course;)
Hi,
I was dismayed to read the article tiled "Linux cyber-battle turns nasty". The author has distorted the truth to the extent that it is no longer recognizable as such; made direct accusations aimed at the Linux community without a shred of evidence (and in fact considerable evidence to the contrary, e.g. http://www.linuxworld.com/story/42125.htm ) and stated biased opinions as facts. A quote: "There seems little doubt that SCO was targeted - illegally and unacceptably, lest anyone be in any doubt - because it has enraged many people devoted to the Linux operating system."
Little doubt, indeed ! Internet security experts have repeatedly claimed that the MyDoom virus is most likely to have created by professional smammers, not Linux advocates (see link above). It is clear that MyDoom is a Windows virus and targets known security vulnerabilities in the Windows Operating System, and hence unlikely to be written by a Linux expert. If the author had done a little research before openly attacking the Linux community, he would easily have found that out. Unfortunately, it is apparant that he did nothing of that kind.
The most disturbing thing about this article that it appears as normal news item, not even an opinion piece, and still the author is audacious enough to make bold direct accusation which can only be termed as slander, and thinks of getting away with it.
A choice quote from the article: "There's no proof, of course, but it must be one of the theories at the top of any investigator's list.". Well, if there is no proof, then why make such direct accusations which flies in the face of all evidence ?
All this is from a organization which allegedly deals in "news" ?
I must express my deep dissapointment that a respected organization such as the BBC would make such a blatantly ill-researched and biased article appear on its site, without a thought about the damage that such articles could inflict on the image of the Linux community. I am afraid articles like this can only be attributed to one thing: sensationalism, something one does not expect from an organisation of BBC's stature.
Yours,
Biswa.
I tried asking the developers for assistance as to why nothing would freakin' build. Or any clue as to how to use Glade with it - and received NO REPLY.
Any websites out there as to how to get Anjuta to actually WORK?
Care to elaborate on your problem ? I assure you that we try to answer as many user queries as possible. Please join Anjuta-List and post your problem there. There is also a bug tracking mechanism available which is regularly monitored - you might file a bug there with full details.
You might also consider downloading the nightly CVS tarball available from the website and building it - to see if your problems have been addressed there. If you have the necessary libraries, it should be as simple as './configure && make && make install'.
My company has already decided to adopt Star Office at the corporate level. It is pretty significant since out strength is 10000+ . The main plus for MS Office is that it's ubiquitous. Add a few more adoptions like that and SO will cross the adoption threshhold, and then, goodbye to MS :-)
Anyone remembers Turbo Pascal 3.0 ? It was a full blown Pascal Compiler for DOS back in '90. The compiler was somewhere around 39K. For 2K more, you could do graphics as well. It generated pretty well-optimized native code. In those days, all my programs + DOS boot (io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com and some other stuff) used to take one 360K floppy disk. I'll bet Kylix is going to be as good.
I think Borland has made Turbo Pascal 3.0 and Turbo C 1.0 free, but can't remember the URL. Try it out if you find it and haven't used them before. You'll be impressed.
I loaded this page on my machine (latest nightly on WinNT 4 SP 6a on PII 64 MB RAM) - It worked fine. Have you tried the standard methods (deleting C:\winnt\moz*.dat, users50 directory, etc ? )
To run mozilla from anywhere, here is a patch: go to /package edit mozilla (yes, it is a shell script) and change: dist_bin="" to: dist_bin="`pwd`" ; cd $dist_bin That's it.
This is great news!! Hopefully, g++ -o hello hello.cpp will generate a 10 KB code!