A troll peeing on Qt? How odd!
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Try to read the messages before you reply to them. Tim Moore talked about KDE 2.0, not 1.1. KDE 2.0 is not realesed yet, while KDE 1.1 is not fully Open Source(TM) compliant.
This makes Gnome 1.0 the first fully Open Source(TM) compliant desktop for Linux.
Read the comment this is a reply to, it has a very good observation that shouldn't be skipped just because the subject is bland and the poster is anonymous.
And he is still doing more work than most, as Emacs maintainer. He also prefers dealing directly with other developers, rather than participating in public flame wars.
(Initiating public flame wars is another matter;-)
I also think we should have free documentation for free software, but the GNU way[1] to achieve this is to demonstrate the free documentation can be better (and more profitable!) than proprietary documentation.
O'Reilly does a lot of good for the free software community, just employing Larry Wall should count for much. I don't really think that his motives matter, but if profit is one of them, we should show him that free documentation can be profitable, and he will be ours.
[1] Yes, I know this is not how RMS talk about free software, but it is the way he act. He helped demonstrate that free software could be as good (even better than) proprietary software, and with the help of Cygnus that free software could be profitable too.
The articles made a lot of unsubstanciated claims, and idle speculation based on these claims. I see very few facts that point towards the conclusions in the article.
How many major freeware projects are lead from Europe? Let's see, there are KDE, LaTeX2e (if that is concidered major), and Qt (if that is concidered free). Others?
The only general trend I can see in Europe is that academia might make more use of freeware than in the US. And I beleive that is mostly due to academia in Europe being (in general) more cash starved than in the US.
In Denmark, everybody follows the strongest player. It used to be IBM, we used to be the bluest country in the world. Now it is Microsoft.
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Try to read the messages before you reply to them. Tim Moore talked about KDE 2.0, not 1.1. KDE 2.0 is not realesed yet, while KDE 1.1 is not fully Open Source(TM) compliant.
This makes Gnome 1.0 the first fully Open Source(TM) compliant desktop for Linux.
Read the comment this is a reply to, it has a very good observation that shouldn't be skipped just because the subject is bland and the poster is anonymous.
A beowulf cluster of harleys would be cool.
The practical effect if Red Hat (or some single other distribution) becomes dominant can be one of two:
1) Red Hat does a great job. They stay dominant. Users and developers win.
2) Red Hat does a poor job. Someone else takes their GPL'ed code, and does a better job. Users and developers win.
So, what's to be afraid of?
And he is still doing more work than most, as Emacs maintainer. He also prefers dealing directly with other developers, rather than participating in public flame wars.
;-)
(Initiating public flame wars is another matter
I think you confuse "lacking a sense of humor" with "being mature". In other words: You are thinking like a suit, not like a hacker.
I also think we should have free documentation for free software, but the GNU way[1] to achieve this is to demonstrate the free documentation can be better (and more profitable!) than proprietary documentation.
O'Reilly does a lot of good for the free software community, just employing Larry Wall should count for much. I don't really think that his motives matter, but if profit is one of them, we should show him that free documentation can be profitable, and he will be ours.
[1] Yes, I know this is not how RMS talk about free software, but it is the way he act. He helped demonstrate that free software could be as good (even better than) proprietary software, and with the help of Cygnus that free software could be profitable too.
The articles made a lot of unsubstanciated claims, and idle speculation based on these claims. I see very few facts that point towards the conclusions in the article.
How many major freeware projects are lead from Europe? Let's see, there are KDE, LaTeX2e (if that is concidered major), and Qt (if that is concidered free). Others?
The only general trend I can see in Europe is that academia might make more use of freeware than in the US. And I beleive that is mostly due to academia in Europe being (in general) more cash starved than in the US.
In Denmark, everybody follows the strongest player. It used to be IBM, we used to be the bluest country in the world. Now it is Microsoft.
Weird that I first heard about her on slashdot.
It should tell something, either about me or about the Danish media.