Gnome its self is all around a much better system than kde. First of all it offers technical benefits way beyond kde. Gnome offers an object linking architecture, where as kde does not. As an enterprise application developer, this is a verry important thing. The ability to encorporate different portions of other applications into a new application by simply linking to an object in your application and controling it through an exposed interface, without having to specific build both applications to implement a custom rpc based message passing architecure is very important. Most contemporary businesses have indivudalised computation needs in order to run their buisness, and need to intergrate these needs with thier pre-existing, off the shelf application enviornment. Being able to do this by accessing autmation interfaces to these applications from custom applications make these intergrations seemless to the user. This is a powerful feature. If linux is ever to replace win32 in a desktop enviorment (capturing the buisness market will ultimetly lead to capturing the home market), a viable alternative to m$'s com arcitecture needs to emerge. Gnome, imho, will eventualy get to this point. KDE, however, isn't even striving to do this. I use gnome now, because its better now, and it will be ultimetly better in the future.
... deveive anti-trust investigators by licensing your technologu to prove that there is competition and then revoke the license when the investigation is over. The point I was trying to make, even the though I didn't realy say much to it, is that I don't know what the agreement was, and neither do you. Intel and VIA know what it was, and one of them is saying the other violated that agreement. I don't think that is an automatic reason to assume the company is an evil monopoly, or that they were trying to devieve competitors. Intel has always made all of their hardware product interface specifications openly available without requiring a lisence (see http://developer.intel.com), as well as offering free support to hardware manufactures that want to make products that implement these interfaces (other than CPU's, of course). The fact that VIA entered a lisence agreement with Intel in the first place seem to indicate to me that there was some strategic reason that they needed more from them than just development support and hardware interface specifications. I was also trying to point out that they don't need to create the illusion that they have competition, because they do. AMD, which is now creating chips that are BETTER (the k7's) than Intel's chips, is fierce competitor of intel. For a while AMD was loosing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but they were being kept a float by IBM, which kept pumping money into them. This, however, doesn't mean AMD is going out of buisness, and isn't a viable competitior, because IBM did the same thing for INTEL in their infancy, and now I'm sitting here arguing with people who are saying that Intel is a large evil monopoly. I just find problem with the idea that any company that is very successful is ultimately evil, and that smaller startup comapnies are always justified. VIA's stuff was better, and thats good and fine, but if they did violate their agreement, than they should be accountable for it. If they didn't, then Intel is just sulking because they didn't make as good of a product as VIA did, and the'll probably learn a thing or two about how they word their partnerships with other companies. If you are going to bash a company, do it because they make bad products, take choice away from consumers, and force companies to only sell their products, and to not be able to costimise these products to the specifications of their customers. Also, if you are going to aviod all intel products, be prepared to avoid a lot of products that you probably don't think are intel products. Take RedHat for instance. Red hat is owned, in part, by intel. There are a lot of other products out there that are made by comapnies owned by intel that you probably use a lot, and love. If you use an alpha chip, be warned, that products was manufactured by an intel employee in an intel factory in MA.
I spent this summer working as an intern at Intel, and if there is anything I can tell you about the company, is that they are parinoid about anyone perceiving them as a monopoly. So much so that at new employee orintation that went so far as to show video of M$ in court and tell us exactly what we could and could not do when dealing with customes. I'm not a brainwashed stooge of the Intel Corporation, I own an k6-2, and am verry happy with it, but Intel's quality control processes are some of the best in the industry (I worked for the Corporate Quality Network). When a chip comes out by intel labeld as 700 mhz, that is not its top speed. Infact, that's not even the speed it runs at most of the time. Intel's chips are "quality guarded" to run faster than what they are marketed as (which is why a celeron can be over clocked). I don't like M$, and I don't buy their products. That has nothing to do with the fact that they have a monopoly, but because most of their stuff sucks. Intel makes a lot of good chips, and if I could afford a 4 way P3-Zeon Box I'd buy one in an instant. I support the open source movement, but that doesn't mean I think all software should be free, proprietary soft ware has its place. I feel the same way about hardware. If VIA would have reverse engineered the specs on their own, I would agree with you all the way, but they were lisenced the product and they went and modifed it and then tried to sell it (which according to Intel was a violation of the lisence agreement). I can't beleive that anyone would think that its ok for a company to make an agreement with another company and then go back on it. That is the same reason I see so many people on this group bashing microsoft. Intel may be a large company, and they sell a lot of chips, but they are no evil monopoly. The didn't get there by forcing oem's to ship just intel chips in intel boards, like M$ did with its win32 lisences. Intel also has extensive programs for supporting motherboard manfuactures that make motherboards that directly compete with them. They, however, aren't getting sued. This reason is that those people didn't violate their lisence agreement. The beleive that all companies that are big are evil is ignorant and stupid. A lot of them got there because they had good products.
It is within the capabilities of the chip, for it t o do this. A code morphing module for the chips PalmOS runs on is really all that's necessary. Based on the presentation yesterday, I don't think development of codemorphing software for non x86 architectures is in the companies immediate future (mainly because they said it wasn't), but it would be nice. What I would like to see is the ability to choose a code morphing module on bootup (something like crilo boot: x86 ), but again I doubt that the company would support this in the near future (again because they said they won't, mainly because it opens the machine up to all kinds of nasty viruses). Two three years down the road, who knows. One may be able to go to the store and buy a computer that you can turn into a Merced, a G9, or an Alpha , and have the ability to wear it on your head (like the Russian guy in the e-trade ( or whatever) commercial). -Scott Wisniewski
That sound like typical western goverment to me. The masses vote for some one not supported by the establishment, so its deemed a conspiracy and the vote is canceled. I really don't think that a bunc of voters getting together and deciding they are all going to vote for some one is usualy what one would deem a "conspiracy". I beleive the word you are looking for in this case is democracy.
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Gnome its self is all around a much better system than kde. First of all it offers technical benefits way beyond kde. Gnome offers an object linking architecture, where as kde does not. As an enterprise application developer, this is a verry important thing. The ability to encorporate different portions of other applications into a new application by simply linking to an object in your application and controling it through an exposed interface, without having to specific build both applications to implement a custom rpc based message passing architecure is very important. Most contemporary businesses have indivudalised computation needs in order to run their buisness, and need to intergrate these needs with thier pre-existing, off the shelf application enviornment. Being able to do this by accessing autmation interfaces to these applications from custom applications make these intergrations seemless to the user. This is a powerful feature. If linux is ever to replace win32 in a desktop enviorment (capturing the buisness market will ultimetly lead to capturing the home market), a viable alternative to m$'s com arcitecture needs to emerge. Gnome, imho, will eventualy get to this point. KDE, however, isn't even striving to do this. I use gnome now, because its better now, and it will be ultimetly better in the future.
I spent this summer working as an intern at Intel, and if there is anything I can tell you about the company, is that they are parinoid about anyone perceiving them as a monopoly. So much so that at new employee orintation that went so far as to show video of M$ in court and tell us exactly what we could and could not do when dealing with customes. I'm not a brainwashed stooge of the Intel Corporation, I own an k6-2, and am verry happy with it, but Intel's quality control processes are some of the best in the industry (I worked for the Corporate Quality Network). When a chip comes out by intel labeld as 700 mhz, that is not its top speed. Infact, that's not even the speed it runs at most of the time. Intel's chips are "quality guarded" to run faster than what they are marketed as (which is why a celeron can be over clocked). I don't like M$, and I don't buy their products. That has nothing to do with the fact that they have a monopoly, but because most of their stuff sucks. Intel makes a lot of good chips, and if I could afford a 4 way P3-Zeon Box I'd buy one in an instant. I support the open source movement, but that doesn't mean I think all software should be free, proprietary soft ware has its place. I feel the same way about hardware. If VIA would have reverse engineered the specs on their own, I would agree with you all the way, but they were lisenced the product and they went and modifed it and then tried to sell it (which according to Intel was a violation of the lisence agreement). I can't beleive that anyone would think that its ok for a company to make an agreement with another company and then go back on it. That is the same reason I see so many people on this group bashing microsoft. Intel may be a large company, and they sell a lot of chips, but they are no evil monopoly. The didn't get there by forcing oem's to ship just intel chips in intel boards, like M$ did with its win32 lisences. Intel also has extensive programs for supporting motherboard manfuactures that make motherboards that directly compete with them. They, however, aren't getting sued. This reason is that those people didn't violate their lisence agreement. The beleive that all companies that are big are evil is ignorant and stupid. A lot of them got there because they had good products.
It is within the capabilities of the chip, for it t o do this. A code morphing module for the chips PalmOS runs on is really all that's necessary. Based on the presentation yesterday, I don't think development of codemorphing software for non x86 architectures is in the companies immediate future (mainly because they said it wasn't), but it would be nice. What I would like to see is the ability to choose a code morphing module on bootup (something like crilo boot: x86 ), but again I doubt that the company would support this in the near future (again because they said they won't, mainly because it opens the machine up to all kinds of nasty viruses). Two three years down the road, who knows. One may be able to go to the store and buy a computer that you can turn into a Merced, a G9, or an Alpha , and have the ability to wear it on your head (like the Russian guy in the e-trade ( or whatever) commercial). -Scott Wisniewski
That sound like typical western goverment to me. The masses vote for some one not supported by the establishment, so its deemed a conspiracy and the vote is canceled. I really don't think that a bunc of voters getting together and deciding they are all going to vote for some one is usualy what one would deem a "conspiracy". I beleive the word you are looking for in this case is democracy.