Sounds like NASA is up to no good and trying to force these people to work an extra 30+ minutes each day. i mean think about it. over the course of a year they will save millions:)
This is factualy incorrect in so many ways. For one Ximian helps out with gnome. they are not the producers of gnome. They do on the other hand have their own gnome version (XD2)
Unlike KDE, Gnome is free
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations...
I think you got GPL and LGPL reversed. Also since novell has taken over ximian they have released many peices of code under Open Source licences, and provided many coders to gnome/mono causes.
As for fonts. it may be patent infringing (but what isnt these days) i dunno. but fonts have never looked so good these days in linux. Mac OSX has fonts a bit better, but windows is easily worse than current font setups in linux these days.
As for the multimedia framework gnome is moving over to the gstreamer framework which is actualy getting quite intresting as of late.... check it out.
well every kde developer ive talked to flat out says D-BUS will not be used by kde, the best comment ive herd is it might be supported but not used by the base system. They plan on sticking with DCOM. This may or may not be a good plan although i lean twards not but only because dcom has not been implimented in a usable way where it can be used without kde or qt libs.
This is just the impression ive gotten from people in the kde community and could be 100% off base.
I'm not saying kde is not a part of freedesktop.org or that this dosent work with kde, the fact remains though that kde has been throwing hacks into their desktop for ages with no real substance. Sure eye candy is nice, but it needs to be done in the right place or not at all.
And as far as kde goes with adopting standards they tend to be very against taking any gnome work and using it although i guess they may have other reasons than "its the KDE way or no way" D-BUS comes to mind as one such standard.
Here we have the KDE coders writing hacks for kde to support menu transparancy and shadows, while the gnome guys have been working to stick these features where they belong, but im not suprised kde has always been implimenting stuff where it dosent belong.
Look out... with the new hardware the army etc will be sporting. during a time of war they may be more likely to come to us first and issue a draft notice =/
These companies need to learn just a bit of self control "Windows 95 (Noun) 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
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Sounds like NASA is up to no good and trying to force these people to work an extra 30+ minutes each day. i mean think about it. over the course of a year they will save millions :)
This is factualy incorrect in so many ways. For one Ximian helps out with gnome. they are not the producers of gnome. They do on the other hand have their own gnome version (XD2)
Unlike KDE, Gnome is free Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations...
I think you got GPL and LGPL reversed. Also since novell has taken over ximian they have released many peices of code under Open Source licences, and provided many coders to gnome/mono causes.
As for fonts. it may be patent infringing (but what isnt these days) i dunno. but fonts have never looked so good these days in linux. Mac OSX has fonts a bit better, but windows is easily worse than current font setups in linux these days.
As for the multimedia framework gnome is moving over to the gstreamer framework which is actualy getting quite intresting as of late.... check it out.
no hacks are bad no matter what. even gnome has done it, but its never been as bad.
well every kde developer ive talked to flat out says D-BUS will not be used by kde, the best comment ive herd is it might be supported but not used by the base system. They plan on sticking with DCOM. This may or may not be a good plan although i lean twards not but only because dcom has not been implimented in a usable way where it can be used without kde or qt libs.
This is just the impression ive gotten from people in the kde community and could be 100% off base.
i correct my last statement by gnome work i mean freedesktop work. Oh for an edit button.
I'm not saying kde is not a part of freedesktop.org or that this dosent work with kde, the fact remains though that kde has been throwing hacks into their desktop for ages with no real substance. Sure eye candy is nice, but it needs to be done in the right place or not at all.
And as far as kde goes with adopting standards they tend to be very against taking any gnome work and using it although i guess they may have other reasons than "its the KDE way or no way" D-BUS comes to mind as one such standard.
Here we have the KDE coders writing hacks for kde to support menu transparancy and shadows, while the gnome guys have been working to stick these features where they belong, but im not suprised kde has always been implimenting stuff where it dosent belong.
from the news story it looks like the website owner plans on suing them :)
you can have apt-get with redhat and probably most other rpm based distros. Check out http://freshrpms.net/apt/
Its a good idea, and it would be neat to see it implimented, but i dont like it when i think of the privacy violations
Look out... with the new hardware the army etc will be sporting. during a time of war they may be more likely to come to us first and issue a draft notice =/
These companies need to learn just a bit of self control "Windows 95 (Noun) 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."