SPI was founded to handle donations for Debian, and now it serves as a property manager for a number of free software projects. SPI seems an excellent choice for donations, for these people who have problems with some of RMS's ideas.
We should not encourage setting up yet another organization. We have too many already. Talking about setting another organization may also give an opportunity for others trying to cash in since Linux is hot now.
Opensource.org is meant as an marketing organization. Thus it is not a good choice for the goals outlined in this article.
SPI was founded to handle donations for Debian, and now it serves as a property manager for a number of free software projects. SPI seems an excellent choice for donations, for these people who have problems with some of RMS's ideas.
We should not encourage setting up yet another organization. We have too many already. Talking about setting another organization may also give an oportunity for others trying to cash in since Linux is hot now.
Opensource.org is meant as an marking organization. Thus it is not a good choice for the goals outlined in this article.
Essentially Bill Gates is saying that he will keep throwing new features into his OS (Windows). Speech and handwriting recognition. He seems not concerned about the millions of lines of code in NT 5.0 and wants to add more. GUI in the kernel not enough...
This will give GNU/Linux, a 20-year old design (according to Gates) with a proven foundation for reliability, to take over... The longer MS stuck in Windows 2000, the better...
Seems this distribution wants to do away with most of Linux's advantages--flexibility, openness, choice. It tries to hide the command line, and only their "selected" applications will be supported. It tries to cover Linux's internals up by doing everything for the user. But it adds a registry. Hmm.... It tries to turn Linux into a Windows clone.
The problem is that distributions like this further move away from the common form of Linux. It is as if they are trying to create another OS. For example, do these people believe free software authors will depend on that registry for their programs? Or they will rather support Red Hat and SUSE rather than this strange distribution?
Probably most people will stay away from this distribution.
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Anyone get the starting music of Star Wars anywhere? That's the music to go with the story...
SPI was founded to handle donations for Debian, and now it serves as a property manager for a number of free software projects. SPI seems an excellent choice for donations, for these people who have problems with some of RMS's ideas.
We should not encourage setting up yet another organization. We have too many already. Talking about setting another organization may also give an opportunity for others trying to cash in since Linux is hot now.
Opensource.org is meant as an marketing organization. Thus it is not a good choice for the goals outlined in this article.
SPI was founded to handle donations for Debian, and now it serves as a property manager for a number of free software projects. SPI seems an excellent choice for donations, for these people who have problems with some of RMS's ideas.
We should not encourage setting up yet another organization. We have too many already. Talking about setting another organization may also give an oportunity for others trying to cash in since Linux is hot now.
Opensource.org is meant as an marking organization. Thus it is not a good choice for the goals outlined in this article.
Essentially Bill Gates is saying that he will keep throwing new features into his OS (Windows). Speech and handwriting recognition. He seems not concerned about the millions of lines of code in NT 5.0 and wants to add more. GUI in the kernel not enough...
This will give GNU/Linux, a 20-year old design (according to Gates) with a proven foundation for reliability, to take over... The longer MS stuck in Windows 2000, the better...
Seems this distribution wants to do away with most of Linux's advantages--flexibility, openness, choice. It tries to hide the command line, and only their "selected" applications will be supported. It tries to cover Linux's internals up by doing everything for the user. But it adds a registry. Hmm.... It tries to turn Linux into a Windows clone.
The problem is that distributions like this further move away from the common form of Linux. It is as if they are trying to create another OS. For example, do these people believe free software authors will depend on that registry for their programs? Or they will rather support Red Hat and SUSE rather than this strange distribution?
Probably most people will stay away from this distribution.
Come on, you don't know the real point, do you? If all he wants is to connect to the Internet, he can use Windows. Why bother with BeOS?
This has been done in network games like Netrek for years. Many claims in the patent are questionable.