Damn right, which is why all those developers have instead been developing for FreeBSD instead of for Linux. Oh, wait; they haven't been.
Well, then, surely they've been making developing for Solaris instead. Oh, wait; they haven't been.
Using that logic, the Microsoft Windows license makes it the best operating system for developers.
The reality is that many of the most exiting projects that have been done recently would never have been attempted without an OS under the GPL, and many of the next killer apps are likely to have been written by people who only took the time to do so -because- of Open Source and the GPL.
Which exciting GPL'd project are you referring to? Apache? Xorg? Mozilla?
What you're looking for is SeaMonkey. Email + Web browser integrated with all the new features of Firefox and Thunderbird (including the 1.5 branches), and it only uses half the memory of the two. I've found it to load much faster than Firefox on my FreeBSD system, and it's more responsive.
Or you could use SeaMonkey. I mean, if you're going to be using Firefox + Thunderbird, you might as well download the suite, which uses less hard drive space and memory. The mail client has had inline spellchecking for a while, virtual folders, and warns you if it thinks a message is a scam. It's at least worth checking out.
"There's probably a reason that the Mozilla Foundation dropped the original Mozilla suite (I personally don't know what it is), so it may seem a little strange that somebody would insist on working with the old code, let alone using it."
There is a reason, the Mozilla foundation wanted to create a separate web browser for a "mainstream" audience who didn't need the added features of an email client (after all, most newbies to the internet use webmail). The browser was targeted at a different set of people, while the Mozilla Suite was targeted at power users. Of course, when somebody wanted an email client to go along with their 'Firefox', Thunderbird was spawned, followed by a whole slew of apps that aren't integrated, and together use several times the memory footprint of the Mozilla suite alone.
That's in a nutshell. Until very recently, most of the new features of Firefox and Thunderbird could be found in the Mozilla-1.8 nightlies before they were available to the standalone programs.
This has already been done by a man named Karl Weierstrass who came up with a way to express continuity in algebraic terms. You know, the "epsilon-delta" definition you learn in your first week of Calculus. In a nutshell, before this definition, everyone knew that Calculus worked, but no one was sure *why*.
That looks interesting, but I'm on a FreeBSD machine and don't have access to Internet Explorer.
Personally, I don't like the feel of Firefox anyway. The UI seems kind of awkward and too many preferences are hidden from the end user. When built from source with compiler optimizations, the Mozilla suite loads and feels faster than Firefox with the same optimizations. Maybe the new SeaMonkey suite will continue the path that Mozilla started on.
Different tastes in web browsing, I guess. Nice sig.
Okay, so it's flamebait, but isn't that essentially the problem? The GNOME guys insisted Qt wasn't good enough because it was non-Free, then Qt was released exactly how Stallman recommends, and now Qt isn't good enough because it's too Free?
The "problem" is that in their rebellion from Qt and KDE, the GNOME guys actually managed to make a decent desktop environment, one which many people and corporate entities prefer to KDE.
The Mozilla Suite is not old. The current version is 1.7.10, and with a 1.7.11 release right around the corner, it will be newer than the most recent Firefox.
Lots of people continue to use the Suite, for example, people who receive e-mail.
Why not just use the Mozilla suite? Email notifications pop up in a nice window, even when you have the mail client closed and are just using the web browser.
Makes sense, the cash cow that is MySpace is crashing under its own load. Imagine Google purchasing it, cleaning up the code, replacing the flash ads with small text based ones, and integrating it with Gmail. A personals site is really the only thing all of the other portals have that Google does not.
As I recall, RedHat was criticized a few years ago for removing the Taiwanese flag from their distribution to appease potential customers in mainland China. Let's face it, China is a huge market to get into; if a company that refused to ship an MP3 library with their distribution can be seduced by the Chinese market's potential, what good is a little democracy or freedom going to do to prevent Microsoft from acting in the same manner? It's all about money.
Probably. From what I understand, OpenFirmware will be one of the main obstacles preventing people from installing OS X on any Intel-based computer. Now, just days after Apple tells IBM to go fuck themselves, IBM has open-sourced the firmware. The timing is too close for this to be a coincidence...
That's because tides are caused by really really enormously heavy objects orbiting the Earth. Do you know how big the moon is, compared with the advertisements that will be orbiting?
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Damn right, which is why all those developers have instead been developing for FreeBSD instead of for Linux. Oh, wait; they haven't been.
Well, then, surely they've been making developing for Solaris instead. Oh, wait; they haven't been.
Using that logic, the Microsoft Windows license makes it the best operating system for developers.
The reality is that many of the most exiting projects that have been done recently would never have been attempted without an OS under the GPL, and many of the next killer apps are likely to have been written by people who only took the time to do so -because- of Open Source and the GPL.
Which exciting GPL'd project are you referring to? Apache? Xorg? Mozilla?
There's always MySpace.
Windows Media Player made the list at 47.
What you're looking for is SeaMonkey. Email + Web browser integrated with all the new features of Firefox and Thunderbird (including the 1.5 branches), and it only uses half the memory of the two. I've found it to load much faster than Firefox on my FreeBSD system, and it's more responsive.
Or you could use SeaMonkey. I mean, if you're going to be using Firefox + Thunderbird, you might as well download the suite, which uses less hard drive space and memory. The mail client has had inline spellchecking for a while, virtual folders, and warns you if it thinks a message is a scam. It's at least worth checking out.
"There's probably a reason that the Mozilla Foundation dropped the original Mozilla suite (I personally don't know what it is), so it may seem a little strange that somebody would insist on working with the old code, let alone using it."
There is a reason, the Mozilla foundation wanted to create a separate web browser for a "mainstream" audience who didn't need the added features of an email client (after all, most newbies to the internet use webmail). The browser was targeted at a different set of people, while the Mozilla Suite was targeted at power users. Of course, when somebody wanted an email client to go along with their 'Firefox', Thunderbird was spawned, followed by a whole slew of apps that aren't integrated, and together use several times the memory footprint of the Mozilla suite alone.
That's in a nutshell. Until very recently, most of the new features of Firefox and Thunderbird could be found in the Mozilla-1.8 nightlies before they were available to the standalone programs.
The bad news? I just got my Touran..
I'm sorry.
This has already been done by a man named Karl Weierstrass who came up with a way to express continuity in algebraic terms. You know, the "epsilon-delta" definition you learn in your first week of Calculus. In a nutshell, before this definition, everyone knew that Calculus worked, but no one was sure *why*.
Isn't it shoot first, ask questions later?
Where have you been? The new phrase is "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission."
That looks interesting, but I'm on a FreeBSD machine and don't have access to Internet Explorer.
Personally, I don't like the feel of Firefox anyway. The UI seems kind of awkward and too many preferences are hidden from the end user. When built from source with compiler optimizations, the Mozilla suite loads and feels faster than Firefox with the same optimizations. Maybe the new SeaMonkey suite will continue the path that Mozilla started on.
Different tastes in web browsing, I guess. Nice sig.
It's hard enough to change the kernel to Darwin under regular OSX, what makes you think the Intel version will be any easier?
Okay, so it's flamebait, but isn't that essentially the problem? The GNOME guys insisted Qt wasn't good enough because it was non-Free, then Qt was released exactly how Stallman recommends, and now Qt isn't good enough because it's too Free?
The "problem" is that in their rebellion from Qt and KDE, the GNOME guys actually managed to make a decent desktop environment, one which many people and corporate entities prefer to KDE.
The Mozilla Suite is not old. The current version is 1.7.10, and with a 1.7.11 release right around the corner, it will be newer than the most recent Firefox.
Lots of people continue to use the Suite, for example, people who receive e-mail.
Why not just use the Mozilla suite? Email notifications pop up in a nice window, even when you have the mail client closed and are just using the web browser.
I have a program called HAPPY99.EXE which will display fireworks right on your desktop!
Worst thread ever.
Good. Now port it to FreeBSD.
Go to the gym.
Except that the Windows and *nix versions are only weeks away from hitting 2.0.
Makes sense, the cash cow that is MySpace is crashing under its own load. Imagine Google purchasing it, cleaning up the code, replacing the flash ads with small text based ones, and integrating it with Gmail. A personals site is really the only thing all of the other portals have that Google does not.
Hahahahaha
As I recall, RedHat was criticized a few years ago for removing the Taiwanese flag from their distribution to appease potential customers in mainland China. Let's face it, China is a huge market to get into; if a company that refused to ship an MP3 library with their distribution can be seduced by the Chinese market's potential, what good is a little democracy or freedom going to do to prevent Microsoft from acting in the same manner? It's all about money.
Probably. From what I understand, OpenFirmware will be one of the main obstacles preventing people from installing OS X on any Intel-based computer. Now, just days after Apple tells IBM to go fuck themselves, IBM has open-sourced the firmware. The timing is too close for this to be a coincidence...
Sure there is. Try reading this:
http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html
That's because tides are caused by really really enormously heavy objects orbiting the Earth. Do you know how big the moon is, compared with the advertisements that will be orbiting?