Used to be called Nvu, but I've been using it for years to great success. It's basic, kind of a shitty dreamweaver, but it's free, open source, and has been totally acceptable as my basic html editor (along with Gimp) for nearly 10 years (under various names and guises).
I can't be the only one on slashdot who thinks this is great. Giant corporations are tampering with the fabric of life itself with virtually no safeguards or restraint. We need more of this.
Boost Mobile. $50 a month unlimited everything, no contract. After 6 months drops to $45. After a year drops to $40. After 18 months drops to $35 and stays there.
At one time they had great customer service, competitive pricing, and cutting edge phones. They don't have any of that now. This is just another manifestation. My contract is up later this year, and I am leaving FOR CERTAIN!
Until we remove all the corporate oligarchies, they will continue to act directly against the interest of the populace. This is just one more example. Anonymous FTW!
How about Sony come out, publicly apologize, disintegrate their entire company, and give all their money to a fund to help end corporate power globally.
Until they do all that, I fully applaud Anonymous. ROCK ON BROTHERS! FREEDOM!
... You never know when they might randomly stop supporting your device.:( I'm looking sadly at my Mytouch 3g (which can TOTALLY handle gingerbread, btw).
If you are still stuck in the ridiculousness that is the Ubuntu development process, give it a whirl.
Sensible default app choices, sensible OS structural decisions, sensible layout and design. Try it. If you are anything like me, you will not use Ubuntu again.
And for the hardcore geek, Linux Mint Debian Edition is awesome.
But there is a point here: That point is that they have binaries out on several tablets and have not released the code.
While this may adhere to some technical specification that somebody else decided on at some point (and god forbid I throw some asshole out of your precious tent), it is in fact against the very nature of openness, of open source, and even of human progress.
Sorry about my dogma. And I'm also sorry that Google, a giant and powerful mega-corporation is being an asshole. And I'm also sorry that you're a corporate apologist. Clearly, you and your leviathan buddy Google need protection from my harsh vitriol!
But then your generosity can be subsumed by somebody for commercial gain, ending the paying forward nature of the initial offering. In my opinion anyone using the BSD license is really just stupid and screwing themselves and the rest of us for no reason. If you use the GPLv3 you are protecting the project indefinitely and and ensuring it will be useful for all future generations.
Forcing people to do that isn't really a bad thing, imho.
Well, I'd agree with you 100%, but you called me a foam mouthed radical. LOL
Open Source is the future. To pretend otherwise is just retarded.
And half-assing the FOSS to curry favor while secretly being an evil corporation: Well, that's just evil.
Google needs to review their situation. They need to look farther down the road, and they need to go ahead and embrace the GPLv3. Otherwise they are not the forward looking company they are pretending to be, and they will eventually be supplanted by somebody who is.
That's what this is all about. What's best for the stock holders is future proofing. The GPLv3 is really the only way to guarantee that future proofing.
So for everyone on all sides, stop faking the FOSS:
Release the Code ("done" or not). Contribute in every way openly and honestly, and transparently. Fully democratize as much information as possible at all times. Code, everything.
It's not really radical. It's just advanced. I thought this was slashdot, not corporate apologist dot com.
Honeycomb is out on tablets all over the planet, and they have not released the source. If the code "isn't ready", then they shouldn't be releasing it at all, much less as part of a tablet that's being sold for $500, by select manufacturers.
It's not FUD. Release the source, or you're not an open source contributor, you're an asshole taking advantage of other people's work and contributing nothing back.
If Google doesn't release the source for an "Open Source" OS, then it's not really FOSS. If they do this on the backs of all the developers globally who have been helping with the code, then they are clearly assholes, and also clearly "Doing some evil", which is against their official company mantra.
Seriously, I'm sick of large corporations pretending to be Open Source and generating excitement and fans, only to later stab them in the back at their earliest convenience.
FUCK GOOGLE. FUCK TIVO. FUCK APPLE. And fuck all the other corporations opportunistically taking advantage of Open Source, and then not doing their part by releasing the code.
I will NEVER give any of these ass-hats my money. EVER. And the rest of you should follow suit.
All this locking down of code, and avoiding the GPLv3, and all based on the Linux kernel?
Let me be the first to say: FUCK GOOGLE.
I don't want "Open" to be a matter of opinion. Seriously. "Do no evil.": Corporate window dressing of a foul and clearly evil leviathan that has now taken over the entire market.
Absolute Power corrupts ABSOLUTELY. Hail the new Apple/Microsoft/Standard Oil!
It's more stable, that's true. But it's also better in a lot of other ways. Give it a shot. I've converted plenty of Mac/Windows users over to Mint, and 90% of them were overjoyed. The other 10% missed a game, generally, so I had to go back and install Wine or Urban Terror for them.
Mint is the second most popular distro in the world according to distrowatch. I don't know why there are still some people who haven't tried it out.
In nearly EVERY metric I can use, end users prefer Linux Mint. It's easier to use, cleaner, faster, has better default apps, a better default layout, and a better color scheme.
This is a completely realistic goal for Linux Mint.
Not for Ubuntu.*
*That is, unless they completely replace all of their leadership and clone the Mint philosophy, which doesn't seem likely.
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Excellent post man, even if it was a response to my obvious flamebait (tongue fully in cheek). Off to read the full article!!
Used to be called Nvu, but I've been using it for years to great success. It's basic, kind of a shitty dreamweaver, but it's free, open source, and has been totally acceptable as my basic html editor (along with Gimp) for nearly 10 years (under various names and guises).
Not to use Ubuntu and to stick with Linux Mint. Why is Ubuntu so prone to horrible choices like this?
I'm pretty sure a mom & pop grocery would not fall under the category of giant corporation.
I can't be the only one on slashdot who thinks this is great. Giant corporations are tampering with the fabric of life itself with virtually no safeguards or restraint. We need more of this.
Amen! Down with the corporatocracy!!!
Boost Mobile. $50 a month unlimited everything, no contract. After 6 months drops to $45. After a year drops to $40. After 18 months drops to $35 and stays there.
At one time they had great customer service, competitive pricing, and cutting edge phones. They don't have any of that now. This is just another manifestation. My contract is up later this year, and I am leaving FOR CERTAIN!
Until we remove all the corporate oligarchies, they will continue to act directly against the interest of the populace. This is just one more example. Anonymous FTW!
How about Sony come out, publicly apologize, disintegrate their entire company, and give all their money to a fund to help end corporate power globally.
Until they do all that, I fully applaud Anonymous. ROCK ON BROTHERS! FREEDOM!
... You never know when they might randomly stop supporting your device. :( I'm looking sadly at my Mytouch 3g (which can TOTALLY handle gingerbread, btw).
How can we get rid of every politician who votes for this?
fuck with anonymous.
I for one welcome our new decentralized anarchist overlords. Maybe now we can find out who shot JFK?
And that hope I offer is called Linux Mint:
http://blog.linuxmint.com/
If you are still stuck in the ridiculousness that is the Ubuntu development process, give it a whirl.
Sensible default app choices, sensible OS structural decisions, sensible layout and design. Try it. If you are anything like me, you will not use Ubuntu again.
And for the hardcore geek, Linux Mint Debian Edition is awesome.
As soon as the government lets me know who shot JFK, then I'll start believing them on other topics.
Well, OK, but I have not used Apple products since the very first iTunes. I refuse to use DRM in any guise.
Definitely not an Apple shill.
I'm anti corporation of any kind.
Dogma is an interesting word.
But there is a point here: That point is that they have binaries out on several tablets and have not released the code.
While this may adhere to some technical specification that somebody else decided on at some point (and god forbid I throw some asshole out of your precious tent), it is in fact against the very nature of openness, of open source, and even of human progress.
Sorry about my dogma. And I'm also sorry that Google, a giant and powerful mega-corporation is being an asshole. And I'm also sorry that you're a corporate apologist. Clearly, you and your leviathan buddy Google need protection from my harsh vitriol!
But then your generosity can be subsumed by somebody for commercial gain, ending the paying forward nature of the initial offering. In my opinion anyone using the BSD license is really just stupid and screwing themselves and the rest of us for no reason. If you use the GPLv3 you are protecting the project indefinitely and and ensuring it will be useful for all future generations.
Forcing people to do that isn't really a bad thing, imho.
Well, I'd agree with you 100%, but you called me a foam mouthed radical. LOL
Open Source is the future. To pretend otherwise is just retarded.
And half-assing the FOSS to curry favor while secretly being an evil corporation: Well, that's just evil.
Google needs to review their situation. They need to look farther down the road, and they need to go ahead and embrace the GPLv3. Otherwise they are not the forward looking company they are pretending to be, and they will eventually be supplanted by somebody who is.
That's what this is all about. What's best for the stock holders is future proofing. The GPLv3 is really the only way to guarantee that future proofing.
So for everyone on all sides, stop faking the FOSS:
Release the Code ("done" or not).
Contribute in every way openly and honestly, and transparently.
Fully democratize as much information as possible at all times. Code, everything.
It's not really radical. It's just advanced. I thought this was slashdot, not corporate apologist dot com.
Well then Google and Android are not Open Source, and they need to quit pretending.
Let's be real the stories we've been getting about the event are obviously suspicious.
http://rt.com/news/osama-dead-raid/
Seems more likely to me. "Hey look! We got Bin Laden!" Now don't pay attention to the massive decline of the American dollar.
Honeycomb is out on tablets all over the planet, and they have not released the source. If the code "isn't ready", then they shouldn't be releasing it at all, much less as part of a tablet that's being sold for $500, by select manufacturers.
It's not FUD. Release the source, or you're not an open source contributor, you're an asshole taking advantage of other people's work and contributing nothing back.
I said it yesterday, and I'll say it again today:
If Google doesn't release the source for an "Open Source" OS, then it's not really FOSS. If they do this on the backs of all the developers globally who have been helping with the code, then they are clearly assholes, and also clearly "Doing some evil", which is against their official company mantra.
Seriously, I'm sick of large corporations pretending to be Open Source and generating excitement and fans, only to later stab them in the back at their earliest convenience.
FUCK GOOGLE. FUCK TIVO. FUCK APPLE. And fuck all the other corporations opportunistically taking advantage of Open Source, and then not doing their part by releasing the code.
I will NEVER give any of these ass-hats my money. EVER. And the rest of you should follow suit.
All this locking down of code, and avoiding the GPLv3, and all based on the Linux kernel?
Let me be the first to say: FUCK GOOGLE.
I don't want "Open" to be a matter of opinion. Seriously. "Do no evil.": Corporate window dressing of a foul and clearly evil leviathan that has now taken over the entire market.
Absolute Power corrupts ABSOLUTELY. Hail the new Apple/Microsoft/Standard Oil!
It's more stable, that's true. But it's also better in a lot of other ways. Give it a shot. I've converted plenty of Mac/Windows users over to Mint, and 90% of them were overjoyed. The other 10% missed a game, generally, so I had to go back and install Wine or Urban Terror for them.
Mint is the second most popular distro in the world according to distrowatch. I don't know why there are still some people who haven't tried it out.
In nearly EVERY metric I can use, end users prefer Linux Mint. It's easier to use, cleaner, faster, has better default apps, a better default layout, and a better color scheme.
This is a completely realistic goal for Linux Mint.
Not for Ubuntu.*
*That is, unless they completely replace all of their leadership and clone the Mint philosophy, which doesn't seem likely.