It is sad to see all these people saying, oh but it's free so I won't pay... and survival of the fittest, another company will come along!
Regretfully, people like this, (only in it for themselves and not the good of the community) are killing the "free as in beer" side of OpenSource.
The GNU-GPL is not flawed in my opinion. Heck I keep a copy of it on my palm pilot.... The business model IS flawed at Mandrake and a lot of the open source companies trying to thrive with HUGE overhead and costs. OpenSource is great, and Mandrake and other OS's benefit from being OpenSource because they get to incorporate a lot of other OpenSource projects... hmmmm.. KDE, GNOME just to name two that we might all use. Mandrake needs to charge for their distro's. No more ISO's unless it's an update for a previous version (maybe nothing). I'll pay, I'll pay to support and to have that CD when I destroy my computer again. I'll pay just so I don't have to waste my time downloading. I'll pay for something I love and want to, not because I have to.. (think Microsoft).
I honestly believe that I personally could turn Microsoft around and make it into something great... why? because the business model is flawed, and it's so simple to see.
Mandrake is also flawed, and needs to change (cringe all you free loaders). Give back to the community that has treated you so well.... Brought you Slashdot written in Perl, and SQL, all your sites in PHP...
Grrr, I gotta get more coffee.... After I give my money to Mandrake, you know, the OS that easily went on my HP Laptop because no other disto had a chance.....
To me that sounds more like a bad attitude than anything... Caffiene in the morning usually helps.
Now on one level you are correct. Free software can and may be maintained and passed along to whom-ever. One person stops working on a project, another can and will take over if the project dictates it, and / or the project deserves it.
BUT, A project as large as Linux Mandrake, to think that they can just shut their doors, and someone like yourself can just step in and pick up where it all was left off, the projects, the production, the distribution on a project of this size... you're dreaming.
And to not support a project that has given so much to the Linux community? We all like free "as in beer" software. I like to use the code and learn from it... But you need to think bigger. Think past your own dorm room... Or office in my case....
Don't we all want Linux to grow? Hasn't Mandrake done so much for the Linux Desktop community? Yes, and yes! If we let a project such as this fail, because you can't scrounge in your cushions for $5, even for just one month of dues, then what exactly to we stand for?
I can make free software, you can make free software, but even together we could not make Linux Mandrake.
Free as in beer is great, but we all need to support what we love. Either in $$ in times of need, or bug reports to make it better, and if you're too cheap to do both, at least recommend it to your friends.
Until I get a call from another company asking if they can send me the document in kword.... I'm going to give support, and push others into supporting them.
All this ranting about illegal issues.... The article stated that they were going to RE-RELSEASE the project under the GPL.
So that means it's still free. They were just going to make it unreadable for people like myself, who might be a fair programmer, but remove the comments and obfusticate (or whatever) the program, and I'll never figure it out.... Making the fact that it's GPL useless for me, except in the end product. I could always compile it and use it.... but just could not learn from it.
I've read a few posts regarding banner ads and slahdot or other sites.... I've finally come to a revelation about banner ads.... of course I came to this conclusion a while ago, but have yet to say anything here:
Banner ads, the idea behind them, does work. The problem is that people have come to the decision that they will only pay for banner ads that are quantifiable... I.E. Click Throughs.
This is not, and should not be the case. Banner ads should be sold on the number or visits on a site, and the popularity of the site. Just like advertisers want to be seen during superbowl.... Why? Many, many eyeballs. So their willing to pay a hefty price!
I don't see a comercial during the superbowl and go... "Whoa... I gotta have that!" and then leave to go to the store.... NO! I finish watching the superbowl and then at a later date, with the proverbial commercial seed planted in my brain, I go and purchase that product.
The same goes for banner ads. It's a form of advertisement. I'm not going to drop everything to go and head over to that site..... I'm here at slashdot or where-ever for a reason. I'll do what I have to, and then later.... When I'm not too busy.... I'll head over to thinkgeek and buy that hat.
Yes I purchased many a thing at ThinkGeek and elsewhere, because of banner-ads (I would not have known about them otherwise) but I have NEVER purchased anything by means of a click-through.
So in quantifiable means, the banner ad didn't work. There was a click through but no purchase. Ah, but I did purchase. Just at a later date.
I can't stress this fact enough.... We do not drop everything when we see a tv ad and head to the store... we do it later. Does this mean because we didn't drop anything that TV ads are failing?
I decided that one day I would reply to all the spam that I received in my non-personal mailbox.
I did I then received all the mail back as undeliverable. I replied the same day it was received so what good are these spammers doing? I mean, how do they expect to make any money if they were not there to take mine?
I've finally come to a revelation about banner ads.... of course I came to this conclusion a while ago, but have yet to say anything here:
Banner ads, the idea behind them, does work. The problem is that people have come to the decision that they will only pay for banner ads that are quantifiable... I.E. Click Throughs.
This is not, and should not be the case. Banner ads should be sold on the number or visits on a site, and the popularity of the site. Just like advertisers want to be seen during superbowl.... Why? Many, many eyeballs. So their willing to pay a hefty price! I don't see a comercial during the superbowl and go... "Whoa... I gotta have that!" and then leave to go to the store.... NO! I finish watching the superbowl and then at a later date, with the proverbial commercial seed planted in my brain, I go and purchase that product.
The same goes for banner ads. It's a form of advertisement. I'm not going to drop everything to go and head over to that site..... I'm here at slashdot or where-ever for a reason. I'll do what I have to, and then later.... When I'm not too busy.... I'll head over to thinkgeek and buy that hat.
Yes I purchased many a thing at ThinkGeek and elsewhere, because of banner-ads (I would not have known about them otherwise) but I have NEVER purchased anything by means of a click-through.
So in quantifiable means, the banner ad didn't work. There was a click through but no purchase. Ah, but I did purchase. Just at a later date.
I can't stress this fact enough.... We do not drop everything when we see a tv ad and head to the store... we do it later. Does this mean because we didn't drop anything that TV ads are failing?
I watched a big report on the slowing of the earth and the moon... Sorry no links to back this up, but hear me out...
The moon is what causes our rise and fall (wax and wain) of the tides. This same effect is acting as a big break on the earths spinning. In a sense, the earth is slowing down at a miniscule faction of a second a day. In recongnizable terms, it said that the earth will be 26 hours a day in 20 million years and 28 in 40 or 50 million years.
Think of it as a type of "Megan's Law". If you're a sex offender, then you're put on the list. I don't care if you reformed or not, you're still on the list for everyone to know.
Now here you are. A verified spammer (or cause of my daily headaches, i.e. spam). So now you're blacklisted and partially fscked... And back to being your fault? You got what you deserve.
Whether or not blacklists are a good idea? Well, that can be questionable because DNS #'s do and will change over time. Blacklists are not completely kept up.... Maybe someone on slashdot has the answer so keep checking...
of opensource the fact that when a vulnerability is found, it is then patched / fixed / hacked / whatever / and then distributed.
I mean, lets be honest, how many of you programmed some code and it worked perfectly the first time? Maybe sometimes, but even the small programs we forget a " or a ; here and there.... This is putting the works of many, many people together to compile a "program" that is larger than anything I could even dream of accomplishing. i.e., there are bound to be flaws we didn't see in the multi-millons of lines of code.
Back to ontopic.... A security hole is found, we can patch it because we can see the code, we can make it BETTER. Microsoft.... well, you just wait and hope they eventually make a patch, and half the time the patches suck and are re-exploited in a matter of days.
I'm not claiming that opensource is non-vulnerable or exploit-free.... So this article seems somewhat pointless. Anyone who writes code, knows that an exploit free program of this size is just dreaming. What should really be looked at is the amount of time taken to fix and patch a problem.
Just my.02 of rambling
Actually they're already having problems...
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PayPal Goes Public
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Louisiana has declared PayPal to be a money transfer system (duh!) and that they require licensing from the state to do business in the state. Since they don't have such a license, they have to quit doing business in Louisiana. Other states are following....
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Then it will be the 56K laggers doing the laughing!
NO, not because of pirating music and videos, or movies... or even tv shows for that matter. We all still buy / purchase.
No, the downfall will be because of the ever surmounting lawyer bills they will receive after all the BS... After chasing one p2p network and then the next when a new one pops up... then the next... and so forth.
Probably MS's next step... Doing exactly what they did to the browser market, but now their going for the Security market. They'll integrate their own security site and antivirus software with their OS. Then they'll buy up mailing lists and security sites (hey they have the money and anyone can be bought for a price).
Then all we have for security is what MS tells us and gives us!
I beleive that Grand Theft Auto III is currently banned over there....
I might be able to understand not selling a game to a kid under a certain age, but to bad a game like Grand Theft Auto III for everyone? Makes me think twice about moving there!
I mean shouldn't we go after the people who are dumb enough to open up stange attachments and spead the Goner Viurs....
Or how about going after Microsoft for leaving gaping holes in IIS or in good olde stand-by Outlook Express. You know, the staple e-mail client that everyone uses to spread these viruses....
Anyone can write a virus.... We need to educate and create barriers to stop your average villige idoit from opening up viruses.... even if it mean having a pop-up on outlook that recognizes.exe files,.com,.pif,.bat, heck anything and says "are you sure you want to open this? This may contain a virus." and voila... that will probably cut our virus spreading down by half!!!!
When i first started in linux I used Mandrake (eck) and it pretty much told me "Use GUI!" and I did, I remember the GUI login and i used to think "hey tihs is cool" Until i realised the whole new world of the linux console....
You just summed up my whole point, thank you. Start with a GUI, and then learn from there as you did. Do not make it menacing at first, and scare away potential market share. You have to stop thinking like a "linux geek" for a moment (I don't mean that in a bad way) and start thinking like a business man, and thinking of ways to get more market share.
Take a look at Microsoft.... What are they doing? They're constantly trying to make it more user friendly, because this attracts users and businesses. Ease of use, means less training, means less dollars shelled out, means more profit. Now if we can show that Linux costs less initially, AND has the same learning curve as MS... Then MS will have something to truly be scared of.
Yes, it's a newbie-ish article concerning Linux, but do you remember the first time you ever ran linux?
I definately do... I took me three days to figure out that I needed to type "startx" to get the desktop up.....
Hey, it was all new to me, I definately had no clue where to start or what commands to use. Nevermind write and print a text file or spread sheet. And this is what the article refers to. You initally need to spend time playing with it, and learning the system before you can do what most people naturally do with Windows.
IMHO, I believe that Linux needs high consumer use-ability for it to really get into mainstream. First off, Linux needs a few windowish things to happen. One First boot always goes to the desktop... (allow logging in and command line access to be optional for users concerned about security or command line freaks like me). This will give Windows users a nice warm fuzzy feeling at first.
Second Allow double clicking to execute files in desktop mode. Therefore the user does not have to open up the command line and type./"file" everytime to get it running. yes I know this does work, but very few default this way without having to change them. Again, we want to make it easy for newbies.....
I feel that by making Linux extrmemly easy for new people, many will flock. By allowing users to take to "newbie" usability features away, people like us will still be happy.
When I was running RedHat 6.2 I used Gnome, and got very used to it, and enjoyed it very much. I initally used Gnome, not out of choice, but because I had to... I had linux on my laptop and KDE just wouldn't work for me.
I then switched to Linux Mandrake 8.0 on the same laptop... wouldn't you know it, now Gnome just won't work, and KDE works like a charm. Now I've gotten used to that, and enjoy using it too.
I guess what I'm getting at is people will like, and even love, what they use once they are used to it. You hate something when you can't find what your looking for.
You're right about one thing... One will emerge as a true leader. KDE does look to be playing the part, but as long as you give users the choice of either, both will be used.
For everyone who wants to learn perl too..
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Happy Birthday Perl!
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· Score: 5, Informative
I don't normally plug things but, this is free, and it seems appropriate:
Currently Barnes and Nobles and their partnership is currently offering FREE Learn Perl courses online....
They try and sucker you in to buy the book, but it is not necessary for those who don't want to, but again, it is a very good book, therefor I would recommend it.
So if you ever wanted to know what we were all talking about when we say "PERL", now's your chance...
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It is sad to see all these people saying, oh but it's free so I won't pay... and survival of the fittest, another company will come along!
Regretfully, people like this, (only in it for themselves and not the good of the community) are killing the "free as in beer" side of OpenSource.
The GNU-GPL is not flawed in my opinion. Heck I keep a copy of it on my palm pilot....
The business model IS flawed at Mandrake and a lot of the open source companies trying to thrive with HUGE overhead and costs. OpenSource is great, and Mandrake and other OS's benefit from being OpenSource because they get to incorporate a lot of other OpenSource projects... hmmmm.. KDE, GNOME just to name two that we might all use.
Mandrake needs to charge for their distro's. No more ISO's unless it's an update for a previous version (maybe nothing). I'll pay, I'll pay to support and to have that CD when I destroy my computer again. I'll pay just so I don't have to waste my time downloading. I'll pay for something I love and want to, not because I have to.. (think Microsoft).
I honestly believe that I personally could turn Microsoft around and make it into something great... why? because the business model is flawed, and it's so simple to see.
Mandrake is also flawed, and needs to change (cringe all you free loaders). Give back to the community that has treated you so well.... Brought you Slashdot written in Perl, and SQL, all your sites in PHP...
Grrr, I gotta get more coffee....
After I give my money to Mandrake, you know, the OS that easily went on my HP Laptop because no other disto had a chance.....
To me that sounds more like a bad attitude than anything... Caffiene in the morning usually helps.
Now on one level you are correct. Free software can and may be maintained and passed along to whom-ever. One person stops working on a project, another can and will take over if the project dictates it, and / or the project deserves it.
BUT,
A project as large as Linux Mandrake, to think that they can just shut their doors, and someone like yourself can just step in and pick up where it all was left off, the projects, the production, the distribution on a project of this size... you're dreaming.
And to not support a project that has given so much to the Linux community? We all like free "as in beer" software. I like to use the code and learn from it... But you need to think bigger. Think past your own dorm room... Or office in my case....
Don't we all want Linux to grow? Hasn't Mandrake done so much for the Linux Desktop community? Yes, and yes!
If we let a project such as this fail, because you can't scrounge in your cushions for $5, even for just one month of dues, then what exactly to we stand for?
I can make free software, you can make free software, but even together we could not make Linux Mandrake.
Free as in beer is great, but we all need to support what we love. Either in $$ in times of need, or bug reports to make it better, and if you're too cheap to do both, at least recommend it to your friends.
Until I get a call from another company asking if they can send me the document in kword.... I'm going to give support, and push others into supporting them.
Finished Ranting... Back to my Coffee....
All this ranting about illegal issues....
The article stated that they were going to RE-RELSEASE the project under the GPL.
So that means it's still free. They were just going to make it unreadable for people like myself, who might be a fair programmer, but remove the comments and obfusticate (or whatever) the program, and I'll never figure it out.... Making the fact that it's GPL useless for me, except in the end product. I could always compile it and use it.... but just could not learn from it.
Yeah... Just like the Texans like to wear cowboy hats stereotype...
I mean, give the hats a break!
The hats did nothing to deserve this... Try focusing on the belt buckles for a change!
Please!
I've read a few posts regarding banner ads and slahdot or other sites.... I've finally come to a revelation about banner ads.... of course I came to this conclusion a while ago, but have yet to say anything here:
Banner ads, the idea behind them, does work. The problem is that people have come to the decision that they will only pay for banner ads that are quantifiable... I.E. Click Throughs.
This is not, and should not be the case. Banner ads should be sold on the number or visits on a site, and the popularity of the site.
Just like advertisers want to be seen during superbowl.... Why? Many, many eyeballs. So their willing to pay a hefty price!
I don't see a comercial during the superbowl and go... "Whoa... I gotta have that!" and then leave to go to the store.... NO! I finish watching the superbowl and then at a later date, with the proverbial commercial seed planted in my brain, I go and purchase that product.
The same goes for banner ads. It's a form of advertisement. I'm not going to drop everything to go and head over to that site..... I'm here at slashdot or where-ever for a reason. I'll do what I have to, and then later.... When I'm not too busy.... I'll head over to thinkgeek and buy that hat.
Yes I purchased many a thing at ThinkGeek and elsewhere, because of banner-ads (I would not have known about them otherwise) but I have NEVER purchased anything by means of a click-through.
So in quantifiable means, the banner ad didn't work. There was a click through but no purchase.
Ah, but I did purchase. Just at a later date.
I can't stress this fact enough.... We do not drop everything when we see a tv ad and head to the store... we do it later. Does this mean because we didn't drop anything that TV ads are failing?
Time for a philosophy change.
hehehehe....
:P
What's really funny about it is that I fscked up on the return line and should be "\n"....
As you see, I program all so often
I think the editorial dude is right... I mean look at this!
/n
/n
/n
/n
/n
/n
Return Line:
Perl -
C -
C++ -
Pascal-
Delphi-
Batch -
My god.... they are all the same!!!!!
I decided that one day I would reply to all the spam that I received in my non-personal mailbox.
I did
I then received all the mail back as undeliverable.
I replied the same day it was received so what good are these spammers doing? I mean, how do they expect to make any money if they were not there to take mine?
I've finally come to a revelation about banner ads.... of course I came to this conclusion a while ago, but have yet to say anything here:
Banner ads, the idea behind them, does work. The problem is that people have come to the decision that they will only pay for banner ads that are quantifiable... I.E. Click Throughs.
This is not, and should not be the case. Banner ads should be sold on the number or visits on a site, and the popularity of the site.
Just like advertisers want to be seen during superbowl.... Why? Many, many eyeballs. So their willing to pay a hefty price!
I don't see a comercial during the superbowl and go... "Whoa... I gotta have that!" and then leave to go to the store.... NO! I finish watching the superbowl and then at a later date, with the proverbial commercial seed planted in my brain, I go and purchase that product.
The same goes for banner ads. It's a form of advertisement. I'm not going to drop everything to go and head over to that site..... I'm here at slashdot or where-ever for a reason. I'll do what I have to, and then later.... When I'm not too busy.... I'll head over to thinkgeek and buy that hat.
Yes I purchased many a thing at ThinkGeek and elsewhere, because of banner-ads (I would not have known about them otherwise) but I have NEVER purchased anything by means of a click-through.
So in quantifiable means, the banner ad didn't work. There was a click through but no purchase.
Ah, but I did purchase. Just at a later date.
I can't stress this fact enough.... We do not drop everything when we see a tv ad and head to the store... we do it later. Does this mean because we didn't drop anything that TV ads are failing?
Time for a philosophy change.
I watched a big report on the slowing of the earth and the moon...
Sorry no links to back this up, but hear me out...
The moon is what causes our rise and fall (wax and wain) of the tides. This same effect is acting as a big break on the earths spinning.
In a sense, the earth is slowing down at a miniscule faction of a second a day.
In recongnizable terms, it said that the earth will be 26 hours a day in 20 million years and 28 in 40 or 50 million years.
I see it like this:
Think of it as a type of "Megan's Law". If you're a sex offender, then you're put on the list. I don't care if you reformed or not, you're still on the list for everyone to know.
Now here you are. A verified spammer (or cause of my daily headaches, i.e. spam). So now you're blacklisted and partially fscked... And back to being your fault?
You got what you deserve.
Whether or not blacklists are a good idea? Well, that can be questionable because DNS #'s do and will change over time. Blacklists are not completely kept up.... Maybe someone on slashdot has the answer so keep checking...
of opensource the fact that when a vulnerability is found, it is then patched / fixed / hacked / whatever / and then distributed.
.02 of rambling
I mean, lets be honest, how many of you programmed some code and it worked perfectly the first time? Maybe sometimes, but even the small programs we forget a " or a ; here and there....
This is putting the works of many, many people together to compile a "program" that is larger than anything I could even dream of accomplishing. i.e., there are bound to be flaws we didn't see in the multi-millons of lines of code.
Back to ontopic.... A security hole is found, we can patch it because we can see the code, we can make it BETTER.
Microsoft....
well, you just wait and hope they eventually make a patch, and half the time the patches suck and are re-exploited in a matter of days.
I'm not claiming that opensource is non-vulnerable or exploit-free.... So this article seems somewhat pointless. Anyone who writes code, knows that an exploit free program of this size is just dreaming. What should really be looked at is the amount of time taken to fix and patch a problem.
Just my
Louisiana has declared PayPal to be a money transfer system (duh!) and that they require licensing from the state to do business in the state.
Since they don't have such a license, they have to quit doing business in Louisiana. Other states are following....
Full article here:
Yahoo News Article
Congrats!!!!
Enjoy marriage and a lifetime of coding PERL together!
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"Please enter another quarter if you wish to attack the terrorists again. If you wish to just spectate, please insert another dime for every 30 seconds you wish to spectate for. Thank you and have a nice day."
Then it will be the 56K laggers doing the laughing!
NO, not because of pirating music and videos, or movies... or even tv shows for that matter. We all still buy / purchase.
No, the downfall will be because of the ever surmounting lawyer bills they will receive after all the BS... After chasing one p2p network and then the next when a new one pops up... then the next... and so forth.
Learn to change / adapt, or become extinct.
Probably MS's next step... Doing exactly what they did to the browser market, but now their going for the Security market. They'll integrate their own security site and antivirus software with their OS. Then they'll buy up mailing lists and security sites (hey they have the money and anyone can be bought for a price).
Then all we have for security is what MS tells us and gives us!
I beleive that Grand Theft Auto III is currently banned over there....
I might be able to understand not selling a game to a kid under a certain age, but to bad a game like Grand Theft Auto III for everyone? Makes me think twice about moving there!
Make a legitimate comment and I get trolled? Bunch of bad moderators out there huh?
I mean shouldn't we go after the people who are dumb enough to open up stange attachments and spead the Goner Viurs....
.exe files, .com, .pif, .bat, heck anything and says "are you sure you want to open this? This may contain a virus." and voila... that will probably cut our virus spreading down by half!!!!
Or how about going after Microsoft for leaving gaping holes in IIS or in good olde stand-by Outlook Express. You know, the staple e-mail client that everyone uses to spread these viruses....
Anyone can write a virus.... We need to educate and create barriers to stop your average villige idoit from opening up viruses.... even if it mean having a pop-up on outlook that recognizes
atyr wrote:
When i first started in linux I used Mandrake (eck) and it pretty much told me "Use GUI!" and I did, I remember the GUI login and i used to think "hey tihs is cool" Until i realised the whole new world of the linux console....
You just summed up my whole point, thank you.
Start with a GUI, and then learn from there as you did. Do not make it menacing at first, and scare away potential market share. You have to stop thinking like a "linux geek" for a moment (I don't mean that in a bad way) and start thinking like a business man, and thinking of ways to get more market share.
Take a look at Microsoft.... What are they doing? They're constantly trying to make it more user friendly, because this attracts users and businesses. Ease of use, means less training, means less dollars shelled out, means more profit. Now if we can show that Linux costs less initially, AND has the same learning curve as MS... Then MS will have something to truly be scared of.
Yes, it's a newbie-ish article concerning Linux, but do you remember the first time you ever ran linux?
./"file" everytime to get it running. yes I know this does work, but very few default this way without having to change them. Again, we want to make it easy for newbies.....
I definately do... I took me three days to figure out that I needed to type "startx" to get the desktop up.....
Hey, it was all new to me, I definately had no clue where to start or what commands to use. Nevermind write and print a text file or spread sheet. And this is what the article refers to.
You initally need to spend time playing with it, and learning the system before you can do what most people naturally do with Windows.
IMHO, I believe that Linux needs high consumer use-ability for it to really get into mainstream.
First off, Linux needs a few windowish things to happen.
One
First boot always goes to the desktop... (allow logging in and command line access to be optional for users concerned about security or command line freaks like me). This will give Windows users a nice warm fuzzy feeling at first.
Second
Allow double clicking to execute files in desktop mode. Therefore the user does not have to open up the command line and type
I feel that by making Linux extrmemly easy for new people, many will flock. By allowing users to take to "newbie" usability features away, people like us will still be happy.
When I was running RedHat 6.2 I used Gnome, and got very used to it, and enjoyed it very much.
I initally used Gnome, not out of choice, but because I had to... I had linux on my laptop and KDE just wouldn't work for me.
I then switched to Linux Mandrake 8.0 on the same laptop... wouldn't you know it, now Gnome just won't work, and KDE works like a charm. Now I've gotten used to that, and enjoy using it too.
I guess what I'm getting at is people will like, and even love, what they use once they are used to it. You hate something when you can't find what your looking for.
You're right about one thing... One will emerge as a true leader. KDE does look to be playing the part, but as long as you give users the choice of either, both will be used.
I don't normally plug things but, this is free, and it seems appropriate:
Currently Barnes and Nobles and their partnership is currently offering FREE Learn Perl courses online....
They try and sucker you in to buy the book, but it is not necessary for those who don't want to, but again, it is a very good book, therefor I would recommend it.
So if you ever wanted to know what we were all talking about when we say "PERL", now's your chance...
I first went to Fatchucks to see which cd's are currently being copy protected.....
I then hopped on Morpheus (musiccity.com) and typed in the name of the album that was copy protected....
guess what?!
All the ones that I tried are there. So what does that tell you Mr. RIAA....?