The fact is there is almost no demand for an office suite that installs in 20megs. I appreciate tight code as much as the next geek, but the fact is, memory and HD space are dirt cheap, and getting cheaper all the time. As longer as they continue to be, companines like MS, or Corel, or Sun or anyone that makes a user level app has NO incentive to be space efficient. 4-5megs for an Easter egg? Who cares? 10+ gig HDs are commonplace, 4-5megs is NOTHING.
Please tell me this was supposed to be joke. ActiveState is all about providing great tools for Perl and Python. Often those tools are for Windows, because in the MS world, the PHB just don't get not having a company behind a product, and that helps the spread of Perl (for example) to have ActiveState attached to it. But they are not on anyone's side but the developers who use their stuff. I would prefer to use Linux or BSD, but I'm stuck with Windows at work, and having an nice IDE for Perl and Python might be a nice thing for some work project I'm thinking about doing. (*SOB* I admit it, I actually kind of like the DevStudio IDE...I feel so dirty) ActiveState job is to make tools, not to take sides in your little ideological war....
I wasn't aware that Slashdot was a Linux-only site. Oh wait...IT ISN'T. Granted, many of us have an interest in Linux, but this is not "News about Linux, Linux-related stuff that matters. Many of of us appreciate OSS, but don't think that it is the ONLY way. Blizzard has a right to not make a Linux port, and you don't have to like it. But a whole lot of/. readers have spent more hours than they may care to admit playing Diablo, and are going to be praying to any available deities that they make the cut for this beta. This story is more interesting to most/. readers than over half the stories posted here./. does not have an obligation to promote only those companies that support Linux. Deal with it.
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The fact is there is almost no demand for an office suite that installs in 20megs. I appreciate tight code as much as the next geek, but the fact is, memory and HD space are dirt cheap, and getting cheaper all the time. As longer as they continue to be, companines like MS, or Corel, or Sun or anyone that makes a user level app has NO incentive to be space efficient. 4-5megs for an Easter egg? Who cares? 10+ gig HDs are commonplace, 4-5megs is NOTHING.
Please tell me this was supposed to be joke. ActiveState is all about providing great tools for Perl and Python. Often those tools are for Windows, because in the MS world, the PHB just don't get not having a company behind a product, and that helps the spread of Perl (for example) to have ActiveState attached to it. But they are not on anyone's side but the developers who use their stuff. I would prefer to use Linux or BSD, but I'm stuck with Windows at work, and having an nice IDE for Perl and Python might be a nice thing for some work project I'm thinking about doing. (*SOB* I admit it, I actually kind of like the DevStudio IDE...I feel so dirty) ActiveState job is to make tools, not to take sides in your little ideological war....
I wasn't aware that Slashdot was a Linux-only site. Oh wait...IT ISN'T. Granted, many of us have an interest in Linux, but this is not "News about Linux, Linux-related stuff that matters. /. readers have spent more hours than they may care to admit playing Diablo, and are going to be praying to any available deities that they make the cut for this beta. This story is more interesting to most /. readers than over half the stories posted here. /. does not have an obligation to promote only those companies that support Linux. Deal with it.
Many of of us appreciate OSS, but don't think that it is the ONLY way. Blizzard has a right to not make a Linux port, and you don't have to like it. But a whole lot of