Satish (the creator of Wink) is probably too busy working on the next version of this awesome piece of software to be browsing Slashdot. Why not download it (Windows or Linux versions). It allows you to record screen activity and generate a flash movie which you can annotate. Very, very useful in education.
I work at a place that has licenses for an equivalent commercial product (Macromedia Robodemo) and I use Wink instead because it I find it suits my needs far better.
Minix was designed explictly for educational purposes. Tannebounm deliberatly resisted changing it to be unsuitable for that purpose. Calling it a toy is abusive in the way that saying that a book that is an introduction to operating systems is a toy because it is not an advanced level PHd tretise on operating systems.
Although software that is released under a Free(dom) licence may be left abandoned, if the organisation behind commercially licencensed software goes out of business it is almost guaranteed to be abandoned.
And of course more importantly disable JavaScript. And after that get into a very long series of discussions with your users as to why so many web sites don't seem to work "properly".
I have made extensive use of the change tracking features in Word documents opened in OpenOffice and exchanged with people using MS Word. It appeared to work flawlessly, and I never let on to my collaborators that I was using anything other than Word.
Are you aware that the source to OpenOffice is available under LGPL. In what way does software based on that license represent keeping all our egs in one basket?
Can you point to significant numbers of job adverts that are asking for a combination of Python with QT? When I just did a search on my favorite job website I got 32 records matching the term Python and 2,890 mathing the term Java.
I switched from Ford to Toyota because my Ford dealer was a schmuck. Therefore Ford cars are a poor choice and everyone should chose an alternative. (paraphrasing the ideas in the article)
Around the time when the web began to take off commercially I was attempting to use Microsofts "web killer application" called Blackbird. Anyone who saved me from that product is a hero in my eyes (and being a dead ringer for Douglas Adams helps as well)
You mean "the rest of us who don't understand the concept", like those that that thought the tv would be radio with pictures and that the web would be TV with a mouse.
"all the major software revolutions have been spawned by capitalist endeavors" Dang and I thought that TCP/IP, HTTP/HTML, and vast amounts of Software development including many Unix technologies were a result of government funding. But then I guess we would be back in the stone age of technology if we had all those technologies but no Cubase and its plug ins.
Apart from it being in the US where imperial (miles) is the standard. A mile is slightly longer than a kilometer therefore the number of miles is smaller than the same distance in Km.
Will someone please start a pointless PostgreSQL vs MySQL flame war. Surely a mention of a FOSS database cannot go by without some ill informed rock throwing?
The name implies it is a Java Desktop, i.e. that Java is the key and vital ingredient. It is not, it is a Linux desktop with some fairly optional Java components. I'm not making any comment on what the GPL does or does not allow, I am commenting on the name Java Desktop. It seems an excellent idea that Sun is pusing Linux on the desktop but the name is misleading.
I believe It would be possible to use the Sun Java Desktop without using any Java. You could ignore the Java development tools, use Mozilla without accessing any applets, use StarOffice without accessing a database (which is probably how most people use it at the moment) and I am not aware of the Java security tools. Can anyone comment on how vital these Java security tools are to the system?
Now by contrast how much of the Sun Java Desktop would work without the Linux kernel, the associated GNU tools and GPL'd software?
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Satish (the creator of Wink) is probably too busy working on the next version of this awesome piece of software to be browsing Slashdot. Why not download it (Windows or Linux versions). It allows you to record screen activity and generate a flash movie which you can annotate. Very, very useful in education.
I work at a place that has licenses for an equivalent commercial product (Macromedia Robodemo) and I use Wink instead because it I find it suits my needs far better.
I assume you disabled JavaScript as well if you are genuinly concerned about security, you did, didn't you?
Minix was designed explictly for educational purposes. Tannebounm deliberatly resisted changing it to be unsuitable for that purpose. Calling it a toy is abusive in the way that saying that a book that is an introduction to operating systems is a toy because it is not an advanced level PHd tretise on operating systems.
Could you explain in what way the GNU licence is proprietary?
Your content shows ignorance, your abusive language emphasises your ignorance.
Although software that is released under a Free(dom) licence may be left abandoned, if the organisation behind commercially licencensed software goes out of business it is almost guaranteed to be abandoned.
The Simpsons should not be viewed as a factual program.
"One of Java's cool "features" is that it does not have pointers.
No, Java does not allow a programmer to directly manipulate pointers.
And of course more importantly disable JavaScript. And after that get into a very long series of discussions with your users as to why so many web sites don't seem to work "properly".
It may be that the text under the front page that says "news for nerds" causes people to assume that the audience is technically knowledgable.
And generate endless problems and support calls as they try to modify the habits of 10 years?
I have made extensive use of the change tracking features in Word documents opened in OpenOffice and exchanged with people using MS Word. It appeared to work flawlessly, and I never let on to my collaborators that I was using anything other than Word.
Are you aware that the source to OpenOffice is available under LGPL. In what way does software based on that license represent keeping all our egs in one basket?
Can you point to significant numbers of job adverts that are asking for a combination of Python with QT? When I just did a search on my favorite job website I got 32 records matching the term Python and 2,890 mathing the term Java.
I switched from Ford to Toyota because my Ford dealer was a schmuck. Therefore Ford cars are a poor choice and everyone should chose an alternative. (paraphrasing the ideas in the article)
Around the time when the web began to take off commercially I was attempting to use Microsofts "web killer application" called Blackbird. Anyone who saved me from that product is a hero in my eyes (and being a dead ringer for Douglas Adams helps as well)
You mean "the rest of us who don't understand the concept", like those that that thought the tv would be radio with pictures and that the web would be TV with a mouse.
Could you explain why you have come to the conclusion that Gnome has lost the desktop war to KDE.
"all the major software revolutions have been spawned by capitalist endeavors"
Dang and I thought that TCP/IP, HTTP/HTML, and vast amounts of Software development including many Unix technologies were a result of government funding. But then I guess we would be back in the stone age of technology if we had all those technologies but no Cubase and its plug ins.
Apart from it being in the US where imperial (miles) is the standard. A mile is slightly longer than a kilometer therefore the number of miles is smaller than the same distance in Km.
Novell have offered serious support for Java since around 1998?
Will someone please start a pointless PostgreSQL vs MySQL flame war. Surely a mention of a FOSS database cannot go by without some ill informed rock throwing?
The name implies it is a Java Desktop, i.e. that Java is the key and vital ingredient. It is not, it is a Linux desktop with some fairly optional Java components. I'm not making any comment on what the GPL does or does not allow, I am commenting on the name Java Desktop. It seems an excellent idea that Sun is pusing Linux on the desktop but the name is misleading.
I believe It would be possible to use the Sun Java Desktop without using any Java. You could ignore the Java development tools, use Mozilla without accessing any applets, use StarOffice without accessing a database (which is probably how most people use it at the moment) and I am not aware of the Java security tools. Can anyone comment on how vital these Java security tools are to the system?
Now by contrast how much of the Sun Java Desktop would work without the Linux kernel, the associated GNU tools and GPL'd software?
Well tested gpl, uses generic old hardware
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