I can't see there being a market. Who, running Linux, would pay $300-600 for an office suite? More likely, the other way around. Keep Windows that came on the box you just bought and load your favorite [F|L]OSS apps, like most of us already do.
The US was wrong about the presence of WMD in Iraq. Therefore, the US will always be wrong, can never rely on any intelligence, and will always be unjustified in any future conflict.
If you've only been a casual observer of Steve Bomber's behavior over the years, you wouldn't have reason to doubt Lucovosky's account. I feel almost as though I were there and it's a vivid memory.
... of the ol' hard wired POTS phone in my kitchen. I hardly ever use it, but it was the only one I had during the blackout here in the northeast a couple years ago. The cell system had power, but getting a line was iffy.
"Black and white photo work (especially because you can use a safelight!) is a wonderful way of introducing someone to photography."
Digging a leech field is a wonderful way to introduce someone to indoor toilets, but I'm glad it wasn't the training method imposed on me. Yet somehow, I still grasped the basic concept. Some people will never know film, just as some people will never know vinyl records, vacuum tubes, steam engines, etc.
... that in about 5 years you'll read about this in a Robert X. Cringely column... how it failed initially but is re-emerging in a new project that will be used to take over the world. Of course, Cringely is almost never right with predictions (and for that matter, neither am I).
If/when GNU Java and/or Classpath allow me to run the Java features of OO.o, is that OK with the FSF?
Now, say I prefer to use Sun's JVM. Am I FREE to do that?
My point is,... is my use a proprietary implementation only in keeping with the philosophy of the FSF if there is an free/libre alternative that I simply choose not to use?
The US Department of Defense. If there is any "customer" that can tell Microsoft what's what, it's the DoD. (Other branches of the government can too; they have the juice but they don't have the prunes.) Once the DoD even begins to addopt these open formats, it immediately shuts out Microsoft because Office doesn't support them.
Microsoft would have to make a very painful decision at that point.
IMO, the government should not be any business that can be handled better, more efficiently, and more economically by the private sector. But weather data collection is not a business. The NWS is an essential function of national security, commerce, transportation, science, etc., and transcends many government functions. So, it's conducted as part of essential services and paid for by tax revenue.
Any information gathered by the Federal government in this way, that is not classified, should be available to all citizens, free of charge (or only a charge for delivery, media, etc.).
If you can't create a business model from something I can get elsewhere free, then you don't have a business. Go do something else.
IIRC, most of the commercial influence behind VGML and SVG was the fallout of the pissing contest between Adobe and Macromedia. It's disappointing that the uptake of SVG hasn't been better. Maybe Adobe plans to do something about that. Anybody can do PDFs but Adobe is the PDF company. SVG development tools are a ripe market, and I'm sure Adobe would like also to be the SVG company. FOSS tools like Inkscape and Dia have a long way to go.
Well, it's not plain text, as the original poster stated. And I assume the file is exclusive to Windows; I don't know what's done on other platforms.
BTW, I leave form history on and I find it very convenient, but I notice that Firefox has never stored a CC#. Exactly as it should be. It's little things like this that I love about well-designed software (or, well-designed anything).
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I can't see there being a market. Who, running Linux, would pay $300-600 for an office suite? More likely, the other way around. Keep Windows that came on the box you just bought and load your favorite [F|L]OSS apps, like most of us already do.
... no cubes, only smart bosses, realistic schedules, and fair compensation. And the author thinks he's disillusioned NOW?!!
The US was wrong about the presence of WMD in Iraq. Therefore, the US will always be wrong, can never rely on any intelligence, and will always be unjustified in any future conflict.
Steve Balmer: "Please tell me you didn't try to recruit Eric Raymond."
Mike Walters: "It was Eric Raymond."
Steve Balmer does his Bobby Knight imitation.
If you've only been a casual observer of Steve Bomber's behavior over the years, you wouldn't have reason to doubt Lucovosky's account. I feel almost as though I were there and it's a vivid memory.
... of the ol' hard wired POTS phone in my kitchen. I hardly ever use it, but it was the only one I had during the blackout here in the northeast a couple years ago. The cell system had power, but getting a line was iffy.
Why do they continue to plot the NCSA server share when it flatlined 5 years ago?
"Black and white photo work (especially because you can use a safelight!) is a wonderful way of introducing someone to photography."
Digging a leech field is a wonderful way to introduce someone to indoor toilets, but I'm glad it wasn't the training method imposed on me. Yet somehow, I still grasped the basic concept. Some people will never know film, just as some people will never know vinyl records, vacuum tubes, steam engines, etc.
... that in about 5 years you'll read about this in a Robert X. Cringely column ... how it failed initially but is re-emerging in a new project that will be used to take over the world. Of course, Cringely is almost never right with predictions (and for that matter, neither am I).
For a while there, I almost thought we were going to run out of opinions about what the open source community is, or should be. Boy, was *THAT* close.
As if the WHO-O-O-O-O-OLE world knows what "GST" stands for like it's common knowledge. I never even heard the abr. until this /. article.
He still around?
I'm pretty sure my cell phone has at least 640K of RAM.
If/when GNU Java and/or Classpath allow me to run the Java features of OO.o, is that OK with the FSF?
... is my use a proprietary implementation only in keeping with the philosophy of the FSF if there is an free/libre alternative that I simply choose not to use?
Now, say I prefer to use Sun's JVM. Am I FREE to do that?
My point is,
Gates, from TFA: "I played around with it a bit, but it's just another browser, and IE [Microsoft's Internet Explorer] is better,"
How? I mean really. I can't think of one thing it does better. (And please don't bother replying about Active X, even as a joke.)
"So much software gets downloaded all the time, but do people actually use it?"
Just keep telling yourself that. I don't know anyone who has downloaded it, installed it, and NOT continued to use it.
"I had never even heard of Oasis before this article."
So, when DID you get back from your trip to the outer planets.
And you know how that happens?
The US Department of Defense. If there is any "customer" that can tell Microsoft what's what, it's the DoD. (Other branches of the government can too; they have the juice but they don't have the prunes.) Once the DoD even begins to addopt these open formats, it immediately shuts out Microsoft because Office doesn't support them.
Microsoft would have to make a very painful decision at that point.
Tired of filling your car's tires with plain old air? Fill them instead with 78% pure nitrogen! The performance advantages cannot be understated.
A "ditty" is a short song, like a jingle.
Well, I've downloaded it myself 8 times - (1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3) X2 machines.
Anybody counting?
That's MY IP address!
SONOFABITCH!!
IMO, the government should not be any business that can be handled better, more efficiently, and more economically by the private sector. But weather data collection is not a business. The NWS is an essential function of national security, commerce, transportation, science, etc., and transcends many government functions. So, it's conducted as part of essential services and paid for by tax revenue.
Any information gathered by the Federal government in this way, that is not classified, should be available to all citizens, free of charge (or only a charge for delivery, media, etc.).
If you can't create a business model from something I can get elsewhere free, then you don't have a business. Go do something else.
IIRC, most of the commercial influence behind VGML and SVG was the fallout of the pissing contest between Adobe and Macromedia. It's disappointing that the uptake of SVG hasn't been better. Maybe Adobe plans to do something about that. Anybody can do PDFs but Adobe is the PDF company. SVG development tools are a ripe market, and I'm sure Adobe would like also to be the SVG company. FOSS tools like Inkscape and Dia have a long way to go.
Well, it's not plain text, as the original poster stated. And I assume the file is exclusive to Windows; I don't know what's done on other platforms.
BTW, I leave form history on and I find it very convenient, but I notice that Firefox has never stored a CC#. Exactly as it should be. It's little things like this that I love about well-designed software (or, well-designed anything).
formhistory.dat is encrypted.