User: vsp

Popcorn

On: Sanyo Develops Corn-Based Biodegradeable CD

Great! Now the cup holder will be popcorn machine too!

internet innovation stopped 8 years ago

On: Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead

What important thing happened after browser forms, encrypted connections and (partly) javascript, which allowed e-commerce to happen. After that: XML, web services, media streaming etc, but nothing really groundbreaking. Actually, it went worse, with all popup ads, email viruses and spam...

corporate desktop

On: Red Hat Explains Stance on KDE/Gnome Desktop Changes

In my opinion, this is clearly targeted to the corporate desktop market RH wants to get into, and in this case the license of their artwork/changes package becomes very important:
If the corporate employees become accustomed with RH desktop's look and feel, and if other linux distros will not be allowed to use RH's package, RH will effectively have a grip on this market, allowing them to start "embracing and extending" with proprietary protocols/software.
I don't think this will happen, but the community has to probably be cautious anyway...

Re:Thank goodness he set me straight!

On: Valenti's "Boston Strangler" Testimony

don't install windows just yet! i'll write an OS three times more expensive ;)

This should get the gov't thinking

On: MS Pressuring NW Schools: Pay Up, Or Face Audit

If this is not proof enough that M$ has too much power and is ready to put up with the gov't itself, I don't know what is...

Re:Source Code Here!

On: Perlbox: A Unix Desktop Written in Perl

or:

shell# perl -MMOD::Desktop -e 'desktop_app while(1)'

Bernstein's software

On: What Kind of Books do You Want?

maybe you get DJ Bernstein to write a book about his software, good software practices in C, programming with security in mind etc

Notably missing...

On: LinuxWorld rundown on CNN, HP and IBM Highlighted

I looked over the list of exhibitors and noticed that Slackware, SuSE, Turbolinux and (maybe less important) Oracle are missing. This can't be good...

let's revive it!

On: Is Slackware Fading Away?

go out and buy a package today!