forget about the general public. I'm a java developer, and frankly I really have no idea how to deal with the technical details of linux printing. (well some, but not much ) Does this make me an idiot? maybe, but so what?
Fact is, if Linux is made for just linux nerds than it's just as useless for me in it's own way as windows is.
Linux can be a nice toy, or a good back-end server if that's all you want it to be. But I think it can be a lot more than that.
So what?
This is about APPS not about desktop if an app requires the support of all the kdelibs then so be it. If someone is willing to have that loaded up into RAM so what?
And no, you are not "running kde" when someone is "running kde" they are using the kde desktop.
I have a feeling that you are going to misunderstand this post, but so be it.
-ron
congratulations guys, thanks to the DOJ's retarted anti-trust case against microsuck, the company now has lobbying offices in Washington. Whereas before, they didn't.
Let me repeat this just in case no one got it the first time:
THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY LOBBYING OFFICES IN WASHINGTON UNTIL THE DOJ ANTI-TRUST CRAP.
get it? Now thanks to our idiocy, they will be paying off anyone with a hand out to help them push their crap on us. And to make it harder to promote linux ( like that security update thing I've been hearing about ), and they'll be working hand in hand with our new friends in office (both dems and repubs - Fritz Hollings was one of the bastards sponsering the fascist new laws against free speach).
Lest you folk regard this as paranoia, let me point out that after several major commision - based software companies donated money to the Honorable Sen. Patrick Moynahan, it became practically illegal to work as a freelance programmer. The rational being that freelance programmers will write off personal expenses as business expenses. And yes, a bunch of guys have in fact gotten reamed in some IRS witchhunts.
A lot of us warned everyone else about this - don't get the @#$#@ing government involved. But no, we had to be stupid, and now we will forever pay the price. Here's a tip - once the politicians get their grubby little hands into something, they NEVER let go. Expect to see a lot more government "help" and "regulations" designed to save us all from ourselves.
What did you people think? Did you really believe that turning micro$oft into baby bells would make even the slightest bit of difference? Did it not occur to anyone that once congress has a precedent for screwing around with the biggest fish, that they'll then decide that the little fish (every other company in existence) is fair game?
And please don't kid yourselves that this is about an evil republican administration. Every administration, especially the party-that-loves-to-regulate, will be holding out there hands, or pushing us down.
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forget about the general public. I'm a java developer, and frankly I really have no idea how to deal with the technical details of linux printing. (well some, but not much ) Does this make me an idiot? maybe, but so what? Fact is, if Linux is made for just linux nerds than it's just as useless for me in it's own way as windows is. Linux can be a nice toy, or a good back-end server if that's all you want it to be. But I think it can be a lot more than that.
So what? This is about APPS not about desktop if an app requires the support of all the kdelibs then so be it. If someone is willing to have that loaded up into RAM so what? And no, you are not "running kde" when someone is "running kde" they are using the kde desktop. I have a feeling that you are going to misunderstand this post, but so be it. -ron
this is nothing more or less than politics.
congratulations guys, thanks to the DOJ's retarted anti-trust case against microsuck, the company now has lobbying offices in Washington. Whereas before, they didn't.
Let me repeat this just in case no one got it the first time:
THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY LOBBYING OFFICES IN WASHINGTON UNTIL THE DOJ ANTI-TRUST CRAP.
get it? Now thanks to our idiocy, they will be paying off anyone with a hand out to help them push their crap on us. And to make it harder to promote linux ( like that security update thing I've been hearing about ), and they'll be working hand in hand with our new friends in office (both dems and repubs - Fritz Hollings was one of the bastards sponsering the fascist new laws against free speach).
Lest you folk regard this as paranoia, let me point out that after several major commision - based software companies donated money to the Honorable Sen. Patrick Moynahan, it became practically illegal to work as a freelance programmer. The rational being that freelance programmers will write off personal expenses as business expenses. And yes, a bunch of guys have in fact gotten reamed in some IRS witchhunts.
A lot of us warned everyone else about this - don't get the @#$#@ing government involved. But no, we had to be stupid, and now we will forever pay the price. Here's a tip - once the politicians get their grubby little hands into something, they NEVER let go. Expect to see a lot more government "help" and "regulations" designed to save us all from ourselves.
What did you people think? Did you really believe that turning micro$oft into baby bells would make even the slightest bit of difference? Did it not occur to anyone that once congress has a precedent for screwing around with the biggest fish, that they'll then decide that the little fish (every other company in existence) is fair game?
And please don't kid yourselves that this is about an evil republican administration. Every administration, especially the party-that-loves-to-regulate, will be holding out there hands, or pushing us down.
Great going guys.