The author of the article is clueless. Free software has never been against commercial use, or against business, or anti-capitalism. If big companies adopting free software means that free software is becoming "part of the establishment", then I welcome that new "establishment".
I think the main reason is that the deployment and upgrading of GUI applications is a pain in the ass.
Having to manage the deployment and upgrades of a "rich client" on thousands of computers running different operating systems can be a nightmare. Using flash, your clients dont have anything to install (besides the flash plugin, which is probably already installed). As for upgrades, you can count on the fact that all your clients will be always running the last version of your software without *any* effort.
You can do the same thing with Java (with applets and webstart), but the flash plugin was way way better at the beggining so java lost that battle.
This is really silly. You *do* need some sort of password protected "user account" somewhere, to protect your identity. What if that user account includes already an email service? What is wrong with that? No one is forcing you to use it!!
As a colombian, I have to say the answer is "no", but only if it's colombian coffee. Actually, if it is colombian coffee, it is ver healthy to drink 100 cups of coffee everyday. Go get some.
In the beggining Universidad Nacional de Colombia (public) and Universidad de los Andes (private) agreed to manage the.co domain. For some reason Universidad de los Andes ended up managing it alone, and no one really cared much. It is only now, with money being made from selling.co domains, than the government wants control of the.co domain back.
Sergio Garcia (Colombian, and former student of universidad de los andes)
Is your wife the colombian girl that once made you go to Bogota and give a talk on mosix?:) if so, how does she like Tel Aviv?:P
Sergio
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Of course Mozilla is slower than Dillo, because it has more features. Of course KDE architecture, that makes life easier for programmers, has a cost in performance. This is obvious. No one is forcing *you* to use them.
I'll tell you why I'll keep using the KDE framework to write my applications. First, the design is very clean, DCOP, KParts, KIO, etc are simply awesome. Second, it makes easier and faster writing applications with the GUI features that most people nowdays want (yes, you are not one of those), Third, I don't really care about the small little performance cost I have to pay, it is perfectly acceptable with today's computers, at least with mine, and all of my friends. As it has been said many times, CPU time is way cheaper than programmer's time.
And finally, this is free software, I'm already giving my time to write software for free, if there are some people still using pentiums at 100 megahertz that will bitch about my "bloated" software, I couldnt care less. There are other programs they can use, anyway.
Sergio
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The author of the article is clueless. Free software has never been against commercial use, or against business, or anti-capitalism. If big companies adopting free software means that free software is becoming "part of the establishment", then I welcome that new "establishment".
Having to manage the deployment and upgrades of a "rich client" on thousands of computers running different operating systems can be a nightmare. Using flash, your clients dont have anything to install (besides the flash plugin, which is probably already installed). As for upgrades, you can count on the fact that all your clients will be always running the last version of your software without *any* effort.
You can do the same thing with Java (with applets and webstart), but the flash plugin was way way better at the beggining so java lost that battle.
QT is distributed under the GPL. I can't believe that people still believe QT is propietary software. Who modded this up?
This is really silly. You *do* need some sort of password protected "user account" somewhere, to protect your identity. What if that user account includes already an email service? What is wrong with that? No one is forcing you to use it!!
Did they try the same experience with an english call center? What is their point?
As a colombian, I have to say the answer is "no", but only if it's colombian coffee. Actually, if it is colombian coffee, it is ver healthy to drink 100 cups of coffee everyday. Go get some.
RMI + synchronized methods. It takes a few more lines than programming a regular object. You really have no clue, go read the documentation.
Yes, you can do OO coding in C, and you end up with thousands of void pointers, and no type checking. Nice code!
The sad thing is that the loggin facility is the only convincing example I have heard so far. :P
Sergio Garcia (Colombian, and former student of universidad de los andes)
Don't you know that is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die?
You can believe the world was created 5762 years ago, but then we will all think you are truly ignorant.:P
What would YOU do for a Moshe Bar?
Is your wife the colombian girl that once made you go to Bogota and give a talk on mosix? :) if so, how does she like Tel Aviv? :P
Sergio
Of course Mozilla is slower than Dillo, because it has more features. Of course KDE architecture, that makes life easier for programmers, has a cost in performance. This is obvious. No one is forcing *you* to use them. I'll tell you why I'll keep using the KDE framework to write my applications. First, the design is very clean, DCOP, KParts, KIO, etc are simply awesome. Second, it makes easier and faster writing applications with the GUI features that most people nowdays want (yes, you are not one of those), Third, I don't really care about the small little performance cost I have to pay, it is perfectly acceptable with today's computers, at least with mine, and all of my friends. As it has been said many times, CPU time is way cheaper than programmer's time. And finally, this is free software, I'm already giving my time to write software for free, if there are some people still using pentiums at 100 megahertz that will bitch about my "bloated" software, I couldnt care less. There are other programs they can use, anyway. Sergio
Uhm. he said every other "modern" (he means fancy GUI, i guess ;) ) email client he has tried had crashed. (by the way KMail has never crashed for me).