That's because Microsoft has a lot more money and market share to be able to support their desktop products. RedHat is small and has to aim for the enterprise in order to get profit.
They aren't worried that you don't pay them anymore. Even if there are a few people like you out there who pay them, they are losing more money than they make from the RedHat Linux product line. In short: they don't care about your money.
Then how do you explain the fact that he got modded UP? A site full of Linux zealots won't mod criticism up, would it? Your statement contradicts itself.
Yes. If Slashdot posts an article about the GNOME HIG, it won't end up at the front page (only in the Developers section) and 95% of Slashdot won't read it. Next time another GNOME article is posted, Slashdotters will happily continue complaining about that open source needs a unified HIG and that Linux will never succeed on the desktop and how great Windows XP is.
"just as the Gnu/Linux community can do some things wrong..."
What are you trying to say? Why point out the obvious? This makes me think you're implying that the Linux community is full of zealots who can't take criticism, and therebefore giving the Linux community a bad name. (That, of course, is completely false. Why do you think you're modded +5 Insightful, like many other similar posts?)
Bla bla, people say this all the time. When will you people finally realize that Slashdot is not a pro-OSS/Linux site anymore? If you critisize Linux, you will get modded UP! If you pay a little attention to the comments, you'll notice that this has been true for more than a year now; probably for more than two years. Yet people still come up with the "if I critisize Linux I'll get modded down"-stereotype. Of course, those people will happily get modded up, and next time they still continue with posting this outdated and false stereotype. Just look at the Longhorn article; people critisize Linux for still not being mainstream, and they get modded up as Insightful. I can remember more Linux criticism posts from the past that got modded up to +5.
Here's another newsflash for you: If you defend Microsoft, you can be modded up! Yes, it's true! I see them in every MS vs OSS or Windows vs Linux article. The MS defendant posts usually get modded up as +5 Insightful/Informative.
SLashdot is a pro-Mac site. If you critisize MacOS X, *then* you'll get modded down.
"it has always had a heavy OSS bias, and especially for Linux."
Bla bla, people keep saying this but when will you realize this is false? Just scroll up: there are several posts that say Linux will *never* be mainstream and say that it has many problems. And guess what: they're modded *up*, not down, in contrary to popular Slashdot belief.
Slashdot is no longer a pro-OSS/Linux site. It's a pro-Mac site. Criticising Linux won't get you modded down (in fact, you'll get modded up!) and defending Microsoft can get you modded up too. Criticising MacOS X on the other hand *does* get you modded down, as demonstrated in a recent Mac story.
"Works for me" is quite popular with a lot of people, not just hackers. Windows defendants for example use "it works for me so your computer must be broken" as an argument to defend Windows.
And when hackers say "works for me", that's that an excuse: that's a fact. How can they fix it if they can't even reproduce the problem?
I suspect that most people would rather download the Google toolbar than downloading a new browser just to block popup. And my classmates argue that popup advertisements are near dead and that most sites use inline advertisements now.
You mean you don't know Slashdot has turned into an anti-OSS (and therebefore anti-RMS, anti-ESR, anti-Linux, etc.) community? You should have known that comments like that, that flame down ESR, will get modded up as "Insightful".
Dude, it's called skipping pages!If you don't want to read it, then don't! By posting this useless Slashdot rant that nobody else seems to cares about, you are _allowing_ your time to be wasted.
I thought Slashdotters always say that open source doesn't innovate? All I hear all day from Slashdotters is how open source should stop copying Microsoft and start innovating. And how we suddenly get a story that implies open source *does* innovate? You Slashbots really have a double standard. I'm sure I'll get moderated down to this but that only shows what kind of an anti-open source zealot place Slashdot has become.
Innovate? Stand out? Do you even know what you're talking about?
Many, many people absolutely hate the "candy cane" XP GUI. The first thing a lot of people do after they have installed XP is to *switch back to classic mode*! They say it's annoying as hell, and I agree with them. It was cute for the first 25 minutes but after that, it started to distract me, so I turned it off.
And if you have spend more time reading the comments, you'll find out that many, MANY people hate themed GUIs. Themed video players come in mind. They just want a simple and clean user interface without all sorts of colors distracting them! And some people think flat themes look more professional and less obtrusive. Flat, clean, simple, unobtrusive "Windows 95-ish" themes are better for usability! People want to get stuff done, not looking at candy all day!
Sorry but you are severely overrating Windows's GUI. It ain't that great. I much prefer the "Windows 95-ish" Bluecurve theme over Luna. And you are associating "old" with "bad", and "new" with "innovation". That's plain wrong.
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By not supporting alpha properly they have effectively eliminated one of *the* most important reasons why anyone would choose PNG over GIF.
It *is* plain better for many tasks. I growed up with GUI (Win95) and now I find any operating system without a commandline (like Windows) to be hard to use for anything complex.
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"IE doesn't support flash either, and it's wide-spread."
But almost everybody has the Flash plugin (I'm pretty sure it's even included in Windows by default). *That*'s the difference. How many people do you know have an SVG plugin?
"All you need is to embedd a link to the SVG active-X control and users will pick it up on the fly."
In my experience the ActiveX autoinstaller is either very often broken, or takes ages to download. A lot of users will probably get annoyed, go to another site, and yell "OMFG SVG SUCKS!!!".
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"This is what people said about PNG support"
Yes and look at it today: it's *still* heavily underused. GIFs are still more widely used than PNGs. Plus MSIE's broken PNG alpha support doesn't help the situation either.
"About flash"
The only reason why Flash is so popular is because *almost everybody has a plugin*! Which was my point!
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Not until it's supported by Internet Explorer. This is not a troll, this is the truth. Joe Average doesn't care; a new vector graphics format is only exciting to geeks. Joe Average only cares about "images", regardless of the underlying technology. Unless either IE supports SVG natively, or everybody has an SVG plugin, SVG will never become popular.
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Yes there is: you just have to discover it. I much prefer GNOME 2 over Windows XP. By your reasoning, Windows 95 is the best GUI for me because I was familiar with that before everything else!
That's only true for systems with 1 user. Most home computers are family computers, used by you, your wife, your kids, etc. If a virus wipes out my home directory, at least my parents' homes won't be wiped. In Windows on the other hand, *everything* will be wiped.
"I'd rather wipe out my system, and not touch/home than the other way around"
Not possible. Either your system *and* home directory is wiped, or your home directory only. What would you prefer: 1. A full system install *and* data restore. 2. Only data restore.
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That's because Microsoft has a lot more money and market share to be able to support their desktop products. RedHat is small and has to aim for the enterprise in order to get profit.
They aren't worried that you don't pay them anymore. Even if there are a few people like you out there who pay them, they are losing more money than they make from the RedHat Linux product line. In short: they don't care about your money.
And you people blame Linux guys for yelling RTFM? You Windows zealots are no better.
Then how do you explain the fact that he got modded UP? A site full of Linux zealots won't mod criticism up, would it? Your statement contradicts itself.
You're not the only one. The first time I heard "longhorn" I immediately thought about that cartoon chicken.
Yes. If Slashdot posts an article about the GNOME HIG, it won't end up at the front page (only in the Developers section) and 95% of Slashdot won't read it. Next time another GNOME article is posted, Slashdotters will happily continue complaining about that open source needs a unified HIG and that Linux will never succeed on the desktop and how great Windows XP is.
"just as the Gnu/Linux community can do some things wrong..."
What are you trying to say? Why point out the obvious? This makes me think you're implying that the Linux community is full of zealots who can't take criticism, and therebefore giving the Linux community a bad name.
(That, of course, is completely false. Why do you think you're modded +5 Insightful, like many other similar posts?)
"I'll probably get flamed for saying this,"
Bla bla, people say this all the time. When will you people finally realize that Slashdot is not a pro-OSS/Linux site anymore?
If you critisize Linux, you will get modded UP!
If you pay a little attention to the comments, you'll notice that this has been true for more than a year now; probably for more than two years. Yet people still come up with the "if I critisize Linux I'll get modded down"-stereotype. Of course, those people will happily get modded up, and next time they still continue with posting this outdated and false stereotype. Just look at the Longhorn article; people critisize Linux for still not being mainstream, and they get modded up as Insightful. I can remember more Linux criticism posts from the past that got modded up to +5.
Here's another newsflash for you:
If you defend Microsoft, you can be modded up!
Yes, it's true! I see them in every MS vs OSS or Windows vs Linux article. The MS defendant posts usually get modded up as +5 Insightful/Informative.
SLashdot is a pro-Mac site. If you critisize MacOS X, *then* you'll get modded down.
"it has always had a heavy OSS bias, and especially for Linux."
Bla bla, people keep saying this but when will you realize this is false? Just scroll up: there are several posts that say Linux will *never* be mainstream and say that it has many problems. And guess what: they're modded *up*, not down, in contrary to popular Slashdot belief.
Slashdot is no longer a pro-OSS/Linux site. It's a pro-Mac site. Criticising Linux won't get you modded down (in fact, you'll get modded up!) and defending Microsoft can get you modded up too. Criticising MacOS X on the other hand *does* get you modded down, as demonstrated in a recent Mac story.
Why not just Ximian Evolution with it's Connector plugin?
"that's that an excuse: that's a fact."
Typo. I mean: that's *not* an excuse.
"Works for me" is quite popular with a lot of people, not just hackers. Windows defendants for example use "it works for me so your computer must be broken" as an argument to defend Windows.
And when hackers say "works for me", that's that an excuse: that's a fact. How can they fix it if they can't even reproduce the problem?
I suspect that most people would rather download the Google toolbar than downloading a new browser just to block popup.
And my classmates argue that popup advertisements are near dead and that most sites use inline advertisements now.
You mean you don't know Slashdot has turned into an anti-OSS (and therebefore anti-RMS, anti-ESR, anti-Linux, etc.) community? You should have known that comments like that, that flame down ESR, will get modded up as "Insightful".
Dude, it's called skipping pages! If you don't want to read it, then don't! By posting this useless Slashdot rant that nobody else seems to cares about, you are _allowing_ your time to be wasted.
That's why he said something about contributing documentation!
I thought Slashdotters always say that open source doesn't innovate? All I hear all day from Slashdotters is how open source should stop copying Microsoft and start innovating. And how we suddenly get a story that implies open source *does* innovate?
You Slashbots really have a double standard.
I'm sure I'll get moderated down to this but that only shows what kind of an anti-open source zealot place Slashdot has become.
Innovate? Stand out? Do you even know what you're talking about?
Many, many people absolutely hate the "candy cane" XP GUI. The first thing a lot of people do after they have installed XP is to *switch back to classic mode*! They say it's annoying as hell, and I agree with them. It was cute for the first 25 minutes but after that, it started to distract me, so I turned it off.
And if you have spend more time reading the comments, you'll find out that many, MANY people hate themed GUIs. Themed video players come in mind. They just want a simple and clean user interface without all sorts of colors distracting them! And some people think flat themes look more professional and less obtrusive.
Flat, clean, simple, unobtrusive "Windows 95-ish" themes are better for usability! People want to get stuff done, not looking at candy all day!
Sorry but you are severely overrating Windows's GUI. It ain't that great. I much prefer the "Windows 95-ish" Bluecurve theme over Luna.
And you are associating "old" with "bad", and "new" with "innovation". That's plain wrong.
By not supporting alpha properly they have effectively eliminated one of *the* most important reasons why anyone would choose PNG over GIF.
It *is* plain better for many tasks. I growed up with GUI (Win95) and now I find any operating system without a commandline (like Windows) to be hard to use for anything complex.
"IE doesn't support flash either, and it's wide-spread."
But almost everybody has the Flash plugin (I'm pretty sure it's even included in Windows by default). *That*'s the difference. How many people do you know have an SVG plugin?
"All you need is to embedd a link to the SVG active-X control and users will pick it up on the fly."
In my experience the ActiveX autoinstaller is either very often broken, or takes ages to download. A lot of users will probably get annoyed, go to another site, and yell "OMFG SVG SUCKS!!!".
"This is what people said about PNG support"
Yes and look at it today: it's *still* heavily underused. GIFs are still more widely used than PNGs. Plus MSIE's broken PNG alpha support doesn't help the situation either.
"About flash"
The only reason why Flash is so popular is because *almost everybody has a plugin*! Which was my point!
Not until it's supported by Internet Explorer.
This is not a troll, this is the truth. Joe Average doesn't care; a new vector graphics format is only exciting to geeks. Joe Average only cares about "images", regardless of the underlying technology.
Unless either IE supports SVG natively, or everybody has an SVG plugin, SVG will never become popular.
Yes there is: you just have to discover it. I much prefer GNOME 2 over Windows XP. By your reasoning, Windows 95 is the best GUI for me because I was familiar with that before everything else!
That's only true for systems with 1 user. Most home computers are family computers, used by you, your wife, your kids, etc. If a virus wipes out my home directory, at least my parents' homes won't be wiped. In Windows on the other hand, *everything* will be wiped.
/home than the other way around"
"I'd rather wipe out my system, and not touch
Not possible. Either your system *and* home directory is wiped, or your home directory only.
What would you prefer:
1. A full system install *and* data restore.
2. Only data restore.