It may be an island, but there's lots of bridges off of it! If Microsoft manages to come out with a M$BSD that sucks away all of the FreeBSD developers, there's still NetBSD and OpenBSD to fall back on. Heck, there's still Linux! But this is an unrealistic hypothetical situation. It's not going to happen.
It is amazing some of the microsoft propaganda that peoiple will buy into! Have you tried Mandrake 9.0 or SuSe 8.x yourself? It auto configures everything! My wife, very non-tech, has been using Linux for years. Our computer never crashes, our documents never get mangled, our drivers are never 'outdated'. It is amazing that they say it, so you repeat it! This is a myth that needs to stop somewhere! And soon.
You are right, open source projects are an excellent use of science grants. There is a lot of interest in the viability of the open source model right now and as proponents we should exploit this money,just as proprietary firms utilized research dollars to develop their model. Only with a fully developed model can we really make a difference,until then, it will be really difficult to fully realize our potential. People need more than to simply know that something works to believe that it is worth while, they need to know why it works. That is what perlbox is trying to do,it is an attempt to quantify certain aspects of the open source model.
I am not sure if you knew this, but a primary purpose of perlbox was to study and attempt to quantify various aspects of the open source development model. If we can understand more about the development-release cycle of open source applications, we can begin to fine tune certain aspects of the model. Proprietary models have had millions of dollars and thousands of hours put into their development and refinement. The sinple fact is that open source software is not taken seriously by many because they do not understand how it work, non withstanding the fact that it just does. For some that is not good enough. I am in a position here to help explain misunderstood concepts and I think that that is a perfect use of my time. Besides, perlbox talks to you, that's just cool.
scmason
Our website was offline!
Sorry for the inconvenience, we were hijacked!
We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
No, the voice recognition was written by the good people at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a hardcore C thing, we just use perl to control it.
It is called sphinx2: see our temp site for more info:
We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
This was not intentional! We just never got around to doing much testing on IE! All the problems are fixed, and the site is relocated:
Sorry for the inconvenience, we were hijacked!
We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
Hi,
I like all of your ideas and suggestions, they mirror my thoughts for near-future development for this application. If you are serious, and I suspect that you are, rather than provide these on freshmeat as a patch, i think that they should be included as a part of the 'original' package. Please, contact me
at me@perlbox.org . There are other portions of the desktop that I want to work on and have the ability and desire to turn portions of the project over to capable hands.
The problems with the site are very strange, and they just started from out of no where. I have no control over that host, so I have moved the pages to a server I do have control over, please visit:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
Sorry for any inconvenience
scmason
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Off topic, but your sig rocks!
FDR went to the warm spring because it was supposed to be good for his 'crippling' disease, not to play golf and have sex with horses.
That is funny. How about, who wants to get gimped? or I got ma a gimp under my bed.
It may be an island, but there's lots of bridges off of it! If Microsoft manages to come out with a M$BSD that sucks away all of the FreeBSD developers, there's still NetBSD and OpenBSD to fall back on. Heck, there's still Linux! But this is an unrealistic hypothetical situation. It's not going to happen.
You hope, anyway.
You worked hard on this, didn't you? Well, good boy.
It is amazing some of the microsoft propaganda that peoiple will buy into! Have you tried Mandrake 9.0 or SuSe 8.x yourself? It auto configures everything! My wife, very non-tech, has been using Linux for years. Our computer never crashes, our documents never get mangled, our drivers are never 'outdated'. It is amazing that they say it, so you repeat it! This is a myth that needs to stop somewhere! And soon.
You are right, open source projects are an excellent use of science grants. There is a lot of interest in the viability of the open source model right now and as proponents we should exploit this money,just as proprietary firms utilized research dollars to develop their model.
Only with a fully developed model can we really make a difference,until then, it will be really difficult to fully realize our potential. People need more than to simply know that something works to believe that it is worth while, they need to know why it works. That is what perlbox is trying to do,it is an attempt to quantify certain aspects of the open source model.
Thanks
Shane Mason
me@perlbox.org
I am not sure if you knew this, but a primary purpose of perlbox was to study and attempt to quantify various aspects of the open source development model. If we can understand more about the development-release cycle of open source applications, we can begin to fine tune certain aspects of the model. Proprietary models have had millions of dollars and thousands of hours put into their development and refinement. The sinple fact is that open source software is not taken seriously by many because they do not understand how it work, non withstanding the fact that it just does. For some that is not good enough. I am in a position here to help explain misunderstood concepts and I think that that is a perfect use of my time. Besides, perlbox talks to you, that's just cool. scmason Our website was offline!
Sorry for the inconvenience, we were hijacked! We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
No, the voice recognition was written by the good people at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a hardcore C thing, we just use perl to control it. It is called sphinx2: see our temp site for more info: We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
Sorry for the inconvenience, we were hijacked! We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
Sorry for the inconvenience, we were hijacked!
IP Piracy...
We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
This was not intentional! We just never got around to doing much testing on IE! All the problems are fixed, and the site is relocated: Sorry for the inconvenience, we were hijacked! We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
Sorry for the inconvenience, we were hijacked! We are now temporarily at:
http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
I like all of your ideas and suggestions, they mirror my thoughts for near-future development for this application. If you are serious, and I suspect that you are, rather than provide these on freshmeat as a patch, i think that they should be included as a part of the 'original' package. Please, contact me at me@perlbox.org . There are other portions of the desktop that I want to work on and have the ability and desire to turn portions of the project over to capable hands.
Thanks,
scmason
The site has moved to: http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
The problems with the site are very strange, and they just started from out of no where. I have no control over that host, so I have moved the pages to a server I do have control over, please visit: http://www.wru.umt.edu/~scmason/pbox
Sorry for any inconvenience scmason