He's irrelevant and has been for quite a while now. The entire thing has evolved beyond him now and he's desperate to force the open source movement to go in the direction he wants. Only it won't, nor should it. He gives open source a very bad name, is an embarrassment and is the poster boy for all that's wrong with open source in general.
I'm looking forward to getting a mac at some point. I'm tired of XP and sick to death of linux. I want a computer that works and looks great and doesnt require time spent getting it to function correctly. In other words, I want a retail product like a Mac. I think Apple has a real chance here as long as jobs can keep his mouth and ego in check and not do something really stupid. We shall see.
I must be missing something here. Don't they just have to provide the source or a way for someone to request the source? Just make it part of your SOP to have the source available for everything you do.
Again, I'm no expert on these things, so maybe I've missed something?
...the wine part. Don't get me wrong, I'm no GPL freak or anything, closed software is fine. However, wine is a POS kludge and I have no desire to install or use it on my linux system, it just runs like shit.
The articles author is dead on. Take your average rabid Apply fanboy x10 and you've got the nut balls who make up the Vanguard community. These players have been pushed from mmorpg to mmorpg as developers quickly realize the kind of game play they worship is not what 95% of players out there want. If you even attempt to suggest changes to the way the envision the game you're in for all sorts of abuse and scorn. They see this as their "last hope" and will do anything to make sure stays that way. Alas, the result is the game supposedly sucks, badly, from what i've heard from beta testers. MS dumping it back to SOE is a sure sign they are struggling.
My prediction is the game will not make it to market in it's current form.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. In other words, the fanboy of one distro that will not ship his distro with drivers is suddenly quite pissed that another sees the GPL differently and *will* ship with drives. Hence the "Playing on the same level field" crap. You'll never get a 100% answer to this question, as both camps will argue their point. My advice is get some more intelligent opinions, and even if it's 50/50, go for it. Until someone has the balls and money to publicly come out and say they are against you doing this, it's a violation, etc, release it anyway. Someone is just protecting their pet distro with this shit, that's what it comes down to.
Have fun, it's all about raids and it's why a lot of people are simply quitting the game. They seem to have forgotten the large number of people who made the game so popular..
This is the very reason I quit just yesterday. Blizzard has moved to doing all powerhouse raid crap and left the rest of the game to languish. So about 2% of the pschyos willing to play the same content over and over again for 5 hours or more each day are the only ones enjoying the end game anymore. To add insult to injury, they expect the rest of the people playing to help those top 2% along AND destroy the servers in the process. What started as a great game as sunk into a huge fucking mess.
Just as it seems we are making progress toward at least having ONE standard DE for most of the desktops used out there, Shuttleworth pulls this out of his ass. Seriously, Ubunutu is one of the reasons GNOME has made so much progress recently with users and now we are back to square one with splitting the userbase. Stupid move. I could care LESS which one they choose, just choose ONE.
There are some good ideas here, especially the delicious intergration, "clip board" thingie and blog intergration.
And all of it could be done in FF extensions in just a few weeks (and hopefully will).
The rest of it is just a huge mess of poo with a few good ideas plopped into it. I think everyone should try it out, see what they did right and what they did wrong, and write some FF extensions for the rest of us to use. I can't beleive they got VC money for this, sorry guys. PS- I love the ability to switch collections on the toolbar, but can't figure out for the life of me why I cant open multiple tabs by middle clicking.
Too late. I'll be enjoying mac osx on x86, fully working I might add, in just a few weeks time. There is very little Apple can do to stop this from working for people who really want to do it. I wont mind paying for the OS, but thank God I wont have to pay for the hardware.
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Ahh, so glad I'm not the only one who thought about this when I saw it!
I think you mean the newly added states to the expanded United States of America. If you think we'd let Canada stay as they are, think again :)
Wait, you mean the planet moving thing from the book? Excellent book..deserves a sequel.
He's irrelevant and has been for quite a while now. The entire thing has evolved beyond him now and he's desperate to force the open source movement to go in the direction he wants. Only it won't, nor should it. He gives open source a very bad name, is an embarrassment and is the poster boy for all that's wrong with open source in general.
Well, I'm sure it will benefit Apple a lot and hardly anyone else at all. (See KHMTL and Safari and Konqueror)
Unless you're a zealot who refuses to dual boot windows for gaming, the performance will never measure up, ever. It's just about useless.
"yet retain enough exclusivity"
I love comments like this from Mac users. Are you people adults or jealous teenagers?
I'm looking forward to getting a mac at some point. I'm tired of XP and sick to death of linux. I want a computer that works and looks great and doesnt require time spent getting it to function correctly. In other words, I want a retail product like a Mac. I think Apple has a real chance here as long as jobs can keep his mouth and ego in check and not do something really stupid. We shall see.
I see your Thundar and raise you with GAMMA WORLD!
Visual Novel? Hentai?
I'm lost already? Does this make cartoons or something?
Ahh, I think I see. It's the cost involved with getting the source out when you're a small shop doing it's own brand of linux.
I must be missing something here. Don't they just have to provide the source or a way for someone to request the source? Just make it part of your SOP to have the source available for everything you do.
Again, I'm no expert on these things, so maybe I've missed something?
when they get the purple tentacles down so I can start my pr0n career.
...the wine part. Don't get me wrong, I'm no GPL freak or anything, closed software is fine. However, wine is a POS kludge and I have no desire to install or use it on my linux system, it just runs like shit.
The articles author is dead on. Take your average rabid Apply fanboy x10 and you've got the nut balls who make up the Vanguard community. These players have been pushed from mmorpg to mmorpg as developers quickly realize the kind of game play they worship is not what 95% of players out there want. If you even attempt to suggest changes to the way the envision the game you're in for all sorts of abuse and scorn. They see this as their "last hope" and will do anything to make sure stays that way. Alas, the result is the game supposedly sucks, badly, from what i've heard from beta testers. MS dumping it back to SOE is a sure sign they are struggling. My prediction is the game will not make it to market in it's current form.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. In other words, the fanboy of one distro that will not ship his distro with drivers is suddenly quite pissed that another sees the GPL differently and *will* ship with drives. Hence the "Playing on the same level field" crap. You'll never get a 100% answer to this question, as both camps will argue their point. My advice is get some more intelligent opinions, and even if it's 50/50, go for it. Until someone has the balls and money to publicly come out and say they are against you doing this, it's a violation, etc, release it anyway. Someone is just protecting their pet distro with this shit, that's what it comes down to.
What a BIG MAN Bloomberg is, I mean, how could anyone possibly fault him, right?
There's a special place for people like this in hell, at least that's my fondest hope.
Karmas a bitch.
It's a game. And more importantly, a business. They will do whatever they need to to keep maximum profitabiliy.
Have fun, it's all about raids and it's why a lot of people are simply quitting the game. They seem to have forgotten the large number of people who made the game so popular..
This is the very reason I quit just yesterday. Blizzard has moved to doing all powerhouse raid crap and left the rest of the game to languish. So about 2% of the pschyos willing to play the same content over and over again for 5 hours or more each day are the only ones enjoying the end game anymore. To add insult to injury, they expect the rest of the people playing to help those top 2% along AND destroy the servers in the process. What started as a great game as sunk into a huge fucking mess.
I blame Mothra.
Just as it seems we are making progress toward at least having ONE standard DE for most of the desktops used out there, Shuttleworth pulls this out of his ass. Seriously, Ubunutu is one of the reasons GNOME has made so much progress recently with users and now we are back to square one with splitting the userbase. Stupid move. I could care LESS which one they choose, just choose ONE.
There are some good ideas here, especially the delicious intergration, "clip board" thingie and blog intergration.
And all of it could be done in FF extensions in just a few weeks (and hopefully will).
The rest of it is just a huge mess of poo with a few good ideas plopped into it. I think everyone should try it out, see what they did right and what they did wrong, and write some FF extensions for the rest of us to use. I can't beleive they got VC money for this, sorry guys. PS- I love the ability to switch collections on the toolbar, but can't figure out for the life of me why I cant open multiple tabs by middle clicking.
Too late. I'll be enjoying mac osx on x86, fully working I might add, in just a few weeks time. There is very little Apple can do to stop this from working for people who really want to do it. I wont mind paying for the OS, but thank God I wont have to pay for the hardware.