Get a grip people. You act like bunch of frighten-to-death school kids..NET maybe is too much hype, but I disagree about it's usefulness. More or less all these comments indicates not about real criticism, but plainly avoiding Microsoft as some kind of plague. I understand reasoning, but I don't want to agree that it is right way to do it.
In the same time, I think Python is more superior with all kind of support on many, many platforms.
So, in nutshell, your complains are that ODF is just more "standartized it's own way" and nothing like old Excel cruft?:)
I can understand your complain, but it's not "valid" if we are talking in larger scale. And I think it's too much trolling in your post, so it seems more like personal dislike of ODF or something that way.
But heck, at least this is one of most informative and helpful posts for this rather flaming article:)
Seriously. Flash? one click in Ubuntu. Codecs? Few clicks, even better in Gutsy. OOXML? Not a deal braker here and I think for most of people. Adobe? Get a grip man, new KDE/GNOME PDF apps based on libpopper are much lighter and better. Even Windows users uses Foxit now.
And ohh, you can buy Fluendo Gstreamer codecs about 5 - 15 euros, if you want to be legimite.
Another slashadvert, sights.
And yes, Linspire action to buying protections right was stupid and greedy. It was worth community blackslash.
In fact, SCO case looks like exact page from Gandhi book. Yes, IBM took legal challenge, but they actually sat it out, peacefully calling claims false, providing evidence SCO required, answering sometimes to even ridiculously stupid requests, letting SCO slowly become a laughing stock in the eyes of geeks, then business and in the end - their former suporters. I think calmness of IBM was _major_ force which helped them and rest of community. And of course PJ too. I don't always agree with her, but hers analysing attitude to this actually helped community a lot - we are more insightful about law, how it works, how it should work, we have seen what means to sit out difficult case until actual end, when you win.
I like this saying, nevermind that is overused here, in/. However, to achieve stage four, we will have to fight.
We will have several fronts to do that - first, code, features and working distros/software, second, legal standings, antitrust, more lobbying (it can be also honest stuff), more civil activities against software patents, third, real talking to the people, welcoming them to our world. Be polite, help them, give them resources, materials to research. Give most interest to kids, because they love open source after they get their teeth in.
We won't have chance to sit out this one, I think, because it's Microsoft - they maybe greedy, but they ain't stupid.
Very similar thoughts were running trough my head when I finished "Return of the King". Well, yes, movies departs from books for exact reason you mentioned - they are very antidramatic. In fact, if shot row by row, it would be deadly boring movie. Not so much inner conflicts, no big disagreements and tragedies rised from that, etc. Peter with a team did very good and huge job in adding drama to material, yet keeping tone of legendarium intact. By adding some dramatical signatures, finally you can understand reasoning of various heroes. For example, Aragon in movie has straits which don't replace, but complement character found in books. He is more unsure, his inner fight makes much more sense and it fits in whole message of books and movies much better - about flawed men/hobitts/elves/etc. which, in the end, survive themselves and evil who wants to destroy them.
And then I thought - why Tolkien would want to make books so "boring" for shooting straight from them?
In my opinion, books are specially written to be in "non-subjective", chronicles style, therefore keeping emotional overburn from various characters (and you have to admit that, with so big list of them would be hard not to lose focus of storytelling) at low levels. In same time, in various places books become more "personal" and in those places I see very striking similarity between books and movies. So book has to be very unpersonal, otherwise it won't be so easy and relaxing to read, it lets you get those images in your head and play with them. As we know, cinema is totally different media and plays by different rules. I want to salute Jackson about keeping it all "down to the Middle Earth" - there are few unrealistic special effect shots (and I can understand why he hated Undead, because it was, well, very out of place in whole style of movies), everything is about Nature vs. Tech and fits in well (even magic feels natural). Comparing it with Potter movies - yeah, they have good special effects, but they feel out of place and very "magic".
So, in nutshell, I love transformation of Middle Earth by Jackson for movies - and this is reason why I want to make him more LOTR movies, even maybe some DVD only serial about ancient times. He digs and understands this world very well.
It is different. Public broadcast in shops and restaurants and requiring a fee would make a sense - maybe a little, but still sense. But about work it's plainly stupid.
Yes, Google or Microsoft is interested in my relationship issues, creative plans in small scale, dreams, mailing list messages, etc. They would be if they would have perfect AI, better than human, to extract such info from my emails. Lucky, I am writing mostly in Latvian.
Duh.
Yes, there are some things to be worried about webmails, as security of email services, because then someone who knows me or wants to know about my plans could extract _concrete_ info. But "reading" such emails in masses...I think that even Microsoft would agree about it as big waste of computer/personal/whatever time. And if you are in competition, with, well, Google, then using our own email server would be kinda natural, I guess. Also if you don't like that they make some coin on your emails then also don't use them. But it has nothing to do with privacy.
Webmail has it's place in email world. Private email servers in certain situations are much much better solution and if I would have a server in data center, I undoubtedly would use it. However, I have other things to do, like doing real admin stuff, so I just don't care about it.
Because poeple should be able to set up and run ssh tunel easily. Also they want to connect to Microsoft VPN networks. And software allows it, all we need is just good, standartised GUI for doing that in GNOME/KDE/Xfce.
Very nice and informative post, thanks:) And no, no 'Photoshop shill' title for you either. I am GIMP user, but I support photographers as IT guy and I can see your reasoning very well. Yes, GIMP maybe will never reach Photoshop level, but I really hope that GEGL inclusion will release torrent of features, like 16-bit, layers, etc. Let's see.
Disclaimer: I am not a photographer, however, I support users who are photographers. Macs, of course.
Maybe it's not a pattern, but I haven't seen any photographer touching Photoshop some two years at least. Yes, Bridge for casual browsing (Now next Windows/OSX/Linux should support thumbailing for RAWs), yes Aperture/Lightroom for touching up basics, but Photoshop is left for tweaking pundits and photographers even don't care about it. At least it's how it happens in our studio for now.
When you have to sort/manage/tweak light settings for thousands of pictures (thanks to clueless "clicking" with digital cameras and eight gig monster cards), then Photoshop is simply defeated. Even more, photo cameras get better and better, people get better in how to use them and in result Photoshop is leveled to some auto balansing tool.
Article is about GIMP and it's not a Photoshop replacement (and I never expected it to be). However, it stands very good by itself and I use it every day for my web/photo jobs. Even more, GIMP is expected to get GEGL library support somewhere in future (half-year, year), which will increase feature set rather seriously. Also I want to see a plugin/switch for people who wants to use classic aka Photoshop interface (just to give a change for them to check out GIMP instead of rejecting it). I love spatial, but I would like to have it more advanced.
GIMP is used and that's the main reason why I am rather calm about it's critics - yes, it would be cool to be popular and used like Photoshop, but I love it like it is.
I don't agree with all you said, but I completely second your last paragraph - this is the answer - most people don't understand difference between OS and hardware, they see it as one, one complete product.
Therefore, if Dell will distribute Linux, they will use it (if it will work). Only in cases when special software is required, but even then - most people don't give a shit how their USB Bluetooth dongle works. If it works, they will use OS provided.
I understand your criticism about wishful thinking, and I partly support that - we can't imagine the world, where all people gives a damn about what is computer and which OS it's run. We should aim our efforts at OEMs and VAS. Yes, it is a Microsoft stronghold, but like it or not, we have to fight for it. We should give them clear economical edge why provide solutions based on FOSS.
Ubuntu already tries to do it - receiving bashing while doing it - and also RedHat has got it finally (Nevermind about Novell who is definitely "evil" now. Well, that Evil has only full enterprise solution for Linux which can compete with Microsoft - for now). Keep in mind that I'm talking about SMB and home user market. It's not that hard to get into enterprise, because they usually care about money and if FOSS/OSI can provide savings and don't create bugs in the way, it's set to go.
Disclaimer: my English is not so good, so I hope you will understand what I mean.
I can understand your irony and I hate oversimplified logic of Slashdotters, because it borders clearly with fanboyism (all kind of, not only Linux).
p.s. disclaimer - I am Linux developer, advocate, user and more or less fan.
First of all, I agree it's too soon for judging Vista. However, we can compare it to other Windows releases. And it's not very good for Microsoft. Last time when users shunned newest Windows version was Windows ME. So it is a problem for them and their clients. Not much for me, because I don't use Windows, and for my clients I know Windows XP good enough to support it (they plan to avoid Vista at any cost and their majority of laptops already is MacPros).
Microsoft blew Vista release and that's undeniable fact. If you compare it with Linux, well, you can say that Linux "blew" it, but Linux isn't company. We can look on concrete releases and for example, in thoughts of many Ubuntu fans (including me), Gutsy and Feisty releases was kinda substandard, second one was even actively cursed because of that.
So, in nutshell, software is still tricky business. Even Apple has it's share of problems. But critics more or less are valid on Vista problems, so...it's mistake from Microsoft's side. How big and how it will impact everything in IT, we'll see.
And one more thing - Linux distros have two releases every year and have lot of catchup to do, and they don't so much money as Microsoft does, so mistakes are bearable, as long as you know that in next release, if properly reported, it will be taken into account. So it is ok to give advantage when measuring success of Microsoft and Linux, I think.
Wow, how this got modded insightful, I don't know.
I am all against paranoia, but usually jobs of PD are usually measured by crimes *prevented* and *discovered*. Even more, system of justice also sees punishment as tool of *preventing* crime, not only *judging* it. So, man who have done little robbery, but don't feel any guilt and remorse, will get heavier penalties than man who have done accidental, but serious crime (killing by affection) and has very seemable remorse and admittance of guilt (well, at least in Europe).
As far as I can say from my experience, common people would like to have crime prevented, not successfully discovered. And I fully agree. However, I also agree with sentiment of privacy advocates - such systems have very big problems and with artifical aims like this it is a little bit nonsense. Everyone with a little readership of Slashdot knows that there is no such "suspicous activity" detection possible, at least for now. For such system it would require AI of level of very pedantic man.
Cameras can only see, but not prevent a crime, that's for sure. I think I agree with previous poster who said that such money should be tunneled in various programs which rise people awareness about crime.
Wtf moderators, it's not *Funny*, it's *Insightful* post!:)
What Microsoft have done to SMB protocol is similar how Orcs where created - twisted, tragic parody of real stuff. Starting from Windows 2000, SAMBA actually are more realible than Windows server, from my expierence (For others it could be different. It is also one element of that black magic:)).
It's no good to make fun at Pope, but....khemm.....MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:)
Sorry, couldn't keep stright face. My respects to Pope (no matter how he looks), but I imagined that scene instantly as I read your script for it. Damn rockin.
People keep talking about such "users", but I still have to find them. Seriously, in my ten years long professional life I have yet to find a user who would forbid to think anything, to understand anything.
Maybe I have to deal with people who actually *work*, and who understand that from their efforts trying to understand how computer and it's software works depend their professional future. Yes, they sometimes commit few stupid things, but they admit it, ask for help and never do that again.
Personally I think that Linux is not for such people. And no, I don't think they are majority. It is just US CEO/MBA syndrome, I guess.
Getting that off my neck, I have to say that Dell OEM is just first step and of course users with solid requirements won't be happy. Ubuntu OEM offerings should be improved and I really hope that they will be. Constructive criticism is good, whatever we can answer to that or not.
You nailed it. Congratulations. But what next then?
Seriously, I have no idea. I only know that while being so "peacful" (pratically aimless and desperate and boiling inside), our society becomes more and more violent and without any principles and concepts.
Education system doesn't learn human to try to understand the world around him and don't take everything and everyone says for granted (aka critical thinking). It is parents job, not teachers, actually.
IMHO, problem is such circle. Parents are tired and overworked and can't educate their children about how to live in this world. Such children are very frequently ends up learning good simple things aka facts, but without big insight about world. They usually tend to see that their parents don't have time because lack of money and they swear that they will do everything to not that happen to them. In result, they are blind to what's going on, and just give their run to money. They take everything for granted from people who are very rich. But easy money comes only for ruthless, lying bitches, who play life game for their own, and again - parents are overworked and they don't have time for their children. And circle goes on.
My parents were very busy, but somehow they succeed to give me thirst to educate myself, to understand processes around me. Yes, I made mistakes and I was lazy to learn at school. But I got burned and I get myself up somehow, and that only extended my understanding about how to try to understand everything, how to see everything, and how to connect everything.
It was said in Michael Moore recent "propoganda" movie - "Keeping people hopeless and pessimistic - see I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern."
I fully subscribe under those words. Unfortunately, our civlization has met very serious enemy - ourselves. Will we let our petty and let's say honesly, psyhotic need for prosperty get into way of our advance? Why bilionares want more bilions? Why people wants more and more power, if they can't brink any good using that power?
Problem is that we don't recognize fact, that our own survival instincts working against us. They were useful when we were all alone, spreaded, seperated. It is not so anymore, and with "fighting" for survival we hurt more and more people, which are also sucked in this "fight" then. Educated and critically thinking people understand they they can't follow emotions all the time.
Well, that's all what I think about that.
p.s. "propaganda" I meant that yes, I agree that Moore works are more like emotional manifestos than documentary. But that's I love about him - he makes his point strongly. I can do fact checking myself and he kindly gives lot of preferences in his website. I can google too, and I can read newspapers and watch TV.
Yes, US leadership in Iraq are very ignorant about civilian casualities, but I have to admit that in US there are more care about not harming civilians while doing some opperations. Yes, maybe someone's privacy is invided, but in nutshell, Russia simply DON'T CARE about their citizens. Just don't care.
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Maybe then avoid Doc, Ajax, even WAV, or Samba?
.NET maybe is too much hype, but I disagree about it's usefulness. More or less all these comments indicates not about real criticism, but plainly avoiding Microsoft as some kind of plague. I understand reasoning, but I don't want to agree that it is right way to do it.
Get a grip people. You act like bunch of frighten-to-death school kids.
In the same time, I think Python is more superior with all kind of support on many, many platforms.
So, in nutshell, your complains are that ODF is just more "standartized it's own way" and nothing like old Excel cruft? :)
:)
I can understand your complain, but it's not "valid" if we are talking in larger scale. And I think it's too much trolling in your post, so it seems more like personal dislike of ODF or something that way.
But heck, at least this is one of most informative and helpful posts for this rather flaming article
Seriously. Flash? one click in Ubuntu. Codecs? Few clicks, even better in Gutsy. OOXML? Not a deal braker here and I think for most of people. Adobe? Get a grip man, new KDE/GNOME PDF apps based on libpopper are much lighter and better. Even Windows users uses Foxit now.
And ohh, you can buy Fluendo Gstreamer codecs about 5 - 15 euros, if you want to be legimite.
Another slashadvert, sights.
And yes, Linspire action to buying protections right was stupid and greedy. It was worth community blackslash.
Quicktime is almost never included in OEM "offerings" of Winodws, at least not up to date version.
In fact, SCO case looks like exact page from Gandhi book. Yes, IBM took legal challenge, but they actually sat it out, peacefully calling claims false, providing evidence SCO required, answering sometimes to even ridiculously stupid requests, letting SCO slowly become a laughing stock in the eyes of geeks, then business and in the end - their former suporters. I think calmness of IBM was _major_ force which helped them and rest of community. And of course PJ too. I don't always agree with her, but hers analysing attitude to this actually helped community a lot - we are more insightful about law, how it works, how it should work, we have seen what means to sit out difficult case until actual end, when you win.
My two euro cents as usual.
I like this saying, nevermind that is overused here, in /. However, to achieve stage four, we will have to fight.
We will have several fronts to do that - first, code, features and working distros/software, second, legal standings, antitrust, more lobbying (it can be also honest stuff), more civil activities against software patents, third, real talking to the people, welcoming them to our world. Be polite, help them, give them resources, materials to research. Give most interest to kids, because they love open source after they get their teeth in.
We won't have chance to sit out this one, I think, because it's Microsoft - they maybe greedy, but they ain't stupid.
Very similar thoughts were running trough my head when I finished "Return of the King". Well, yes, movies departs from books for exact reason you mentioned - they are very antidramatic. In fact, if shot row by row, it would be deadly boring movie. Not so much inner conflicts, no big disagreements and tragedies rised from that, etc. Peter with a team did very good and huge job in adding drama to material, yet keeping tone of legendarium intact. By adding some dramatical signatures, finally you can understand reasoning of various heroes. For example, Aragon in movie has straits which don't replace, but complement character found in books. He is more unsure, his inner fight makes much more sense and it fits in whole message of books and movies much better - about flawed men/hobitts/elves/etc. which, in the end, survive themselves and evil who wants to destroy them.
And then I thought - why Tolkien would want to make books so "boring" for shooting straight from them?
In my opinion, books are specially written to be in "non-subjective", chronicles style, therefore keeping emotional overburn from various characters (and you have to admit that, with so big list of them would be hard not to lose focus of storytelling) at low levels. In same time, in various places books become more "personal" and in those places I see very striking similarity between books and movies. So book has to be very unpersonal, otherwise it won't be so easy and relaxing to read, it lets you get those images in your head and play with them. As we know, cinema is totally different media and plays by different rules. I want to salute Jackson about keeping it all "down to the Middle Earth" - there are few unrealistic special effect shots (and I can understand why he hated Undead, because it was, well, very out of place in whole style of movies), everything is about Nature vs. Tech and fits in well (even magic feels natural). Comparing it with Potter movies - yeah, they have good special effects, but they feel out of place and very "magic".
So, in nutshell, I love transformation of Middle Earth by Jackson for movies - and this is reason why I want to make him more LOTR movies, even maybe some DVD only serial about ancient times. He digs and understands this world very well.
It is different. Public broadcast in shops and restaurants and requiring a fee would make a sense - maybe a little, but still sense. But about work it's plainly stupid.
Yes, Google or Microsoft is interested in my relationship issues, creative plans in small scale, dreams, mailing list messages, etc. They would be if they would have perfect AI, better than human, to extract such info from my emails. Lucky, I am writing mostly in Latvian.
Duh.
Yes, there are some things to be worried about webmails, as security of email services, because then someone who knows me or wants to know about my plans could extract _concrete_ info. But "reading" such emails in masses...I think that even Microsoft would agree about it as big waste of computer/personal/whatever time. And if you are in competition, with, well, Google, then using our own email server would be kinda natural, I guess. Also if you don't like that they make some coin on your emails then also don't use them. But it has nothing to do with privacy.
Webmail has it's place in email world. Private email servers in certain situations are much much better solution and if I would have a server in data center, I undoubtedly would use it. However, I have other things to do, like doing real admin stuff, so I just don't care about it.
Because poeple should be able to set up and run ssh tunel easily. Also they want to connect to Microsoft VPN networks. And software allows it, all we need is just good, standartised GUI for doing that in GNOME/KDE/Xfce.
This is from Softpedia?! :) Gosh, I don't touch it even when I need Mac/Windows software.
;)
What a bullshit this article then is
Very nice and informative post, thanks :) And no, no 'Photoshop shill' title for you either. I am GIMP user, but I support photographers as IT guy and I can see your reasoning very well. Yes, GIMP maybe will never reach Photoshop level, but I really hope that GEGL inclusion will release torrent of features, like 16-bit, layers, etc. Let's see.
Disclaimer: I am not a photographer, however, I support users who are photographers. Macs, of course.
Maybe it's not a pattern, but I haven't seen any photographer touching Photoshop some two years at least. Yes, Bridge for casual browsing (Now next Windows/OSX/Linux should support thumbailing for RAWs), yes Aperture/Lightroom for touching up basics, but Photoshop is left for tweaking pundits and photographers even don't care about it. At least it's how it happens in our studio for now.
When you have to sort/manage/tweak light settings for thousands of pictures (thanks to clueless "clicking" with digital cameras and eight gig monster cards), then Photoshop is simply defeated. Even more, photo cameras get better and better, people get better in how to use them and in result Photoshop is leveled to some auto balansing tool.
Article is about GIMP and it's not a Photoshop replacement (and I never expected it to be). However, it stands very good by itself and I use it every day for my web/photo jobs. Even more, GIMP is expected to get GEGL library support somewhere in future (half-year, year), which will increase feature set rather seriously. Also I want to see a plugin/switch for people who wants to use classic aka Photoshop interface (just to give a change for them to check out GIMP instead of rejecting it). I love spatial, but I would like to have it more advanced.
GIMP is used and that's the main reason why I am rather calm about it's critics - yes, it would be cool to be popular and used like Photoshop, but I love it like it is.
I don't agree with all you said, but I completely second your last paragraph - this is the answer - most people don't understand difference between OS and hardware, they see it as one, one complete product.
Therefore, if Dell will distribute Linux, they will use it (if it will work). Only in cases when special software is required, but even then - most people don't give a shit how their USB Bluetooth dongle works. If it works, they will use OS provided.
I understand your criticism about wishful thinking, and I partly support that - we can't imagine the world, where all people gives a damn about what is computer and which OS it's run. We should aim our efforts at OEMs and VAS. Yes, it is a Microsoft stronghold, but like it or not, we have to fight for it. We should give them clear economical edge why provide solutions based on FOSS.
Ubuntu already tries to do it - receiving bashing while doing it - and also RedHat has got it finally (Nevermind about Novell who is definitely "evil" now. Well, that Evil has only full enterprise solution for Linux which can compete with Microsoft - for now). Keep in mind that I'm talking about SMB and home user market. It's not that hard to get into enterprise, because they usually care about money and if FOSS/OSI can provide savings and don't create bugs in the way, it's set to go.
Disclaimer: my English is not so good, so I hope you will understand what I mean.
I can understand your irony and I hate oversimplified logic of Slashdotters, because it borders clearly with fanboyism (all kind of, not only Linux).
p.s. disclaimer - I am Linux developer, advocate, user and more or less fan.
First of all, I agree it's too soon for judging Vista. However, we can compare it to other Windows releases. And it's not very good for Microsoft. Last time when users shunned newest Windows version was Windows ME. So it is a problem for them and their clients. Not much for me, because I don't use Windows, and for my clients I know Windows XP good enough to support it (they plan to avoid Vista at any cost and their majority of laptops already is MacPros).
Microsoft blew Vista release and that's undeniable fact. If you compare it with Linux, well, you can say that Linux "blew" it, but Linux isn't company. We can look on concrete releases and for example, in thoughts of many Ubuntu fans (including me), Gutsy and Feisty releases was kinda substandard, second one was even actively cursed because of that.
So, in nutshell, software is still tricky business. Even Apple has it's share of problems. But critics more or less are valid on Vista problems, so...it's mistake from Microsoft's side. How big and how it will impact everything in IT, we'll see.
And one more thing - Linux distros have two releases every year and have lot of catchup to do, and they don't so much money as Microsoft does, so mistakes are bearable, as long as you know that in next release, if properly reported, it will be taken into account. So it is ok to give advantage when measuring success of Microsoft and Linux, I think.
Just my two Euros anyway.
Wow, how this got modded insightful, I don't know.
I am all against paranoia, but usually jobs of PD are usually measured by crimes *prevented* and *discovered*. Even more, system of justice also sees punishment as tool of *preventing* crime, not only *judging* it. So, man who have done little robbery, but don't feel any guilt and remorse, will get heavier penalties than man who have done accidental, but serious crime (killing by affection) and has very seemable remorse and admittance of guilt (well, at least in Europe).
As far as I can say from my experience, common people would like to have crime prevented, not successfully discovered. And I fully agree. However, I also agree with sentiment of privacy advocates - such systems have very big problems and with artifical aims like this it is a little bit nonsense. Everyone with a little readership of Slashdot knows that there is no such "suspicous activity" detection possible, at least for now. For such system it would require AI of level of very pedantic man.
Cameras can only see, but not prevent a crime, that's for sure. I think I agree with previous poster who said that such money should be tunneled in various programs which rise people awareness about crime.
Wtf moderators, it's not *Funny*, it's *Insightful* post! :)
:)).
What Microsoft have done to SMB protocol is similar how Orcs where created - twisted, tragic parody of real stuff. Starting from Windows 2000, SAMBA actually are more realible than Windows server, from my expierence (For others it could be different. It is also one element of that black magic
It's no good to make fun at Pope, but....khemm.....MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :)
Sorry, couldn't keep stright face. My respects to Pope (no matter how he looks), but I imagined that scene instantly as I read your script for it. Damn rockin.
Yes, you need a war, because it is very hard to escape from such logical loop in which are Western government's security services are now.
It's called P a r a n o i a and is very hard to stop it if you continue to feed it with your fears.
Usually such people end up in hospitals. Well, but you can't put whole system there, can you.
People keep talking about such "users", but I still have to find them. Seriously, in my ten years long professional life I have yet to find a user who would forbid to think anything, to understand anything.
Maybe I have to deal with people who actually *work*, and who understand that from their efforts trying to understand how computer and it's software works depend their professional future. Yes, they sometimes commit few stupid things, but they admit it, ask for help and never do that again.
Personally I think that Linux is not for such people. And no, I don't think they are majority. It is just US CEO/MBA syndrome, I guess.
Getting that off my neck, I have to say that Dell OEM is just first step and of course users with solid requirements won't be happy. Ubuntu OEM offerings should be improved and I really hope that they will be. Constructive criticism is good, whatever we can answer to that or not.
Unfortunately, it won't matter, because parents are rulers in family. And what ruler says, it stays. Right?
Stupid. Completely, utterly stupid. God, save my country from becoming SO dumb to accept it.
Wow, what's unbiased lawer then? You don't know a shit about GPL and BSD licenses?
Get a grip man, if you wanna smear Eben just because you don't like what he says, then do it. Don't find excuses just because there are none.
Sorry for rather hard tone, but IMHO implying that Eben hates BSD license and therefore is biased is plainly stupid.
You nailed it. Congratulations. But what next then?
Seriously, I have no idea. I only know that while being so "peacful" (pratically aimless and desperate and boiling inside), our society becomes more and more violent and without any principles and concepts.
It is "good enough" horror.
Education system doesn't learn human to try to understand the world around him and don't take everything and everyone says for granted (aka critical thinking). It is parents job, not teachers, actually.
IMHO, problem is such circle. Parents are tired and overworked and can't educate their children about how to live in this world. Such children are very frequently ends up learning good simple things aka facts, but without big insight about world. They usually tend to see that their parents don't have time because lack of money and they swear that they will do everything to not that happen to them. In result, they are blind to what's going on, and just give their run to money. They take everything for granted from people who are very rich. But easy money comes only for ruthless, lying bitches, who play life game for their own, and again - parents are overworked and they don't have time for their children. And circle goes on.
My parents were very busy, but somehow they succeed to give me thirst to educate myself, to understand processes around me. Yes, I made mistakes and I was lazy to learn at school. But I got burned and I get myself up somehow, and that only extended my understanding about how to try to understand everything, how to see everything, and how to connect everything.
It was said in Michael Moore recent "propoganda" movie - "Keeping people hopeless and pessimistic - see I think there are two ways in which people are controlled - first of all frighten people and secondly demoralize them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern."
I fully subscribe under those words. Unfortunately, our civlization has met very serious enemy - ourselves. Will we let our petty and let's say honesly, psyhotic need for prosperty get into way of our advance? Why bilionares want more bilions? Why people wants more and more power, if they can't brink any good using that power?
Problem is that we don't recognize fact, that our own survival instincts working against us. They were useful when we were all alone, spreaded, seperated. It is not so anymore, and with "fighting" for survival we hurt more and more people, which are also sucked in this "fight" then. Educated and critically thinking people understand they they can't follow emotions all the time.
Well, that's all what I think about that.
p.s. "propaganda" I meant that yes, I agree that Moore works are more like emotional manifestos than documentary. But that's I love about him - he makes his point strongly. I can do fact checking myself and he kindly gives lot of preferences in his website. I can google too, and I can read newspapers and watch TV.
Yes, US leadership in Iraq are very ignorant about civilian casualities, but I have to admit that in US there are more care about not harming civilians while doing some opperations. Yes, maybe someone's privacy is invided, but in nutshell, Russia simply DON'T CARE about their citizens. Just don't care.
And it is just very terrible feeling.