Re:The secret of the universe
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Re:It just looks better.
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Mac doesn't have the money to do major product placement and why dont we see massive product placement from M$? IMHO movie producers are gonna think something along the lines of "Our main character cant be seen to be 'mainstream' or 'usual' so lets give them something just a little unusual"
I've always loved apple because they're just soo much more styly than a M$ box. Ever moticed that in most movies if they have to do a computer scene they never have windoze, always Mac or the old console interface (not that the console is bad I have heaps of friends who nly use the linux console), thats cause the mac is more 'cool' (not that/.'rs would even touch cool with a long stick:)
The worst case senario (which I think is EXTREMELY unlikely) is that the courts find SCO right on all points, this means linux will become a "dark" OS, you'll have to find obscure sites and download the latest kernel before it gets locked down. More likely is that SCO gets chucked out on it's arse for having such lame evidence (last I heard it was 80 lines that were copied word 4 word) and linux comes out fine. But my biggest worry is that whatever the outcome whenever a big campany is looking to migrate, the issue of the "stolen" code will come out. Some conversation like this will happen.
IT guy: We should switch to linux it's cheaper, faster and more stable. Manager: But what about the stolen code? (conversation on how it wasn't stolen etc.)
The biggest problem is our reputation will be tainted and that's whats bugging me.
Open Office is a wonderful tool and shows that OS is capable of producing high end flash products.
Open office is great in that it combines all of the tools you could need for manipulating spread sheets, diagrams and of course words.
Hate double-rplying i just checked it out and i see what you mean, I thought you meant market share as in capital and sales an' stuff. I dunno maybe the Mozilla browser announces itself as win or other, something like that.
Linux isn't a commercial product..;) They dont count downloads and pass-alongs because they cant monitor them. 1% of bought products are linux (not bad considering you can download source code, binaries and your mate can cut you a copy (no copywright protection)). It ain't as bad as it looks.:)
I know what you mean 'bout studying the way people use systems and stuff, and to make contributions to the kernel (I consider myself to be a contributor to the linux kernel), but I think a lot of people just dont get the message otherwise, this is a pretty sad state of affairs. I think that by intresting people in the open source movement we can gain momentum and make a valid contribution to the IT industry of today. However after saying all that I still consider that developing is central to making free software worth everybodys while.
Linux is a better product and is growing like hell in both the server and client market.
So...
Anybody who knows anything worthwhile about computers knows about Linux, and anybody who is into computers in a heavy way uses Linux.
Old news, but what MS doesnt get is that the growth of Linux is inevitable. It's free (MS cant compete price wise), It's stable (everybody sees what it does and because the codes there somebody's gonna know what wrong and a patch can get produced real quick) and YOU CAN CHANGE IT YOURSELF! (goverments love this).
It isn't "Will Linux rise?" it's "How long is it gonna take?"
Re:Know why Linux will fail on the desktop?
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1.GIMP (Gnome Image ManiPulater) (my spelling sucks)
2.I dont even know why you need this feature
3.Mozilla
4.Give office some time (version 1.0 right now). It'll get better, way better.
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Mac doesn't have the money to do major product placement and why dont we see massive product placement from M$? IMHO movie producers are gonna think something along the lines of "Our main character cant be seen to be 'mainstream' or 'usual' so lets give them something just a little unusual"
I've always loved apple because they're just soo much more styly than a M$ box. Ever moticed that in most movies if they have to do a computer scene they never have windoze, always Mac or the old console interface (not that the console is bad I have heaps of friends who nly use the linux console), thats cause the mac is more 'cool' (not that /.'rs would even touch cool with a long stick :)
Linus Torvalds is the founder of the linux, either you are extremely ignorant or you tried to be funny and failed miserably.
The worst case senario (which I think is EXTREMELY unlikely) is that the courts find SCO right on all points, this means linux will become a "dark" OS, you'll have to find obscure sites and download the latest kernel before it gets locked down.
More likely is that SCO gets chucked out on it's arse for having such lame evidence (last I heard it was 80 lines that were copied word 4 word) and linux comes out fine.
But my biggest worry is that whatever the outcome whenever a big campany is looking to migrate, the issue of the "stolen" code will come out.
Some conversation like this will happen.
IT guy: We should switch to linux it's cheaper, faster and more stable.
Manager: But what about the stolen code?
(conversation on how it wasn't stolen etc.)
The biggest problem is our reputation will be tainted and that's whats bugging me.
Open Office is a wonderful tool and shows that OS is capable of producing high end flash products. Open office is great in that it combines all of the tools you could need for manipulating spread sheets, diagrams and of course words.
Hate double-rplying i just checked it out and i see what you mean, I thought you meant market share as in capital and sales an' stuff.
I dunno maybe the Mozilla browser announces itself as win or other, something like that.
Linux isn't a commercial product.. ;) :)
They dont count downloads and pass-alongs because they cant monitor them.
1% of bought products are linux (not bad considering you can download source code, binaries and your mate can cut you a copy (no copywright protection)).
It ain't as bad as it looks.
I know what you mean 'bout studying the way people use systems and stuff, and to make contributions to the kernel (I consider myself to be a contributor to the linux kernel), but I think a lot of people just dont get the message otherwise, this is a pretty sad state of affairs. I think that by intresting people in the open source movement we can gain momentum and make a valid contribution to the IT industry of today.
However after saying all that I still consider that developing is central to making free software worth everybodys while.
Linux is a better product and is growing like hell in both the server and client market. So... Anybody who knows anything worthwhile about computers knows about Linux, and anybody who is into computers in a heavy way uses Linux. Old news, but what MS doesnt get is that the growth of Linux is inevitable. It's free (MS cant compete price wise), It's stable (everybody sees what it does and because the codes there somebody's gonna know what wrong and a patch can get produced real quick) and YOU CAN CHANGE IT YOURSELF! (goverments love this).
It isn't "Will Linux rise?" it's "How long is it gonna take?"
1.GIMP (Gnome Image ManiPulater) (my spelling sucks) 2.I dont even know why you need this feature 3.Mozilla 4.Give office some time (version 1.0 right now). It'll get better, way better.