I used to support Annonymous when they started right now, it is just pathetic. This kind of actions actually define what Annonymous is really about: Nothing.
Dude you are missing the point. The point is the practice Microsoft is enforcing. Crackers will find a way to get around this and you will have your pirated copy anyway; it is the practice that Microsoft is enforcing without your authorization.
This is going to lead to another messy WGA-like scenario, where applications will just stop working with an upgrade, or simply for no apparent reason. This will cost a lot more money to enterprises just for maintenance of the OS.
This is a practice that could potentially kill Windows.
I personally don't know the inner workings of Enlightenment, but if what you say is true, the maybe using evas on Gnome won't be that hard to reuse.
Just don't get me wonrg here, I really enjoy having a lot of desktops around, but I am developer, I enjoy changing desktops every once in a while, the problem comes when I have to choose for one of my clients.
Of course the choice would be Gnome, but at this point, they still prefer XP, for whatever reason. Anyways, if this set of libraries are as modular as imlib, then I think Seth and Havoc or the FreeDesktop.org community will eventually reuse them, and that would be great.
writing a desktop manager from scratch ?
Lately E17 has been getting a lot of my attention, and as of today, the media. I used to love enlightenment (0.16). I used it in everything, after the project died a couple of years ago, and just stopped using it.
A year or so, the proyect got revived. I tried it again, it was cool, since none of the Linux Desktops seems to implement anything that enlightenment used to have. I dumped it again, it was unsuable for me, since I'm competly used to gnome, and the compatibility with gnome sucked also.
E17 is getting usable, at least for most people, and I read the blogs from Seth Nickel, Havoc pennington and Rasterman. I read what they have to say, and I agree with Seth and Havoc; in order to compete we need to begin creating innovation in the graphics department for linux. I believe Rasterman's has a point also, For all I can see on the videos, Enlightenment has most of the things Seth and havoc propose.
The problem is not exactly the features, but the way the features are provided. I read on some of the forums for the article on osnews, and some one said that those features would be really cool if they would be implemented on a lower layer, so that Gnome, Kde or even Enlightenment could use them.
I think the problem with enlightenment is the fact that is focused on rewirting the wheel. I agree that the wheel is quite amazing, and it has cool features. But enlightenment is still moving to become a desktop manager. I understand that the nature of open source is to create software in different ways and implementations. But why is enlightenment a write from scratch dekstop manager ? Why not expand gnome or Kde ?
This is the same case with the looking glass project. It is a really cool set of features, I agree. But they are also creating from scratch. Linux will not advance to peoples desktops if it is not consistent enough. I know some people will think, "Linux is full of options, and that is how it should be". The freedom to create from scratch. I understand all that stuff about freedom and I support it. But the idea that some Desktop manager implements some really cool features, and embeds it so deep into their framework, so that no one can reuse it, is definately a selfish view of open source.
So this is what I think would solve the problem: Begin a project to incorporate most of the features in a lower layer, in fact borrowing from proyects like enlightenement, to make the features available through the X window system. And that project should be created by the freedesktop.org project.
I think desktop managers should become users of features, instead of implementors, in order for Linux to get to the desktop faster. Gnome could use the features in some way, and Kde in another.
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True... I guess I think of them when they were supporting WikiLeaks...one good deed doesn't negate the rest of their actions.
I used to support Annonymous when they started right now, it is just pathetic. This kind of actions actually define what Annonymous is really about: Nothing.
I really don't see how this news can be funny.
Dude you are missing the point. The point is the practice Microsoft is enforcing. Crackers will find a way to get around this and you will have your pirated copy anyway; it is the practice that Microsoft is enforcing without your authorization. This is going to lead to another messy WGA-like scenario, where applications will just stop working with an upgrade, or simply for no apparent reason. This will cost a lot more money to enterprises just for maintenance of the OS. This is a practice that could potentially kill Windows.
I personally don't know the inner workings of Enlightenment, but if what you say is true, the maybe using evas on Gnome won't be that hard to reuse.
:D
Just don't get me wonrg here, I really enjoy having a lot of desktops around, but I am developer, I enjoy changing desktops every once in a while, the problem comes when I have to choose for one of my clients.
Of course the choice would be Gnome, but at this point, they still prefer XP, for whatever reason. Anyways, if this set of libraries are as modular as imlib, then I think Seth and Havoc or the FreeDesktop.org community will eventually reuse them, and that would be great.
writing a desktop manager from scratch ? Lately E17 has been getting a lot of my attention, and as of today, the media. I used to love enlightenment (0.16). I used it in everything, after the project died a couple of years ago, and just stopped using it. A year or so, the proyect got revived. I tried it again, it was cool, since none of the Linux Desktops seems to implement anything that enlightenment used to have. I dumped it again, it was unsuable for me, since I'm competly used to gnome, and the compatibility with gnome sucked also. E17 is getting usable, at least for most people, and I read the blogs from Seth Nickel, Havoc pennington and Rasterman. I read what they have to say, and I agree with Seth and Havoc; in order to compete we need to begin creating innovation in the graphics department for linux. I believe Rasterman's has a point also, For all I can see on the videos, Enlightenment has most of the things Seth and havoc propose. The problem is not exactly the features, but the way the features are provided. I read on some of the forums for the article on osnews, and some one said that those features would be really cool if they would be implemented on a lower layer, so that Gnome, Kde or even Enlightenment could use them. I think the problem with enlightenment is the fact that is focused on rewirting the wheel. I agree that the wheel is quite amazing, and it has cool features. But enlightenment is still moving to become a desktop manager. I understand that the nature of open source is to create software in different ways and implementations. But why is enlightenment a write from scratch dekstop manager ? Why not expand gnome or Kde ? This is the same case with the looking glass project. It is a really cool set of features, I agree. But they are also creating from scratch. Linux will not advance to peoples desktops if it is not consistent enough. I know some people will think, "Linux is full of options, and that is how it should be". The freedom to create from scratch. I understand all that stuff about freedom and I support it. But the idea that some Desktop manager implements some really cool features, and embeds it so deep into their framework, so that no one can reuse it, is definately a selfish view of open source. So this is what I think would solve the problem: Begin a project to incorporate most of the features in a lower layer, in fact borrowing from proyects like enlightenement, to make the features available through the X window system. And that project should be created by the freedesktop.org project. I think desktop managers should become users of features, instead of implementors, in order for Linux to get to the desktop faster. Gnome could use the features in some way, and Kde in another.