I've been using their 50$ unlimited GPRS internet access from my laptop for one year now.
Works perfectly anywhere in Canada and the United States (some parts of latin America are supported as well I believe), without any other charges. For someone who travels a lot (my case), that deal is unbeatable. Oh, and it works on Linux too:)
I also don't totally agree with the article content. All my communication needs are using the Fido wireless network, and it's not considerably more expensive than old-fashioned land lines. Might depend on your needs though.
I applaud this initiative. Might be what X needs to get back to life. A bit of competition always sounds like a good thing.
But if they are really serious at encouraging developpers to join this project, the first sensible thing to do would probably be to forget about the IMake crazyness that has been used for years by XFree86 and switch to something else for building the whole project.
Replacing it by the autoconf/automake mix would make the source tree much more appealing to potential developpers. And just to back up my claim, someone else also made the same comment on the xfree-xpert mailing list a few months ago:
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[ I also hope that somebody with more drive than I have will some day decide that the X Makefiles are such a mess that they'd be willing to get rid of all that horribly broken imake crap and just fix them. What a broken build system! ]
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Do you really want to be funded by these vulture capitalists?
I've been using their 50$ unlimited GPRS internet access from my laptop for one year now.
:)
Works perfectly anywhere in Canada and the United States (some parts of latin America are supported as well I believe), without any other charges. For someone who travels a lot (my case), that deal is unbeatable. Oh, and it works on Linux too
I also don't totally agree with the article content. All my communication needs are using the Fido wireless network, and it's not considerably more expensive than old-fashioned land lines. Might depend on your needs though.
My 0.02$
Scale this thing 10 times larger, attach a couple of guns, put a soldier in it and you're ready to shoot a lot of sentinels :)
I applaud this initiative. Might be what X needs to get back to life. A bit of competition always sounds like a good thing.
But if they are really serious at encouraging developpers to join this project, the first sensible thing to do would probably be to forget about the IMake crazyness that has been used for years by XFree86 and switch to something else for building the whole project.
Replacing it by the autoconf/automake mix would make the source tree much more appealing to potential developpers. And just to back up my claim, someone else also made the same comment on the xfree-xpert mailing list a few months ago:
(...)
[ I also hope that somebody with more drive than I have will some day decide that the X Makefiles are such a mess that they'd be willing to get rid of all that horribly broken imake crap and just fix them. What a broken build system! ]
Linus
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Just my 0x02 cents...