I think that the greatest thing in OSS co-operation is that it can be seperated from politics. Yes, it could contribute to peace, which will be great, but it will exist and be great even if hostility and dispute over territory will continue.
The Israeli government, and some Israeli OSS programmers, are putting efford into the improvement of RTL support in OO, KDE etc. So do some Arab programmers, and perhaps some Arab governments too. Do they do it for each other? No, they do it for themselves, but each one benefits from the other's effort.
When I go to an OS project and add a feature I need, I don't care who else will benefit from it. When I use an OS project, I don't care who developed the features I need.
Think of a few software companies, which are rivals and develop competing products. There will be no peace between them. But they may in fact co-operate to develop a shared standard or an OS library, for all of them to use, which will benefit them all.
While OpenOffice on Windows is pretty useable, Linux (in Hebrew) isn't useable enough, but is rapidly going on the way there. According to reports, the Israeli Ministry of Finance is already checking out Mandrake Linux.
Yes, Skype is only Audio (in the mean time, anyway), but the quality is much better than any other application I tried.
Sure I could have used Yahoo Messanger (or NetMeeting, or GnomeMeeting) for Audio/Video, but the quality wasn't really worth it. With Skype, I'm already using it instead of the phone.
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This law states laws that govern new laws to govern new laws to govern electronics and transistors will become obsolete every few minutes and will be replaced by new and improved laws which again will become obsolete as we as slashdotters become more bored and find newer and better ways of wasting time by posting stupid comments.
Increasing the density of transistors is still possible, just they'll be made in new technologies, such as the latest development of DNA-based transistors.
You last sentence is actually a great example. Looking for fish, I really won't find any in the woods. But if what I'm looking for is food, then I could find mushrooms (which is food, but very different from fish) in the woods, and there are some seas where I couldn't find fish.
But why should all other life be like us? Isn't it quite possible that life has evolved on some planets totally unlike the Earth, or that no life has developed on some Earth-like planets?
It's not like it's that much different today, actually.
Today you download whole movies in Kazaa instead of single images in BBS, but the concept is the same. You waste some time, just to find out that it's something crappy.
Today the modem sounds are no longer heard and don't wake anyone, but Skyping with people for hours can.
Just think, a few years from now, you'll say "Voice\Video-on-demand in those days was so difficult!"
Yeah, that's the exact reason why we should already switch to OO and save our documents in an open format.
OO has the ability to open and save.DOC files not to continue using them, but rather to ease the transition of your own files from that format, and the gradual transition of other people to OO.
But the most important thing with OO is that if something with RTL support is wrong (though it's pretty good, as far as I've seen), IBM (who are responsible for the office suite there) can prepare the patch themselves (as they did before), and update it quickly (whether they fixed something, or just a new and better version came out), which is totally unlike waiting for a new bloated version of M$'s office to deal with those issues.
What does the regime of Israel has to do with adoption of OSS in it's goverment and army?
That would be like someone will say they don't want to use Microsoft Windows (or Red Hat Linux for that matter), because they are US companies, and it has a certain regime in Iraq or somewhere else. (Actually, what you saying to even less logical, since you don't have to support someone to support their move to OO, if you support OO).
If you have a problem with an article about the IDF being posted of \. because of what they do, you have a serious problem, and it's no surprise the comment is posted anonymously. But what's the actual problem with a government moving to OO?, being one of many governments planning to do similar steps, which is what the story is about.
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I think that the greatest thing in OSS co-operation is that it can be seperated from politics. Yes, it could contribute to peace, which will be great, but it will exist and be great even if hostility and dispute over territory will continue.
The Israeli government, and some Israeli OSS programmers, are putting efford into the improvement of RTL support in OO, KDE etc. So do some Arab programmers, and perhaps some Arab governments too. Do they do it for each other? No, they do it for themselves, but each one benefits from the other's effort.
When I go to an OS project and add a feature I need, I don't care who else will benefit from it. When I use an OS project, I don't care who developed the features I need.
Think of a few software companies, which are rivals and develop competing products. There will be no peace between them. But they may in fact co-operate to develop a shared standard or an OS library, for all of them to use, which will benefit them all.
Supporting Hebrew is for God's sake.
While OpenOffice on Windows is pretty useable, Linux (in Hebrew) isn't useable enough, but is rapidly going on the way there. According to reports, the Israeli Ministry of Finance is already checking out Mandrake Linux.
You can still download the integrated package.
In the Mozilla Homepage, click the download links for Mozilla 1.5 or 1.6a.
"I'm the first one to post a comment about that."
Yes, Skype is only Audio (in the mean time, anyway), but the quality is much better than any other application I tried.
Sure I could have used Yahoo Messanger (or NetMeeting, or GnomeMeeting) for Audio/Video, but the quality wasn't really worth it. With Skype, I'm already using it instead of the phone.
I'm a Windows user who wants to use it instead of NetMeeting??
when will it communicate with Skype?
(I meant it really seriously, you know...)
If it wasn't clear, I meant fish as earth-like life, and food as life in general.
If you only want to look for earth-like life, then it's ok, but I want to look for life in general, even of types we are not aware of.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I proudly present to you SlashDotAgent's Law:
This law states laws that govern new laws to govern new laws to govern electronics and transistors will become obsolete every few minutes and will be replaced by new and improved laws which again will become obsolete as we as slashdotters become more bored and find newer and better ways of wasting time by posting stupid comments.
Increasing the density of transistors is still possible, just they'll be made in new technologies, such as the latest development of DNA-based transistors.
You last sentence is actually a great example. Looking for fish, I really won't find any in the woods. But if what I'm looking for is food, then I could find mushrooms (which is food, but very different from fish) in the woods, and there are some seas where I couldn't find fish.
But why should all other life be like us? Isn't it quite possible that life has evolved on some planets totally unlike the Earth, or that no life has developed on some Earth-like planets?
But what we see there is the past...
So, the arms race has already began.
If only any Linux application could run on any distribution, just according to the kernel, like those exploits...
It's not like it's that much different today, actually.
Today you download whole movies in Kazaa instead of single images in BBS, but the concept is the same. You waste some time, just to find out that it's something crappy.
Today the modem sounds are no longer heard and don't wake anyone, but Skyping with people for hours can.
Just think, a few years from now, you'll say "Voice\Video-on-demand in those days was so difficult!"
Yeah, that's the exact reason why we should already switch to OO and save our documents in an open format.
OO has the ability to open and save .DOC files not to continue using them, but rather to ease the transition of your own files from that format, and the gradual transition of other people to OO.
But the most important thing with OO is that if something with RTL support is wrong (though it's pretty good, as far as I've seen), IBM (who are responsible for the office suite there) can prepare the patch themselves (as they did before), and update it quickly (whether they fixed something, or just a new and better version came out), which is totally unlike waiting for a new bloated version of M$'s office to deal with those issues.
And people won't even be surprised that it looks and works quite differently, just like after installing real M$ SPs... :)
What does the regime of Israel has to do with adoption of OSS in it's goverment and army?
That would be like someone will say they don't want to use Microsoft Windows (or Red Hat Linux for that matter), because they are US companies, and it has a certain regime in Iraq or somewhere else. (Actually, what you saying to even less logical, since you don't have to support someone to support their move to OO, if you support OO).
If you have a problem with an article about the IDF being posted of \. because of what they do, you have a serious problem, and it's no surprise the comment is posted anonymously. But what's the actual problem with a government moving to OO?, being one of many governments planning to do similar steps, which is what the story is about.
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Where can we get it?? B-)
The Matrix spoof, and not about the business plan.