The problem are mostly the people spending more time talking about open source than developing. They claim the OS-Movement wants 100% market share, not the developers.
Why? They know if they want something not yet existing they have to pay for it. If they are smart they recognize the advantage building on top of an open source code base instead of starting from scratch can bring. They usually don't expect anything to be free.
Config files are one of the things I like most in Linux compared to Windows. If it is a registry or just looks like the Windows registry isn't important. I want simple config-files I can copy from one machine to another to move my settings. I want config files to use configurations from Websites, Forums,...
If it is the most efficient desktop for you and all future projects are twice as fast compared to a "for the masses" desktop then yes, it is successful.
And I thought I was alone with my opinion that I don't want to have half a dozen support-daemons running for my desktop. I simply want to install single programs and to uninstall the ones I don't like. Gtk or Qt are okay, but anything KDE and Gnome build above it is simply a bunch of crap and bloat if you don't use at least a dozen of their programs. I believe I don't even have a dozen X11 programs installed, more like half of it: aterm, opera, mplayer, xpdf, feh and 2 or 3 games. I don't want to install a whole bunch of crap just to use let us say k3b or some similar independent gnome program.
And don't start with the "libraries safe us so much trouble and work" crap. I know that libraries can safe you trouble, but why not use one or more of ten small libraries instead of one big pile that depends on lots of other libs from the "project" even though the functions my small app uses is not related to the functions those libraries provide in any way.
Unix started as small, independent programs working together, not one big pile of heavily interlinked crap. If I want to mount ftp-servers in my file-manager I do that with a kernel filesystem, it doesn't have to be built into the file manager which shouldn't even be aware it is accessing a remote file.
And those that are not must either find a developer who has sufficiently similar interests or must pay one, what is so difficult to understand about it?
Bittorrent taking up a high percentage of all Internet Traffic does not mean it is the most popular, it is just the one popular with the people sharing the biggest files (whole seasons of TV Series, DVDs,...).
Actually that Joke was old when I first read it and it was never funny. The only thing funny about it is Americans talking about things they don't know shit about, like unexpected attacks from a country with direct borders in a scale where one army CAN control a whole country in a short time (much smaller countries here in Europe than in the US). And no, I am not french.
I am one of the Linux Users opposed to making all decisions based on gaining market share and I believe unified efforts will die because "no one cares about software that sucks" and unified software sucks more for everyone that software customized for your needs - at least for people able to customize, but most likely good developers come from this group, not from the group whining about too much customization.
Perhaps not all Linux Users/Developers WANT everyone to use Linux? Perhaps some just want the system perfectly fitted for THEIR needs? You (as in you Linux Evangelists) always assume every Linux User wants all people to use Linux.
XML is no good format for files meant to be edited by the user. It simply has too much meaningless crap your eyes need to filter out to find the important information.
The Grandparent is right. Your horizon is definitely very small if you only see the products of one company. How big that company is or how long they will stay is irrelevant. Even if you only use the products of one company it is never wrong to know about other, independent ones.
...but only the NSA can exploit hardware key escrow designed specifically for them.
Remind me not to let you design any security systems. An additional weakness in a "secure" system is an additional weakness, regardless of what is was designed to do.
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The problem are mostly the people spending more time talking about open source than developing. They claim the OS-Movement wants 100% market share, not the developers.
Why? They know if they want something not yet existing they have to pay for it. If they are smart they recognize the advantage building on top of an open source code base instead of starting from scratch can bring. They usually don't expect anything to be free.
Config files are one of the things I like most in Linux compared to Windows. If it is a registry or just looks like the Windows registry isn't important. I want simple config-files I can copy from one machine to another to move my settings. I want config files to use configurations from Websites, Forums,...
I don't think you will find more than 10 out of 100 people that could define Windows as an Operating System.
What was your point again?
If it is the most efficient desktop for you and all future projects are twice as fast compared to a "for the masses" desktop then yes, it is successful.
One might add that the insane size of the gnome and kde projects makes forking difficult even for developers.
And I thought I was alone with my opinion that I don't want to have half a dozen support-daemons running for my desktop. I simply want to install single programs and to uninstall the ones I don't like. Gtk or Qt are okay, but anything KDE and Gnome build above it is simply a bunch of crap and bloat if you don't use at least a dozen of their programs. I believe I don't even have a dozen X11 programs installed, more like half of it: aterm, opera, mplayer, xpdf, feh and 2 or 3 games. I don't want to install a whole bunch of crap just to use let us say k3b or some similar independent gnome program.
And don't start with the "libraries safe us so much trouble and work" crap. I know that libraries can safe you trouble, but why not use one or more of ten small libraries instead of one big pile that depends on lots of other libs from the "project" even though the functions my small app uses is not related to the functions those libraries provide in any way.
Unix started as small, independent programs working together, not one big pile of heavily interlinked crap. If I want to mount ftp-servers in my file-manager I do that with a kernel filesystem, it doesn't have to be built into the file manager which shouldn't even be aware it is accessing a remote file.
And those that are not must either find a developer who has sufficiently similar interests or must pay one, what is so difficult to understand about it?
Yeah, they are both crap.
(as in too big, too slow, too much like Windows, too inefficient to work in,...)
Actually AFAIK it is:
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Bittorrent taking up a high percentage of all Internet Traffic does not mean it is the most popular, it is just the one popular with the people sharing the biggest files (whole seasons of TV Series, DVDs,...).
Sad, but true...
Actually that Joke was old when I first read it and it was never funny. The only thing funny about it is Americans talking about things they don't know shit about, like unexpected attacks from a country with direct borders in a scale where one army CAN control a whole country in a short time (much smaller countries here in Europe than in the US). And no, I am not french.
I am one of the Linux Users opposed to making all decisions based on gaining market share and I believe unified efforts will die because "no one cares about software that sucks" and unified software sucks more for everyone that software customized for your needs - at least for people able to customize, but most likely good developers come from this group, not from the group whining about too much customization.
Perhaps not all Linux Users/Developers WANT everyone to use Linux? Perhaps some just want the system perfectly fitted for THEIR needs? You (as in you Linux Evangelists) always assume every Linux User wants all people to use Linux.
The Theory is okay, only the definition of fitness is different than one might think.
XML is no good format for files meant to be edited by the user. It simply has too much meaningless crap your eyes need to filter out to find the important information.
The Grandparent is right. Your horizon is definitely very small if you only see the products of one company. How big that company is or how long they will stay is irrelevant. Even if you only use the products of one company it is never wrong to know about other, independent ones.
Without considering legality: Killing all European politicians (on all levels of the system, european, national and below)
They can not fund them but they don't have to because bribery isn't called funding here in Europe (unlike the US).
If it wouldn't be so sad it would be kind of funny that China seems more and more attractive as a target for emigration of U.S. and EU citizens.
Since the U.S. have basically the same shitty Patent System this would apply to the U.S. as well.
I recommend you not to recommend software you don't use yourself.