Please could you cut it with the FUD? Evil politicians are neither communists or capitalists, they are fascists, they'll pay lip service to anyone as long as they can have as much power and money as possible.
Is not that easy. I'll try to make it short, my aunt, a prototypical Aunt Tillie user was getting sick of malware and viruses util I installed ubuntu in her laptop. Everything went alright but some problems started to creep.
OpenOffice fonts looked "jagged", only ate the default zoom level but that was enough.
Some websites don't load ok, these resulted to be using very intrusive windows only drm plugins, (unsusrprisingly, they were christian radio stations, those pious bastards)
The old printer, that didn't work because of bad drivers still didn't work.
One excel/VBA game/joke some friend sent her didn't work.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back! She bought a Vista Laptop with MS Office 2007 home edition.
Several hundred $$$ later, the printer still doesn't work, those problematic radio stations still don't work but at least the leaping frog VBA game did work now. A year later it seems to have gotten a virus.
My point is, ye old saying, Linux must be twice as good as windows to get the same level of respect.
NoScript will never be installed in my computer never again, alas, it has been disable for most of it lifetime in my profile.
I'd fork it if I actually cared for it, but still I invite people to down rate it in mozilla.org and uninstall it from their computers. In the FOSS world the only way to vote is with your feet.
Better yet, The Pirate Party aren't revolutionaries because they are working *within* the system.
Saying that they can't present their opinion despite being an actual established political party is like saying you can't democratically elect some candidate because The Man doesn't like'em.
Actually that's almost exactly what's happening here.
Imagine if after a pandemic all that is left are slashdotters, I would be really cool (except for that death of most of humanity thingy). We would finally find out if there are actually girls in slashdot or not.
No, but Ethernet can only be done right or not, it's the same for the other networking standards.
The minimal operative requirements and parameters of this "protocol" are going to be very lax because getting "good enough" interoperativity is going to be trivial
But, this is the kind of stuff where they don't have to. Networking can only be done right or none at all. This stuff can stand some incompatibilities and thus WILL grow those incompatibilities until it becomes a problem. It's Murphy's law, it can go wrong so it will.
Honestly my response was overblown considering the last line summed it all very well. I was just bothered by the obliqueness of your response, talking about progress and legislation when you could have simply said "meh".
But I haven't rejected it either as soon as I found it didn't have Comics Sans.
Can't get them all right, I was only guessing. My point is that you probably wouldn't compromise even a little in order to get rid of proprietary products because that's not important to you.
This is only a guess but I bet you use MS Office with Windows, surfing slashdot wit5h opera (or I'd say IE but who uses IE to browse/.?) this is not an ad hominem attack I'm just guessing that you probably like using non-free software.
You probably disagree that there are any inconveniences using non-free software, maybe even think it is the best, you may not even like using free software unless it is overwhelmingly superior.
You have been using windows/macos all your life and might as well use it for the rest of your life. You did tried Ubuntu once and dropped it as soon as you found out it doesn't have the Comic Sans fonts.
You may or may not use Linux in the server and if you do you hate it is GPLed, you think everything should be BSD style or MS Shared Source(tm) licensed.
The point is, I don't think you get at all the feeling of urgency of free software developers, you don't care about vendor lock-in and such trivialities.
You are completely outside of the community and thus the conversation. If you leaned even a little in the direction of free software you would understand. Why supporting OpenOffice when GoogleDocs is there? Why using Linux if Windows is there? Why using Firefox if IE is free?
What I mean is that all this talk about progress and facing of challenges is pointless. You might as well just say "I don't *need* free-software" and be done with that.
The mods are on crack today. True, Obama won for many reasons, not the smallest of those was the public disenchantment with the republicans for the tragedy known as the Bush administration.
But it was his presence in the web had a HUGE boost in his popularity, it made people feel he was modern and smart, it also made him look reachable and down to Earth.
This is a good argument against "customize only" desktops (if there are such things). Sane defaults and minimalist interfaces don't exclude highly customizable software.
I love freedom and competition but I think KDE vs GNOME vs XCFE is a net negative for the FOSS comunity, fortunately you can mix and match.
This is year 2025, the ITMS opened its protocols when YouMedia became the dominant player. Adobe has released a Linux port of its whole creative suite and it's available for purchase in your distro's package manager. GIMP merged again with Cinepaint and it is now the dominant photo editor among starting photo aficionados.
16 years is more than enough time for this stuff to happen.
You are a fake! Gee, your presumed name was a dead give away! Its so simple I even can't get credit for it. After all everybody know there are no women in/.
Of course getting an stolen phone or cloning a numbers is still as easy as ever. This accomplishes nothing except perhaps tracking of innocent citizens.
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Please could you cut it with the FUD? Evil politicians are neither communists or capitalists, they are fascists, they'll pay lip service to anyone as long as they can have as much power and money as possible.
Now I have no doubt, in the future people will have their memories wiped by the government inc. routinely and nobody would rise an eyebrow.
Is not that easy. I'll try to make it short, my aunt, a prototypical Aunt Tillie user was getting sick of malware and viruses util I installed ubuntu in her laptop. Everything went alright but some problems started to creep.
OpenOffice fonts looked "jagged", only ate the default zoom level but that was enough.
Some websites don't load ok, these resulted to be using very intrusive windows only drm plugins, (unsusrprisingly, they were christian radio stations, those pious bastards)
The old printer, that didn't work because of bad drivers still didn't work.
One excel/VBA game/joke some friend sent her didn't work.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back! She bought a Vista Laptop with MS Office 2007 home edition.
Several hundred $$$ later, the printer still doesn't work, those problematic radio stations still don't work but at least the leaping frog VBA game did work now. A year later it seems to have gotten a virus.
My point is, ye old saying, Linux must be twice as good as windows to get the same level of respect.
NoScript will never be installed in my computer never again, alas, it has been disable for most of it lifetime in my profile.
I'd fork it if I actually cared for it, but still I invite people to down rate it in mozilla.org and uninstall it from their computers. In the FOSS world the only way to vote is with your feet.
Better yet, The Pirate Party aren't revolutionaries because they are working *within* the system.
Saying that they can't present their opinion despite being an actual established political party is like saying you can't democratically elect some candidate because The Man doesn't like'em.
Actually that's almost exactly what's happening here.
Imagine if after a pandemic all that is left are slashdotters, I would be really cool (except for that death of most of humanity thingy). We would finally find out if there are actually girls in slashdot or not.
Yeah picture Grayskull sitting in a toilet staring at the paper and saying, what are you waiting for? Do what you are supposed to do!
No, but Ethernet can only be done right or not, it's the same for the other networking standards.
The minimal operative requirements and parameters of this "protocol" are going to be very lax because getting "good enough" interoperativity is going to be trivial
But, this is the kind of stuff where they don't have to. Networking can only be done right or none at all. This stuff can stand some incompatibilities and thus WILL grow those incompatibilities until it becomes a problem. It's Murphy's law, it can go wrong so it will.
Honestly my response was overblown considering the last line summed it all very well. I was just bothered by the obliqueness of your response, talking about progress and legislation when you could have simply said "meh".
But I haven't rejected it either as soon as I found it didn't have Comics Sans.
Can't get them all right, I was only guessing. My point is that you probably wouldn't compromise even a little in order to get rid of proprietary products because that's not important to you.
This is only a guess but I bet you use MS Office with Windows, surfing slashdot wit5h opera (or I'd say IE but who uses IE to browse /.?) this is not an ad hominem attack I'm just guessing that you probably like using non-free software.
You probably disagree that there are any inconveniences using non-free software, maybe even think it is the best, you may not even like using free software unless it is overwhelmingly superior.
You have been using windows/macos all your life and might as well use it for the rest of your life. You did tried Ubuntu once and dropped it as soon as you found out it doesn't have the Comic Sans fonts.
You may or may not use Linux in the server and if you do you hate it is GPLed, you think everything should be BSD style or MS Shared Source(tm) licensed.
The point is, I don't think you get at all the feeling of urgency of free software developers, you don't care about vendor lock-in and such trivialities.
You are completely outside of the community and thus the conversation. If you leaned even a little in the direction of free software you would understand. Why supporting OpenOffice when GoogleDocs is there? Why using Linux if Windows is there? Why using Firefox if IE is free?
What I mean is that all this talk about progress and facing of challenges is pointless. You might as well just say "I don't *need* free-software" and be done with that.
The mods are on crack today. True, Obama won for many reasons, not the smallest of those was the public disenchantment with the republicans for the tragedy known as the Bush administration.
But it was his presence in the web had a HUGE boost in his popularity, it made people feel he was modern and smart, it also made him look reachable and down to Earth.
danmaku da!
This is a good argument against "customize only" desktops (if there are such things). Sane defaults and minimalist interfaces don't exclude highly customizable software.
I love freedom and competition but I think KDE vs GNOME vs XCFE is a net negative for the FOSS comunity, fortunately you can mix and match.
Not every Apple consumer agrees with this statement,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg7Xh0m_Oco
This is year 2025, the ITMS opened its protocols when YouMedia became the dominant player. Adobe has released a Linux port of its whole creative suite and it's available for purchase in your distro's package manager. GIMP merged again with Cinepaint and it is now the dominant photo editor among starting photo aficionados.
16 years is more than enough time for this stuff to happen.
You are a fake! /.
Gee, your presumed name was a dead give away!
Its so simple I even can't get credit for it.
After all everybody know there are no women in
Almost sounds like the internet will be treated like a broadcaster on radio stations
MAFIAA Lords: AWESOME!
Never heard of this game either. It might be a huge publicity stunt. A better question is, how many "pirates" are from outside the US?
... an obvious oxymoron.
More like:
si ego.codito:
ego.sum()
Of course getting an stolen phone or cloning a numbers is still as easy as ever. This accomplishes nothing except perhaps tracking of innocent citizens.
people shouldn't be forced to put their support behind a particular politically loaded credo just because they want to contribute to WP
Because the CC-BY-SA license isn't making a ideological and political statement? Sure...
If Only I had mod points!
Trial and error is a remarkably good way to discover good new tricks. So let's try and try until something good comes out!