Simple reason: The base board looks like it needs connectors best I can tell and costs 4x as much as an arduino board. Plus I'm sure the MS board requires windows. I have an arduino because I can interface with it on different platforms and it didn't cost a ton to get into.
First, it was the commercial market that didn't have the time of day for Linux and open source. So, what did we do... We created our own.
Second, If the open source tools are good enough for the job why should I pay for yours and not donate/contribute to the open source one.
Third, how many people buy Visual Studio? Don't blame the open source community for a slightly better or equivalent than/to FOSS application.
Fourth, nothing like getting slashdotted to get some free marketing.
yup, this bad boy is dual booted. Google is taking care of that photoshop thing, so I might be saying goodbye windows. (wife makes the rules)
Going for the humor more than anything else:)
Its interesting that Microsoft might have got several things right in windows XP and have out done themselves.
That or maybe they just waited way to long to have the whole world just switch out everything. People tend to hate change, and maybe similar to some not wanting to use linux because of change are not interested in changing to Vista.
Maybe this is the chance for Linux and mac to break further into the market.
Or people just don't want to spend $2000 on a receptionists computer just so that they can chat, browse, and view docs. (disclaimer: And not I don't think that's all they do)
The advantage to a lot of this is that its open source. If Novell was to be killed off as a result, we still have the code to go through choosing the pieces we want.
So if some is tainted, then through it away. People act like they don't care, but seem to. I guess in a way, who cares if Novell dies, we have their code, right? But at the same time, who is going to pick up all of the coding that will stop if they disappear?
Although, I am one of those that hopes, ad mist the flaws/bad choices, that they continue to produce some good things. XEN for example.
This is really interesting. I'm not sure where this is going to take XEN, but they are talking about a XEN foundation. Maybe this will prove to be a really good move for everyone. Community, businesses, and customers(not just xensource customers).
"Creating the Xen Foundation allows for even greater transparency and leadership independence than we have today, and will provide an organized forum for enabling the community of vendors and users that are building Xen into their businesses to influence the project roadmap," Pratt said.
How many people have firefox as a default package on linux? I think the only times I've downloaded firefox for linux were the alpha/beta releases or even the nightly builds (which probably don't count here) Now if I could only remember how many 100's of times I've installed linux (work in a linux lab and use it on most of the machines).
What about the times that people download it once (IT shops) and install it on hundreds of computers(ok not always that many, but enough to mess up these stats)
What I hate is when they complain about their email. After they complain they continue to tell you how they reply to the spam telling them to stop sending it or they load the images or do something to let the spammer know that they are listen and to send more. It's not my fault that they don't pretect against virii that spam others and grab their lists of contacts. I say let them go. Maybe we'll have less spam. Spyware a problem then switch OS.
-Stephen
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Simple reason: The base board looks like it needs connectors best I can tell and costs 4x as much as an arduino board. Plus I'm sure the MS board requires windows. I have an arduino because I can interface with it on different platforms and it didn't cost a ton to get into.
According to this article they moved Novell's Suse linux http://gcn.com/articles/2009/07/13/update2-usps-open-source-product-tracking-system.aspx
First, it was the commercial market that didn't have the time of day for Linux and open source. So, what did we do... We created our own.
Second, If the open source tools are good enough for the job why should I pay for yours and not donate/contribute to the open source one.
Third, how many people buy Visual Studio? Don't blame the open source community for a slightly better or equivalent than/to FOSS application.
Fourth, nothing like getting slashdotted to get some free marketing.
no, but it never hurts to have more processing power ;)
yup, this bad boy is dual booted. Google is taking care of that photoshop thing, so I might be saying goodbye windows. (wife makes the rules) Going for the humor more than anything else :)
I spent all that money on a core 2 duo and all I really needed was an OLPC. I could have saved a ton.
Its interesting that Microsoft might have got several things right in windows XP and have out done themselves. That or maybe they just waited way to long to have the whole world just switch out everything. People tend to hate change, and maybe similar to some not wanting to use linux because of change are not interested in changing to Vista. Maybe this is the chance for Linux and mac to break further into the market. Or people just don't want to spend $2000 on a receptionists computer just so that they can chat, browse, and view docs. (disclaimer: And not I don't think that's all they do)
The advantage to a lot of this is that its open source. If Novell was to be killed off as a result, we still have the code to go through choosing the pieces we want.
So if some is tainted, then through it away. People act like they don't care, but seem to. I guess in a way, who cares if Novell dies, we have their code, right? But at the same time, who is going to pick up all of the coding that will stop if they disappear?
Although, I am one of those that hopes, ad mist the flaws/bad choices, that they continue to produce some good things. XEN for example.
"Creating the Xen Foundation allows for even greater transparency and leadership independence than we have today, and will provide an organized forum for enabling the community of vendors and users that are building Xen into their businesses to influence the project roadmap," Pratt said.
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 694721
How many people have firefox as a default package on linux? I think the only times I've downloaded firefox for linux were the alpha/beta releases or even the nightly builds (which probably don't count here) Now if I could only remember how many 100's of times I've installed linux (work in a linux lab and use it on most of the machines).
What about the times that people download it once (IT shops) and install it on hundreds of computers(ok not always that many, but enough to mess up these stats)
What I hate is when they complain about their email. After they complain they continue to tell you how they reply to the spam telling them to stop sending it or they load the images or do something to let the spammer know that they are listen and to send more. It's not my fault that they don't pretect against virii that spam others and grab their lists of contacts. I say let them go. Maybe we'll have less spam. Spyware a problem then switch OS. -Stephen