Did anybody notice the Broadcom wireless chipset? This itself is not good news. AFAIK there is now a Linux driver for SLED10 (with the HP 2133 Mini-Note), but it is a non-free blob.
I guess since the design is open, it can be modified to use a Linux-friendly vendor for this too.
PDF is ISO standard now. Maybe you were living on another planet. I haven't use Adobe Reader is YEARS and I still read PDF files without any glitches on Linux.
> BTW, we are blaming Asus. Are we sure it's not something coming from the Xandros folks?
ASUS is the one redistributing the software. If they want to blame their supplier, they can do whatever they please. That does not grant them the right to not comply with GPL licensing.
There is not relicensing involved. You don't understand. OOo is licensed under LGPL. But Sun want to *own* the code (which basically allow them to not comply with LGPL, therefore sublicensing). Kohei is just a developer that does not want his code (he wrote on his free time) to become non-Free. By keeping the copyright he prevent this to happen.
Third party library dependencies can old you off. There are a lot of these in Google Earth, and who knows what they have access to: source or binaries.
Or just willing to do so. If I remember, Google Earth started as a employee personnal project (remember, Google employees can spend 20% of their work time on personnal project, even Open Source).
Looks like those UMAX Dual CPU that Be gave away as prize... Should work great on Linux. Is it still working. Were are you located ? (contact info profile)
Why not sponsoring AbiWord in this case ? It has almost all the feature you want, but really need some development task force, and marketing. It is even compatible with WordPerfect:-)
Looks like you don't know how to use fink. I use it since its first availability, and I have never had such problems. Even Apple X11 is handled correclty with system-xfree86 package.
Zeta people never came to us to give anything. They never told us that they had a build.
This is almost the 3rd or 4th time we tell we are about to ditch BeOS support. And we have gone thru BeOS "authorized" information source to announce it. The problem with BeOS is that there is almost no developer, and the few that still do some BeOS development don't have a clue about the real interest of Open Source.
PDF ain't open. PDF is copyright Adobe that keeps full control of it. But Adobe publishes a full spec of PDF that anyone is free to use while sticking to the spec and not infringing copyright. That means that you can read/write PDF if you want.
And Microsoft don't incorporate it because it would kill the.doc de-facto monopoly and cash cow for document spreading.
Being one of the AbiWord developer, I think my opinion is biased, but AbiWord runs fine on my PowerBook G3 400 with 192 MB, while for OpenOffice I'm below the 256MB requirements....
Perhaps that'll give you an idea.
I'm really eager to finish that Cocoa version for MacOS X.
IE does not handle XHTML properly, because IE is crap. I have rexported the release notes to HTML 4.0 so that people that use the wrong tool are still able to read us.
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So is this VIA design: it uses a Broadcom chipset.
Did anybody notice the Broadcom wireless chipset? This itself is not good news. AFAIK there is now a Linux driver for SLED10 (with the HP 2133 Mini-Note), but it is a non-free blob.
I guess since the design is open, it can be modified to use a Linux-friendly vendor for this too.
PDF is ISO standard now. Maybe you were living on another planet. I haven't use Adobe Reader is YEARS and I still read PDF files without any glitches on Linux.
Wrong battle dude.
Maemo does not support Ogg. See the bug. Three revision and they still haven't put that in the standard firmware.
And the 1.8GB does not contain everything. For example the Linux kernel source is missing.
> BTW, we are blaming Asus. Are we sure it's not something coming from the Xandros folks?
ASUS is the one redistributing the software. If they want to blame their supplier, they can do whatever they please. That does not grant them the right to not comply with GPL licensing.
OpenOffice.org IS the name of the software. Look at the about box on Sun versions. Look at the website http://www.openoffice.org/
Novell has been working hard on making OpenOffice.org faster, and most of the work benefit Sun directly. Sliming it down is not simple.
It is called Lotus Symphony. And nobody has seen the source, despite being based on an obsolete version of OpenOffice.org
There is not relicensing involved. You don't understand. OOo is licensed under LGPL. But Sun want to *own* the code (which basically allow them to not comply with LGPL, therefore sublicensing). Kohei is just a developer that does not want his code (he wrote on his free time) to become non-Free. By keeping the copyright he prevent this to happen.
Third party library dependencies can old you off. There are a lot of these in Google Earth, and who knows what they have access to: source or binaries.
Or just willing to do so. If I remember, Google Earth started as a employee personnal project (remember, Google employees can spend 20% of their work time on personnal project, even Open Source).
so you haven't seen AbiWord.
AbiWord was already around in 1999. Long before OpenOffice was (ie StarOffice became Open Source Software)
Looks like those UMAX Dual CPU that Be gave away as prize... Should work great on Linux. Is it still working. Were are you located ?
(contact info profile)
Scanning Negativer with a CoolScan using SANE is obviously THE problem.
It is only software related, and not even driver related. There is only need for good post-processing.
That is what I use, and I mostly do Slide film to scan in my CoolScan III (aka LS30)
Have you tried AbiWord ? It runs on Win, UNIX and MacOS X (new!), using native GUI toolkit in each case.
http://www.abisource.com/
Why not sponsoring AbiWord in this case ? It has almost all the feature you want, but really need some development task force, and marketing. It is even compatible with WordPerfect :-)
Looks like you don't know how to use fink. I use it since its first availability, and I have never had such problems. Even Apple X11 is handled correclty with system-xfree86 package.
Zeta people never came to us to give anything. They never told us that they had a build.
This is almost the 3rd or 4th time we tell we are about to ditch BeOS support. And we have gone thru BeOS "authorized" information source to announce it. The problem with BeOS is that there is almost no developer, and the few that still do some BeOS development don't have a clue about the real interest of Open Source.
PDF ain't open. PDF is copyright Adobe that keeps full control of it. But Adobe publishes a full spec of PDF that anyone is free to use while sticking to the spec and not infringing copyright. That means that you can read/write PDF if you want.
.doc de-facto monopoly and cash cow for document spreading.
And Microsoft don't incorporate it because it would kill the
PDF do forms. The only reader I know that support the feature is Adobe's own Acrobat Reader. But this is in the 1.3 spec of PDF.
I couldn't find a way to download source code for ADOM. Too bad. It look like this is NOT Open Source software.
And nobody complained about it since I always send it as a PDF.
Perhaps that'll give you an idea.
I'm really eager to finish that Cocoa version for MacOS X.
I wonder who these standards are written for.