My impression of Xandros (soley from visiting their booth at Linuxworld) has always been that it is a distro focused on trying to be compatible with MS in the enterprise environment via some specialized Samba-based utilities. It never seemed to me like they offered anything really compelling, though, and this is obviously a "me-too" tactic to remain relevant.
Aside from the fact that Novell is a major sponsor of this work, another major contributor was Mainsoft. We know that Mainsoft has had access to MS source code and probably continues to do so despite that mishap they had a few years back when they leaked Win2k's source code to the world. So, from the IP side, I'd be worried about MS coming after me later for royalties if I wanted to use this stuff... and that's before I get over the fact that Mainsoft's technology is as slow as heck.
They don't seem to advertise themselves as a "best practices" organization. From there website: "Ecma International is an industry association founded in 1961, dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems."
I know advocates of the blind often blame websites for their incompability with screen readers. However, has anyone ever thought to ask if the blame should go both ways? Often times we complain when IE or Firefox when they don't render a particular site or the ACID2 test correctly. Is it possible then that the screen readers have flaws could use some work?
Ed Markey? The congressman who showed up at last year's AltWheels Festival in a freakin limo? That guy's full of rhetoric. I'm not at all surprised by this.
Eudora's so ancient that I forgot about it ages ago along with other email clients like Mulberry. Who uses that stuff, anyway? I use a full-featured email client called pine. Oh wait.
Startups will frequently take the quick way out... develop for Windows with Visual Studio first since they think that's the fastest way to market. Then they find out that the customer wants the app on Solaris, HP, even Linux. The startup doesn't have the resources to re-write the app, so what do they do? They try to port their apps using MainWin or some crap like that and find themselves in a living nightmare of royalty and development licensing fees as well as horrible performance. At the end of the day they finally bite the bullet and purchase Qt licenses and their lives become a lot easier.
That was my last company.
The flip-side? Develop on the Mac and then have to port to Windows! Use something Mac2Win, find that it doesn't satisfy, and then start migrating to Qt.
Actually, many of the U.S.-based casinos have been advocating for regulated online gambling which would allow for the US government to tax the industry. Companies like MGM would like to open up gambling sites but can't. Even UK-based companies have stated that they'd be more than willing to pay taxes to operate legally in the US.
Well it's going to come with the next non-Apple computer that I buy anyway. Oh but wait, I've got a shiny Debian disk that I'll just shove into the CD drive the first time I boot up. Nevermind.:)
I suspect that it's only a matter of time before a USB cable card reader becomes available... even if it means that you'll have to import it from Hong Kong.
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If you're used to PuTTY on Windows for your SSH sessions, it's also available for linux.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
My impression of Xandros (soley from visiting their booth at Linuxworld) has always been that it is a distro focused on trying to be compatible with MS in the enterprise environment via some specialized Samba-based utilities. It never seemed to me like they offered anything really compelling, though, and this is obviously a "me-too" tactic to remain relevant.
I read anything by Rob Enderle and John C. Dvorak. *ducks*
Not to worry, we'll just label this mission as non-canon. Obviously Rick Berman had some hand in its creation.
It's pretty funny if you read it. Thompson is so eloquent when you calls people "liberal intolerants" and "Stalinists."
I wouldn't say it's an aura... more like a stench.
Nothing spells flamebait like an entire article from Rob Enderle.
You must be new here.
Aside from the fact that Novell is a major sponsor of this work, another major contributor was Mainsoft. We know that Mainsoft has had access to MS source code and probably continues to do so despite that mishap they had a few years back when they leaked Win2k's source code to the world. So, from the IP side, I'd be worried about MS coming after me later for royalties if I wanted to use this stuff... and that's before I get over the fact that Mainsoft's technology is as slow as heck.
They don't seem to advertise themselves as a "best practices" organization. From there website: "Ecma International is an industry association founded in 1961, dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems."
Since ECMA is willing to recognize crap as a standard, I'm just going to stop recognizing ECMA as a standards organization.
Actually, Mono was released by Novell, so this is a moot point lol.
I have doubts about that. As I understand it, Mono is an implementation of an ECMA standard.
Well, knowing IBM, I wouldn't be surprised if they released their optimizations under the GPL at some point in the future.
I know advocates of the blind often blame websites for their incompability with screen readers. However, has anyone ever thought to ask if the blame should go both ways? Often times we complain when IE or Firefox when they don't render a particular site or the ACID2 test correctly. Is it possible then that the screen readers have flaws could use some work?
Sony is advising us against buying their console.
Ed Markey? The congressman who showed up at last year's AltWheels Festival in a freakin limo? That guy's full of rhetoric. I'm not at all surprised by this.
Eudora's so ancient that I forgot about it ages ago along with other email clients like Mulberry. Who uses that stuff, anyway? I use a full-featured email client called pine. Oh wait.
Yahoo is hardly a monopoly.
Startups will frequently take the quick way out... develop for Windows with Visual Studio first since they think that's the fastest way to market. Then they find out that the customer wants the app on Solaris, HP, even Linux. The startup doesn't have the resources to re-write the app, so what do they do? They try to port their apps using MainWin or some crap like that and find themselves in a living nightmare of royalty and development licensing fees as well as horrible performance. At the end of the day they finally bite the bullet and purchase Qt licenses and their lives become a lot easier.
That was my last company.
The flip-side? Develop on the Mac and then have to port to Windows! Use something Mac2Win, find that it doesn't satisfy, and then start migrating to Qt.
That's my current company.
Actually, many of the U.S.-based casinos have been advocating for regulated online gambling which would allow for the US government to tax the industry. Companies like MGM would like to open up gambling sites but can't. Even UK-based companies have stated that they'd be more than willing to pay taxes to operate legally in the US.
Well it's going to come with the next non-Apple computer that I buy anyway. Oh but wait, I've got a shiny Debian disk that I'll just shove into the CD drive the first time I boot up. Nevermind. :)
I suspect that it's only a matter of time before a USB cable card reader becomes available... even if it means that you'll have to import it from Hong Kong.
Ahoy, IANAL, but isn't thar a compatibility clause in the DMCA? How might it apply t' this?