And no, your fancy DVD decoder tester discs don't count.
I have a el-cheapo chinese 45 dollar DVD player, and honestly I cannot see absolutely *any* diference between it's quality and the quality of my friends $500+ model.
Are these "errors" you cite based on playing any actual movies? Is the "error" larger than 2px by 2px? ( as in, would anyone watching the movie actually *see* it if they were paying attention to the film and not scrounging it for errors? )
Regardless of your response, I sure won't be inclinded to spend more than I have to, since I can personally see no quality difference whatsoever. I am just curious where people like you get these numbers.
Since this whole paragraph has no bearing on the article or post I will ignore it - it's just typical preteen-slashdot-grammar-nazi-elitism.
Yes you can schedule Tivo to record via a web interface
Again, not without separate add on software that likely voids your warranty. If I am going to be paying 2x as much for a commercial product, I damn well don't expect to have to crack it open / hack the software to get it to do what I want - nevermind the fact that this is totally diametrically opposite to what the point of "just get a TiVo" is, that it is easier than rolling your own. Adding your own software / hardware totally tears that argument down, especially when you consider that with MythTV you don't have to do anything to get the functionality, it is already done for you.
yes you can transcode to DivX
Not without separate add on software that likely voids your warranty
but who the hell would want to watch TV on their computer screen, I don't know
Obviously did not even read my post; one MythTV encoder can serve as many computers and other televisons as you want. I can have one encoding box in my closet and four thin client PCs that take 1/4 the size and cost of a TiVo to play the content.
No, it can't do the 2 other really retarded and nerdy things you mentioned
Playing MP3s and video games is nerdy and retarded now? Wow, better let Apple, Sony, and Nintendo know before they all start going bankrupt... oh wait.. you're just totally wrong since the video game industry makes more money than the movie industry, and nearly everyone and his dog has an MP3 player.
In short, your reply is just completely bogus. Thanks for the fun though, it's nice to unwind with some laughs at the end of the day.
Its like the do-it-yourself TiVo's that aren't really anywhere near as convenient or feature rich as the real deal.
Sorry, I was 100% with you until I saw this line that almost blew me off my chair.
I built my own PVR and it runs MythTV, and it lietrally blows TiVo out of the water.
Does TiVo have a web interface where I can adjust scheduled recordings anywhere, anytime? Can I watch the recorded programs on any computer in the house ( or TV with a MythFrontEnd box ) ? Can I transcode the recordings to DivX for storage on DVD? Can it play DivX and MPEG videos and fetch information on them from IMDB automatically? Can you edit recorded shows in real time.. can you play SNES, PSX, etc. video games on it, can it be an MP3 jokebox, can you browse your photo collection, can you surf the web on it with a remote control... ?
I can do all this with MyTh, out of the box. And a bozo could install it, you just boot off the KnoppMyth CD and go.
.. for people who don't have enough sense to manage their money.
I have had a credit card since I was 18, I charge over $1000 on my cards a month.. I buy everything on credit card, including pay my bills. This way I maximize the free "points" my credit card gives me.
Guess how much I have paid in finance charges the past 6 years? I would say a max of 25 dollars *total*??? ( and that was only due to purposeful "letting it ride" for a few weeks since I was on vacation ).
50 dollars in finances for well over 600 dollars in rewards.
Seriously, credit cards are only "the devil" to people who have no will power. Just because I have thousands worth of credit in my pocket, doesn't mean I am about to go buy a car on my visa.
Not to mention if you charge something and you break it or it is stolen in the first 3 months, you can usually get a free replacement.. or if you get ripped off you can contest the charges. Try that with cash.
Not that I have anything against C#, I actually find it quite nice, just stuck me as odd that someone would write a cracking toolin it. These things are traditionally written in C ( for speed ).... like DeCSS was.
Coke has had a trademark on the "look" and "feel" of it's bottle for over 40 years.
This type of stuff is much older than the computer industry.
http://www.coca-cola.com.au/about_contour.asp
In February 2003 Pew Internet conducted a survey, where they found out 60% of dial-up users weren't interested in switching, a year later in 2004 the percentage was roughly the same."
I would be extremely curious to go back and survey those original 60% and see how many of them *did* in fact switch over, regardless of their interest a few months before.
Asking people stuff like that on a survey is pointless, since peoples minds change so fast.
If a few months later your kids are pestering you non-stop because "Jimmy's movies go faster than mine!", guess what money and daddy will do? And no, they're not going to call back the survey company and re-report their result:P
Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, (C).
A times B times C equals X...
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
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If you a decent manager you would realize that this saves you money, not costs you money.
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2000 * 4 developers = 8,000.
8,400 / 120 = 70
4 Developers * 30 / hour = $120 / hour
Even if using QT only saved you 10% of developer time ( and from my experience it saves you more like 25%-50% ), it would pay for itself after only one and a half weeks. After one and a half weeks you are making pure profit.
2) A non GPL version of the library costs an outrageous sum of money.
If you think only 1500-3000 ( depending on package ) per developer for a perpetual license is a large amount of money, then you're either 12 years old or have never paid a dime for software in your life.
A manager of any team of 5 or more people would laugh at that kind of money. It is chump change compared to how much a company would spend on *paper* for pete's sake.
And if you take into account the developer's time ( which any manager must ), Qt is actually cheaper since it is so powerfull it takes on average 25-50% less code to do things in Qt than it does to do in other C++ toolkits I have used in the past.
I would use Qt even if I was only targeting Windows and even if I was the only person on the team. It is *that* good. People who knock it just do not have experience using it.
You think any respectable moon is going to hang around a mere planetoid???
Sure, things were going great till we discovered her... Sedna had convinced the moon he was all that and a bag of potatoes. But as soon as the moon heard the word on the street that her man wasn't even big enough to be considered a planet....
Its just like the saying goes... in some relationships, size *does* matter.
Out of the ( hundreds? ) of people I know who use Windows / IE, I can count the number of them that
- Don't use the Google, Yahoo, or some other toolbar, and
- Don't use an "enhanced" IE with a built in firefox type search box, like MyIE2, and
- Know enough about the internet in general to know that there are search engines besides MSN.. on one hand. That means 5% of all the potential Windows / IE users I know would have absolutely no use for this at all.
And unless I am living in some weird oasis, I doubt that my sampling is that far off from the general windows community at large.
In general, you're either a) The type of person who uses MSN for everything because you know nothing else, b) Savvy enough to download a search toolbar or enhanced browser, or c) Savvy enough to use Mozilla / Linux.
People in category (a) are not the type of people who type in URLs manually; they would never use this thing and it would be of little use to anyone. Maybe 5 years ago it would have been, but Amazon has missed the boat.
Seeing how I can type gg:query in Konqueror to search Google, that beats a9's "short cut" feature by 5 characters. In firefox you don't even have to type anything at all, just use the Google search box.
Granted, you could also add a9 engines to both of these, but then it would just be on par with Google anyways.
Point is this is only useful to people who still use obsolete older web browsers like IE.
apple is not the end-all of UI design, but they are better than the kde and microsoft teams. put a user who's never used a computer infront of plastic, aqua, and windows xp and i guarantee every response will say aqua looks the best. i don't care if YOU hate it, i care about the majority. and i'm sorry mr. the-world-revolves-around-me but you aren't the majority of users
This is the whole crux of my argument, and you just ad eit for me. Aqua / Apple ar eonly preferred by people who . Now, try to find anyone under 30 who has never used a computer before. Now try anyone under 20. See where I am going with this? Familiarity is more important than initial impressions.
Bear in mind, however... there was no permanent federal income tax until 1913. Country did just fine for almost 140 years with no income tax except in dire situations (read: when war broke out). Then, they said "oh, this is for your own good - you need to pay for the war in Europe to protect freedom and blah blah blah".
Man I am sick of this kind of horseshit about cheap ass whiners who hate paying their taxes.
Know what else the country didn't have in 1913? National highways to maintain, huge publicly funded transit systems, security agencies like the NSA and CIA to keep you safe, social security, medicare, the largest military in the universe....
Want to ditch income tax? Fine - lay off about half the people paid directly or indirectly by the military ( oh, 2 million give or take ), get rid of old age security and let your parents die of starvation as they grow old and can't afford food because of their perscriptions ( oh, because medicare is also gone ). Then watch as terrorists come in and take over your state because a) You had no agency to gather intelligence on such things b) You have no infrastructure in place to defend yourself anymore.
Grow up, this is the twenty first century. Every country in the first world has income tax - know why? Because shit costs money, and people like you are too greedy to fork it over for the general good by choice, so we have to legislate it out of you.
Personally, I think the government is way too easy on tax evasion. In my opinion, if you don't care enough about the country to pay a small portion of it, then you don't care enough to stay here either. They should all be stripped of their citizenship and deported. Fines / Jailtime is too easy.
what far too many of you "power users" take for granted is just how much usability engineering goes into the average *easy* to use desktop application. apple does so much more usability testing, and has so many more qualified usability professionals on its staff, compared to most OSS projects that it often only takes apple a mere fraction of the time to make a closed source app 10 times as usable as the free equivalent. take a look at ichat, mail, ical, and safari. then compare them to apps like gaim, kopete, evolution, kmail, epiphany, and konqueror (shudder)
I am getting really sick of all these "Apple is the end-all of UI design" rants. I can't stand Aqua - I hate the dock, I hate the look of Aqua, I hate how restritive and environment it is, I hate almost everything about it. And not only that, from my experience it isn't even any mroe usable than KDE. See below...
What a real usability case study? Take my girlfriend. About the only thing she knows about computers is how to check her email and search the web, in Windows.
So, she comes over to my house where I use KDE. "How do I get the Internet"? "You click the globe, there" ( I point ). "OK". That was the extent of the lesson. Flying in the face of all this "Konqueror (shudder)" BS, she happily went about her merry way for about oh, an *hour* without even asking me a thing. Then, she wants to make a CD. Basically, I told her to "look under the multimedia menu" She found K3B and made a CD from some of my music files *without any help whatsoever*. And this girl is *not* a computer person; about the most technical thing she does is change her MSN emotiocons.
When I see stuff like that, it just makes me laugh at all the "usability gurus" who derride apps like Konqueror for their choices in things like control panels and service menus. Know why? Because guess what - newbies *don't even look* at these menus anyways, so it makes no difference whatsoever to the overall usability of the app for beginners. However, it does make a huge difference to the power user who likes to be able to do things like type imdb: to search for movie reviews, and hit CTRL+T to use tab browsing.
Man, I am getting really really tired of all these "what linux needs to break through" and "Why Linux will never beat Microsoft" posts lately.
What you people don't seem to realize is that Linux is not about "beating Microsoft". It's not about "marketshare". The majority of Linux developer don't give a flying rats ass about that.
When you start developing an Open Source program, 99.999999% of the time it is because you're scratching an itch. That basically means, you're writing it for fun.
And most everyone who remains in the Open Source community is doing it for fun. They're not doing it to get rich, they're not doing it to "Beat Bill". Developers just don't v\care about this type of nonsense... sure I think it's good when I read a news story about some company embracing Linux... but guess what? If those stories would all stop tomorrow, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I as a developer know *I* am writing good software, and I know many people enjoy using it. That means a whole lot more to me than marketshare.
No one who is really involved in the community gives a flying rats ass about Linux marketshare compared to windows... the only people who do are the 13 year old zealots at slashdot. Real members of the community care about wirting good software, and encouraging Open Source ideals like freedom of choice, a lot more than "marketshare". And if that freedom of choice results in less people using Linux, well, so be it, those people can be happy elsewhere. It does not affect most developers in any way since they are not paid to do this anyways.
In conclusion, the only people concerned with bringing "Linux to the masses" are those who stand to make a profit by doing so, namely the Linux companies. And this is great- don't get me wrong, all the power to them. But people, please stop confusing the agenda of RedHat, SuSe, IBM, etc. with the agenda of the majority of developers, and of the community itself. They are not one in the same.
Disclaimer: I have viewed this Joe Barr guy as a complete lamer ever since his huge rant against MPlayer for not supporting his buggy GCC
This is a really really lame review. The whole thing can be summed up in about three lines:
"I installed SuSE Linux. The install went great, but I don't like KDE and none of my Gnome apps were installed off the bat, and I couldn't install them properly because I don't know how to work YaST, so it sucks. Hopefully this will be corrected when it goes gold".
Basically, he installs it, and is upset to find out that all the default apps are KDE apps. Well hello, SuSE has *always* been a KDE distro. And guess what, that is the exact same way *I* feel eevry time I am forced to install RedHat, and I have to use all Gnome apps.
If you want a Gnome-centric distro, why are you using SuSE at all?Another waste of everyone's time by Mr. Barr.
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Exactly *where* do you see these decoding flaws?
And no, your fancy DVD decoder tester discs don't count.
I have a el-cheapo chinese 45 dollar DVD player, and honestly I cannot see absolutely *any* diference between it's quality and the quality of my friends $500+ model.
Are these "errors" you cite based on playing any actual movies? Is the "error" larger than 2px by 2px? ( as in, would anyone watching the movie actually *see* it if they were paying attention to the film and not scrounging it for errors? )
Regardless of your response, I sure won't be inclinded to spend more than I have to, since I can personally see no quality difference whatsoever. I am just curious where people like you get these numbers.
Do you even know what 'literally' means?
Since this whole paragraph has no bearing on the article or post I will ignore it - it's just typical preteen-slashdot-grammar-nazi-elitism.
Yes you can schedule Tivo to record via a web interface
Again, not without separate add on software that likely voids your warranty. If I am going to be paying 2x as much for a commercial product, I damn well don't expect to have to crack it open / hack the software to get it to do what I want - nevermind the fact that this is totally diametrically opposite to what the point of "just get a TiVo" is, that it is easier than rolling your own. Adding your own software / hardware totally tears that argument down, especially when you consider that with MythTV you don't have to do anything to get the functionality, it is already done for you.
yes you can transcode to DivX
Not without separate add on software that likely voids your warranty
but who the hell would want to watch TV on their computer screen, I don't know
Obviously did not even read my post; one MythTV encoder can serve as many computers and other televisons as you want. I can have one encoding box in my closet and four thin client PCs that take 1/4 the size and cost of a TiVo to play the content.
No, it can't do the 2 other really retarded and nerdy things you mentioned
Playing MP3s and video games is nerdy and retarded now? Wow, better let Apple, Sony, and Nintendo know before they all start going bankrupt... oh wait.. you're just totally wrong since the video game industry makes more money than the movie industry, and nearly everyone and his dog has an MP3 player.
In short, your reply is just completely bogus. Thanks for the fun though, it's nice to unwind with some laughs at the end of the day.
Its like the do-it-yourself TiVo's that aren't really anywhere near as convenient or feature rich as the real deal.
Sorry, I was 100% with you until I saw this line that almost blew me off my chair.
I built my own PVR and it runs MythTV, and it lietrally blows TiVo out of the water.
Does TiVo have a web interface where I can adjust scheduled recordings anywhere, anytime? Can I watch the recorded programs on any computer in the house ( or TV with a MythFrontEnd box ) ? Can I transcode the recordings to DivX for storage on DVD? Can it play DivX and MPEG videos and fetch information on them from IMDB automatically? Can you edit recorded shows in real time.. can you play SNES, PSX, etc. video games on it, can it be an MP3 jokebox, can you browse your photo collection, can you surf the web on it with a remote control... ?
I can do all this with MyTh, out of the box. And a bozo could install it, you just boot off the KnoppMyth CD and go.
.. for people who don't have enough sense to manage their money.
I have had a credit card since I was 18, I charge over $1000 on my cards a month.. I buy everything on credit card, including pay my bills. This way I maximize the free "points" my credit card gives me.
Guess how much I have paid in finance charges the past 6 years? I would say a max of 25 dollars *total*??? ( and that was only due to purposeful "letting it ride" for a few weeks since I was on vacation ).
50 dollars in finances for well over 600 dollars in rewards.
Seriously, credit cards are only "the devil" to people who have no will power. Just because I have thousands worth of credit in my pocket, doesn't mean I am about to go buy a car on my visa.
Not to mention if you charge something and you break it or it is stolen in the first 3 months, you can usually get a free replacement.. or if you get ripped off you can contest the charges. Try that with cash.
- It' s also impossible ot get Windows without SSl libraries you could link against that contain AES
- It's also (nearly) impossible to get a Linux distro with OpenSSL libraries that contain AES you could link against
Using C# is not saving you any coding here; at best it is saving you from having to link yourself.
Not that I have anything against C#, I actually find it quite nice, just stuck me as odd that someone would write a cracking toolin it. These things are traditionally written in C ( for speed ).... like DeCSS was.
Coke has had a trademark on the "look" and "feel" of it's bottle for over 40 years. This type of stuff is much older than the computer industry. http://www.coca-cola.com.au/about_contour.asp
I would be extremely curious to go back and survey those original 60% and see how many of them *did* in fact switch over, regardless of their interest a few months before.
Asking people stuff like that on a survey is pointless, since peoples minds change so fast.
If a few months later your kids are pestering you non-stop because "Jimmy's movies go faster than mine!", guess what money and daddy will do? And no, they're not going to call back the survey company and re-report their result :P
Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average
out-of-court settlement, (C).
A times B times C equals X...
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
See . http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=104566&cid=890 7152
2000 * 4 developers = 8,000.
8,400 / 120 = 70
4 Developers * 30 / hour = $120 / hour
Even if using QT only saved you 10% of developer time ( and from my experience it saves you more like 25%-50% ), it would pay for itself after only one and a half weeks. After one and a half weeks you are making pure profit.
2) A non GPL version of the library costs an outrageous sum of money.
If you think only 1500-3000 ( depending on package ) per developer for a perpetual license is a large amount of money, then you're either 12 years old or have never paid a dime for software in your life.
A manager of any team of 5 or more people would laugh at that kind of money. It is chump change compared to how much a company would spend on *paper* for pete's sake.
And if you take into account the developer's time ( which any manager must ), Qt is actually cheaper since it is so powerfull it takes on average 25-50% less code to do things in Qt than it does to do in other C++ toolkits I have used in the past.
I would use Qt even if I was only targeting Windows and even if I was the only person on the team. It is *that* good. People who knock it just do not have experience using it.
If they expect anyone in Canada to go along with this they sure didn't plan it well.
TV turn off during the NHL playoffs? Give me a break!
You think any respectable moon is going to hang around a mere planetoid???
Sure, things were going great till we discovered her... Sedna had convinced the moon he was all that and a bag of potatoes. But as soon as the moon heard the word on the street that her man wasn't even big enough to be considered a planet....
Its just like the saying goes... in some relationships, size *does* matter.
Out of the ( hundreds? ) of people I know who use Windows / IE, I can count the number of them that
.. on one hand. That means 5% of all the potential Windows / IE users I know would have absolutely no use for this at all.
- Don't use the Google, Yahoo, or some other toolbar, and
- Don't use an "enhanced" IE with a built in firefox type search box, like MyIE2, and
- Know enough about the internet in general to know that there are search engines besides MSN
And unless I am living in some weird oasis, I doubt that my sampling is that far off from the general windows community at large.
In general, you're either a) The type of person who uses MSN for everything because you know nothing else, b) Savvy enough to download a search toolbar or enhanced browser, or c) Savvy enough to use Mozilla / Linux.
People in category (a) are not the type of people who type in URLs manually; they would never use this thing and it would be of little use to anyone. Maybe 5 years ago it would have been, but Amazon has missed the boat.
Seeing how I can type gg:query in Konqueror to search Google, that beats a9's "short cut" feature by 5 characters. In firefox you don't even have to type anything at all, just use the Google search box.
Granted, you could also add a9 engines to both of these, but then it would just be on par with Google anyways.
Point is this is only useful to people who still use obsolete older web browsers like IE.
So it is 1 $ per CPU hour? How to make money for nothing:
Step 1: Dig out that old 486DX33 from the closet. 1 CPU hour on a 486 goes buy much faster than on a modern machine.
Step 2: Block outbound port 25 at your router.
Step 3: Run program 24/7. Get free $$$.
apple is not the end-all of UI design, but they are better than the kde and microsoft teams. put a user who's never used a computer infront of plastic, aqua, and windows xp and i guarantee every response will say aqua looks the best. i don't care if YOU hate it, i care about the majority. and i'm sorry mr. the-world-revolves-around-me but you aren't the majority of users
This is the whole crux of my argument, and you just ad eit for me. Aqua / Apple ar eonly preferred by people who . Now, try to find anyone under 30 who has never used a computer before. Now try anyone under 20. See where I am going with this? Familiarity is more important than initial impressions.
Bear in mind, however... there was no permanent federal income tax until 1913. Country did just fine for almost 140 years with no income tax except in dire situations (read: when war broke out). Then, they said "oh, this is for your own good - you need to pay for the war in Europe to protect freedom and blah blah blah".
Man I am sick of this kind of horseshit about cheap ass whiners who hate paying their taxes.
Know what else the country didn't have in 1913? National highways to maintain, huge publicly funded transit systems, security agencies like the NSA and CIA to keep you safe, social security, medicare, the largest military in the universe....
Want to ditch income tax? Fine - lay off about half the people paid directly or indirectly by the military ( oh, 2 million give or take ), get rid of old age security and let your parents die of starvation as they grow old and can't afford food because of their perscriptions ( oh, because medicare is also gone ). Then watch as terrorists come in and take over your state because a) You had no agency to gather intelligence on such things b) You have no infrastructure in place to defend yourself anymore.
Grow up, this is the twenty first century. Every country in the first world has income tax - know why? Because shit costs money, and people like you are too greedy to fork it over for the general good by choice, so we have to legislate it out of you.
Personally, I think the government is way too easy on tax evasion. In my opinion, if you don't care enough about the country to pay a small portion of it, then you don't care enough to stay here either. They should all be stripped of their citizenship and deported. Fines / Jailtime is too easy.
what far too many of you "power users" take for granted is just how much usability engineering goes into the average *easy* to use desktop application. apple does so much more usability testing, and has so many more qualified usability professionals on its staff, compared to most OSS projects that it often only takes apple a mere fraction of the time to make a closed source app 10 times as usable as the free equivalent. take a look at ichat, mail, ical, and safari. then compare them to apps like gaim, kopete, evolution, kmail, epiphany, and konqueror (shudder)
I am getting really sick of all these "Apple is the end-all of UI design" rants. I can't stand Aqua - I hate the dock, I hate the look of Aqua, I hate how restritive and environment it is, I hate almost everything about it. And not only that, from my experience it isn't even any mroe usable than KDE. See below...
What a real usability case study? Take my girlfriend. About the only thing she knows about computers is how to check her email and search the web, in Windows.
So, she comes over to my house where I use KDE. "How do I get the Internet"? "You click the globe, there" ( I point ). "OK". That was the extent of the lesson. Flying in the face of all this "Konqueror (shudder)" BS, she happily went about her merry way for about oh, an *hour* without even asking me a thing. Then, she wants to make a CD. Basically, I told her to "look under the multimedia menu" She found K3B and made a CD from some of my music files *without any help whatsoever*. And this girl is *not* a computer person; about the most technical thing she does is change her MSN emotiocons.
When I see stuff like that, it just makes me laugh at all the "usability gurus" who derride apps like Konqueror for their choices in things like control panels and service menus. Know why? Because guess what - newbies *don't even look* at these menus anyways, so it makes no difference whatsoever to the overall usability of the app for beginners. However, it does make a huge difference to the power user who likes to be able to do things like type imdb: to search for movie reviews, and hit CTRL+T to use tab browsing.
It certainly sounds like one...
.. "competing against the Windows desktop" is not a goal of anyone except pre-teen slashdot zealots.
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What you people don't seem to realize is that Linux is not about "beating Microsoft". It's not about "marketshare". The majority of Linux developer don't give a flying rats ass about that.
When you start developing an Open Source program, 99.999999% of the time it is because you're scratching an itch. That basically means, you're writing it for fun.
And most everyone who remains in the Open Source community is doing it for fun. They're not doing it to get rich, they're not doing it to "Beat Bill". Developers just don't v\care about this type of nonsense... sure I think it's good when I read a news story about some company embracing Linux... but guess what? If those stories would all stop tomorrow, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I as a developer know *I* am writing good software, and I know many people enjoy using it. That means a whole lot more to me than marketshare.
No one who is really involved in the community gives a flying rats ass about Linux marketshare compared to windows... the only people who do are the 13 year old zealots at slashdot. Real members of the community care about wirting good software, and encouraging Open Source ideals like freedom of choice, a lot more than "marketshare". And if that freedom of choice results in less people using Linux, well, so be it, those people can be happy elsewhere. It does not affect most developers in any way since they are not paid to do this anyways.
In conclusion, the only people concerned with bringing "Linux to the masses" are those who stand to make a profit by doing so, namely the Linux companies. And this is great- don't get me wrong, all the power to them. But people, please stop confusing the agenda of RedHat, SuSe, IBM, etc. with the agenda of the majority of developers, and of the community itself. They are not one in the same.
This is a really really lame review. The whole thing can be summed up in about three lines:
"I installed SuSE Linux. The install went great, but I don't like KDE and none of my Gnome apps were installed off the bat, and I couldn't install them properly because I don't know how to work YaST, so it sucks. Hopefully this will be corrected when it goes gold".
Basically, he installs it, and is upset to find out that all the default apps are KDE apps. Well hello, SuSE has *always* been a KDE distro. And guess what, that is the exact same way *I* feel eevry time I am forced to install RedHat, and I have to use all Gnome apps.
If you want a Gnome-centric distro, why are you using SuSE at all?Another waste of everyone's time by Mr. Barr.
Did you even read my comment? Where did I say anything about not owning your body or your life?
You think the things you buy constitute your life??? Thats... just sad. I feel sorry for you.