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  1. Hope that 90% of companies make donations too! on Analyst Admits Open Source Will Quietly Take Over · · Score: 1

    The use of OSS is increasing, but very few companies give donations to the software projects.

  2. Add Advertising to the XML! on W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic · · Score: 1

    W3C can add some Ads to the XML and earn some money!

  3. Re:C=64 Music on Commodore 64 Still Beloved After All These Years · · Score: 1

    Now, I find Peek & Poke very odd, but in the past was magic. I Even create my own Peek & Poke t-shirts here

  4. My C64 T-Shirt: Don't you miss peek and poke? on Commodore 64 Still Beloved After All These Years · · Score: 1

    You can see it on my own geek t-shirts list :-)

  5. Open Marketing Initiatives on AOL, Netflix and the End of Open Research · · Score: 1

    People can accept to share information publicly like movies or product rankings. This decision will move down the price of costly marketing studies and will democratize insightful information.
    To balance the protection and sharing of information, more complex social networks infrastructure are required, may be projects like OpenQabal can help.

  6. Should *nix distros customize FF & earn the mo on Mozilla Reponds - We Call the Shots, Not Google. · · Score: 1

    Should Linux/Unix distributions fork Firefox to collect money from Google instead of Mozilla Corporation? Why not change the configuration of Firefox's boxes in Ubuntu to point to the highest bidder?

  7. Should Linux dists fork Firefox to collect money? on Google's Shadow Over Firefox · · Score: 1

    Why not fork Firefox to collect money from Google instead of Mozilla Corporation? I have posted the same question to LinkedIn Q&A: Do you think that distributions like Ubuntu, RedHat and SUSE, and even projects like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD must reinforce their business models to earn what they deserve?

  8. Re:First step for symbian. on Symbian Blasts Google's Phone Initiative · · Score: 1

    TrollTech is not comparable to alliances like HTC + Google. Have you seen HTC TyTN II? The only weak point I see is building a good mobile GUI in Linux.

  9. Re:Thunderbird on Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox · · Score: 1

    I mean the community put a lot of support to Mozilla foundation (e.g. NYPost advertising) as an alternative to IE/OE/OL, but the foundation didn't honour it ethically and democratically.

  10. Re:Thunderbird on Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox · · Score: 1

    I think the community put a lot of trust on Mozilla foundation, and they are not following the same good ethics of foundations like Apache.

  11. While Leaks are not being repaired in Firefox... on A Preview of Opera 9.5 · · Score: 1

    ...And Mozilla is forgetting the very nice Thunderbird.

  12. Pirates, what Pirates? on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    Instead of Pirates I only see Double Standards. Reverse Engineering is legally permissible in many places of the world and already used in known companies.

  13. Come on! Years of development for a calendar soft! on Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released · · Score: 1

    How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

    A: "You're still thinking procedurally! A properly designed light bulb object would inherit a change method from a generic light bulb class!"

  14. Cookiepie: different webmail accounts in your tabs on 20 Must-have Firefox Extensions · · Score: 1
  15. No Point on running applications on Internet on Where Are Operating Systems Headed? · · Score: 1

    Although Google and others does a lot of 'magic' with computers running in parallel, the processing power required for many tasks on the desktop has not replacement on Internet. What we see is an obvious branch between the applications required to run on the desktop and the other ones on Internet.
    But do you imagine a 3D rendering engine running on Internet instead of a GPU?

  16. Hakia results are less relevant than Google on Seven Search Engine Evolutions for '07 · · Score: 1

    Well, I have tried some keywords and Hakia has objectively less relevant sites when Google not.
    Don't make Adversing with Slashdot guys help when you have nothing new to offer.

  17. The future is Adobe (ex-Macromedia) Flash on GUIs Get a Makeover · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Many vendors and frameworks have been trying for years to lead the UI movement.
    But neither win32, mfc, qt, gtk, kde, wxWindows can find the promise of separate the OS rigidity from the UI

    Just Squeak give us more freedom, but from a business perspective Adobe is playing a very strong card with Flex
    Imagine a creative designer with all the freedom to create the best UI without more limitations!
    We can see some real examples of Windows interfaces in flash like ScreenTime

  18. Complains to Mozilla 'business' performance on Marketing Mozilla · · Score: 0, Troll
    I am not happy with Mozilla 'business' performance:
    • Firefox seems slower and unresponsive in new versions and I don't understand how the project is progressing so slowly and with lack of new features (where the time goes?)
    • Thunderbird has many important bugs the team is reluctant to solve.
  19. A brief list of research sites on Industrial Labs that Still Do Fundamental Research · · Score: 1
  20. Forget technology buzz, let's play soccer! on Australia's Technological World Cup Advantage · · Score: 1

    It's very ridiculous all this stuff now, an experimented coach and his support team uses something more advanced of silicon technology: neurons.
    And from a pattern recognition perspective there is nothing better yet.

    Forget Australia and the buzz, think again... in Argentina!

  21. Make your bid: when we expect an open source clone on Hands on: Google Spreadsheets · · Score: 1

    When we expect an Open Source clone of these technologies at sourceforge? Less than one year and half?

  22. A dot com Déjà Vu? on What is the Best Calendar? · · Score: 1

    It's incredible how a lot of companies are going behind a very simple piece of software like it were gold, for Google and Yahoo is an understanable integration but some are full based commercially on these calendar applications.

    Just wait some months to see something better on SourceForge for general and private consumption.

    Vote for Ajax as the buzzword of the year, and don't forget beyond all these buzzwords powered companies what you see are just Turing machines :-)

  23. Keyword Exchange Markets needs to appear soon on The State of Online Advertising · · Score: 1

    We think the future of advertising is on keyword exchange markets, but sadly we didn't find resources on Internet about it, beyond our concept description at: KEM Blog post.

  24. NO! on Is Visual Basic a Good Beginner's Language? · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, VB is not a good beginner's language for programmers thinking on current and future understanding of languages.
    And worst in 2006...

    Some reasons:

    - Lack of natively data structures and powerful objects.
    - To build new data structures you need to focus in the language and in the problem, not like C when you can focus on the raw problem/algorithm.
    - No real OO, just COM Native.
    - No multithreading.
    - Bureaucratic syntax to do very simple things (i.e: adding a new element to a sized dimmed array, writing to files, etc)
    - Weird syntax (like putting and underline to specify object's events)

    But, it has some interesting properties:
    - Rapid testing of COM/ActiveX Objects.
    - Rapid development of COM/ActiveX Objects (for example: Office Addins)

    But for learning... think in another language.

  25. CookiePie 0.5.4 Firefox Extension on Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Although we didn't win this time, we think our CookiePie extension is currently very innovative giving you the possibility to open different mail (i.e: Gmail/Yahoo) or web accounts on each tab. More information at: CookiePie Firefox extension