I like KDE very much and also find Konqueror quite decent web browser. I prefer it to Firefox, as it is simply faster to launch when I need to check something small quickly and don't have Opera running. But the problem with lack of source... How often do you read code of your programs? Do all children from the developing world need to be programmers?
Huh? It's terrible that people say that such unclear ideas as "freedom" are more important than factual state. Choosing software should be like buying a car: you just compare the features, not how and by whom it was made. Normal customers tend to buy what is more useful to them; computer geeks tend to install what they want to support, regardless how crappy it is. Dispute over software concentrates more and more on ideology not facts. As for me, "who cares about 'best'" slogan is a sign of pathology. As reasonable people we should only care about "best", nothing more, nothing less. Why does software world seem not to care about simple logic?
The communists said: ok, we are living in poverty now, but soon we will build a better world, just give us few more years. Well, in fact they never achieve what they promised. Similar in this situation: Opera is doubtless the best at the moment so it should be chosen. If we wait for another browser to beat Opera we might wait too long.
Are you joking? Being "free" in "both meanings" does not make automatically make software good. The truth is Opera is technically superior to other browsers on this platform and chosing another solution only because it is "free" would be unresponsible. People running these laptops need efficiency and ease of use, and they don't care about the rest as long as they don't have to pay for it. Can't you realise that "free software" does not imply "best software"?
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I like KDE very much and also find Konqueror quite decent web browser. I prefer it to Firefox, as it is simply faster to launch when I need to check something small quickly and don't have Opera running. But the problem with lack of source... How often do you read code of your programs? Do all children from the developing world need to be programmers?
Huh? It's terrible that people say that such unclear ideas as "freedom" are more important than factual state. Choosing software should be like buying a car: you just compare the features, not how and by whom it was made. Normal customers tend to buy what is more useful to them; computer geeks tend to install what they want to support, regardless how crappy it is. Dispute over software concentrates more and more on ideology not facts. As for me, "who cares about 'best'" slogan is a sign of pathology. As reasonable people we should only care about "best", nothing more, nothing less. Why does software world seem not to care about simple logic?
The communists said: ok, we are living in poverty now, but soon we will build a better world, just give us few more years. Well, in fact they never achieve what they promised. Similar in this situation: Opera is doubtless the best at the moment so it should be chosen. If we wait for another browser to beat Opera we might wait too long.
Are you joking? Being "free" in "both meanings" does not make automatically make software good. The truth is Opera is technically superior to other browsers on this platform and chosing another solution only because it is "free" would be unresponsible. People running these laptops need efficiency and ease of use, and they don't care about the rest as long as they don't have to pay for it. Can't you realise that "free software" does not imply "best software"?