By using the Tea Party as a pejorative, Shuttleworlth alienated many people here in the US. I'm not a member of the Tea Party, but it seems to me that they are about responsible government behavior and not simply some kind of fringe minority holding up the “correct” majority.
I appreciate the fact he said it was a mistake, but the fact remains that he very easily jumped on the popular press bandwagon against them. It showed a side of him that is disappointing as I normally considered him more thoughtful.
And by using the Tea Party name as a pejorative, he manages to alienate 40% of his US based users that are politically conservative. Hope exactly is this helping?
I'm very disappointed in this comment. He's simultaneously name calling other while using a conservative political group name as if it was a pejorative. I know several Tea Party people and they are very level headed folks that simply want the government to spend less than it takes in. To be responsible.
This comment serves to undermine Shuttleworth and therefore Ubuntu. So much for all inclusiveness...now your true colors are coming through.
When the NSA spies on you, its the fault of that pesky troublesome NSA.
When the IRS targets you, its the fault of that pesky troublesome IRS.
It's as if none of these agencies are under Obama's control. His worshipers continue to believe "he'd fix these problems if only he could. Poor guy...suffering from those crazy Republicans in the House" I cannot believe the free ride our fascist president is getting...
I've just provisioned 17 virtual servers using out-of-the-box Ubuntu 12.04 using KVM/QEMU.
With no tweaks on my laptop they boot in a little under 4 seconds. They run screaming fast with only 512M of RAM and take up a couple gig of drivespace.
Whatever hassles you'll create by optimizing something will never be worth the improvement. Time to move on...nothing to see here...
I love Ubuntu and will continue to use it. It is stable and runs great on all the machines around here. Unity serves both our high-end experienced developers and our newbie business-type users.
Unlike so many Slashdot posters, I was able to locate the OFF button that disables online searches. Its tucked away in the most unlikely place: "Settings->Privacy". I've never seen so much FUD about a new feature that comes with an off button. Sheesh..
I have no plans to ever buy anything from the Dash...to me its the wrong place to do online shopping...but I am happy to see Canonical doing things to make money because it makes me more comfortable that they will be there for me in the future.
When was the last time you saw a developer without 1 or 2 large external monitors?
Airplanes and sleepy meetings...thats all the good any internal display is for no matter what the resolution.
more like Dead Man Crawling.
I really wish Apache would put their resources behind LibreOffice so Linux could finally have an office suite that legitimately compares to MS Office.
Amen to that brother. Had to slog through 25 meaningless posts to get to the groklaw link...sigh. Slashdot seriously needs to rethink the moderation scheme here.
Given that the EU forced Microsoft to document their exchange protocols a couple years ago. In essence, they've already said that duplicating a protocol (i.e. a network API) is also not a copyright violation.
This is good stuff...
Now if we could just eliminate software patents....
No -- the capital investment at risk can, and usually does, represent a lifetime savings from of hard work. So the investor has their entire life history on the line where as the employee has only future paychecks on the line. The risk of the employee is nothing compared to the risk of the investor. If it were the same, then more people would start companies...but they don't because it is "too risky".
Of for God's sakes get off of the "I hate Unity" bandwagon already. Unity in 12.04 is finally usable and it'll only keep getting better. I work around kids and computers and the kids have taken to Unity big time....zero learning curve. Time to move on. Ubuntu has 20 million desktop users and will likely double that number this year.
As the COO of a company and avid Ubuntu user I find that this is the ONE issue that keeps our firm from going 100% Ubuntu on the desktop (we are already 100% Ubuntu on the server side). Support, management, desktop share, hardware compatibility...its can all be handled in one way or another. However, LibreOffice's lack of interoperability with MS Office and the weak capability inside are a total show stopper. I am not going to have a Windows VM on every Linux desktop, just to run MS Office and Google Apps is just weak sauce.
Lets face it, MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) is a great set of applications and people are used to that level of quality and feature richness. If I could change one thing about the Linux community it would be to configure it to make LibreOffice a HUGE priority going forward....almost on the same scale as the kernel itself.
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Totally agree - and the article saying that coding is a super power is either ridiculous or nonsensical or both. The hype over this thing is pathetic.
By using the Tea Party as a pejorative, Shuttleworlth alienated many people here in the US. I'm not a member of the Tea Party, but it seems to me that they are about responsible government behavior and not simply some kind of fringe minority holding up the “correct” majority.
I appreciate the fact he said it was a mistake, but the fact remains that he very easily jumped on the popular press bandwagon against them. It showed a side of him that is disappointing as I normally considered him more thoughtful.
And by using the Tea Party name as a pejorative, he manages to alienate 40% of his US based users that are politically conservative. Hope exactly is this helping?
This comment serves to undermine Shuttleworth and therefore Ubuntu. So much for all inclusiveness...now your true colors are coming through.
When the IRS targets you, its the fault of that pesky troublesome IRS.
It's as if none of these agencies are under Obama's control. His worshipers continue to believe "he'd fix these problems if only he could. Poor guy...suffering from those crazy Republicans in the House" I cannot believe the free ride our fascist president is getting...
I've just provisioned 17 virtual servers using out-of-the-box Ubuntu 12.04 using KVM/QEMU.
With no tweaks on my laptop they boot in a little under 4 seconds. They run screaming fast with only 512M of RAM and take up a couple gig of drivespace.
Whatever hassles you'll create by optimizing something will never be worth the improvement. Time to move on...nothing to see here...
Its also funny to note that install base of Ubuntu has taken a nose dive in the last year(two?).
Got any data to support this?
Didn't think so.
Got a new Ubuntu laptop from them recently...its terrific.
I love Ubuntu and will continue to use it. It is stable and runs great on all the machines around here. Unity serves both our high-end experienced developers and our newbie business-type users. Unlike so many Slashdot posters, I was able to locate the OFF button that disables online searches. Its tucked away in the most unlikely place: "Settings->Privacy". I've never seen so much FUD about a new feature that comes with an off button. Sheesh.. I have no plans to ever buy anything from the Dash...to me its the wrong place to do online shopping...but I am happy to see Canonical doing things to make money because it makes me more comfortable that they will be there for me in the future.
where your Ubuntu will be far from "free and open" and just another android-like-for-the-desktop
Been with Ubuntu since 6.04 and I've got everyone I know on it. It would be my dream come true to see it become android-for-the-desktop.
Amen to that brother!
(sound of crickets chirping)
Attn: Staff
When the pipeline of innovation dries up, call in lawyers.
Steve Balmer, CEO, Apple, Inc.
Does anyone know if there is a Maven plugin that can unit test my Blockly apps on our Jenkins server?
Only trolls publish links to point out their responses to other trolls.
When was the last time you saw a developer without 1 or 2 large external monitors? Airplanes and sleepy meetings...thats all the good any internal display is for no matter what the resolution.
more like Dead Man Crawling. I really wish Apache would put their resources behind LibreOffice so Linux could finally have an office suite that legitimately compares to MS Office.
Amen to that brother. Had to slog through 25 meaningless posts to get to the groklaw link...sigh. Slashdot seriously needs to rethink the moderation scheme here.
Thanks for the link. Your post is the first (and only) post on this entire issue that deserves a score of 5, Informative...
Given that the EU forced Microsoft to document their exchange protocols a couple years ago. In essence, they've already said that duplicating a protocol (i.e. a network API) is also not a copyright violation.
This is good stuff...
Now if we could just eliminate software patents....
No -- the capital investment at risk can, and usually does, represent a lifetime savings from of hard work. So the investor has their entire life history on the line where as the employee has only future paychecks on the line. The risk of the employee is nothing compared to the risk of the investor. If it were the same, then more people would start companies...but they don't because it is "too risky".
Of for God's sakes get off of the "I hate Unity" bandwagon already. Unity in 12.04 is finally usable and it'll only keep getting better. I work around kids and computers and the kids have taken to Unity big time....zero learning curve. Time to move on. Ubuntu has 20 million desktop users and will likely double that number this year.
As the COO of a company and avid Ubuntu user I find that this is the ONE issue that keeps our firm from going 100% Ubuntu on the desktop (we are already 100% Ubuntu on the server side). Support, management, desktop share, hardware compatibility...its can all be handled in one way or another. However, LibreOffice's lack of interoperability with MS Office and the weak capability inside are a total show stopper. I am not going to have a Windows VM on every Linux desktop, just to run MS Office and Google Apps is just weak sauce. Lets face it, MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) is a great set of applications and people are used to that level of quality and feature richness. If I could change one thing about the Linux community it would be to configure it to make LibreOffice a HUGE priority going forward....almost on the same scale as the kernel itself.
Hoping for develop support to save them? Really? They should bet the farm on world peace...it has a better chance of happening.
Honestly, Slashdot...how does crap like this get a score of 5?