____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 07 August 2007 12:07 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 06 August 2007 10:31 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> ____/ [H]omer on Monday 06 August 2007 03:34 : \____
>>>>
>>>>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>>>>> ____/ Stephen Fairchild on Saturday 04 August 2007 22:28 : \____
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> They can't stay with XP forever. It's from 2001. It's very outdated.
>>>>>>>> Have you seen the depths of KDE 4 yet?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is this the same KDE 4 that's being ported to windows? Bit of an own
>>>>>>> goal don't you think?
>>>>>
>>>>> As much as I vehemently despise Windows, KDE is Free software, and as
>>>>> such it is not for me, you, or anyone else to dictate how it is used
>>>>> (within the terms of the GPL). If that means someone ports it to
>>>>> Windows, colours it bright pink, then uses it to destroy planet earth
>>>>> ... then so be it.
>>>>
>>>> The reason why many people move to Linux is escape from
>>>> lock-in/evil/viruses/whatever. If you give all killer Linux apps (even
>>>> Compiz-fusuion) to Windows, that won't be bad for Linux adoption. Au
>>>> contraire --- think about the main Linux adoption peril. It's the apps.
>>>> Windows will not have the advantage of smoothly running both Linux and
>>>> Windows apps (virtualisation aside) because people will no longer
>>>> /require/ their
>>>> Windows applications. It's a cyclic scenario that might take time to
>>>> explain. Hmmm.... the debate resembles that which revolves around
>>>> binary/OS drivers.
>>>
>>> Well, Peter K would have us all on binary drivers, locked to hardware
>>> combinations determined by grey-suited people in smart offices.
>>
>>
>> I'm not so sure about grey.
>>
>> "It was just a bit of text advocating open data formats that was slipped
>> into a Florida State Senate bill at the last minute with no fanfare, but
>> within 24 hours three Microsoft-paid lobbyists, all wearing black suits,
>> were pressuring members of the Senate Committee on Governmental Operations
>> (COGO) to remove the words they didn't like from Senate bill 1974. "
>>
>> http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/16/2019244&from=rss
>>
>>
>
> Those'd be the chaps, yes. The risks associated with binary-only
> software are huge, and yet, so misunderstood. It's amazing that if you
> want to have the freedom to run your platform as you see fit, the
> high-priests of proprietary code refer to you as a "zealot". This
> "hit the credibility of the messenger" approach is common, of course,
> but fails entirely to address the problem.
The US has a certain lock-in the rest of the world, as well. When someone wants
independence they call him/her "anti patriotism", they call it treason,
anti-American, communism... whatever... just enough to get you boiling, no?
Let's not start with Microsoft-government analogies because it leads to
politics.
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