____/ Mark Kent on Friday 20 July 2007 18:19 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 20 July 2007 13:32 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> TG Daily Special: Leaving Redmond, WA in 24 hours
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| This is the first install of what will be a periodic, ongoing series on
>>>>| how migrate from Microsoft's Windows to other Operating systems. This
>>>>| first article provides insight in the much discussed Ubuntu Linux.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32967/113/
>>>
>>> There are literally thousands of developers contributing profit up
>>> to Linux all the time. Not all of them are paid to do so either.
>>> Most are simply zealots who,
>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> |
>>> |
>>> Is this some yank thing? Why is someone who writes software for a free
>>> operating system a zealot? Perhaps they just want to?
>>
>> I had an argument about this in Digg last week. I said that zeal is
>> associated with religion and people begged to differ, citing some
>> dictionaries. I hate that word as well. Desire for freedom and human rights
>> to be honoured as a form of fanaticism? Naa...
>
> Zealot, zeal, zealotry all have somewhat fanatical meaning. I don't
> think most people who write open-source software are fanatical, in fact,
> very few are - most of them are interested in freedom, and reward in
> their currency of interest, that being source-code and recognition. The
> zealots are those who wish to use a "high priesthood" to create software
> which only "high priests" are allowed to investigate, everyone else has
> to accept it, use it, and remain locked-in. Those are zealots, they
> have high-priests.
>
>>
>>>> March of the Desktop Penguins
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| The suitability of Linux as a desktop alternative to Windows depends on
>>>>| your applications, your hardware and your attachment to Microsoft
>>>>| applications, formats and protocols.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2160628,00.asp
>>>
>>> This article is very interesting. It notes in particular that linux
>>> desktops need to interwork in an environment where Microsoft has made
>>> most of the rules, and has kept the rule-book hidden. After quite a bit
>>> of analysis, though, the article makes this extremely prescient statement:
>>>
>>> "The best way for companies interested in carving out a
>>> compatibility zone for Linux and other non-Windows platforms is
>>> to stick to creating formatting-heavy documents with applications
>>> that run on multiple platforms, such as OpenOffice.org."
>>>
>>> The warning sign here should be that for all businesses, it makes sense
>>> to start moving everything onto OpenOffice.org as quickly as possible,
>>> in order that any future migration from Windows to Linux will be far
>>> more painless. Clearly, this is what Microsoft are hoping that HMG
>>> will help prevent happening, by forcing the National Archives, British
>>> Library and BBC onto proprietary-only formats, thus ensuring that their
>>> services will only be available to people who pay the Microsoft tax as
>>> well as the HMG tax.
>>
>> Yes, I wrote about this on Monday...
>>
>> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3688891
>>
>> I think the document debate is hugely important and I spend a lot of time
>> writing about it right now. In the past week alone, ODF has celebrated many
>> wins. It's looking good. It's all about education and the ability to expose
>> those who are influenced by the Microsoft money (Portugal, Italy, and the US
>> got **busted** this week).
>>
>
> I think that the more we expose these issues here, the more they will be
> seen in mainstream media, and the more they will influence those who
> should /know/ what is being done with their money, and/or in their name.
> In many cases, I'm fairly certain that incompetence rather than malice
> is the driving force for those making the decisions, however, those
> lobbying rely very much on that incompetence, and will do little or
> nothing to ameliorate it.
Spotted a couple of minutes ago (via Technorati):
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/07/bribery_watch.html
I'm just flattered to be mentioned among names like Weir and Marbux.
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