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When Being Proprietary Makes You Do Stupid Things
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| This lock-in behavior is the stupidity that comes with proprietary software.
| They need to find a way to keep you paying for the program over and over
| again. So they make features expire and other dirty tricks. Like changing
| files to make them incompatible (a la MS Office OOXML).
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http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2008/12/09/when-being-proprietary-makes-you-do-stupid-things/
Checking out the neighbors, part II
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| More exploration with non-Ubuntu based distributions! This time I’m checking
| out Arch Linux and CentOS!
|
| [...]
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| So far, only Arch has been usable for me - that’s a bit of a surprise. To be
| honest, I don’t think I could have taken on Arch as my first distro - but I
| don’t think it’s trying to position itself there either.
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http://meandubuntu.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/checking-out-the-neighbors-part-ii/
Recent:
OpenMoko CEO: Embrace fragmentation, diversity is a strength
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| During his presentation, Moss-Pultz looked back at the successes and
| challenges encountered by the OpenMoko community in the past year and talked
| about how the project's adaptability and commitment to freedom have
| contributed to its current status.
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| Although the OpenMoko concept was initially met with enormous skepticism, it
| has achieved success and is now generating profit. The company's first
| handset, the Neo1973, was manufactured in limited quantity and sold out
| completely within the first three days after it launched. Demand for the
| product was unexpectedly high, and Moss-Pultz humorously remarked that it
| probably would have sold out faster if the servers had been able to better
| withstand the massive traffic.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080918-openmoko-ceo-embrace-fragmentation-diversity-is-a-strength.html
NimbleX 2008 Mini-Review
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| NimbleX, which is based on Slackware, is advertised as a customizable and
| slim Linux distro. The CD comes with many desktop environments including KDE,
| Fluxbox, Enlightenment, Openbox, and more. The default, not surprisingly, is
| KDE 3.5.
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http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/07/24/nimblex-2008-mini-review/
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