Applications are Open Source too
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| What most FOSS fundamentalists seem to forget is that MS-Windows users can be
| converted to FOSS users. Even better, a large number of MS-Windows users are
| FOSS users. The simple fact that someone uses a Microsoft kernel doesn’t mean
| he has joined the dark side. Most people won’t even care. If there is a good,
| cheap alternative to MS-Windows they will use it as long as it doesn’t cause
| them too much trouble. Applications are the key factor here. So instead of
| trying to force people to change their kernels, we have to ease them into
| using our applications. Yes, maybe some people will continue to use
| MS-Windows kernels, because it is easier to run MS-Windows applications on an
| MS-Windows kernel than it is using Linux and Wine. Yes, maybe Microsoft will
| continue to earn some money by selling MS-Windows kernels. But in the end,
| when GCC, OpenOffice, Scribus, Inkscape, Dia, Firefox, GIMP and the new KDE
| desktop have become the applications of choice, who do you think has
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http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/applications-are-open-source-too.html
Firefox and Apache keep gaining. The switch to GNU/Linux will be easier.
Related:
The Year of the Open Source Desktop
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| As always, there's some catches. Running a shell on Windows is not hard. The
| XP and Vista interfaces are just shells running on top of a Windows kernel.
| But, here's a potential catch: it will be interesting to see how Microsoft
| reacts when customers start installing KDE in place of their Microsoft
| shells. This kind of cross-platform capability to kill their operating system
| revenue. Why pay $x00s more for Windows when you can just buy a less
| expensive machine with Linux and KDE installed?
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-02-08-018-26-OP-DT-KE
Windows Binaries of Amarok 2 Tech Preview
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| You can download it by grabbing the installer and following the instructions
| over at the KDE techbase. It should be pretty self explainatory, just run the
| installer, select a mirror, and download the amarok package: all the
| dependencies should be automatically downloaded and installed for you.
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http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/583-Windows-Binaries-of-Amarok-2-Tech-Preview.html
KDE goes cross-platform with Windows, Mac OS X support
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| The open-source KDE desktop environment is making the jump across platforms
| with broad support for Windows and Mac OS X. The core KDE desktop programs,
| the KOffice suite, and the Amarok music player are actively being ported.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080123-kde-goes-cross-platform-with-windows-mac-os-x-support.html
Goodbye Vista, KDE 4.0 Has Arrived!
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| There are only few people who know that if you look out of your 'Windows',
| the world is much more vivid and beautiful. Apple is known for its good
| looks, but it’s excessively expensive, while Vista is a big disappointment
| (check Tech Cold War 2007!). Now, there is GNU/Linux which, in fact, is free
| and offers much more options and freedom than Windows or Mac. One of the most
| popular desktop environments on GNU/Linux platform has come out in a new
| flavour - KDE 4.0.
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http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24071/news.htm
KDE 4 Brings Improvements Galore to the Linux Desktop
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| The next generation of KDE, the popular Linux desktop environment, has
| arrived. KDE 4.0 features a completely re-written core with new multimedia
| libraries, better hardware abstraction and
| desktop eye candy that puts Windows Vista to shame.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/01/kde-4-brings-im.html
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