"Moshe Goldfarb" <brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:26:57 -0500, Gherkin Chutes wrote:
>
>> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/linux_phones_a_fragmented_market_in_search_of_a_leader_google
>>
>> [quote]
>> We are getting there, and yet again GNU/Linux is missing that train.
>>
>> I don't mean to be negative. However, the current situation of GNU/Linux
>> on
>> mobile devices is depressing to put it lightly. And-to make things
>> worse-it's
>> heading in the wrong direction, with more fragmentation coming up and
>> more
>> millions being poured on developing several types of wheels: one with an
>> anti-puncture mechanism, one that works in the rain, one that doesn't
>> suffer
>> of wear and tear, etc.
>>
>> GNU/Linux is not famous for its ability to settle on one standard. The
>> extremely damaging KDE vs. GNOME saga is a prime example many, many
>> millions
>> lines of of code and copious amounts of talent being wasted because of
>> the
>> two communities' inability to meet in the middle ground. Of course its
>> not
>> that simple in case of KDE and Gnome; however, integration and
>> unification
>> could have been about 10 times better, and it could have started many
>> years
>> earlier. Instead, now we have two control panels, two network connection
>> applets, two hardware detection systems. you get the picture).
>> [/quote]
>
> How true.
>
> Another one Roy Schestowitz seems to have missed.
>
> I'll bet he is planning on boycotting Free Software Magazine now, or
> claiming it is really owned by Microsoft or something paranoid like that.
This morning I received an anonymous email from a reliable source that
confirms that several people at "Free Software Magazine" are really
paid-for shills who secretly work for Microsoft.
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