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____/ Nick Ballard on Thursday 15 Apr 2010 01:39 : \____
> On Apr 14, 5:41 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> Adobe, Choose Your Allies in the Apple War
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>> | Two clear Allies for Adobe come to light
>> | immediately â desktop Linux, in the form of
>> | Canonicalâs Ubuntu operating system, which
>> | has been making significant strides in
>
> I hate to be the one to call bullshit, but the Great Window Button
> Debacle of 10.04 has brought Ubuntu's usability into question (see:
> "New Ubuntu look too destructive",
> http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/betaliving/viewblogpost.htm?p=339271231).
> While this is something easily fixed by the user, one has to wonder
> what possessed them to make this change in the first place.
> Shuttleworth claims that it will "open the right-hand side to
> experimentation", but if that were the case they should have included
> any new UI elements in the current release or waited until the next
> release when they had the new features completed and the change would
> have made sense. What they've done is make asses of themselves, and by
> dangerously close association, the desktop Linux community.
I think the plan is to introduce a new "innovate" widget on the top right corner in 10.10.
>> | usability of late, and of course Googleâs
>> | Android smartphone OS.
>
> Most handset vendors using Android already bundle Flash Lite, as far
> as I'm aware...
>
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>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=12669
>>
>> Mac OS X is no better, just better marketed.
>>
>> Cool free stuff
>>
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>> | Going through the article brought me back to
>> | my Windows days, when I would scour download
>> | sites (CNETâs Download.com being a favorite)
>> | for free applications and utilities.
>
> Ah, yes...I remember those days also. Viruses, trojans, and worms, oh
> my!
>
> When I do use Windows, I at least have the sense to use "Free
> Software" rather than "Freeware".
>
>> | Nowadays, since I only use Linux and Mac OS
>> | X, Iâve done a lot less of that. After all,
>> | there are boatloads of free programs for
>> | Linux, and I mostly use OpenOffice for work
>> | on my Macbook.
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>> http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusop.htm?f=2010/april/13/ch...
>>
>> Recent:
>>
>> Linux group LiMo growing, Adobe joins
>>
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>> | U.S. software firm Adobe and three other
>> | firms joined the wireless Linux group LiMo
>> | on Monday, underlying the growing role of
>> | the Linux computer operating system in
>> | cellphones.
>
> Not a bad move for Adobe. It's only a matter of time before Linux
> dominates the entire cell phone market.
>
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It seems so. The "desktop" is being wedged from above and below.
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