Links 22/06/2008: Free Software Enters Gujarat's Education, Linux Appears in Unexpected Places
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-22 22:06:05 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-22 22:06:05 UTC
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f you look at the photo on James U's blog post, you can really tell the difference - his image has the XP screen looking way more natural. And if that were the only trespass, who really cares, eh?
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Comments
gggggg
2008-06-23 01:44:18
If you continue you're nothing more than an hypocrite.
Victor Soliz
2008-06-23 03:31:52
Don't dare to bother the holy ones, all praise to Novell and Microsoft...
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-23 06:22:05
I suppose you're referring to that game which is ported to GNU/Linux and another which is not Wine-compatible (and no, I don't use Wine).
PitaGuy
2008-06-23 07:03:02
DB2 is closed source. So Mark Shuttleworth talk about open source is just another vapouware. Mark does not believe is open source...he is just a hypocrite.
Hypocrisy (or the state of being a hypocrite) is the act of preaching a certain belief or way of life, but not, in fact, holding these same virtues oneself.
Roy Schestowitz
2008-06-23 07:12:44
PitaGuy
2008-06-23 09:24:46
A person/company who claims to be / believes in pro-open source but uses, buys, promotes(links to), sells, writes closed source software is a OSH in the increasing order. Uses being the least OSH and writing being the highest OSH.
And the award for the biggest "OSH" goes to ........GOOGLE
Google - it is the biggest open source hypocrite on this planet. :D