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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This was big news in the industry as Microsoft knew this would be jumped on by the tech press and described as a u-turn in a potential PR nightmare, especially considering the lack of popularity of Vista.
So why did they do it? Not just for revenue reasons - in order to avoid Linux getting a bigger toe-hold in this vital emerging market, primarily made up of young users.
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The majority of the Linux users out there are for pure FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software). That is, they only want FLOSS software on their machines. This movement really took off mostly because many of the original Linux and UNIX pioneers were firm FLOSS disciples.
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A computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems is called a file manager. It is considered as one of the most important software applications since its main function is to speed up interaction with files. The most common operations of a file manager are create, open, edit, view, print, play, rename, move, copy, delete, attributes, properties, search/find, and permissions. Others have special functions such as network connectivity and the ability to extend operations utilizing user written scripts.
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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