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| schestowitz | > I'm not much of an Ubuntu fan, but out of curiosity I recently tried | Mar 27 11:39 |
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| schestowitz | > 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). I must say Unity is growing on me, and I'm | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > even getting used to the Debian-esque paradigm (there's not a lot of | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > difference, apart from APT). But by far the most surprising thing is | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > the mysterious disappearance of Mono, Microsoft's patent-encumbered, | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > toxic garbage with a community "promise" not to sue ("honest"), that | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > only applies to extremely limited "covered specifications", and thus | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > is a patent minefield specifically designed to entrap Free Software. | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > Having argued at length with various "pragmatists" about this issue, | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > including Shuttleworth himself, and witnessed how disinterested they | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > are in taking the threat of Microsoft's blatant hostility seriously, | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > I'm now very pleasantly surprised to discover Mono has finally gone, | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > at least from the distribution CD. And since so few apps depended on | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > Mono, this makes it highly unlikely many Ubuntu users will even need | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > to touch it at all during the normal course of their use of Ubuntu. | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > At the height of the "Mono Wars", I recall Microsoft apologists like | Mar 27 11:39 |
| schestowitz | > David "Lefty" Schlesinger claiming this campaign was futile. | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > Clearly it wasn't. | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > It should be noted that all the various antagonists who opposed this | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > campaign have now also mysteriously disappeared, along with Mono, no | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > doubt back into the cesspit they crawled out of. Miguel de Icaza MVP | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > has given up all pretences of being a "Free Software" developer, and | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > now devotes his time entirely to sneering at Linux, cheerleading for | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft, and developing a proprietary, commercial development tool | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > that infects Android with Microsoft's toxic garbage. Meanwhile David | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > "Lefty" Schlesinger is MIA, probably chasing she-boys around Bangkok | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > with dildos from his sex-shop. | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > [quote] | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > Goodbye Banshee, Welcome Back Rhythmbox! | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > . The decision was taken during the last Ubuntu Developer Summit | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > (UDS). Rhythmbox has just replaced Banshee in Ubuntu 12.04. | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > . Note taking application, Tomboy, has also been removed. Canonical | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > seems serious about completely removing Mono from Ubuntu. | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > [/quote] | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.techdrivein.com/2012/02/10-new-features-added-to-ubuntu-1204.html | Mar 27 11:40 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: 10 New Features Added to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin | Tech Drive-in .::. Size~: 57.3 KB | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 11:40 |
| schestowitz | > Good riddance. | Mar 27 11:40 |
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| schestowitz | msb said: | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > The docility of the population also comes from many additional | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > factors, such as concerted lying -- amounting to brainwashing -- | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > by the corporate news media, resulting in people having a very | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > false model of reality, symbolized by "The Matrix" in the movie. | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > The docility and brainwashing also leads the population to | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > accept an economic system -- unregulated capitalism -- which | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > results in about 99% of the wealth being in the hands of the | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > richest 1% of the population, and the remaining 1% of the | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > wealth being spread among the poorer 99% of the population. | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > Most Americans think that's perfectly fine. | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > They are slaves, controlled not by men with guns, but by | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > corporate brainwashing. Slaves are so much easier to control | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > when they think they are free, and can vote to choose their | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > leaders. However, they don't get to choose the candidates | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > -- that's purely a matter of money from the ultra-wealthy. | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > So the much-vaunted "democracy" is a total farce. | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > Note that Snit-For-Brains smeared Homer as a "communist" | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > in the Iceland thread a couple of days ago. | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > Also, most Americans think it's great when the American | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > military (controlled by the govt, which is controlled by the | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > ultra-wealthy) attacks any nation that tries to establish a | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > more equitable economic system -- one that gives workers a | Mar 27 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > greater portion of the value of the goods and services that | Mar 27 15:43 |
| schestowitz | > they produce. In these subversions, bombardments, invasions, | Mar 27 15:43 |
| schestowitz | > genocides, etc, the leftists are slaughtered, and a fascist | Mar 27 15:43 |
| schestowitz | > puppet government friendly to the US is put into place. | Mar 27 15:43 |
| schestowitz | > That government suppresses with mass murder any attempt by | Mar 27 15:43 |
| schestowitz | > workers to organize. So American businessmen can go into | Mar 27 15:43 |
| schestowitz | > these countries and use the workers as slaves, paying them | Mar 27 15:43 |
| schestowitz | > barely enough to survive. | Mar 27 15:43 |
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