OUR dear reader Goblin is the man who exposed a Microsoft AstroTurfer, Andre Da Costa, who also goes by the pseudonym “Mr Dee” in CNET. We have noticed that he is still trolling articles about GNU/Linux. "After he confessed to nymshifting one has to wonder," wrote Goblin. "Maybe the Da Costa name has become too toxic to use? I see now he's pimping Window 7 competitions," he added [1, 2]. The reality behind Vista 7 is still being warped. Also from last night's conversation:
| _goblin | Speaking with many non-tech folks who are using Windows 7....all is not well.... | Mar 12 21:21 |
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| _goblin | the general consensus is "Its just as bad as Vista" | Mar 12 21:21 |
| _goblin | looks and works great the first couple of times.....connect to the net, install a few apps and it reveals its true form. | Mar 12 21:22 |
| Omar87 | _goblin, let's hope more sounds like these come to the surface. | Mar 12 21:22 |
| _goblin | these comments are coming from "average users" who already had their fill of Vista. | Mar 12 21:23 |
Anyone else see the irony?
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This paragraph brought a wry smile to my face:
"Miguel de Icaza, at that time a rising star of the free software movement and co-creator, with Federica Mena, of the rival GNOME project, expressed the mixed feelings of many users and developers. "KDE was an inspirational project," he told Linux Journal, "but at the time, the Qt toolkit on which KDE was built was a proprietary toolkit."
The fact that he's working with Microsoft now in producing the wretchedly slow Mono to provide compatibility with .NET and potentially laying Linux open to all sorts of future problems is deliciously ironic.
In terms of Mandriva, hopefully they will survive and flourish again, it still hangs in there fairly high up in Distrowatch. They probably do KDE better than any other distro and have done a splendid job with the now excellent KDE4 desktop.
Comments
Needs Sunlight
2010-03-13 16:34:13
Mono, like other Microsoft software, is not a technical problem it is a staffing problem.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-03-13 17:08:06
Needs Sunlight
2010-03-13 17:54:54
However, so did Ubuntu for a while. Ubuntu decided to do a 180 away from the methods and priorities that brought them this far. A lot of the community was cut out of the process to get that turn. Ubuntu's not terminal stage yet, but soon will be unless recent staffing additions and 'volunteers' are rotated out and their damage undone. I don't suppose Asay will suddenly magically stop being hostile to free software but if he did improve, that would be one help.
Mandriva is one of the distros that could do well to learn from the mistakes of others. It's not a new concept to let another's wounds be your warning. Success is a process.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2010-03-13 18:01:02