Here are a few links of interest in relation to a discussion at LXer about Linux desktop adoption, UMPCs, and the mathematics of market share. (Edit: It appears I’ve been banned from posting at LXer. Fine. Whatever.)
Our first article of interest asks whether UMPCs like the Asus Eee are Windows killers. The conclusion: no. Far [...]
I’m not a big fan of conspiracy theories. They exist to give weak-minded, irrational people the extravagant and irrational explanations for irrational events they seem to need — belief in widespread conspiracy is a coping mechanism for the mentally unstable.
Bogeymen, secret societies, remote control aircraft, grassy knolls, UFO secrets, and all the rest.
Now add Foxconn [...]
I saw a headline and snippet in my news feeds this morning that made me wonder if the article was worth reading or just more inane BS confusing what “free” means with respect to the GPL. I should’ve known that it would be belly-aching about price.
Why all the fuss over whether you can sell something [...]
As I’ve written in various places, many users of open source are clueless when it comes to what various licenses are all about. Today, one hapless and muddleheaded chap decided to try and stir some shit and gave us prima facie evidence that users are confused over what “free software” — as defined by the [...]
A resolution appears to have been made between DSL and John Murga in a matter I addressed in my previous entry. Sometimes, though, the best resolution is to simply walk away from a bad situation.
At issue was an allegation that DSL had stripped Murga’s lua/FLTK bindings of copyright information. This was shown to be false.
Murga [...]
Recent threads at the DSL Forums have covered issues pertaining to licensing, the GPL in particular. Many people casually praise the GPL without considering what it actually says and what it means to casual users and developers alike.
The first issue arose when someone posted links to his remasters of DSL. I was annoyed that he [...]
I don’t use calendar apps because I’m punctual and attentive about things like scheduling. I use them because no matter how punctual and attentive I try to be about schedules, I’m really not. Without them, I’d do a worse job prioritizing events and let things conflict more often than not. At least that’s what I think.
I used to [...]
I picked up this article by Caitlyn Martin from Steven Rosenberg’s Click blog. She takes a different tack on some of the issues I’ve addressed when I’ve commented on some of the more exhuberent (and less honest) Linux activism. Her article references one such article, a list of ten points about how Linux has outgrown [...]
I like Steven Rosenberg’s CLICK blog and have replied to him in the past. He likes to make use of “low-end” hardware (including his famous $15 laptop). That makes him a good guy in my book.
I was just catching up on what he’s been writing about lately and saw him address the Linux desktop issue [...]
I’ve been planning to write an “open source for Windows” entry and I came across this list of open-source software for home users. Most, if not all, of these projects have Windows and Linux ports. I will follow up later this week with at least an update of my Portable Apps pages (which I’ll also [...]
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