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Re: OT: 'usability' hype
by Segedunum on Wednesday 01/Mar/2006, @14:39

1. Novell hasn't got a cat in hell's chance of achieving anything with a lot of the software they are using. It's about control, as someone above has pointed out. Many of Novell's people felt a bit cheated when they bought Ximian because they thought they'd bought a nice shiny version of .Net. They hadn't. It was just an open source project they could have used anyway, but as the principal contributor they are in a position to have you sign away copyright to them for the code you contribute.

2. Novell's Gnome people blog more, as Aaron has pointed out. In layman's speak that means they like to mouth off about nothing more. On the other hand, Suse's people just don't blog enough to the point where people assume they're doing nothing.

3. Vista is a Windows XP shell with 3D graphics. I work for a company that has various MSDN licenses, and I get the Vista releases. There is no WinFS, nothing terribly different. If you don't believe me, read the press releases for Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP and then Windows Vista and tell me the difference. There isn't any.

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