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The other gem - HP chooses Linspire over Ubuntu fo
by Daniel D. on Thursday 09/Mar/2006, @18:39
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THe other, not least interesting gem in that mag was the article about HP choosing Linspire (KDE-land) over Ubuntu (you know..) for their laptop line for South Africa. page 7
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Unwarranted attack on Free Software and GPLv3
by ac on Thursday 09/Mar/2006, @19:56
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While the magazine seems professionally made, and I'm grateful that they did a feature story on KDE 4, I can't help but cringe at their attack on version 3 of the GPL and Free Software in general. In the opinion piece on page 7, this magazine falsely quotes Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen as saying that "making money from software is a a great evil". This is definitely NOT the Free Software Foundation's opinion at all -- in fact, Richard Stallman wrote an essay explaining why selling Free & Open Source is perfectly OK and even encouraged!
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/selling.html
This magazine also refers to copyleft (forced sharing) protections as viral, reminiscent of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's characterization of Linux as "a cancer":
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/06/01/1658258.shtml
The opinion paper also fails to mention the dangers of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), also known as Treacherous Computing and Handcuffware. The reason we need the anti-DRM provisions in GPLv3 is to make sure the user controls his/her computer, not some unscrupulous corporation (remember the Sony Rootkit: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/13/1419206)
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/guide/
I'm willing to give the magazine the benefit of the doubt and say that opinion piece is pure sarcasm. But they better stop spreading this FUD, because someone who doesn't know better might actually believe it.
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finally someconcrete information
by tikal26 on Thursday 09/Mar/2006, @20:03
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I think that this arcticle give a better idea of what KDe is about it gives some
examples of what wecan expect and sets the expecationt really high. I also get the impresion that they have a clear roadmap. They already had XGL in plasma. Plus I am no longer afraid that Kde was going to do the rest of the XGL stuff and just copy the effects
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Kudos to the KDE PR people
by PC Squad on Friday 10/Mar/2006, @01:43
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I just wanted to express my respect for the KDE PR people and everybody who's been actively promoting KDE. As someone who has tried to promote a not-for-profit organistion's work, too, I know how difficult getting the word out can be if you have limited financial capacity. Nevertheless, it seems that KDE has been able to drum up a regular hype about KDE 4, and that's quite impressive. Now KDE 4 just gotta deliver.
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Odd magazine
by Ben Morris on Friday 10/Mar/2006, @02:07
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I agree with others that there's something not quite right about this magazine. I get the feeling that this sort of thing doesn't really help open source's image.
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New link to the article
by petteri on Saturday 11/Mar/2006, @09:51
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Can't read the article. Does anyone where it went?
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My wish: the 'social' desktop
by Anonymous on Tuesday 14/Mar/2006, @06:42
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My wish for a next-gen desktop: what I like to think of as the 'social' desktop
Not sure if 'social' covers the bill, but what it comes down to is: using available metadata , combined with user-provided metadata to make it easier for people to get into contact.
Let us say I have a bunch of pictures in a folder /home/myself/pictures/ ; from the photo metadata (e.g. the keyword 'go-carting' appears 100x in a folder of 900 photographs) the system can deduce a 'hobby' (perhaps checking with a database list of possible hobbies) of mine is probably to go-cart, and fill it in automatically in my profile (or at my confirmation, if I enabled the service). If I message 'Tom' a lot, it might add that name to my list of friends in my profile.
Going further, it could allow me to fill in things myself, complete them or correct them, and attributing certain values to items which then can be used for comparison. E.g. similar to the plugin for amaroK, I could rate songs, make my playlist with ratings available over the network (to everyone, to select persons, or not at all) and then people with similar taste could see which other songs I like.
What is very important in this is, what I like to call 'chains of trust'. You trust your husband/wife 100% (or perhaps 99%), your best friend 95% and your neighbour 80%. Which makes it so that the rating of the friend of your friend also increases on the 'trust' bar. A whole host of categories could be created this way, but trust is certainly one of the most important ones. The next person in the chain (friend of friend of friend) gets an even lower boost on the 'trust chain'. There are numerous applications for this: everyone likes to know if someone is likely to be trusted. You could use it to determine if a web source for getting packages from, is safe, or at least get a warning if a lot of people don't trust it.
The possibilities seem endless: looking for a job, dating, looking for members to make a music band (e.g. 'I need a singer in the town of X', at which time the application may contact people in that town looking for a position as a singer, at least if he has enabled the ability of being contacted).
Of utmost importance here is openness and security: all your personal stuff is going to be centralized here! So a strong form of encryption and sane security polices are paramount.
One problem I see with this is: anonimity is very important, but you cannot really 'check' if the anonimous person is who s/he claims to be. And the consequences for identity theft could be very grave.
Still, I think this would hold awesome potential, finally unlocking the power of connected 'communities' and the ability to have the information I need (seller X has delivery at 40%, service at 20% and price at 80%, seller Y delivery 80%; service 90% and price 60%), right on my desktop.
I know it's a confusing concept, but I hope I got my point across.
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impressive
by Erich on Wednesday 22/Mar/2006, @21:00
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The more I read about KDE 4, the more impressed I am, and the more eagerly I anticipate its arrival! KDE has always seemed to integrate itself into my workflow (instead of the other way around), and after reading about Plasma, I am truly excited. It's time for a paradigm shift, and KDE 4 sounds like just what we need.
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