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Windows-friendly goodness?
Windows-friendly goodness?
Posted Sep 25, 2007 19:48 UTC (Tue) by vblum (guest, #1151)Parent article: The best desktop Linux for Windows users: Xandros 4 (DesktopLinux)
ughh ... this sounds a bit too much like the migration path from Free Software to the M$ Linux license ...
... Paragon NTFS for Windows?? So the old story of Linux fragmentation by binary blobs is true. You may run the kernel for free, just pay a fee to obtain component X, Y, and Z in addition ...
... licensed the Exchange protocols?? So the local CIO can force everyone to pay for a Microsoft license even when they do not run Microsoft products themselves?
Ah well. (Not that I mind paying for software that is useful, just this sounds like the Proprietary Lockin Extension for Linux (TM).
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Windows-friendly goodness?
Posted Sep 26, 2007 12:09 UTC (Wed) by cpm (subscriber, #3554) [Link]
I pretty much agree. I still see MS as the problem. Aspiring to be like MSisn't really a viable answer.
I've been reading a bit of fun speculative fiction by Charles Stross called
Glasshouse. In this work, the base of the story revolves around trying to
figure out what happened just before the singularity. Seems that in the late
20th and early 21st century, folks -for some crazy reason- locked all their
information up in proprietary and very pooly documented formats, and even
crazier, wrapped all their cultural information up with encyption.
Windows-friendly goodness?
Posted Sep 26, 2007 13:28 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Kind of ironic since you only can buy the book in proprietary, encrypted form (if you want digital copy)...