"On June 15, Bill Gates announced that he would be retiring from Microsoft in July 2008, and everything changed. It may be two years away, but when a giant the size of Gates moves, the world moves with him. And, in that movement, in this period of change, Linux may have its best chance ever to seize the marketplace momentum from Microsoft."
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Member since:2006-06-16
Linus is holding Linux back. For the love of god, give the hardware companies what they ask for.
Without hardware and software support a OS is never going to blossom. Competing with an OS that works hard with hardware vendors and partnerships is very difficult if your going to do all the work (the community).
Asking the open source people to implement every driver and make those drivers as good as the vendors win32 drivers is a tough task.
You need the support from the hardware vendors. Period.
Ontop of that, linux needs to stabalize its API for very important tasks. The world does not need 3 sound daemons.
I know the idealists say options are always better, but not in all cases. Can I use Open Office or MS Office? that is a good option. Can I use sendmail or postfix? that is a good option.
Can the hardware vendor support 3 sound daemons? That is a bad option.
Instead of saying everything in windows sucks, learn from windows. Take its strengths and learn from them, and take its weakneses and learn from them. So far I see linux capitolizing on windows weaknesses, but not so much learning what its strengths are.
Worship the hardware vendors and developers by giving them stable API and great developer tools, and the results will come.
Member since:2006-02-20
The stable API mantra...
Computers have been around for awhile, but the technology is still way too new. That's the reason Linux doesn't have a stable API. The kernel developers don't want to get bogged down with having to be backward compatible as Linux improves. And I whole-heartedly agree.
Opposed to closed source philosophy, as the base of OSS software improves, they'll go back and make repairs to the old software to make it run on the new technology.
This philosophy sucks for end-users and companies that want to hide their code, but in the end, it's a better road to travel.
I don't know how long it will take, but sooner or later, Linux's API will become stable. Not because the developers will make it that way, but because the technology will mature to a point where changing the API isn't necessary anymore.
"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently."In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies."The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.
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2006-02-17
Is Gates' Retirement Linux's Chance?
This is a ridiculous premise.
Bill Gates isn't holding Linux back, Linux is holding Linux back.