Why Wall Street Hates Open-Source

acurrie · 2 days

Red Hat does a lot of business there. I guess that many folks who celebrated their becoming such a large company, might not be so thrilled about some of their actual clients and projects.

trot-trot · 5 days

Yeah, the US just got into two wars because of that.

IamTheEddy · 9 days

"People don't use what I use, therefore they are dumb".

lekotar · 10 days

The N900 used a toolkit that extended good old GTK+. Only the window management was accelerated by HW.

Awesome device, really, but not yet there in terms of UI.

lekotar · 10 days

The point remains, that the N9 is the first Nokia phone that has an interface that is on equal footing with the iPhone.

Joe_12265 · 10 days

The Euro is dangerously similar to the gold standard for countries like Greece.

rathalos420 · 10 days

It is not laziness, it is simply that the cost of switching is much greater than the expected benefit. Unless you are a developer/admin, there are no applications in GNU/Linux that justify that switch by themselves, in the way that games and professional software do for Windows/OSX.

rathalos420 · 10 days

A commercial application developed for Windows XP will a) run in pretty much all your customers' systems, and b) keep running unchanged ten years later on Windows 7.

In GNU/Linux, it is much harder to achieve a) and make something run on all the major distros at one point in time, and it is nearly impossible to ensure b).

Greater effort required + much smaller user base = no deal for app makers

barnibee · 14 days

Design changes introduced by GNOME are often too risky for what they can actually confirm with the resources that they have.

User testing would likely have shown that nobody could guess the use of Alt on their own, and that it is unlikely that a user would figure out that an option (shutting down) that is not available when he is logged in, will be made available when he is logged out. It would have been awesome to have done that when this functionality was first proposed, so that it could have been discarded right away instead of making GNOME users google how to turn off their computers.

The Shell and core applications have some great ideas in them, but GNOME certainly has a very strange relationship with their current, actual users.

barnibee · 14 days

It took one year and a half to detect, acknowledge and revert a problematic design decision...

mondaytuesdaywednesd · 15 days

Firefox or Canonical have far more design resources than GNOME.

mondaytuesdaywednesd · 15 days

Actually, one of the reasons why Apple does it is because menu items by the edge of the screen are faster to hit with the cursor. This, of course, provided that you can actually see the items before you start the movement.

This is not the case with Unity because the window title hides the menu: you need to move the cursor and hover on the general area of the menu to uncover it, then move to the desired element and click on it.

GNOME does not really better: you need to move to the one menu icon, click on it, then perform a slow selection on the drop-down list of actions.

mondaytuesdaywednesd · 17 days

At the same time, the design team is very loosely defined. The official stand is that if you do design for GNOME, you are part of the team. However, it is clear that a few people hold a lot of power, basically for the simple reason that they work for the company that is also funding development.

BoDiddley42 · 17 days

And dip him in your tea?

mondaytuesdaywednesd · 17 days

That depends on the point of view. For users, GNOME is being developed and used, so it is alive. For developers, is it the best platform to spend effort on?

mondaytuesdaywednesd · 17 days

It is explicitly not being designed for power users.

mondaytuesdaywednesd · 17 days

It is quite a big symptom of design problems. If something as clear as that takes a year and a half to fix...

nytimeskrugman · 25 days

You have been very forthcoming with your critique on austerity measures implemented in the euro area and these are very much appreciated and needed, albeit they have yet to register with key decision makers in Europe. What, concretely, do you think should be done to break out of this recessionary cycle we are in? What kind of policies should peripheral countries adopt? How can imbalances across EU member states be addressed? Is exit a viable strategy for, say, Greece?

Also, at the end of this month, Ireland will be holding a referendum on the fiscal compact which some critiques say will institutionalize austerity further. But a no vote is being packaged as tantamount to destabilizing the euro and to an uncertain future for Ireland should it need access to a bailout fund. What are your thoughts on this?

Linsatiable · 1 month

I went to the beach with my younger cousin once. I was looking after her while she played by the shore, jumping on waves and the like. All of a sudden, she ran to me and yelled "Finally poo!".

"What?"

"Finally poo!"

I looked to where she had been just a moment before, and I saw it. My cousin's turd, leisurely sailing towards the sunset.

FritzMuffknuckle · 1 month

"Wolves have not been seen this side of the Rhine for hundreds of years."

Lazerpig · 1 month

My solution is to shut down the computer and grab a book. When I have work to do, I get pen and a notebook, and transcript it in the morning.

kingturtle · 1 month

There are some great moments in "Things I never told you" (1996).

DatsNos · 1 month

And rolling timber.

MoneyWorthington · 1 month

It's worth it to mention that there is also a lot of paid development in the GNU/Linux world.

Why?

Because some companies found a different business model.

wonglik · 1 month

Funny thing is that, apparently, the "oh shit" moment for Nokia was when they realized that they would be only able to release three MeeGo phones in 2011-2013. Exactly the same number as a certain Californian fruit company.

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