On Monday, July 25, 2011 03:31:26 PM Stuart Tanner wrote:
On Monday 25 Jul 2011 21:04:37 Kim Leyendecker wrote:
Am 25.07.2011 21:50, schrieb Izabel Valverde:
It's a business model and we should know how to live with it...
+1 +1
Personally there are purists and their are realists - the purists use GNUSense because it has absolutely zero Non-Oss in it.
Purist could live in a buble but cannot ignore other side exist. And despite open source projects have been releasing free codecs and software a bunch of people goes and takes the commercial codecs and software.
But lets me real here how many people only download music in Ogg Format?
There are not too many music in Ogg format. Not the music we want to hear mostly. As reluctance or principles we can convert it from xxxx.format to xxxx.ogg
How many people only watich movies in Ogg Video?
Same above.
Microsoft and Windows are here to stay and like it or not we have to deal with them, now we either do it legally or we can stick our head in the sand.
At least, it looks very true for a long term. And MS is accepting to collaborate or interoperate with Linux and other FOSS Project. Maybe not the terms FOSS communities would like but that's another stuff.
Let those who stick their head in the sand and think Linux for Geeks not for everybody should go away.
We have a good product and we need to promote it, if we have arrangements in with Microsoft to make it more compatible then I believe its a good thing.
+1 Chances are to achieve something good, chances are to achieve something bad. Someone is taking that risk seriously and any revolution started with a risk taken. It's too soon to know what it will be.
Can Microsoft release a Linux Distro - I don't know.. Mac adopted a FreeBSD fork, could Microsoft do the same and just release a Desktop Manager like Aqua on MacOSX? Doubt it - would require so much of a rewrite of their software it would hurt their investers wallet.. So do we have anything to be worried about?
Nothing is written in the stone. MS is making a lot of changes and have enough money to invest on a Linux derivative for their own business. They recognize their legacy security issues and .... They are building interoperability labs and integrating some open source software to their own products. Don't get me wrong. I am not defending or advocating for any point of view just telling business models goes where the money is easier to get and keep. Standard people takes what is not too complicated to understand for using. I cannot blame them because of it. Regards, -- Ricardo Chung | openSUSE Linux Ambassador openSUSE Member Panama Li-f-e | KDE 4.6.00r6 | GNOME2 | GNOME3 | Nouveau-Mesa3D experimental -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ambassadors+help@opensuse.org