On 9/8/06, Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
oh i know. na paguusapan lang. i wanted to ask kung papaano kung say a closed source company would offer a better c compiler for example with the tools for a specific job na wala sa gcc? does this mean out din cya?
hahaha. i know. i still love my mac :D i do my work on it using open source software on it with a linux box as server space. can you imagine the president of the philippines using openstep? hindi nakakaattract ng attention, kung hindi ka engineer.
one of the reasons why the linux desktop isn't attracting users is because of its archaic look and feel. it looks, taste and smells like windows xp just take a look at kde. hindi cya innovative. heck gnome looks better. but as a desktop? i wouldn't use kde and i've entirely given up on linux as a desktop. my media don't play as good. hindi intuitive ang use ng ogg, mp3 or video playback. you have to work it out to make those things play back. thats work that ANY user shouldn't do, except for us power users who may want to--- may skills tayo for that. after awhile you just want a system that works. a solution has to be designed for 80% of the users and not just for us 20% who know or can easily relate to it.
nabasa mo na ba yung interview with eric raymond? sa red herring? he was saying that for linux to be adopted as a viable desktop solution there must be some
"compromises". linux must license some of these technologies--- like mp3. etc. etc.
all i'm saying hindi lahat ng closed source is terrible and hindi lahat ng open source is great.
technology is a tool not a religion or a way for us to be zealots. technology should work for us. any legislation that welcomes the use of any technology MUST make the playing field EVEN for both Open and Closed software methodologies. the MOST important part of such legislation SHOULD BE the use of open document formats to SPUR interoperability and levels the playing field. any legislation that promotes the advocacy of OPEN Solutions must be FAIR, not skewed towards a mindset that puts unnecessary limits to what we can or can not do because we know not what the future holds--- its best to make certain our solutions are flexible enough to make the right choices at the appropriate time.
On 9/8/06, Cocoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what if i'm using .net--- c# is is open standard but proprietary m$
> development tool... does it mean if i was working for a government agency
> hindi pupuwede gamitin ang .net as a development platform?
You can use Mono (mono-project.com)
oh i know. na paguusapan lang. i wanted to ask kung papaano kung say a closed source company would offer a better c compiler for example with the tools for a specific job na wala sa gcc? does this mean out din cya?
>
> papaano kung gusto kong magoffer ng Apple machines sa office of the
> president? does this mean hindi din cya pupuwede? OSX is based on bsd but
> the aqua interface isn't open source.
Di ka makakakita ng Aqua interface pero the development environment is
nearly implemented with GNUstep ( www.gnustep.org), an OpenStep
implementation project
hahaha. i know. i still love my mac :D i do my work on it using open source software on it with a linux box as server space. can you imagine the president of the philippines using openstep? hindi nakakaattract ng attention, kung hindi ka engineer.
one of the reasons why the linux desktop isn't attracting users is because of its archaic look and feel. it looks, taste and smells like windows xp just take a look at kde. hindi cya innovative. heck gnome looks better. but as a desktop? i wouldn't use kde and i've entirely given up on linux as a desktop. my media don't play as good. hindi intuitive ang use ng ogg, mp3 or video playback. you have to work it out to make those things play back. thats work that ANY user shouldn't do, except for us power users who may want to--- may skills tayo for that. after awhile you just want a system that works. a solution has to be designed for 80% of the users and not just for us 20% who know or can easily relate to it.
>
> papaano ang Oracle? may open source alternatives like Postgresql... and
> mysql... between the three, in terms of features Oracle and Postgresql are
> the better alternatives and probably neck-to-neck in feature sets... does
> this mean, out ang oracle?
If the feature set needed between Oracle and PostgreSQL is 1:1, then
out na ang Oracle, yung mga specific features lang ang holdback
> papaano if the linux distro licenses say aac, mp3, dvd readers, does this
> mean out na din sila?
Wouldn't it imply na lahat ng Linux distro na merong mga ganyang
codecs/data support is already out of consideration?
nabasa mo na ba yung interview with eric raymond? sa red herring? he was saying that for linux to be adopted as a viable desktop solution there must be some
"compromises". linux must license some of these technologies--- like mp3. etc. etc.
all i'm saying hindi lahat ng closed source is terrible and hindi lahat ng open source is great.
technology is a tool not a religion or a way for us to be zealots. technology should work for us. any legislation that welcomes the use of any technology MUST make the playing field EVEN for both Open and Closed software methodologies. the MOST important part of such legislation SHOULD BE the use of open document formats to SPUR interoperability and levels the playing field. any legislation that promotes the advocacy of OPEN Solutions must be FAIR, not skewed towards a mindset that puts unnecessary limits to what we can or can not do because we know not what the future holds--- its best to make certain our solutions are flexible enough to make the right choices at the appropriate time.
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