Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-08 Thread Tiago Marques
On 4/2/09, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: It's nice to say they should see the light, but in my experience talking to many such companies, the fact of the matter is that it is a hard nut for

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: that's the great thing about linux -- just when we finally develop a standard way of doing things, someone steps in and says, no, that was wrong, let's do it this way instead, and stops supporting or improving the old way.

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: that's the great thing about linux -- just when we finally develop a standard way of doing things, someone steps in and says, no, that was wrong, let's do it this way instead, and stops supporting

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: It's nice to say they should see the light, but in my experience talking to many such companies, the fact of the matter is that it is a hard nut for them to swallow. I am under the impression that the relation between the OS

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread Mitch Bradley
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: It's nice to say they should see the light, but in my experience talking to many such companies, the fact of the matter is that it is a hard nut for them to swallow. I am under the

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-02 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Thursday 02 Apr 2009 8:21:27 pm Mitch Bradley wrote: I guess the main disconnect is that, for the FOSS community, the point of view is more important than the product.  The commercial world is just the opposite. This is too broad a statement and rather unfair to those who have worked hard

Re: Devel Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

2009-04-01 Thread Mitch Bradley
that's the great thing about linux -- just when we finally develop a standard way of doing things, someone steps in and says, no, that was wrong, let's do it this way instead, and stops supporting or improving the old way. ... and then people wonder why so many hardware companies don't want