Maybe we were not that zealot after all when we free software "zealot" said that proprietary software allow their owners to treat their users badly and that eventually, this happens to every proprietary software. Just saying. It amazes me how surprised users of proprietary software are every time they get screwed by their masters even though this has been happening for the last 30 years.
papachito
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> I am not a free software "zealot" and don't mind some closed-ness
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I made a simple Chrome App for HN, check it out
(ricodigo.com)
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Just so you know, I have an open source alternative to stackexchange and we do free hosting too http://shapado.com we also import stackexchange sites (beta).
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It says that firefox and webkit browsers fail on border-radius, that's only because they use -webkit-border-radius and -mozilla-border-radius and Microsoft only tested border-radius which is the one supported by IE, not very honnest especially knowing that gecko and webkit had those for years before IE.
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> Every economic development has been accompanied by huge misery and death.
From Peru here. The country used to be extremely poor, we're now doing ok, not great but ok with 9.2% of GDP growth (2008 est.) and freedom of speech is pretty great (totally uncensored internet and press) and we're still alive! |
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He's comparing KDE and Gnome core components (window management) and the linux kernel with developing iPhone apps. That's a bad comparaison in my opinion. Hacking on an operating system kernel or a window manager requires great skills that most kids (and adult devs) do not have.
A fair comparison would be iPhone apps Vs KDE or Gnome apps. And here KDE and Gnome get tons of new contributers each months, check how active is http://kde-apps.org for example, or the Ubuntu developer activities. Tasks that require less skills will always attract more developers or cooks or whatever in all professions. Here's a Graph of KDE contributers http://dot.kde.org/2009/07/14/growth-metrics-kde-contributor... up to July 2009. As a KDE dev that follows the mailing list, I can tell you the list of contributers is still groing well. Not to mention all the people that build KDE apps without being official KDE devs. |
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I'm one of the dev, feel free to ask if you have any questions. The site is running here: http://shapado.com
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We're upvoting it because everybody including Obama act like this is the first time oil spill is happening and there was no way to prevent it because it was so improbable, and also because once again we failed to learn from history.
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Microsoft should ban it from Windows then.
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Software patents are always ridiculous.
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