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Comment Re:It's about free software (Score 1) 583

by zero-point-infinity (#26766513) Attached to: Microsoft May Be Targeting the Ubuntu Desktop

Right now the situation is such that people are forced, whether at work or at home, to use software where you aren't allowed basic rights to the software you use: to use your software in any fashion, to modify it however you want, and to distribute it to whoever who want.

Of course, the Free Software movement's idea of basic rights covers developer rights that most users don't really care about and would happily waive. Getting proprietary software EULA-free is probably good enough for the average user (and even then there's probably enough people who don't realize that EULAs are a problem, thanks to not bothering to read any).

Comment Re:Anti-competitive my rear. (Score 1) 589

by zero-point-infinity (#26501563) Attached to: MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events
Two fields of competition. The GP's post wasn't referring to competition between Silverlight and Flash. He was referring to Silverlight's effect on OS competition. That is, if Silverlight's relevance to the internet increases without the plugin getting ported, then it's bad for the ability of other OS's to be/become competitive choices.

Comment Re:Will it matter? (Score 2, Insightful) 69

by zero-point-infinity (#26112123) Attached to: Documentary Released On Canadian Fight Against DMCA

The point to the coalition is to defeat the government without causing a new election. If the governor general is even halfway reasonable, she'll allow the coalition to form the government rather than call another election.

Or maybe Harper will finally get it that in a minority government you need to try to work with the other parties at least some of the time. Yeah...
Unix

Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu 248

Posted by timothy from the little-a-this-little-a-that dept.
Ahmed Kamal writes "What happens when you take a solid system such as Ubuntu Hardy, unplug its Linux kernel, and plug in a replacement OpenSolaris kernel? Then you marry Debian's apt-get to Solaris' zfs file-system? What you get is Nexenta Core Platform OS. Let's take Nexenta for a quick spin, installing and configuring this young but promising system."
Games

Fallout 3 Gets Leaked, Goes Gold 249

Posted by Soulskill from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.
Fallout 3 is due to be released in a few weeks, and Bethesda recently announced that all versions of the game have gone gold. They provided the systems specs for the PC release as well. Unfortunately for them, the Xbox 360 version was leaked onto torrent sites almost three weeks early. Bethesda is "looking into" how the game was distributed. In preparation for the launch, game director Todd Howard spoke at length with Gamasutra about the scope of the project, and the differences from their previous games, such as Oblivion. CrispyGamer recently ran a three-part series detailing their four hours of hands-on time with the game. We've previously looked at some gameplay videos for Fallout 3, and discussed the fact that no mod tools will ship with the game.

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