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Comment Re:Wohoo! Windows blew (Score 1) 491

all the functionality of all the versions of Windows, with no lacking features whatever

Look, I like Linux, and it has a lot of benefits that Windows doesn't have, but when you say that Linux has everything that Windows has, you make it clear that you're either:

  • * Lying to us,
  • * Lying to yourself, or
  • * Gravely short sighted

Do you really want people to think those things about you? And do you think you're helping the Linux with an image like that?

Comment Re:Let me be the first to say... (Score 2) 272

Seriously?

Okay, here's what you were thinking:

"Duh! Obviously sleep deprivation is bad for children!"

But here's the full implication of your response:

"Duh! Anybody who doesn't know that 73% of 9-10 year olds and 80% of 13-14 year olds in the US are sleep deprived is a moron."

Measurements are important. That's what science is all about.

Comment Re:Good (Score 2) 466

And that works reasonably well for popular open source projects, where volunteers can build new binaries to keep up with updated dependencies, but it's a real problem for closed-source projects.

Whether or not paving the way for closed-source projects on Linux is a good thing will depend on whom you ask, but I suspect that's one of the major motivations for this project.

Comment Re:HTML isn't anymore (Score 1) 302

You know, I'd be perfectly happy if HTML supported COBOL. My problem with JavaScript isn't that it's a terrible language, it's that it's the only language.

I'd be much happier if HTML had a standard VM and a standard API, so that we could use whatever language we want.

HTML is a software platform now, and being stuck with one programming language is stifling. Can you imagine if we were only allowed to use one language when writing Windows/Linux/Mac software?

Comment Re:For those About to Whine! (Score 5, Insightful) 215

The Wayland devs were definitely a little too obscure whenever the issue of remoting came up. They kept saying that remoting was out of scope with regard to Wayland, and technically, they were right, but it lead to a lot of misunderstandings.

Imagine if somebody asked "Does the Linux kernel support email?" Of course it doesn't; email is done way higher in the stack. There's not a single line of code in the Linux kernel that has anything to do with email. But you would be giving people the wrong impression if you said "Linux doesn't support email", and that's exactly what the Wayland devs were doing.

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