It can't be both.

OS X.

Who's Denny Crane, Quickly, and why has he got a comma in his name?

I don't think this aspect of the nature of Open Source Software has escaped Google. True, they did provide something that people can use against them, but Google's focus seems to be on growing the market, rather than going to war against a set of opposing corporations.

Without Android, the global touch-screen smartphone market would be a lot smaller than it is now, and much less search traffic would be coming Google's way.

Charles Stross might call this article the thinking of "zero-sum dinosaurs". Just because an action may profit someone else as well as yourself, that's not in itself a reason not to do it.

With Chrome 7.0.517.44 (latest at the time of writing), I get WebM. Looks pretty good at 720p!

While package selection is limited in any enterprise distro, I see this as a good thing, since I'd rather have the QA resources of Red Hat applied liberally to the packages I actually need, rather than have them stretched out over a larger set of packages so I can install VLC on my servers without adding a repo if I want to.

I don't know what took this release so long, but I wonder if the continued move from Xen to KVM could have had something to do with it. Providing solid, performant virtualization out-of-the-box can't be easy, especially with KVM being relatively new to the enterprise world.

If you hadn't actually quoted part of the GP's post, I'd think you were replying to the wrong one.

No one mentioned iOS. I get the impression that you're responding to what you perceive to be persecution at the hands of Apple fanboys, but none of that was happening here. I find it humourous how quickly this has been sidetracked to a religious platform flamewar.

I feel the GP was wrong to dismiss the value of Java skills by equating it with Websphere/JBoss development, although it is probably true that Meego development is more applicable to the linux desktop. He/she has a point.

I'd like to see Meego get a significant portion of the market, and I've got a Nexus One running CyanogenMod in my pocket.

I see you took the GP's advice. That was a very good mad. ;)

While it's true that Android runs linux under the hood, you don't encounter linux at all while developing for Android, or while using it. Thus, the fact that it is based on linux is irrelevant from the perspective of developers and users having experience with it.

If Nokia does a good job with Meego, it will be just like Android: the linux will be there, and you can get at it if you want to, but developers and users shouldn't have to know or care to be satisfied with the platform.

These vendors choose linux to use for their OSes not because people know linux, but because they get a lot of stuff for free compared to writing an OS from scratch.

He read XKCD today.

Did Sun ever really support Harmony?

Either way, making a deal with another company to ensure that all their developers stop working on a project is going farther than to "discontinue supporting" it.

Also, I think you did mean to spoil a good conspiracy. Shame on you.

Good Point. I actually didn't know that Solaris could function as a Xen dom0.

So Solaris is an option. However, I can see them needing to maintain a Linux option as well, at least until their database offerings are enough like appliances that people don't care what the OS is.

Oracle should do the same with the rest of the OS and try to innovate there...

Agreed, and they probably will.

If Oracle wants to continue to sell Xen-based virtualization products, they're looking at much deeper changes to their distro than this. A secondary goal of this could be to get Oracle ramped up to diverge further from Red Hat's enterprise offering, since the writing is on the wall for Xen support in RHEL.

From a motion tracking point of view, tracking a brightly colored ball is pretty much the simplest possible thing you can do.

I agree; that was a good call on Sony's part. Clever of them to find an easier way to do something than the competition.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is creating Kinect, which combines multiple cameras to create depth and color maps of your living room and model your entire skeleton in real time. *That* is incredibly complex...

Yeah, it's going to be hard to squeeze that kind of processing onto a console... Microsoft and their devs have their work cut out for them.

Instead of putting an infrared tracking camera in each remote (like the Wii), they can just use one camera on the TV and just put LEDs in the remote.

Totally! Choosing the cheap way actually allowed Sony to approach Nintendo's price point for once, and making it easy for the camera to track allows for excellent accuracy.

I think we have a lot in common. We should be friends.

Having spent probably around a hundred hours using the Wii, I can say that for tracking one's motion, Move does blow the basic Wii controller out of the water, both in terms of accuracy and refresh rate. I have never used Motion Plus.

I played with friends' Wiis (how do you say that without inviting off-colour jokes?) but never bought my own because while I enjoy the motion control aspect for some games, I didn't like the frustratingly spotty tracking.

I've only had a few days with Move, of course, but so far it has impressed me greatly with its accuracy. I have nothing but good things to say about it.

If VMware buys SuSE that will be a blow to Xen.

Red Hat has already switched to KVM, and Ubuntu doesn't provide a Xen Dom0 kernel. If SuSE goes to a virtualization vendor that competes with products built on Xen, what options will be left for enterprise distros that provide Xen Dom0 support? Oracle Unbreakable Linux?