>>> The only people who buy AMD are geeks who are aware of computers beyond Dell-made ones. >>>

Get informed: Dell's entry level servers are AMD.

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We believe KDE to be the best technology and therefore way to take over the world.>>>

Hello jriddell, a Canonical developer by the name of Jonathan Riddell was admitting yesterday that kubuntu has not proved a business success in 7 years.

Taking over the world will take time.

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I really think Libre Office could take off...

It just needs a decent name.

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  You can't really disable things like switching to a tty with ctrl-alt-f1 without "changing the OS configuration."

You can modify the keymap and remove /bin/chvt before launching your application.

You have got a win8 machine and win8 is in control of the MBR.

You can always boot a Linux distro using grub4dos. Get 'grldr' from its package und put it in c:\ adding an entry like

C:\grldr="grub"

in boot.ini and also a line for your specific distro in c:\menu.lst.

When the machine starts, you will see the win8 boot menu, you pick grub, you see grub4dos boot menu according to menu.lst, you pick your distro.

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Would "FreeOffice" be better because people would be free (libre) to assume it means free (gratis) if that makes them more comfortable?
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FreedomOffice then. One thing is for sure, the moniker LibreOffice is not doing the project anything good.

Still waiting for Slashdot to launch a contest for a new name.

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  There's still several other cases to be resolved: SCO v IBM, Red Hat v SCO, SCO v Autozone (or Daimler/Chrysler)
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SCO vs. Autozone is settled. SCO vs. Daimler/Chrisler was lost by SCO long ago. RedHat is moot because SCO does not have those copyrights.

The only one that matters is SCO vs. IBM which was administratively closed late 2007. This one will loose plenty of mass because of the SCO's lack of copyrights but can still continue because its focus was contractual violation.

Will SCO (nowadays alling themselves TSG) revive the case? Of course, they will since the lawyers, Boies & Co., are supposed to have already been paid.

"Boy, was that company suckered."

That's John Dvorak in his last column for Infoworld 1985 when Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple.
http://books.google.com/books?id=jC8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%2Bdvorak+steve+jobs+leaving+apple+1985+infoworld+suckered&source=bl&ots=pJ8NZY9Wgv&sig=2YM64qODziCzfzYWR3lYJ6Zhu2U&hl=en&ei=t_xVTr6iDsb54QS3l52jDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA

In 1997 Michael Dell added "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders".
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html

How could they be so wrong? They weren't. Steve Jobs just had luck, plenty of it.

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The "problem" with replacing X is that it's good enough for most uses.
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Gnome, KDE, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera do not use X. Problem solved.

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They've made countless promises to not sue, have had their own staff help the Mono project repeatedly and have supplied tons of documentation to them and have made agreements with Novell to cover the Mono implementation from issues.
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So they cannot sue SuSe. And they cannot sue Redhat
because Redhat does not use Mono. Whom are they going to sue if it has got to be profitable? They just need the FUD.