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Comment Re:Yes. (Score 1) 631

They're making incredibly unpopular design changes without giving people any real option to do things their own way and driving their own userbase away. Unity and other ass backwardsness pissed me off SO MUCH that I learned to use Arch Linux just to get away from it.

You are free to hate Unity, but what's that "without giving people any real option"? You can always apt-get any DE or WM you like, or switch to any other distro while taking your data with you. Options galore.

Comment Re:Why I won't support this? (Score 1) 98

1. That's a target date, not a commitment. If they miss it by two years, what is your recourse?

Your are changing the argument. In the post I replied to you had said, "no promise of a delivery date". The target date seems a promise of a delivery date: "expected delivery in May 2014". And what's your recourse? You could check with indiegogo.

2. Yeah, I could, couldn't I? But I only object to the commerical crowdsourced projects. If people want to ask for contributions to crowdsource something that's for the common good, I'll consider it. If they want to crowdsource a project for their own profit, where's my cut?

Your cut is to get something you want that otherwise may never see the light of day. It carries a risk like every investment.

Comment Re:Google going for the jugular! (Score 2) 72

That doesn't mean anything, Microsoft is not compliant with the standard.

I'm not kidding, MS dumped a bunch of lame "documentation" on the comitteee then when the committee tried to tidy up some of the incredible amounts of stupidity in it, MS just ignored them. MS has the most compliant implementation, but no full implementation exists.

I know all that, but that does not change the fact that they can't change important parts of the specs willy-nilly, like the guy I replied to suggested.

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