U Mad?

Couldn't give a flying fuck if he ran a penguin or Steve Ballmer's chair, but he is a fanboi, and if it makes him happy, good on him. Personally, as a Mac system admin, I think Macs are fine, but the Mac fans tend to miss out on the fact that there is other good stuff besides Apple out there.

After the way the Dutch handled Apple's case against Samsung, I am not surprised at the way they're treating this guy. Dutch legal system sucking US legal cock much?

This site has brought me more entertainment and information than just about any other over the last 10 years. Take care and I wish you the very best of luck with your family and whatever else you choose to do, mate.

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I own a Netbook, a Lenovo S10. The keyboard is so cramped that it's very difficult to type at full speed. The tiny 10" sceen is pretty crap as well, with its resolution just above a moden smartphone. You want small laptops? The MacBook Air, the Acer UX21 etc, they've got it covered, with OSes that don't heave and crap out on one when all you want to do is email, web, write, photos and music. Nope, the netbook as a concept is dead. The only OS that actually makes any sense on it is currently JoliOS, a fully web based OS like Chrome. Shuttleworth and McCann made UIs for computers that went from being in to obsolescent in two years.

Tough for them. And tough for us who actually enjoyed their work until they got Mac envy.

That stood out to me as well. He basically went ahead and said "LA LA LA LA LA, I can't hear you". What was even more hilarious was when he said that the "vocal minority" was basically saying "you're wrong, I'm right" when he basically said the same thing, too.

Fuck him. Gnome is dead for me.

Absolutely. Devs will (actually have already) start moving to XFCE and LXDE and interest in Unity and Gnome3 will die down to become a joke that people will use to refer to when discussing how to lose your user base.

I absolutely agree. I was a big fan of Ubuntu until 10.10. 10.10 was amazing. Packages worked, Gnome worked, the proprietary Nvidia drivers worked and I could concentrate on installing pgAdmin, Java and other dev tools and just frigging work.

Then along came 11.04 which I tried first on a Netbook, and was wondering what the hell was happening. This was some braindead fuckface who had Mac OSX nerd envy. I'm a Mac system administrator, I own two Macs and if I want a Mac I'll use a Mac, not a fucking half-assed braindead clone by some idiot far removed from the mainstream Linux users (Yes, Shuttleworth, that's you). And peripherally I heard about Gnome 3. When I saw the first releases of Gnome 3 and that idiot presenting it, I burst out laughing. I actually did.

Who, in the name of all that's fucking holy, do these shitheads think are going to use their systems? Mac users? I find it hysterical that McCann even thinks that any casual computer using Mac user would even think of using Linux. Netbooks? Somebody ought to inform Shuttleworth and McCann that Netbooks are dead as a concept, killed by Apple's iPad, which bring us to Tablets and Smartphones. Do they honesty think that any major manufacturer is going to use any of these craptastic distros where Android fits the bill perfectly, is as open as they need it to be and satisfies almost all who use it (so much so, that Microsoft and Apple are fighting a huge legal war against it in terror).?

McCann babbles on about the cloud, because someone showed him an iPad and he came. Google has this down pat with ChromeOS. Native C/C++ code is coming to Chrome and will make ChromeOS the perfect cloud OS for anyone who wants that. I am willing to bet good money that ChromeOS with native code will have more apps written for it in its first month of existence than Gnome 3 will have had since it was released.

Who is going to write apps for Gnome3, or Ubuntu 11.10? Is someone going to port Blender, Inkscape and Gimp to either fit into Unity or Gnome 3's UI concepts? I seriously doubt that.

Don't they realise that the people who use Linux use it because of its flexibility? Here's a big hint for them: The Windows95 Windowing concept lived so long because it works. Microsoft will discover this when Windows 8 rolls round with its fucktastic HTML5 tiled interface and MS's user start complaining that although Windows Explorer was shit, at least they could find their fucking files.

Fuck them. I wish them good luck in their journey towards obscurity. Me, I'm on Mint with XFCE. Mint is switching its XFCE distro back to Debian and I'm very, very glad about that.

You're an ignorant cunt, but at least you're a slashdot faithful who didn't bother to RTFA. Of course they could develop apps for iOS in Africa, and in fact they do, but an iPhone costs a fuck of a lot more than a cheap Chinese Android device does. Developing for Android is also free.

As for how they pay for their phones, do a bit of reading. Google it.

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Did you actually read the article?

I'm also a Mac admin and we're actively looking for replacements for Apple's gear two or three years down the road. We made the mistake, being a mostly Mac company (about 20% Windows) of letting ourselves be convinced into switching over to a Mac server based server infrastructure back in 2006, just around the time Apple killed the XRaid. I suppose the writing was on the wall back then already, but we didn't really want to look too closely. When Apple killed the XServer with two months notice at the end of last year, it became blindingly obvious, though. Anyone using Mac server software or gear in a larger than workgroup sized company should think carefully before using this tool.

I agree, the only way the patent suit business will ever die is if it gets so bad that only the huge developers can afford to produce products anymore. What is much more likely, though, is that people will stop selling products in the US market and that the US market will stagnate and slowly die. The Americans are extremely bad at implementing any legal reforms due to the immense amount of lobbying going on there. Frankly, given the state of the US economy, one would think that the Americans would see the need to implement reform, because all the patent nonsense does is isolate the US even more.