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Comment Not a chance. (Score 4, Interesting) 241

by decriptor on Tuesday August 02, 2011 @09:11PM (#36967278) Attached to: .NET Gadgeteer — Microsoft's Arduino Killer?

Simple reason: The base board looks like it needs connectors best I can tell and costs 4x as much as an arduino board. Plus I'm sure the MS board requires windows. I have an arduino because I can interface with it on different platforms and it didn't cost a ton to get into.

Comment Re:For once ... (Score 1) 477

by decriptor on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @01:10AM (#28700309) Attached to: US Postal Service Moves To GNU/Linux

According to this article they moved Novell's Suse linux http://gcn.com/articles/2009/07/13/update2-usps-open-source-product-tracking-system.aspx

Comment A couple issues come to mind (Score 1) 742

by decriptor on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @02:19PM (#23731023) Attached to: Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools

First, it was the commercial market that didn't have the time of day for Linux and open source. So, what did we do... We created our own.
Second, If the open source tools are good enough for the job why should I pay for yours and not donate/contribute to the open source one.
Third, how many people buy Visual Studio? Don't blame the open source community for a slightly better or equivalent than/to FOSS application.
Fourth, nothing like getting slashdotted to get some free marketing.

Introducing the Slashdot Firehose 320

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 02, 2007 @02:33PM from the who-wants-to-drink-from-the-firehose dept.

Logged in users have noticed for some time the request to drink from the Slashdot Firehose. Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out. It's partially a collaborative news system, partially a redesigned & dynamic next-generation Slashdot index. It's got a lot of really cool features, and a lot of equally annoying new problems for us to find and fix for the next few weeks. I've attached a rough draft of the FAQ to the end of this article. A quick read of it will probably answer most questions from how it works, what all the color codes mean, to what we intend to do with it.

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