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Comment Who we are (Score 1) 1452

First of all, I do not agree or disagree with Mr. Stallman. However, as a "Spokesman for FOSS" this is definately not what I would expect.

We here generally use some other flavor of Operating System that is a given. And that other flavor does not at all meet with what the public wants. WE want our freedom with our computers. But WE are not every computer user out there. I am not being an elitist here but the fact is that most people want to go to their local computer outlet store, purchase a big black box or laptop and plug it in to surf the web and play Angry Birds. We choose to be different.

But we must also respect those that want to have their computers spoon fed to them else our freedom will mean nothing in the end. Yes Linux installations on both servers and desktops have gone up in the past decade. However, so has the installed base of Windows and OS X. What Steve Jobs did was provide a medium for the average user to have and enjoy a computing experience. He did it well and with many innovations that others failed at (why is the iPhone so big but Blackberry loosing market for example).

Mr. Stallman may be a huge advocate of FOSS and for that I thank him deeply and sincerely. And when our "Spokesman for FOSS" compares Steve Jobs who did what his customers wanted him to do, to a corrupt mayor, it does nothing but shine US, the FOSS users in a negative light. I personally would much rather be associated with the positive side of FOSS than the negative.

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Submission + - Aaron Seigo talks about KDE SC 5.0 and more (derstandard.at)

An anonymous reader writes: After years of focusing on further improving KDE4 two weeks ago the developers of the free desktop announced the next big step for their project: KDE Frameworks 5.0. But as long-time developer — and Plasma team leader — Aaron Seigo points out in an interview with derStandard.at/web, the source-incompatible changes shall be held to a minimum. Also calls Frameworks 5.0 only the "first step", new Applications and Workspace releases are to follow later, Seigo goes on to talk about the chances in the mobile market with Plasma Active and further areas of collaboration with the other big free desktop: GNOME.

Comment Re:Bye-bye! (Score 1) 997

Awesome way to put this into perspective. Many people think "Well and hour or two extra a day wont hurt my free time any if its just for a couple of months or even a year" till you put it in terms of the loss of $20K to $30K. Nicely done.

Comment Re:Think more subtle, grasshopper (Score 1) 1270

* No nuclear Power - James Chadwick (United Kingdom) 1932 found the neutron which according to time period scientist may have been a means of obtaining power.
* No NASA or space flight - Robert H. Goddard's (United States) printed papers in 1919 on how to achieve space flight. The V rockets were the first to make it but were not the only ones in production.
* Made the first sonic airplanes - No they created the first JET airplanes. The US first person to break the barrier was Chuck Yeager (US)in 1947. The first Turbo Jet engines were independently designed at the same time by Frank Whittle (UK) and Hans von Ohain (Germany).
* Engineers had great freedom - Most German Scientists were forced to flee the country rather than be sent to "Re-Education" including Albert Einstein. Scientists who remained were not free, they were more like Indentured Servants who worked on what the Nazi government wanted them to only. Quote from Einsteins page on Wikipedia "Among other German scientists forced to flee were fourteen Nobel laureates and twenty-six of the sixty professors of theoretical physics in the country. Among the other scientists who left Germany, or the other countries it came to dominate, were Edward Teller, Niels Bohr, Enrico Fermi, Otto Stern, Victor Weisskopf, Hans Bethe, and Lise Meitner, many of whom made certain that the Allies would develop nuclear weapons first, before the Nazi."
* The cold war would not have been - The United States had long ago been very anti-communism (not anti-socialist) and had been reviewing options for opposing the communist states such as the USSR. Patton for example believed that WW2 would not end until there was an end to both Nazi Germany and the "Commies."
* Germany wouldnt have remodeled their economic - Hitler did not do anything with the economy other than disregard the Treaty of Versai (which any good leader would have done considering the restrictions) and used credit to create a military with the power to overtake most of Europe.
* The EU and offspins - I am not sure what you are saying here. The creation of the U.N. would have happened only because the previous incarnation (the League of Nations) had many failings and most countries involved were already looking to revamp the idea. The U.S. only got the UN HQ in New York because the U.S. was mostly undammaged by the war.
* Mass production - was invented and perfected by Ford, a US company. Its why Germany did not want the U.S. involved in the war, they feared the tremendous amounts of production that they could put out.
* Real world example of applicatons of psychology and propaganda - Vlad the Impaler perfected real world application of psychology when he lined the roads leading to his kingdom with the impaled bodies of his enemies.
* We would not have radar Invented pre-1900 and perfected by the US just prior to the war.
* We would not have submarines - 1775 USS Turtle built by Bushnell. (btw, i am an ex-submariner and submarine history was taught and tested on during submarine school).
* We would not have torpedo's - First recorded use of a waterborne explosive device is 1800 by Robert Fulton (United States).

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