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Comment So how do we apply this to Linus? (Score 1) 241

by fraxas on Monday March 12, 2007 @06:25PM (#18323755) Attached to: How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People

Really, of all the people involved in all the open-source projects out there, I think Linus' personality is the most destructive. His arrogance and brusque tone have engendered a community whose first response to ANY request for help is "RTFM", and whose first response to anything that isn't a request for help is a flamewar.

Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming? 425

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 09, 2007 @05:16PM from the stay-oofff-the-mooooors dept.

simoniker writes "In an opinion piece, casual game publisher WildTangent's CEO Alex St. John (himself a Microsoft veteran and one of the DirectX creators) has sharply criticized some of Windows Vista's features as they related to video game creation, noting: 'We have found many of the security changes planned for Vista alarming and likely to present sweeping challenges for PC gaming, especially for online distributed games. The central change that impacts all downloadable applications in Vista is the introduction of Limited User Accounts. LUA's can already be found in Windows XP, but nobody uses them because of the onerous restrictions they place on usability. In Vista, LUA's are mandatory and inescapable.'" Meanwhile, the word has also come down that games will be on the Zune by Summer of next year.

How Warcraft Really Does Wreck Lives 617

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 18, 2006 @10:37AM from the something-to-think-about dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's a great blog post about how World of Warcraft can ruin lives, it's written by a person that was for a long time a member of the largest council on what is now one of the oldest guilds in the world." This is a story that is very familiar to a lot of folks. I know people who are actively wrecking their lives and risking their jobs by playing too much of a video game.

FOSS Is Not Free if It's Not Free From Complexity 523

Posted by Hemos on Tuesday May 02, 2006 @09:28AM from the pomp-and-circumstance dept.

A reader writes:"This article argues that freedom from complexity is an essential part of the first FOSS freedom - the freedom to run a program. Freedom to run means nothing if the exercise of such right excludes people who do not possess high technical knowledge or advanced skills sets. Without the guarantee of "ease of use", the freedom to run FOSS for most users is a hollow promise. " (My own bias ensues here): I think that there are some valuable points in here; what good is a good if it cannot be used, but OTOH this argument seems simplistic.

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