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Comment Re:Free alone is not a business model... (Score 1) 165

by syd02 on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @11:20PM (#32025992) Attached to: Ubuntu Linux Claims 12,000 Cloud Deployments

My guess is that the emphasis is changing because they now have a different CEO. Why would Shuttleworth let someone else run the company he built for *their* fun, even if he ran it that way himself?

Flash Builder 4 — Defective By Design? 66

Posted by timothy on Friday April 02, 2010 @06:46PM from the mote-in-your-eye dept.

ApolloX writes "Adobe has released its new version of the Flex Builder, now renamed Flash Builder 4. This version is radically different from previous versions of Flex, introducing the new Spark architecture and theme support. While I am pleased Adobe has finally added support for Eclipse 3.5, I am disappointed with some of the new architecture changes that make doing simple things, such as skinning a button, now quite cumbersome."

Comment Re:Yup (Score 1) 152

by syd02 on Saturday March 27, 2010 @12:18PM (#31640148) Attached to: Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9

I'm not a Windows programmer, or even a Windows user. How is it that so many other companies are able to support Windows XP with their new products? I mean even looking specifically at browsers...Chrome supports Windows XP SP2 through Window 7, and Firefox supports Windows 2000 through Windows 7. Is IE in Windows 7 really so much better than Firefox or Chrome in Windows 7 that it was worth exploiting features of Windows Vista/7 that aren't available in XP?

Comment Isn't this really about free-ridership? (Score 1) 168

by syd02 on Friday May 08, 2009 @01:56PM (#27879103) Attached to: Austria To Pull Out of CERN

They point out that 30 countries are working with CERN without being members, and it seems like they would like to be one of 31. I mean, why wouldn't they? Being a member sounds expensive.

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