people switching and other misc. links

Posted on by Luis Villa
  • Totally awesome to see that a couple high profile tech doers and thinkers, Mark Pilgrim and Tim Bray, are switching back to Linux from OSX.
  • In his switching article, Mark makes the point that XCF (gimp’s format) is not particularly open, and is apparently undocumented. Norman Walsh expounds. I think this is a good example of what I talked about at LWE– open standards very often mean more than open source when it comes to protecting and controlling how you use software.
  • This form of re-mapping the world and this form of re-mapping are both very cool, as is bldgblog, where I found them. (see also the incredibly crazy post about the world’s largest diamond mine.)
  • see here for a great, concise list of what is wrong with webapps, though the poster calls it ‘what is wrong with web 2.0’. Despite thinking that webapps have inherent, unconquerable suckiness, likely I will post tomorrow (well, sometime before GUADEC) about why I’m going to abandon Evo for gmail as soon as I finish my job, and why I’m rapidly abandoning abi for writely for any document that other people are likely to see. Sad, but fixable- hopefully my post will explain what is wrong in enough detail that it points people towards what is fixable.
  • It seems unlikely that I’ll ever finish the intended post I had on this, but every developer and every would-be linux desktop marketer should go to Apple’s new ‘Get A Mac’ page. Read the list of features they are pimping; read how they are pimping them. I’m not saying that GNOME developers should work only on things on that list, but every time you start a project or add a feature, you should compare it to that list and if it isn’t on that list, the bar for ‘is this really, really good for users, or for helping developers do kick ass things for users’ must be very high. Similarly, if you’re marketing the linux desktop, think about that list, and how it is presented- really excellent stuff.

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6 thoughts on “people switching and other misc. links”

  1. [IMG RSS] Planet Gnome Davyd Madeley: I feel inclined, to blow my mindThomas Thurman: a collection of stuffDavid Trowbridge: Color optimization, take twoLuis Villa: people switching and other misc. linksOwen Taylor: Just like Riding a BikeLuis Villa: crowding out of intrinsic motivations- aka, the bounty problemKristian Rietveld: time is running a little too fast at the momentDaniel Veillard: 18 Jun 2006

  2. Le due aziende, inoltre, hanno chiaramente inequivocabilmente paura del movimento GNU-Linux , spinto dallo sviluppo di Ubuntu, la distribuzione attualmente più popolare. Infatti sempre più persone passano da Windows a Linux e persino da Mac a Linux. E la comunità GNU-Linux è fiera di rispondere nei modi più disparati.

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