I often read what Thom Holwerda is publishing on OSNEWS, and yesterday he published some critics of Mark Shuttleworth. His critics are so in place. How many times have we heard that this is gonna be the year of Linux? I guess every year since 2001. And the same goes with the sentence: Now Linux is ready for the desktop. Funny thing is, Linux is not to be the preferred OS for the desktop any time soon. It is not gain enough market share to make it interesting. And market leading software […] Continue reading →
The year has more or less come to an end. It has been a very exciting year for me, as I have been working with projects like accessability, web standards and Internet trends. So let me dedicate one of this years’ last blog updates to the trends that I think we will see appearing next year. And yes, you can comment on this blog now in 2008 and come back to it in 2010, and then criticize me for all the wrong predictions that I made. […] Continue reading →
Novell has summed up what Linux is all about, in a half minutes video: Copying every thing from inovative vendors, now even their commercials. […] Continue reading →
It was a beautiful idea, almost to good to be true, or was that just what it was? A 100 dollar laptop with only free, open source software. It was to run Linux, a special scaled down version of Redhat. The foundation and Nicholas Negroponte for that reason turned down Steve Jobs’ offer of getting Apple OSX free of charge! Finally also children in the third world would get the chance to use a computer and the Internet, was my thought, just as so many others must have believed. But soon […] Continue reading →
This must be the joke of the day: ”Maker of the Open Sauce Ubuntu software, Canonical had to shut down five of the eight of its servers after receiving reports that they were attacking other servers. Knowing that there is nothing worse than a bunch of chavish Linux servers looking for a rumble, or goading Windows computers with calls of, ‘Come and have a go, if you’re hard enough,’ Canonical decided to pull the plug…” Do you trust a software company […] Continue reading →
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