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Trends of 2009
03 years ago
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.
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What Linux is all about
0Novell has summed up what Linux is all about, in a half minutes video:
Copying every thing from inovative vendors, now even their commercials.
Here’s the story on how OLPC died
0It 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 the computer was costing far more, and then no one seemed want the computers. Well, not entirely true, but they had to be bought in such a large number that only a few countries did.
This week Microsoft announced an agreement with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) that will make Windows XP available on the non-profit’s low-cost laptops for third-world children. The foundation have agreed to pay 3 dollars per license. Funny, cause they could have used MacOS X for free. The blue screen of death in many ways symbols the death of the OLPC project. I guess the Sugar interface project will live on, but why would developers continue with the OLPC project? Sugar can already run onFedora, Debian and Ubuntu, and was developed to be a platform for educational software and that could very well even run on Windows.
And many have jokefully said: “Thank goodness third world children will no longer have to struggle to learn Linux…“. Well, this time it was all about bad management. As Ivan Krstic said it on his blog:
Nicholas’ new OLPC is dropping those pesky education goals from the mission and turning itself into a 50-person nonprofit laptop manufacturer, competing with Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Asus, HP and Intel on their home turf, and by using the one strategy we know doesn’t work. But hey, I guess they’ll sell more laptops that way.
As so often, a dream is not enough.
Ubuntu Servers A Security Threat!
0This 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 that doesn’t take security seriously? Luckily I don’t run Ubuntu servers!
Read the fully story over at the INQUIRER.