Meanwhile...
Kubuntu 11.04 is shaping up very nicely.
Posts by Jeremy 8
12 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2009
Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever
Software freetards demand axing of ACTA
Fanboi's lament – falling out of love with the iPad
Sunday 30th May 2010 16:13 GMT 
No tabbed browsing?
This comment made me sit up:
"but the lack of tabs in the iPad's Safari browser makes doing so a less-useful experience than it could be"
I'm quite surprised by this. Safari on iPad doesn't do tabbed browsing? What year is this again?
Also I went to Apple's iBook's page. What was the first comment I saw? This one:
"i thought i would buy my kids some of the hardy boy books for this, and i was sad to see that it costs more to get the digital version, then it is to buy the actual book. what is wrong with this picture? are they trying to push people to other means? how is it possible that its cheaper to buy the real book? are they crazy?? seriously."
Looks to me like it isn't only developers Apple is driving away.
Microsoft sneak peeks Hotmail makeover
Steve Jobs dubs Google's 'don't be evil' motto 'bulls**t'
Ubuntu Firefox shuns Google for Yahoo! search
Thursday 28th January 2010 13:49 GMT
Yeah, those bloody Linux people!
Yeah, its just one little browser setting. Tomboy is only one little Mono dependent app, oh and F-Spot is just one more, nothing to worry about. Oh and Banshee is just one more, don't worry about those patent traps its nothing at all... Rick is just one little Microsoftie inside Canonical... nothing to be concerned about. Microsoft money always has strings attached but I'm sure its nothing to worry about. The black knight's arms and legs aren't off, its just a flesh wound... No, nothing to see here, these aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along...
Thursday 28th January 2010 13:39 GMT 
History repeating...
Well, now we have Rick Spencer at Canonical (he's from Microsoft in case nobody was paying attention), we have increasing Mono dependencies with F-Spot, Beagle, Tomboy, and most worryingly, Banshee which implements Mono bits that are definitely in Microsoft's zone of, "I can haz patentz monnies!". Rick likes that, so does Miguel and his pals in Redmond. Implementing changes that users have made very clear they don't want (have a look at polls on Ubuntu community forums). And we have Yahoo! which is now tied up with Microsoft like dominatrix porn... Microsoft money ALWAYS has strings attached.
I told people many months ago to watch carefully for Microsoft strategic moves aimed at making Canonical either part of the Microsoft Borg cube or the subject of new 'death spiral' internal emails in Redmond. It looks increasingly to me like Canonical has chosen the path of assimilation.
Seriously, hasn't ANYBODY learned ANYTHING from decades of Microsoft's unethical, and very often unlawful anti-competitive monopoly tactics? It certainly doesn't look like Canonical is paying attention... Time to play some Radiohead, specifically 2+2=5...
Microsoft ordered to halt Win XP sales in China
Wednesday 18th November 2009 23:54 GMT 
Microsoft's boasting
"This August, Microsoft boasted that a Chinese court jailed two men for three and a half years and two accomplices for two years for distributing a bootleg copy of Windows XP."
Getting someone thrown into a Chinese prison for three and a half years for something with regard to proprietary software should not attract more than a fine is not something I'd boast about.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
