Acer will not release Linux-based laptops in the UK due to a lack of demand, despite launching an Ubuntu-based machine in Asia.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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kiba
4 years 42 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago
This company make a strategic error. Dell
This company make a strategic error.
Dell is going to own(as in kick their ass) them, because Acer is stupid enough not to offer Ubuntu computers before the competition.
Missed opportunity.
lozz
4 years 42 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago
"No demand in the UK", these are
"No demand in the UK", these are nearly the identical words that UK car manufacturers sniffed to people who requested that they build new model open sports car in the 1980s. Then along came the Mazda MX5 and Mazda sold them as fast as they could produce them and still had long waiting lists. Famous last words, just like the Brit record company exec who wouldn't sign the Beatles to a contract because "they wouldn't sell".