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by cschwarm 17y ago
> without really solving much On a German Linux news site (prolinux.de), a commercial Linux game developer -- Ankh2, IIRC -- once commented that they could not get their game running on about 2-3% of their customers' Linux computers, de
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by cschwarm 17y ago
You may like to have a look at 4store: http://4store.org/ -- it's GPL3.
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That's because the propositions are arbitrary. The definition of what is "Free Software" is arbitrary, because anyone could use a completely different definition and wouldn't be less right or wrong. The proposition that "Free Software" is m
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by cschwarm 17y ago
In my opinion, the first two reasons are valid. But the author forgots the main reason: There simply is not compelling reason for the majority of people to switch to a Linux desktop. Nearly all the good Open Source desktop apps run under Wi
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Wouldn't say so. Maybe, you're just trying to sell to the wrong target audience? To be frank: Your design doesn't look 'enterprisy'. Your size (as a start-up I assume) is not 'enterprisy'. I guess you have no 'enterprisy' sales force who sp
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I'd probably replace 'Get started now' with 'See plans and pricing'. On the 'plans and pricing' page, I'd write something like: "We're in private alpha now, so there are no pricing plans yet. But we'll try hard to make it fair and affordabl
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Congrats, it sounds like that's a great product! Unfortunately, it took me 14 page views and 1738 seconds to find the product tour on the page. In general, I found the organization of the different product descriptions to be confusing. I al
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I just started using it yesterday, but I'm not quite happy. My reservation is not due to technological reasons, but to bad business models or lack of features. Gravatar support is, for example, a feature I'd like to get from my OpenID provi
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I see. Sorry I misunderstood your intentions, then. There are basically two contexts the word "right" is used: an moral and a legal context. If the right you're talking about is an moral one, you surely can trade it. This happens all the ti
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by cschwarm 17y ago
> Hackers nowadays take free software for granted, but without rms, it may well never have happened. Maybe, but this does not mean that Open Source would not have happend. Project Gutenberg, for example, was already started in 1971 to t
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by cschwarm 17y ago
True. But what makes you think you are entitled to do what you what? Getting a job has obviously benefits for you, otherwise you would no try to get it. But there are also always costs. These costs include wasting time on learning how to de
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Wrong. Copyright is about "works", not "ideas". My copyright of a work doesn't restrict your ability to copy the idea. In fact, this is what many Open Source projects do: they copy the idea or a proprietary software, but not the software (i
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by cschwarm 17y ago
> Can somebody suppress my rights (to share, to sing, etc.), in the form of terms? You're making some fundamental logical errors here. Your first premise is that you have these rights. But where's your rationale for that? The simple tru
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Then, don't start from scratch: http://code.google.com/p/soclone/ http://github.com/cnprog/CNPROG/tree
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GNOME 2.28 released, adds Bluetooth support and more(library.gnome.org)
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by cschwarm 17y ago
There's little doubt that the motivation crowding-out effect [1] exists. However, before one runs around, saying that rewards are "often no motivator", one should remember the basic premise of these studies: "People were intrinsically motiv
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I'm not sure if that answers your question but you may like to look at these desktop MVC frameworks for Python: (1) http://dabodev.com/ - MIT license, using wxWidgets (2) http://www.async.com.br/projects/kiwi/index.html - LGPL, pyGTK (3
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by cschwarm 17y ago
This is indeed a good idea! Congrats. You may like to improve the copy on your web page. The first thing that's not immediately obvious is what links are displayed. It might be better to write "it uses their individual search queries to dis
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I find it somehow disappointing how many people confuse marketing with sales or promotion. In the low-brow definition marketing is the set of all decisions regarding product, price, distribution and promotion. As soon as you start a company
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I've spend some of my time in the last four years trying to help an Open Source project doing marketing. From my personal perspective (since I also do this for for-profit companies), I believe there are some flaws in your opinion. (1) Hidin
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by cschwarm 17y ago
> This is fine when it's a story about some human interest topic, but I imagine any serious journalist would never even want to write such articles. Well, I'd say your imagination is slightly misleading, then. ;-) Of course, we may now
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by cschwarm 17y ago
If you're really serious about learning the science, the best way is to use a textbook. Back in my days, the most recommended one was "Economics" by Paul Samuelson and William Nordhaus, I believe. In fact, it's been in print since 1948, so
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by cschwarm 17y ago
I find this an interesting take on the subject. I'd use the same line of thought to argue for the opposite position: it's a good thing if a statement could be proven to be wrong! Arguments that rely on a set of empirical claims of superiori
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by cschwarm 17y ago
>> The GPL is a legal tactic of the FSF movement, who believe that intellectual property in software is immoral > This is not correct. Well, it is basically correct. The core idea of the Free Software movement is that all soft
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by cschwarm 17y ago
> 2. Not shipping foo.py does not change the answer to #1; you still depend on it, thus your work still counts as a derivative. I don't know whether your answers are correct but you should not use the term "derivative" or "derivative wo
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Thanks for the critic. I'd like to explain: First, I assume self-interest, not group-interest. That's what the club is for: The more people become members, the more content anyone gets, including you as a member. This is guaranteed by the c
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Check Sparkle [1] as well as AppFresh [2] for MacOS. The former is even available under the MIT/X license. No need for central repositories when done right. [1] http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ [2] http://metaquark.de/appfresh/
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by cschwarm 17y ago
Of course, it is easy. When you're already assuming something like RSS feeds for app updates exists, don't you think it's possible to have an application download them once a week and update all apps automatically? For an end-user, there's
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by cschwarm 17y ago
That's just an explanation, not a reason. Why does it have to be like that? Why does Linux distributions fall in one of two categories: either "stable foundation and out-dated apps" or "unstable foundation and recent apps"? What many people
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by cschwarm 17y ago
True. But for Open Source projects, having a lead developer with taste is a matter of chance. And people using the software usually don't care about the "no-users" but only their own wants and needs. In contrast, Closed Source products simp

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