It may be possible (at least within sane countries, probably not in America) to force such an issue to the point where no government department can even consider using anything “Windows only” any more. If only this type of thing were to happen in America.Īnyway, there is some promise in pursuing such a theme … certainly insofar as government departments are concerned.
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By guaranteeing full functionality to the products of one software vendor it is as a public body handing a commercial advantage to that company – effectively illegal state aid!â€ĭirectors being accused of providing “illegal state aid” when they implement something that is “Windows only” and not “cross-platform”.
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The BBC is funded by licence players not all of whom have or chose to use a computer running Windows XP or Vista. ““The more fundamental issue is failure to apply open standards and be sufficiently interoperable to work fully (stream and download) on more than one platform. During the meeting, Dr John Pugh MP tackled him about the iPlayer.” “Yesterday, BBC Director General Mark Thompson and other BBC representatives appeared in front of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. The BBC is getting into trouble over its iPlayer foray into offering up to the public formats that are usable on only one platform: If that’s all that’s propping up the software that you’re using then, well, I would be worried. You might want to ask how those ‘real world’ file formats, codecs and IE-only web sites got there in the first place. It is more like a “prototype model” new car … you can drive it but don’t think of using it on a public roadway just yet. However, you do point out the development cycle of open source projects, so I presume you are aware that KDE 4.0.0 is not recommended for use in a “production environment”. Well, KDE 4.0.0 isn’t going to “scare” anybody. Go away then, because certainly between five and ten years from now, and quite probably less, if you’re not using KDE on your Linux/Unix systems then you’re going to be way behind. It’s not worth getting heated about then, is it? Reverse psychology -). The “miracles” which the KDE devs have performed have little to no relevance to my users. You might want to ask how those ‘ real world‘ file formats, codecs and IE-only web sites got there in the first place. I’ll take compatibility with popular real world file formats, codecs, and web sites (many of the sites my customers need in in their business are still IE only) over desktop pizazz any day. 6 is released, because this isn’t really going to be all that far away? Go read up on how open source projects are developed as well, because this has been explained umpteen times. You can smell the palpable fear in the air…. The claims are now migrating from 4.0, which people are beginning to realize is not really a walk-on-water release… to 4.1. Just scanning the first 8 comments I can’t help but notice theseĬomments on OSNews != developers, but people still feel that something significant is happening regardless. One need not look any further than the comments under this story about KDE 4.0.0. They could have sat on it for another 6 months without the situation in the broader KDE ecosystem being much better… And a release bring new eyes, voices, and hands… I think the the potential of KDE 4 will begin to manifest in in far more dramatic ways throughout the whole KDE ecosystem by the time KDE 4.1 ships. Given the feeling in the pit of my stomach with RC 1, KDE 4.0.0 is great. The 3rd party apps are on their way, kdePIM is on the way, Plasma is ‘hyper active’, and 4.1 is on the way. The apps that shipped are quite good– and the foundations for a bright future are there. I remember KDE 2.0.0, and GNOME 2.0.0… Any big release with lot’s of zeros is the same. Here’s hoping the developers aren’t easily discouraged and go on to turn it into a great series, I think you already have to be a pretty thick hide to develop free-software. No matter what the developers intended this to be, there will be detractors who are only concerned with what they wanted it to be, that their vision (and there are thousands) wasn’t met.