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ça continue :

Linspire, Canonical, Freespire, Ubuntu join forces

Linspire et Canonical signent un partenariat technologique

Ubuntu & Linspire - So Who Else is Keeping Tabs?

A DNR for Linspire’s CNR

au sujet de CNR :

Does anyone think that sounds exactly like APT or RPM systems? If I recall I can visit Add / Remove or Synaptic / Adept to install ***spam*** 20,000 packages with “just one mouse click“. I’m used to the other OS claiming they pioneered technology, but this? C’mon!

My next question about this deal is simply “How does this benefit me or us as the Ubuntu community at all?” Easy installation of programs? Already got it. Access to commercial or non-free software when needed? Already got it. What I see here is Linspire deciding to jump on board the biggest and fastest growing software communities and basically reselling the packages that others get for free. Yeah, CNR has a yearly fee. The screenshots on that page (here and here) crack me up. Looks to me like they’re comparing software from pre-APT days (APT was released in 1998!) to their system which is simply a rip off of other package management programs.

I may be pretty harsh here but I just call it like I see it. Linspire is the only one benefiting here. I say DNR to Linspire’s “Copy-N-Run”.

[philh]

Les vapeurs de l'apéro me donnent des visions --

Constitution de deux fronts sous l'étiquette "Linux" : le premier celui des "ouais, linux maintenant c'est aussi cool que windows, d'ailleurs ça n'est même plus libre" - sous le leadership d'Ubuntu et de ses cousins, de linspire, etc. Commerciaux ou pas, ce n'est pas la question.

Le second, la petite troupe gnu/linux, pour qui le logiciel libre conserve un sens; commercial ou non - on offre éventuellement aussi accès au contenus propriétaires comme service rémunéré, on vend éventuellement du support, etc - ça n'est toujours pas la question (MySQL me semble un bon exemple).

Les loups contre les gnous, les opportunistes contre les visionnaires, les chiens contre les chats, les pioupious contre les francs tireurs, Wellington contre la vieille garde.

Merde !

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Les lignes continuent de bouger et au fur et à mesure que Linux se banalise, il se propriétarise : bien ou mal ?

Le Z6 Java/Linux de Motorola lira les fichiers Windows Media Audio protégés
http://www.toolinux.com/news/materiels/ ... r8757.html

J'ai peur que Linux perde son identité et ses utilisateurs leur liberté...

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Ubuntu Feature Specification : Composite (compiz/beryl) installed by default
We would like to enable Composite support using either Beryl or Compiz, the community branch of Compiz, by default in Edgy+1
Implementation Status: Deferred. There is no chance that this feature will actually be delivered in the targeted release. The specification has effectively been deferred to a later date of implementation.

Ca serait donc pour Ubuntu 7.10

(via http://frederic.bezies.free.fr/blog/?p=460 )

voir aussi https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubunt ... 00098.html

Proprietary Drivers
-------------------

Summary:

Ubuntu 7.04 will preserve the status quo with respect to proprietary video
drivers. As in previous releases, these drivers will be provided for the
convenience of users who choose to use them, but they will not be
activated by default.

Full decision:

There has been a great deal of discussion within the Ubuntu community
regarding a technical proposal (the enabling of Composite support by
default) which would necessitate the use of certain closed-source video
drivers in a default installation of Ubuntu. In response to this
controversy, a meeting was convened among representatives of the Technical
Board and Community Council to evaluate the issues. ***spam***
conclusions were reached by this group:

* The desktop effects technology involved in this proposal is important in
enabling a richer, more immersive desktop experience, and as such, is
relevant to the mission of the Ubuntu project.

* There is a clear need for wider testing of open source software under
development in this area, including both desktop tools and video drivers.

* The exception granted to the Ubuntu Licence Policy at the project's
inception, which allows the use of closed-source components where
necessary to provide sufficient hardware support, remains valid and
pragmatic. For example, this exception has been applied in the past with
regard to wireless network drivers. We consider making full use of video
hardware to be an important component of that hardware support.

* However, some of the relevant software necessary to implement this
proposal is not yet considered mature enough to deploy in the default
Ubuntu configuration.

Therefore:

* The proposal will be modified such that the default configuration of
Ubuntu remains the same with regard to the selection of video drivers.

* However, new infrastructure will be implemented which allows the user to
trivially enable both enhanced desktop effects and the necessary driver
support.

* The Ubuntu project reaffirms that it will not include closed-source
components in its default configuration except where allowed by the
existing exception for the provision of sufficient hardware support.

* Decisions on what hardware support is sufficient for these purposes will
be made on a case-by-case basis by the Technical Board and the Community
Council.

* Ubuntu will monitor and support the progress of the free Nouveau driver,
which offers the prospect of supporting enhanced desktop effects for
users of NVIDIA hardware without the need for closed-source drivers.

* When the factors involved in this decision change, further consideration
will be given to the possibility of changing the default configuration.

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told Wall Street what he really thinks the deal means to Microsoft.

During a forecast update meeting for financial analysts and shareholders on February 15, Ballmer reiterated that, to him, the deal is more about Microsoft exerting intellectual property (IP) pressure on Novell than anything else.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=265

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Ballmer renouvelle ses menaces à l'égard de Linux
http://www.clubic.com/actualite-70088-ballmer-renouvelle-menaces-egard-linux.html

[edit leto_2 : modification du lien pour contourner un bug]

[Jess]

Ballmer renouvelle ses menaces à l'égard de Linux
http://www.clubic.com/actualite-70088-ballmer-renouvelle-menaces-egard-linux.html

FUD, FUD et encore FUD.

C'est l'équilibre de la terreur entre détenteurs de brevets.

IBM et quelques autres sont détenteurs d'autant de brevets cruciaux que Microsoft et tout le monde joue au jeu de "je te tiens, tu me tiens par la barbichette".

Le premier qui se jette dans la guerre des brevets .... ouvrira la boîte de Pandore et tout le monde le sait.

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tu parles de çaje pense

[Jess]

Oui.

Et de l'inanité intrinsèque du système des brevets appliquée au logiciel et à l'immatériel.

Si la compagnie Untel brevète une fonctionnalité (comme beaucoup le font, par exemple le double-clic), peut elle légitimement attaquer un autre compagine Machinchose car elle aussi utilise le double-clic dans un autre système d'exploitation?

Et si cette fonctionnalité du double-clic est obtenue avec d'autres moyens que ceux utilisés par le système d'exploitation Patate de Untel?

Le logiciel en très gros résumé, c'est des mathématiques (des algorythmes) et comme le dit très bien la FFII, peut-on breveter des pans de mathématiques?

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Sun se rapproche de la Free Software Foundation
http://www.clubic.com/actualite-70437-s ... n-fsf.html