Originally posted by dashcloud
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Many FSF Priority Projects Still Not Progressing
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Originally posted by Michael View Postrevise the list to include more relevant projects to the widest audience of users (the CAD file and network router drivers IMHO don't really belong on there...)
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Originally posted by jhansonxi View PostI'm not sure what the 3D CAD situation is (Blender is all I've heard about).
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Originally posted by XorEaxEax View PostThen you blame FSF for the lack of innovation in free software, as if they have any control of that? Furthermore where is the innovation today, is Microsoft being innovative (Zune, Silverlight, Bing, XPS, Xbox etc ad nauseum)? Apple (rounded corners!) ? I mean seriously?It's not about liking them, its about admitting facts.
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Originally posted by prokoudine View PostLet's not be childish. Most recently Microsoft came up with Kinect.
Originally posted by prokoudine View PostAs for Apple, they basically changed the mobile gadgets ecosystem and put everyone in a state of pursuitIt's not about liking them, its about admitting facts.
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Most of those projects are pointless....
gnash? Who the hell cares? Flash is well on its way to irrelevance and won't be missed.
coreboot would be nice, but won't go anywhere until MS finally dies (fortunately, the world is transitioning to mobile, and that is where MS is a dead duck)
skype? The world is FULL of free replacements for that proprietary CRAP, mature, and HEAVILY USED. In fact, there is even an open source replacement for ALL PROTOCOLS AND INFRASTRUCTURE used there, in particular, based on the SIP protocol. This fully open protocol is WORLDS SUPERIOR TO THAT CRAP GARBAGE TRASH DIE DIE DIE SKYPE CRAP PIECE OF SHIT. We ABSOLUTELY DO NOT need to propagate that CRAP by developing free INTERFACES to it. It needs to DIE, and the best way to do this is to leave it TOTALLY UNSUPPORTED.
Free google earth replacement? Uh... the software behind google earth is barely more than TRIVIAL to implement. The missing piece here is DATA. Unless you can get a slew of FREE SATELLITE IMAGES covering the ENTIRE PLANET in HIGH DETAIL, and also STREET MAPS (complete and accurate), then any attempt to duplicate this software is destined to FAIL.
After this, there are a couple of interesting things mentions... but finally, the list ends on powervr drivers, but GUESS WHAT? The ONLY place where lack of this was ever crippling, was with the INTEL POULSBO, which now works OUT OF THE BOX with recent linux distros. I could give a flying f*** about 3D, the hardware that these chips ship with isn't powerful enough the even USE 3d, making it totally pointless. Display works now, without POS proprietary crap.
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