desktoplinux.com — Eric Raymond, a co-founder of the open-source movement, has joined the Freespire Leadership Board. Raymond recently stated that if desktop Linux is to advance, it must work with iPods and other MP3 players, and play DVDs, Windows Media, and Quick Time files, etc., and one of Freespire's key objectives is to do exactly that.
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chileangodSep 27, 2006
Mostly games.
Closed AccountSep 27, 2006
Can the Internet as a whole stop stroking Raymond's ego? He's not *that* impressive of a speaker, writer, or open-source advocate. Puhleaze.
sabotSep 27, 2006
Have IQ's just dropped? When did giving into commercial software give Free Software anything? It is by rejecting commercial and fighting for Free Software that we have made our largest gains. Don't be fooled by the embrace and extend morons that are out there. It leads to one place: Lose of freedom!
edgrrSep 27, 2006
Eric Raymond has some non-standard religous views. Consider <a class="user" href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html">http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/dancing.html</a> - choice quotes include: "That girl had been trying to cope with a theophany; she had looked at me and seen a god". And also: "That day I was reborn; from a skinny lame kid with a flute into a shaman and a vessel of the Goat-Foot God, the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the Horned Lord".
deadbabySep 27, 2006
Who's stroking his ego? He's very rarely in the news. According to digg's (sucky) search engine there's been 4 stories about Raymond in the last 365 days. Compare that to 23423423 for Steve Jobs and 2983748347 for Bill Gates. Eric Raymond is equally as important as those guys to the open source movement.
haydreSep 28, 2006
Chicken and the egg all over again.
gmorganSep 28, 2006
Allow others formats to work well with OSS. To paraphrase someone rather important to computing business "I'd rather see people use proprietry formats on our predominantly open platform than see people use open formats on a predominantly closed platform". Just the same as Bill prefered to see people pirate Windows than legally use something else we must prefer an 'impure' use of OSS to use of Windows.It's better to have 99% of people listening to MP3's in Linux than having 99% of people use OGG's on Windows and its certainly preferable to seeing 99% of people using MP3's on Windows.
aplusbiSep 30, 2006
It must work with iPods?<a class="user" href="http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eric-buys-an-ipod">http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eric-buys-an-ipod</a>
byteSep 30, 2006
Ubuntu is in trouble. Free CNR? Freespire? Eric Raymond and Ian Murdock backing it all? Support for MP3, Windows Media, QuickTime, Java, Flash, Real, ATI drivers, nVidia drivers, proprietary WiFi drivers, modem drivers, fonts, and so on?Edgy better be good Mark!!!!! -- /usr/bin/byte