Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, December 4, 2003

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How to Misunderstand Open Source Software Development: "As a commercial software program and development manager, I view Open Source Software methods as simply a way to build applications. It happens to be the most efficient one."


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Guy Suddenly Realizes He'll Never Have 10,000 Songs: "Just four days after purchasing a brand new 40 GB iPod, Mac user Scott Bauer realized he will never in his natural life own enough music to fill the device."


[Item Permalink] Mac user test drives KDE -- Comment()
Paul Bissex writes: "I love the combination of Apple's hardware design, the polish of OS X and the iApps, and the availability of mass quantities of open source software. When I'm sitting at a cafe table, working with my 4.6 pound webserver, listening to web radio via iTunes, I'm a happy camper. [...] I would really love to see some of my favorite KDE features -- virtual screens, network transparency, a clipboard stack -- incorporated into MacOS. But I also value the existence of KDE as a separate product, just like I value the presence of Mozilla [...] even though Safari is my primary browser."