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Re: Mono 2.0 is out! - Miguel de Icaza

Tom — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:24:07 -0000

Usually I am not a really big fan of Java, .Net and Mono...

But what you guys did is quite amazing. You should be proud!

Congrats!

Re: Mozilla, Firefox & Data

Tom — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:01:56 -0000

So basically Firefox will be spyware .. great move!

Re: Mozilla, Firefox & Data

Tom — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:39:19 -0000

Thanks for the answer John. You have to understand privacy is a big topic in Germany ( and it should be everywhere ). So i think the right way to communicate this would be to say that it will be optional and turned off by default _upfront_.
( BTW the influx of negative commments is probably due to heise.de ( kinda german /. ) headlining "Mozilla wants to collect User data" ). Maybe you should complain to the aproriate reporter for blowing this out of porportion.

Re: Mozilla, Firefox & Data

Tom — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:21:13 -0000

Ben .. not explaining heise readers: "Ask Firefox’s 170 million (and growing) user base if they would like to opt in to anonymous data collection on their surfing habits."(techcrunch) & not mentioning that it will be "opt in" ( with proper german translation ) & the sensationalistic headline smells like misleading in my book. ( To tell you the truth I was pissed at first too .. but reading all links and talking to people helped. )
But to be honest i would probably never activate such a "feature" and I think a lot of people have VERY bad association with data collection. You guys need to come up with other way to describe it.

And John ... it is true that data collection happens everywhere .. and that is mostly bad and I do not think that if Mozilla started to do it too it would lessen it anywhere else .. bottom line would be more data collection. There is so much misuse happening and I just do not want my personal data stored in the U.S. Best data protection is not collecting it in the first place.

Re: Strategy for Windows Desktop Replacement

Tom — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:00:52 -0000

I think you have consider Debian/Ubuntu too. A lot of .govs in the EU use them with great success. And their future support for ARM etc is better.

Re: Strategy for Windows Desktop Replacement

Tom — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:15:15 -0000

Well, probably ...
There is https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/wiki/WikiStart. which does a lot more.

Re: Die Liste: iPhone Rechtschreibung / Auto-Korrektur [update]

Tom — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:43:48 -0000

Mein Diamond hat damit keine Probleme. Die Tastatur versucht einfach nicht schlau zu sein.

Und wieso auch? Ich wäre doch sowieso schlauer ;)

Re: Fedora 10 Review, and Feature Roundup

Tom — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:59:10 -0000

Fedora 10 has no XEN! Virtmanager uses KVM.

Re: Why Windows 7 Won’t Turn Microsoft Around

Tom — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:06:03 -0000

Copycat ;) ( http://www.osnews.com/thread?375218 )

Seriously, I think MS is way too stupid too really use Open-source for essential, news-making stuff. They are afraid and they should be. FOSS will work its way up the stack. Once sound and graphics are fixed in Linux it will be a very viable choice for most users (OK, OK .. freaks like me have been saying this for years .. but now with the contributions from Intel and Google etc. it will finally be real. It mostly already is. )

Re: Microsoft Makes $20 billion dollar bid for Linux based Yahoo

Tom — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:34:21 -0000

Doh! Yahoo uses FreeBSD!

http://zer0.org/daemons/yahoobsd.html