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I wish you all a happy 2009, it’s a new year to start new projects and take on new adventures. I wish the best to all of you and thank you for reading this blog. Let’s improve on 2009 and make the best out of it. Again happy new year and take care.
I really mean it.
If you find any of the material on this site useful please take a moment to make a small donation.It happened again first it was the RSS reader, followed by word processing and then the twitter client. Web applications are fast becoming a viable option to some of the most common application. The latest fatality was the Twitter client Twitux for Ubuntu, the application was actually limiting me. Instead I am now using Prism which is a more logical option. The perfect blend and offers me the actual online experience.
My stuff is in the web then I should let the web take care of it. Google Reader replaced Liferea after I realized all of my favorite feeds could only be accessed from my desktop. Despite all the content being on the web I would have to navigate across 25 sites to see if anything of interest called my attention. Google Reader keeps my organized feeds within reach any where in the world.
I don’t expect Google Docs to take over Microsoft Office in the work place, but I do know that regular users do not actually use or know of the endless features offered by the office suite. No loss to anyone.
If you find any of the material on this site useful please take a moment to make a small donation.People are ready to curse an open source company that for one reason or another decides not to make some of it’s software open source, yet praise a proprietary software company that all of a sudden makes it’s smiley creator open source.
Canonical sponsors Ubuntu but that does not equal an obligation to release every line of code under an open source license . Canonical has a business model , Landscape is the clear example. The intentions are to continue the support for Ubuntu and make it the best option in the server market, while at the same time sell services based on the platform at a price.
Yes, it would be great if Landscape was available with out the purchase of a license but that’s what open source is all about if you don’t like it move on or create / find another solution. Any administrator worth his or her pay will find a no cost solution. Business client now have the opportunity to buy a solution direct from the source simplifying the process. On another note ill informed IT managers who claim open source companies are everything but serious have lost one of their many arguments.
We have options in the software world, some refuse to adopt Ubuntu because it’s not open enough instead they use Debian. Freedom of choice. If you still have a problem understanding this concept think of it this way, the operating system is downloaded from this site http://www.ubuntu.com/ and support is bought from this site http://www.canonical.com/ .
By the way have you look at the cost of buying support from Canonical?, it’s everything but expensive.
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