Seeing the Dawn of Vista by the Light of Open Source
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| The Key Distinction
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| Perhaps the key distinction with Open Source and Windows Vista is
| that so many of the Open Source projects either are or derived their
| roots from highly skilled developers writing code on their own time.
| People motivated not by a paycheck but by something less tangible
| but perhaps more valuable.
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| This is an area few of the marketing men can understand. But the
| motivations are a signifier that the Open Source revolution is
| not simply a hobbyist endeavour but a serious reflection on
| what software development and the industry as a whole is
| changing into.
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http://reallylinux.com/docs/lightofoss.shtml
Selected items on Vista (too hard to choose because there are plenty):
My Upgrade to Vista Took Three Days
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| I tried doing an upgrade... FAILED... apparently CD Drive emulation
| software is not well liked by the Vista installer... so after 3
| reboots and several trips to the system registry the upgrade
| went through.
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http://jritch.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/my-upgrade-to-vista-took-three-days/
10 Reasons Not to Upgrade to Windows VISTA
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| 1. Vista Requires a Fairly Powerful Machine
| 2. Application Incompatibilities
| 3. Vista is Crazy Expensive
| 4. No Hardware Audio
| 5. Vista Doesn't Work with a Lot of Bleeding-Edge Hardware
| 6. Vista Doesn't Work Well with Some Games
| 7. Vista Includes Consumer-Unfriendly DRM
| 8. Poor Driver Support
| 9. Vista is Kind of Annoying
| 10. You Can Wait
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http://www.olddogvt.net/downloads/VISTA-10-Reasons.htm
Why Does Windows Vista Get No Fanboys?
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| A ton of stories I've read the past few days have been about
| Microsoft's new operating system, Windows Vista...but they
| haven't been about the software per se, instead they're
| mainly about the anti-climatic release of it. I can't help
| but wonder, why does Microsoft get absolutely no fanboy
| love like Apple does?
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http://www.parislemon.com/2007/01/why-does-windows-vista-get-no-fanboys.html
Other ones worth mentioning:
Is MS new "Vista" both garbage and dangerous?
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/12/28/19189/011
Why We Hate: Microsoft
http://fluix.net/why-we-hate/why-we-hate-microsoft/
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