marklindhout

Riding? Yes.

Poor attempt at philosophy? No. This merely describes the daily situation here, and I find myself agreeing with most all of what he says. He is very well-spoken, and I believe it resonates with many people from the Netherlands.

If this guy isn't Dutch, I'm the pope.

These are quite literally exactly the reasons why I'm emigrating.

Myspace.

Now does EVERYTHING.

>> OSS is very good at innovation and infrastructure, but is very, very, VERY poor at user experience.

I agree with you here. As a designer, I have helped out FLOSS projects with UX design and usability. However, the environment is such that if you would suggest UX could be improved, the response often is that devs feel insulted because you are dissing their code (which is not the case, but they don't see that).

On the other hand, taking a look at WordPress, they invested quite some time in user testing and improving UX by professionals, and that makes it one of the most usable web publishing platforms out there.

So, it would be too easy to say all FLOSS is bad at UX, but most developers don't even see it as an actual discipline, and hence do not see a problem.

Nicer devs, that's the key :)

Does anybody else see why such patents are curbing innovation? I mean, the whole difference is a moot point.

Free software allows for freedom.

Most (if not all) frustration in tech comes from the lack of it.

I believe it has value because it puts a question to the nature of the Internet as we now use it. As it is being more and more regulated, where do we draw the line on who we can exclude? How far does that exclusion go?

Ideally everybody should always be allowed access. The Internet is a machine for sharing information, after all, and that is a liberty. Yet current intellectual property-oriented lawmakers implement all kinds of weird half-functional rule to it, changing it.

That, and also taking a look at the Internet as a religion is quite entertaining. He is echoing the splits such as those of the catholic church, early christianity, zoroastrian religions, etcetera.

I found it very good to read about something I never question and love through the eyes of an outsider.

Love this comment: “Or they blew all their money on bitches and dope, and now need to extort money from a band that actually mattered in the course of history.”

Still... What sad state this world is in...

This blog post is misleading. The non-support was specifically aimed at older versions of IE.

And besides, IE has not proven the most reliable of partners, I totally get their move. You never know when your phone's gonna be red hot with IE9 customers because Microsoft decided to update some obscure DLL which breaks CSS line-height in em's or something...

Your health and your life are infinitely more important than any job in the universe.

Try naught, get naught.

Pfew... 230 megabytes for a running browser. Not long ago that was all my workstation had!

Agreed.

It seems the usernames are quite random as well. So far, not much lost then :)