David Ron

Member since: Jul 14th, 2005

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Microsoft hearts open source ... sort of (Download Squad)

Sep 16th 2005 7:46PM Actually, to be specific, Apple didn't release an HTML rendering tool into the wild. It used an open source rendering tool that was ALREADY in the wild called KHTML, the foundation for a Linux browser called Konqueror. Furthermore, it could have been done better: http://www.osviews.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4400 --David

Free Utility to Mount an ISO Disk Image from Microsoft (Download Squad)

Aug 16th 2005 12:18PM Linux is more mainstream than OSX when you look at servers in addition to desktops (both of which benefit from this utility), and Linux has this functionality for years. (Typing from a Linux desktop right now)

P2P apps allergic to Windows Vista Beta 1 (Download Squad)

Aug 3rd 2005 7:01PM Perhaps it's not as bad as one might think. There are changes to Internet explorer, for instance, which most P2P applications use to view HTML formatted content in a browser window embedded into the application. Additionally, this software might be using undocumented APIs that changed, but because they are undocumented, they shouldn't have been used in the first place. People, stop freaking out about little things like this. The vendors will fix their programs. Everything will work fine when Vista is released. By the way, this is coming from a Linux user who doesn't even use Windows (and happens to not like Windows at all).