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Today, nickspoon was unhappy about the fact that the last installation of tales was published so long ago. I guess regular releases would be better since Ubuntu users are used to them! Sorry about that, but like LjL noted, quality matters as well. (Ubuntu does get good quality regularly because they’re supported by such an awesome community quality assurance, but alas, great art such as tales from the offtopic can only be achieved by lonely geniuses.)

Like any respectable author however, I do take notes continuously, which means that when being tied to the Whipping Post, as i was today, I was able to search my trusty Tomboy archive for worthwile discussions I had thought funny in the past.

Here’s one from December 2, 2007 then! mc44 advocates Web apps, but will still give IRC to Chatzilla since while it’s not a Web application, at least it comes from Mozilla. He can also back his opinion up with evicence. wobblywu is suspicious, topyli is confused as ever.

Our desktops still rely on many very old technologies and ideas. Motif is not even a very old tookit if you look at the age of the whole WIMP metaphor (windows, icons, menus, pointer). As Pici, genii and TiredWolf reminded us today, this is in fact true of most, if not all technology.

Sometimes it’s good to give your friends some time to work on their ideas. mc44 totally appreciates wobblywu‘s hard work. This is how communities work at best.

We all know why GNOME is the most popular desktop in the enterprise. It does so much for users — they don’t have to do a thing while the GNOME daemons get things done. topyli and mc44 were trying to convince aubade of the benefits today.

I think it was a pretty noble effort anyway.

OpenOffice.org has released version 2.4 with many improvements. Congratulations to both developers and users of OO.o! I personally am in no capacity to evaluate it. I’m pretty sure it has about as many buttons and check boxes and sliders as the previous one. I still like Abiword.

The new OpenOffice.org website looks awesome though, double cheers for the clean and usable design!

Inspired by this, and also probably about my previous post, my friends nickspoon and mc44 on #ubuntu-offtopic defined a topyli-friendly design for OpenOffice.org 3.0. There’s still time to make a difference before they feature freeze!

But as mc44 says, don’t get your hopes too high :(

Today, jay_davis taught freebse and topyli valuable truths. I feel obliged to share this wisdom with the community, so that we can all sleep better now.

Finally it’s settled. Thanks PFA! mc44 and rodserling joined the discussion part, but the verdict was never changed.

Just FYI.

Release early, release often. We all know how free software maintains its superior quality over closed models of software production. The Mertonian ideal of scientific progress relies on the same principle. Snuxoll also knows this, and decided to submit some work in progress to peer review, and Gary was kind enough to provide very constructive criticism. This is what makes us so great!

Update Nov 18: added linkage.

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