Re: Terminology: FOSS vs. `Legacy Software'?

2011-08-06 Thread Jon "maddog" Hall
On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 20:49 -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote: > In contrast - I like the term "legacy software" for the likes of > proprietary software. > > We're talking about changing mindsets here - not the mindsets of those > who read mailing lists like this one, but the PHBs who justify the > purcha

Re: Terminology: FOSS vs. `Legacy Software'?

2011-08-06 Thread Bruce Dawson
In contrast - I like the term "legacy software" for the likes of proprietary software. We're talking about changing mindsets here - not the mindsets of those who read mailing lists like this one, but the PHBs who justify the purchase of proprietary software. This is a good way of letting them kno

Re: Terminology: FOSS vs. `Legacy Software'?

2011-08-06 Thread Lori Nagel
I actually kind of liked the term legacy software, well, at least at first. Then I thought about it a bit more and realized that legacy software could easily be confusingly applied to things like the old Athena Widget set, and X11 user interface being used currently in the Wograld project. (

Adobe's (lack of?) support for 64bit Flash

2011-08-06 Thread Michael ODonnell
(Note: I hate Flash but since it's hard to function w/o it...) In our last episode (on 7 June) the word was this: >"One Year Later: Adobe Abandons 64-bit Linux Again": > > http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/06/one-year-later-adobe-abandons.html This week's episode apparently has them supporti