{"id":5,"date":"2004-11-29T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2004-11-29T21:21:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-10-24T21:56:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T20:56:29","slug":"scoble-crowing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Scoble Crowing Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scoble.weblogs.com\" target=\"_self\">Robert Scoble<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2004\/11\/28.html#a8768\" target=\"_self\">crowing<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcarthurweb.com\/archive\/1101682289.html\" target=\"_self\">loss of one linux user<\/a> to windows XP.<\/p>\n<p>Now I sypmpathise with this Misanthropyst chap. Getting 802.11 stuff<br \/>\nworking under linux is pretty damn hard. Mostly it&#39;s hard because<br \/>\nalmost none of the hardware manufacturers will release info about their<br \/>\ncards let alone releasing drivers. Windows get&#39;s a free ride on this<br \/>\nbecause it&#39;s the dominant platform, if hardware companies don&#39;t release<br \/>\nwindows drivers they don&#39;t sell any hardware. Scoble should be less<br \/>\ntriumphalist, the day is fast approaching where failing to deliver<br \/>\nlinux drivers will be a similarly fatal mistake.<\/p>\n<p>As we are on the subject of ease of use I&#39;m going to plug <a href=\"http:\/\/primates.ximian.com\/~rml\/project-utopia\/\" target=\"_self\">Project Utopia<\/a>. To quote Robert Love &quot;[It is] a grand scheme to improve the integration of the Linux desktop and end world<br \/>\nhunger&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>I also feel it&#39;s worth mentioning that Misanthropyst still uses linux to run his webserver. Good chap.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Scoble is crowing about the loss of one linux user to windows XP. Now I sypmpathise with this Misanthropyst chap. Getting 802.11 stuff working under linux is pretty damn hard. Mostly it&#39;s hard because almost none of the hardware manufacturers will release info about their cards let alone releasing drivers. Windows get&#39;s a free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/?p=5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scoble Crowing Again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hlynes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}