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Last Update: Sat Sep 30 07:26:15 2006 | | + Non-profit mission I +
What's the most helpful thing workspot can do? The people we want to help the most are people who cannot, or will not, own a [...] we want to provide a free datacenter package. A free network Computing package. Because we don't believe that large autocratic |
| + Who exactly? +
So who exactly would this incipient GNU Workspot project be competing with? After all, to do the public good, it should become the [...] allowing you to provide services to yourself. The cost of what they offer is closely tied to service, hardware and connectivity.... |
| + Going non-profit +
Generally, corporations make money through some form of mass-production, financed by investors, amplified by armies of salespeople, [...] had some people look at us for possible investment: Google, Intel, etc. Generally, we're too far away from what's alr |
| + A Word about AES & VNC +
It hasn't been picked up by the media, but I think this is quite a story -- VNC now has the highly touted AES encryption [...] the JVM for it is pretty old. So the current AES implementation is self contained in the applet, linux server, and native client."... |
| + Support problems +
Thanks to everyone who was so patient with our support delays. Basically, Workspot isn't making enough money to pay even a [...] of our core group members. We've recently shuffled things around a bit, to provide better response. More shuffling to come!... |
| + Network Applications +
An obvious problem since the advent of browser-based applications -- the lack of an acceptable way to create true network applications [...] When they can't run Chandler natively, they can run it in a Workspot -- actually, you can do this now. Chandler in a Workspot... |
| + Looking for the showcase +
The Linux economy needs a boost, and I think there's a way Workspot could provide it. Imagine an Online Showcase, where you can [...] audience. Users could vote on features and fixes. User-driven participatory democracy might create a real revolution in software!... |
| + Web Playground +
Workspot's Web Playground is back! Workspot users get a website, http://users.workspot.net/username, to fool around in. But [...] a million programmers could use instantly? One of the best Workspot legacies is that I published all these crazy ideas almost 5 years |
| + Desktop 'viability' +
Back at the dawn of the PC age, Pat Gelsinger & I used to push the internal use of Unix at Intel. [Somehow, Pat went on to be a [...] a web browser. Workspot's goal is to become the online demonstration for all Linux projects and products. A showcase, in cybers |
| + Distractions +
I remember, in Palo Alto during the Internet boom, everything was so intense, everyone could sense the historical forces, the people, [...] Arnett's Baghdad stories disappeared from NBC. I saw the entries in the search database, but they clicked through to nowhere.... |
| + Speed +
Just got a note from Dan Gillmor, saying that he found Workspot bogglingly slow. On the other hand, a real-time data guru, John Sahr, [...] is a delicate issue ... it's possible that our subscribers tend to be intrigued by latency, rather than suffer from it ... "... |
| + Lug +
During a raging anti-war party in downtown Eugene, a small group of shy technology people held a monthly Eugene Linux user's [...] Voila, the desktop appears! With enough attention to robustness, sometimes things will work in the worst of circumstances.... |
| + The simple reason +
Late night talk with Christopher Alexander ... I mention the one-click Linux demo. He says that should be a very big deal, to Linux [...] has to work better for people. When it does, then we'll build real momentum on the desktop. So, we must make a better desktop.... |
| + Manifest immortality +
You know, about a week ago, I started to write a wild manifesto for Internet corporations -- about the need for openness and honesty; [...] work with it. "Why on earth would I stop using this?" he asked me. Because of ... lots of bad reasons, basically. It was getting |
| + Dreams of virtual machines ... +
A simple thing, which people can't yet do with their Workspot, is install a program as root. Another simple thing, which I want, [...] The same choice applies to starting a fresh VM. But which makes more sense from a user standpoint? There are many scenarios where we |
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