Web Starter Kit

Re:Web Starter Kit by baddox on Thursday June 19, 2014 @07:09PM (#7918779)

But in practice it is much better than any alternative multi-platform instant software installation ecosystem. And in practice, it has led to a thriving ecosystem of applications, most of which can link to each other and will work on a large portion of users' devices.

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Re:Web Starter Kit by jacquesm on Thursday June 19, 2014 @07:14PM (#7918796)

Yes, absolutely true. But I can't help thinking that there must be a better way to achieve these goals than this mess we've made.

We're clearly in 'we should be amazed the pig dances at all' territory rather than in 'look how good the pig can dance'.

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Re:Web Starter Kit by gress on Friday June 20, 2014 @12:02PM (#7921275)

The better way would have been for the open source community to advance the Linux desktop in the way that OSX has been evolved - i.e. To gradually bring the advantages of the web back to the OS.

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Re:Web Starter Kit by jp555 on Saturday June 21, 2014 @08:08AM (#7924787)

But if OSX has evolved that way... Why not just use OSX?

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Re:Web Starter Kit by Throwaway618 on Thursday June 19, 2014 @11:31PM (#7919416)

There are no other dancers; there are only pigs.

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