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On 08/23/2013 05:48 PM, Marc Stürmer wrote: |
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> Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the: |
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>> Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? |
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> Do you really want to tell me that you are still working on a Pentium |
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> 133 with maybe 64 MB of RAM? |
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> I mean it has always been like that: people buy indeed hardware to match |
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> software requirements, e.g. to play better games or to watch Youtube |
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> videos in High Definition. |
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> Of course no one is going to force you to do so, so if you are happy |
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> with less power you need less, of course. |
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> The point for Skype, last time I am going to repeat that, is that it |
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> works out of the box for the normal user and the large user base. |
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And that is still wrong. If it works for you, fine. There are enough |
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users who have a LOT of trouble with it. Again: read the bugtrackers, I do. |
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And even better: you cannot file bug reports properly (at least from |
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what I see the skype jira is gone) and cannot read/fix code. |
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You are lured into believing it's a good piece of software that works |
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out of the box, because all they do is good advertisement and increasing |
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their userbase with some shiny features. Even worse: distro maintainers |
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have trouble with it, need to apply hacks or don't even include it at |
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all because of the nasty license. How does that improve "out-of-the-box" |
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experience? |
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Next you will tell us windows works out of the box. |
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I mean, wtf are you talking about? It doesn't make any sense. And |
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doesn't even add anything to this topic. |