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  1. academic licenses by apol · · Score: 1 · on Ask Eric S. Raymond Anything
    What is your opinion about the licenses which allow OS freedom only to academics? There are very nice libraries like LEDA (see here the license), which attract the contribution of many programmers. They bother me a lot (mostly because I wouldn't like to write a code which I couldn't use freely once I finish the university). I wonder if you care about this subject, if you have already addressed arguments against that practice, or if you just consider it a reasonable alternative to OS and commercial software.

    At first sight the main reason they have for not using an OS license like GPL is that they care about the money they expect to get from commercial licensing... But I doubt it. It really seems to me that they ask companies to pay simply because they are stuck with the idea of "those who can should pay" and so for them OS doesn't seem fair enough. Sadly this seems to be a common critic to OS licenses, don't you agree?

    For an interesting example of academic license see the ZIB Academic License which is applied to many mathematical programming software like SoPlex.

  2. Re:High Resolution Shots? by WizardChild · · Score: 1 · on Solar Eclipse, As Seen From Mir
    I followed a few links via the original post and came across a pretty cool computer simulated map of the known universe.

    You can get a high-res (2096x2604) gif via http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~jgc/hubble.html

  3. Reader will NOT be bound by wavelength of light by aibrahim · · Score: 1 · on Penny-size 180 Gigabits CDROMs

    We will be able to use lasers to read the data off of these structures after all:

    Light Microscopy: Resolution beyond the lightwave barrier

    Hopefully this will quell the reliability issues raised elsewhere regarding these devices.

    It will be practical to use these devices in very small ruggedized devices by use of an array of solid state lasers. This will allow very fast, highly parallelized reading.

  4. Be Not Afraid! by Tom+Christiansen · · Score: 4 · on On Perl 5.6
    Once again, the rabble rousing has begun. For those of you who don't know me, I completely assure you that you'll never find anyone more anti-MS than me -- although many of you are at the same level. There is a FAQ that explains why your fears of MS involvement with Perl are unfounded. You could also search the perl5-porters mailing list. It's on DejaNews under the newsgroup perl.* (I forget exactly) and also has its own search archive. Search for articles by Sarathy (that's gsar) about this.

    If you were on p5p, I'm quite certain you wouldn't be joining the other Illuminati wannabes with these unsubstantiated delusions of evil conspiracies and take-overs. Please try to simmer down, and do a little research. You'll see that all is well. Or talk to one of us directly if you'd prefer.