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Sorry.

Why cant anyone make something like this?

Because people want to see actors that look like this instead of like this.

Example: Early today we tell one us representatives to America and ask about buy AT&T Microwave Bunker. But he not successful! First, representative not let into US carrying his State Issued Weapon of Glory! What about Right to Guns in US? (So much for Liberty!) So representative must call on phone, much expensive. And when he finally reach seller of Bunker, take 15 minute to find Real Estate Agent that speak China! (I guess America like itself be alone in world! More China people than America people, but America people think they are more! Ha!)

The final offend come when Real Estate people say that China can not buy Bunker because of relation between Evil American and Glorious People's Happy Republic of Great China Glory. What about let all come to America? What about take immigrant who set up business opportunity for great Prosper and Happiness? No! Instead China is turn away because China not believe in American idea of Capitalist Rape and Sad Hurt.

Obvious conclusion: 11 September prove that America is not Free, it is China that is Free. If not believing, why not consult with Free Expert name Richard Stallman, who is popular on website of Slashdot? He explain true nature of suppose "human abuse right". I suggesting you talk with Richard Stallman!

Irony is that on 11 September Anniversary, China not allow set up business in America. We try to be friend and ease international relation, but America say no. Truthful, America is Evil and must be destroy by Great Clean Fire of China Redemption with Glory and Happy Force of Right.

Seriously, you can grab the PDF files and make your own copies for free.

Of course, except for the fact that the PDF-files aren't there..

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Oh, well. They'll come up soon, I hope.

The PDF link on the site doesn't work. The real link is http://www.rons.net.cn/english/FSM/ISSUE01/issue01 pdf.tar.bz2

Is anyone having any luck downloading the PDF version? The link to http://www.rons.net.cn/english/FSM/english/FSM/iss ue01/pdf isn't working; seems to be a missing directory.

I'm not saying everyone who puts up a webpage should have to write perfect HTML, but why do they feel the need to put the logo of compliance there if it's just a lie? I know GNU supports open standards by principle, but they should do more than just pay lip-service. Either take the logo off the page, or fix the HTML!

I thought the most interesting article was this piece dealing with the recent changes over at Sourceforge. It probably deserves it's own submission even though we have discussed this before.

This is taken from http://www.rons.net.cn/english/FSM/vim, the link in the original article. I find it astounding that /. would link to this "blasphmous" piece of work. It's nice that he's shown that helping poor African orphans in Uganda will never been achieved by GNU. Here are a few of his ideas:

I prefer to give users much freedom in using the Vim source code. The main reason to add restrictions is to avoid what happened to Elvis some time ago: someone took the Elvis source code, added a few nice Windows GUI things, and started selling it. Since those changes were not available as source code and most of that editor was still the original Elvis code, that didn't sound fair. Not only because people have to pay one guy for software that someone else made, but also because the author refused to publish the modified source code and allow others to further improve it. That's why I added the restriction that the source code of modifications must be made available to me. That still leaves room for a company to make a modified version of Vim and negotiate with me if their changes must be made public or not. This gives me the right to decide what happens with the software I created.

Why not use the GNU GPL?

The GNU General Public Licence (GPL) is more restrictive. Although it claims to ascertain the freedom of software, it restricts the changes you can make. That is, you can make changes, but when you distribute the modified software, you must make the modified sources available as well. Thus people are not free to keep these changes to themselves. I would say this in fact restricts your freedom. On the other hand, allowing anybody to make changes and keep those changes a secret, even though they profit from the part of the program that wasn't changed, also doesn't sound fair. That's why I decided to add the condition that the changes must be made available to me. I can then decide that these changes are useful for most people, and include them in Vim. Or decide that these changes have only a very small audience, and allow a company to make a bit of money from their work. After all, if the source code of a program must be freely available, it is quite difficult to require users to pay money and make a living out of your work. I also don't agree with the idea that all software should be free and open-source. All people working on free software that I know somehow make a living out of commercial software, either with a full-time job or by studying to get a job later. Without commercial software, how would these people make a living? I think that free, open-source software and commercial software will co-exist. Most commercial software cannot be open-source, because a company would lose its advantage over competitors. Creating source code is very expensive, and a company would not want to allow others to get the results for free. Since software patents and copyrights are a very weak protection, keeping the source code a secret is still the best choice in most situations. Unfortunately, this means that you are not able to learn from how commercial software was implemented, or add a feature or fix a bug in the program you bought. A solution can be making most of the program open-source, and keeping a small but essential part a secret.

Kathleen
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Graphic designer and Mac lover.

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