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FSF Award to Brian Paul & Get The Stream

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giving-proper-creds dept.

During LWCE last week, LinuxWorld Paris was also going on. RMS [?] was there, and gave this year's award to Brian Paul. Brian is known for his amazing work on the Mesa 3D Graphics library - and deserves lots of credit. They took a *really* big video shoot of it - you can grab the video and a player from our servers at SourceForge.

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  1. Mesa3D is good stuff by __aawwih8715 · · Score: 4


    I'm glad to see that SGI has not tried to do anything to stop or hinder the mesa3d project. SGI has allowed him to succeed where others have hindered. Anyone remember 3dfx getting pissed off when creative labs made a glide wrapper for their tnt card?

    As i have heard, SGI has done nothing but help this guy and the project. I'm very glad to see that.
    Chalk another one up for sgi.

  2. Is it just me? by SymLink-Dyn · · Score: 3
    Does this smell slightly political? Posting in high quality VOB format (DVD encoding, no?) when a smaller/lower quality compression would clearly be more appropriate makes it look like some foundation is being laid. "Look Your Honor, all these nice open source hippies use DVD video to freely distribute their videos! And on Linux!"

    Mind you, I don't disagree with the sentiment, but it seems kind of silly to try and sneak this in the back door.

    Then again, I could be just crazy.

  3. Re:Memo: Corporate X-promotion. by technos · · Score: 3

    Seeing as this is the only explanation other than insanity

    Insanity? Naw, there are plenty!

    1. Hemos didn't check the link.
    2. Hemos checked the link, but cancelled the transfer without noticing the size.
    3. Hemos has his own OC-192, and he never noticed. One paltry gig does tend to fly by, y'know.
    4. Hemos has a grudge against the guy running the server.
    5. Hemos is doing the guy running the server a favor; After all, nothing like a slashdotting to get your hardware budget increased!
    6. Hemos is drunk.
    7. CmdrTaco is drunk, and posting as Hemos.
    8. There's a pool running on how many downloads there will be, and Hemos has his money on "150"
    9. The upstream provider is offering a PlayStation 2 to the first customer to exceed 20,000Gb/s for a sustained period, and Hemos wants one.

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  4. anyone seen it? by friscolr · · Score: 4
    before we get all crazy about how Ridiculous it is to post a link to a 1+ Gig file in such a manner...

    Has anyone actuallly seen this video???
    Maybe it's Really Good!
    i bet it includes the director's cut, comments from the award givers, alternative endings, and maybe even an interactive first person ceremony at the end!

    i can't wait (the 2 hours it'll take) to see this! i'm as excited with anticipation as when i stood in line 30+ days for Star Wars tickets!

    -f

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  5. Re:Mesa is BSD-licensed; nontheless FSF awards it by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 3
    Mesa is under a Free Software license, why would FSF not like it? It is an MIT license (BSD without the advertising restriction). FSF accepts that as a Free Software license. Yes, the GPL is preferred because it keeps software free, but the MIT license is free as well.

    Thanks

    Bruce

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