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Blender Is GPL
BartV writes with a low-key snippet from the new blender.org: ""Today, Sunday oct 13, 2002, we've launched the Blender sources as GNU GPL to the Internet. Blender has become Free Software forever!" This should be a case study for other companies with software no longer profitable as payware; read some of our previous postings about Blender to follow the story from idea to release.
Maybe they should switch to IIS.
no even any comments and the article is gone. mysql errors all over the place.
:-(
no chance of mirroring or copy and pasting the article even
/usr/bin/awake/too/long
i agree with this post
and Babbabooey to you all!
When you get older you will stop caring about trivialities of teen angst like worrying over freedom of software, manufactured bands like Britney Spears or the "evil" movie studios.
Teen angst is something that results when you realize that the whole world is screwed up and you only have a few useful years to do anything about it before you get sucked into being a part of why its so messed up. Post-teenage angst is that hopelessness that you feel when you realize you wasted your only chance to change your miserable little corner of the universe on keg parties and chasing after females that rejected you anyways, and now you've been sucked into the whole machine and must grind out your remaining years as another redundant cog that perpetuates the whole thing.
I know. I was you, now I am the cog in the machine content in my own little niche and see absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Now GPLed. Infintie hours free.
And what's with the https link? Is this a new feature for the paranoid YRO slashbots?
Blah, blah, blah. Now I wait to submit my comment, because Slashdot has some inane time limitations on posting. Is it time to submit yet? I don't think so. I type too fast. Some day I will learn to type slowly. Did I ever tell you about my ex-girlfriend? I never got any sex from her. One year we were together, and I probably got some a dozen times. Oh, I am a pathetic man. Okay, that's probably enough.
Why does the "Postings about blender" link tell me the security cert has been revoked? and then it says something about a secure site, and then i see the search, and no secure site?
Just curious...
Historian Stephen Ambrose, author of more than 25 books of American history -- including "Band of Brothers" and multivolume biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon -- died early Sunday. He was 66. "Out of writing all those books, people were looking for Waldo in his prose," Brinkley said. "His books are ones that will be in print for a long time. He'll be sadly missed as a teacher and a friend by so many."
Holy shit. I never found that funny before... But in an article about a commercial app going GPL, that's funny shit.
:)
Ah man, this is some good shit.
Heh. That is also some funny shit. But I think I'd find that funny on any given day. :)
Good shit, I tell you.
- The All-Natural Cannibatrollus
this comment isn't offtopic, and deserves to be modded up.
goddamn nazi moderators can't handle a joke that disses their oh-so-precious free software.
but of course if this was a microsoft joke, then hey it's "+5, Funny!". Har Har Har!
Why does a search for "goadsecx" get renamed to "goatse"? Even stranger still, why is goatse under the Scientology catagory? Is goatse a front for Scientology, or are Scientologists just a bunch of assholes?
HEY! We don't need no HATE crimes!
HATE CRIMES!!!
And funnily enough, supposedly 'independent' news site indymedia.org has NOTHING to say about it.
No, wait, I forgot. 'Independent' actually means "Pathetic whining sociology students that are desperately trying to rebel against their parents affluence with the video cameras that daddy's big business bought for them."
MySQL cannot hold up in a production environment. Please, admit it. Don't make up lies. Don't pretend that this is a one-off incident, a statistical anomaly.
Just say it. MySQL cannot be trusted to run websites of any worth to any level of reliability. It's OK. You don't have to feel you're betraying your Open Source brethren. There are plenty of other Open Source databases out there that work better.
MySQL is only as popular because of marketing. That's all. Every time a crack appears in the thin veneer of respectability, a thousand astroturfing zealots will instantly attempt to paper it over with their cries of "You shouldn't be using Stored Procedures anyway - here's how to implement them in Perl and PHP. But we don't believe in developer lockin at all. Honest."
MySQL is the answer to a question no-one asked. Let it die.
The truth will set you free.
shut up
Savin my pennies to buy BeOS from Palm...
Just because someone makes an oft-quoted remark doesn't make it true.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.