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Gnomemeeting Closes the Source
daja77 writes "There is an announcement on Gnomemeeting
stating that they are closing the source to be able
to support tcpa and palladium. The gnomemeeting PRO version will be available for $50 tomorrow and GPL
version will be discontinued."
Here's the link
Actually current experts believe that he was replaced specifically by a chimpanzee.
Curious george... I just haven't figured out who the man in the yellow hat is....
"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away" -Tom Waits
I believed it for a few seconds.
Having just returned from a focus group where a bunch of VP level types thought that Paladium was something they'd be willing to pay $500 bucks a box for.
Peace, or Not?
1. You can't close source a GPL program. It's a violation of the license. Surely this applies to the original author as much as anybody else. Besides, all previous releases of the code are still available under the GPL so all it would take is for keen developers to hijack the project and it breathe new life into it. Give it up for the GPL.
2. I hate April 1st. I hate Slashdot on April 1st. I hate that where I live it is 10am April 2nd but I'm still reading these stupid April Fool's Day stories. The Slashdot editors seem to live in this little USA bubble immune from awareness of the outside world. I'm sick of polls that are not only stupid but also irrelevent to me because there is no answer suitable for a person who doesn't live in America. And most of all, every time I type './' at a shell prompt I ask myself, 'Where did those bozos get slashdot from anyway, it's clearly dotslash ?' I propose that right thinking people the world over unite in opposition to Slashdot, that we rewrite slash code in Python (I really don't like Perl. I've used it. It's ok. There's better ways of getting the same thing done. It reads like line noise. I think Larry Wall is high on goof balls. I'm not trying to start some kind of Python v. Perl flame war. ), register dotslash.org and run a fairly moderated open minded news site with no Microsoft advertisements, an acceptance of the exitence of the world outside America, no repeats of the previous day's stories, fewer stories about miniscule updates to the Linux kernel, less Apple brown nosing, even more Microsoft bashing and, most important of all, it will be 'News for Geeks'. I find the term Nerd highly pejorative.
Sorry. I really needed to get that off my chest.
Now wash your hands.