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Adobe Unveils Open Source Library
anamexis writes "Adobe premiered (no pun intended) opensource.adobe.com recently. The first two libraries available, titled Adam and Eve, respectively, take on complex GUI issues in applications. They are written in C++ and have been released under the MIT License, an OSI-Approved Open Source License."
We are in for treat.
Quid Pro Quo, nothing more, nothing less.
Insert Cain & Abel joke here...
Combine these with an Apple and you have the downfall of mankind...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
from the webpage:
;-) )
The most ambitious library, Adam, stems from the intuition that the logic behind a simple human interface can be distilled to a function:
f(x) -> x'
Is it just me but does this not sound a little to broad a definition of a library? I mean I can write anything like this:
My most ambitious library (The_Meaning), stems from the intuition that the logic behind the entire universe can be distilled to a function:
f(x) -> x'
obviously there is much work to be done on "The_Meaning" but when it is finished it will do everything (and the answer will turn out to be a disappointing 42
For the love of God, Cain't they find better names? Just right now, I was Abel to think of a few just off the top off my head. My mind is being Flooded with ideas for software names, in fact. Funny story, I used to Noah guy who could Babel out a hundred names on command...what a Nimrod that guy was.
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit
shortest license I ever saw was the "Beerware" license. Went something like this:
Copyright (c) xxxx Joe Q Programmer. Permission granted to use this thing however you want, subject to the condition that if you see me on the street, you buy me a beer.
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Oh, he was executed for "Crimes Against Copyright".
The dirty little secret of the RIAA and MPAA lawsuits is that the people who refuse to settle and pay "damages" are being charged with the same crime. Fortunately for the file traders, most of these cases are being settled in one manner or another, but they aren't going to arbitration or a courtroom. Some DHS agents just walk in, arrest the "file trader" and charge them. While the 12 year old girl and the 80+ grandma who got served reached the media, there's already about a dozen 20 something file traders that have been put to death by the federal government.
One poor slob was running Freenet as well as eDonkey, and was promptly charged with distributing child pornography. Most people don't know that the courts have taken running freenet as "proof" that the user is distributing kiddie porn. Remember folks, if you can't police the content, police the utility.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
they're still using some ugly, closed-source GUI library
A Linux user accuses somebody else's program of being ugly? That's rich.
Dammit, I should have said yes to my g/f's maintenance contract...
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You might want to check out the Free Object-Oriented License, written by those compression pioneers over at lzip.
Highly, highly recommended reading. If you're curious about the tone of the license, consider the acronym formed by its title.