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Is Showmypc.com an Open Source Pretender?
shaitand writes "When looking for a remote support application that penetrates firewalls and can be initiated by my clients with a couple of clicks, I came across Showmypc.com. It was a standalone executable but looked like it would work and best of all it was open source. The only thing I didn't like was the interface, so I went to check out the Sourceforge page. I noticed a substantial problem: CVS is empty and the source on the download page is for the 2.6 version. The version of the executable is 3.53. I mailed the developers that they needed to distribute their modified SSH client and VNC source to be in compliance with the GPL license. They said they didn't modify those programs and ignored my request for the current source code. So I ask again, if this is a GPL'ed application; where is the source?"
they got tired of giving you stinking open source hippies everything for free... and then hearing you complain about it.
The worst offenders are the linux leaches... those that spout GPL! GPL! and have never compiled a line of code in their lives. But all in all, the entire scene is eaten up with this kind of bizarre zealotry that actually frightens the average "PC" user. You guys might want to think about that for a bit... you want Joe User... but you frighten him with your bizaro, I refuse to shower, GPL or DIE asshattery.
Weirdos.
Because this unshowered GPL hippy wants to know.
And trust me... I'm ready to get all righteous any moment now about how evil they are and how their souls should be sucked out of their bodies and siphoned straight on down to hell!
Because information wants to be free! Free I said! Like my mind... at least that's what Uncle Vinny used to say as he ass raped me in the bathroom while forcing LSD & pot laced brownies down my throat.
Thank god I had those Compute! magazines lying around the bathroom floor... they helped take my mind off the grotesquery that was my adolescent life and formed the foundation for my life. The code was ALWAYS printed in Compute! and if it was good enough for Spider Cider, it's good enough for this remote PC app or that entire Operating System.
Oh... I feel a good bout of self martyrdom coming on... where's my cross?!?
https://www.copilot.com/ from those fog creek losers does exactly the same thing. they say they allow you to download their VNC modifications... but just try compiling them .... you can't
You sig: wow, why does Linus have to be such an asshole all the time? Did his mommy not love him enough when he was a child? Seriously, read this thread. Total fucking jerk. Why do people hole what he says in such high regard? Ever opinion he holds isn't golden. The man does have an asshole, and he seems to speak out of it with equal frequency as with his mouth.
XML causes global warming.
What the GPL states is that if you provide someone with a binary, you must also provide them with the source on demand, for no more than the reasonable cost of doing so. It does not say "unless you are the copyright holder." If you refuse to do so, they would have to sue you to force you to perform what you agreed to when you licensed your code under the GPL
Sue you for what? Deciding what you want to do with your own god damn intellectual property? Good luck with that. Guess what: the GPL is a LICENSE, not a CONTRACT. Fuck, works to precisely that effect are RIGHT THERE in the license. Try reading it.
(IANAL) the fact that you are the copyright holder does not give you a pass on fulfilling the terms of the license
Good thing YANAL. You're batshit crazy, as well as wrong.
When you provide someone with a GPL-licensed binary, you have entered into a license agreement to also provide the source, and that is true even if you are the copyright holder.
Nope. Back to your padded cell, now. Who let you out?