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NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source
An anonymous reader writes "NoMachine has sneakily revealed it is closing its source of the NX compression technology with NX 4.0: 'This release marks an important milestone in the history of the company. Version 4.0 of the software, in fact, will be only available under a closed source license.'"
"NoMachine has sneakily revealed..."
That's quite remarkable.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
The problem with trying to hide something in a tl;dr changelog is that Someone - somewhere - WILL read the change log, and likely make mention of anything out of the ordinary on their blog.
In fact - I went to renew my Xbox live Gold membership a month ago or so... And they said that the terms and conditions of the service had changed since I last was on Gold. So I decided I would read through them. However - to continue this anecdote and help explain why it might be remotely funny - is that I had previously set my regional settings of my Xbox to Spain, and language to Spanish - so that when I got achievements in Halo 3 they came up as a different language. It's true, you can go and change it to like, Korean, then get some achievements, and no matter what language you go from there on out - they will come up in whatever language you achieved them in. I did this for a while, finding it to be of great amusement when someone new came over to my house and just happened to look at which achievements I had.
Anyways, so this ended up backfiring on me because the EULA and TOC of Live was now in Spanish, but I thought perhaps there was English at the bottom. However, there is no fast scroll when looking at the TOC - its very slow and you have to hold the analog stick down. To my dismay, there wasn't English. Afraid that going next would Mean I accepted to terms I didn't actually agree too - I quickly pulled up my computer and typed it in verbatim the entire thing into Google Translator.
If you've ever tried reading legalese in a language you do not understand - I highly recommend you NEVER EVER try it. Even after going through an internet translator you still will have no idea what the heck they are saying.
In hindsight I probably just should have not accepted the terms, gone and changed my language settings, and then gone through it - but I guess that seems obvious now, it didn't back then.
Anyways, so this ended up backfiring on me because the EULA and TOC of Live was now in Spanish,
Nobody expects the Spanish interpretation!