Where it was ganked from:
There is a core dump file inside the windows 2000 (sp1) archive, it clearly shows that the source was stolen from a system at Mainsoft. The following url confirms that they did have access to the leaked code. http://mainsoft.com/news/press_releases/2000_3_22_ 01.html
Odd... That page doesn't exist anymore, and suddenly (according to their press page), nothing happened in March 2003.
THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE HARRY POTTER CULT! LOCK YOUR DOORS AND ARM YOUR CHILDREN!
With what? Magic wands?
*tiptoes away and mumbles something in lowercase to placate the dreaded lameness filter*
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HB: Screw this, here's a nice CD, put it in your machine and restart your computer.
WUF: What's that?
HB: It's called a knoppix CD. You can run linux and use that KDE thing you hear me blabber so much about without installing anything on your harddrive, and if you like it, you can install it anyway.
A true geek would install a transparant proxy that would either substitute your name by random characters, or mock up a "no results" page when your name is entered.
Which is exactly what DCOP is. And guess what, it's not even tied to KDE and Qt. It's just bundled with KDE, and KDE depends on it. You could build dcop and use it in your apps without the need for KDE and Qt.
DBUS is something the GNOME people thought up when they saw KDE's DCOP.
Not to badmouth it (well, I am biased), but I've heard that the KDE people plan to integrate DBUS into KDE to make GNOME apps integrate better. I'm all for it.
Raw Xlib? Almost nobody. And yes, GTK and QT on X11 do depend on it. The fd.o stuff looks really promising, since the stuff from X.org is starting to show it's age.
And X is NOT slow. For what it does, it does it quite efficiently, and it even has network transparancy thrown in for "free", because of the way it works. Just because the code base of XFree86 is a bit aged and has accumulated a lot of cruft over the years, doesn't mean the initial design is flawed. It was ahead of it's time, and it's still relevant.
Oh, and X works pretty good for me. Haven't seen a crash because of X in years. Maybe it's something else (buggy driver? broken hardware?) that's plagueing you. It's not X, in any case.
Glib is not a widget toolkit. Sure, it has ties to gnome, but it's independant. Just like libxml2 (which is desktop agnostic) is 'tied' to gnome, but KDE uses that too.
I think the main reason that the GPL has never been tested in courst is because violations are very difficult to prove.
Which is why you should put at least one obscure easter egg in the source, which is hard to find on casual inspection, but easy to trigger if you know how.
Imagine the blushing faces of KISS when Gabucino triggers an easter egg in the KISS player's subtitle code. Now who stole what from who again?
My memory is a little vague, but I do remember some incident where a case was one by a company because one of the programmers triggered an easter egg in the defendant's code, which blatantly showed that the defendant _had_ been stealing code. Can someone who has better recollection than me refresh my memory?
The kicker is that many *nix window managers and desktop environments do what Microsoft needs completely different versions of their OS for. And UNIX has worked for people with weird (read: non-ASCII) writing systems for AGES!
KDE and GNOME have no problems with bidirectional languages. Also many different types of input methods are supported.
Maybe the ability of the free *nixen wrt input methods, locales and bidirectional text might have won Israel over. The internationalisation effort on the free systems certainly is a lot futher than Microsoft has ever gotten. The fact still is that you need a special japanese windows version to write japanese in it, same goes for arabic, hebrew or whatever language you write in.
With UNIX-like systems, you only need ONE system. The internationalisation is all done in userspace, and easily added without changing the core system.
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But this is all sooo long ago, I could be off about the "1" part.
Odd... That page doesn't exist anymore, and suddenly (according to their press page), nothing happened in March 2003.
Guess who's in save-my-butt mode? :)
~Why don't you stick you head in a pig~
Aherm :)
Or you could take a look at fuse_kio (in kdenonbeta) with which you can mount *ANY* KDE kio slave as a filesystem.
With what? Magic wands?
*tiptoes away and mumbles something in lowercase to placate the dreaded lameness filter*
HB: Screw this, here's a nice CD, put it in your machine and restart your computer.
WUF: What's that?
HB: It's called a knoppix CD. You can run linux and use that KDE thing you hear me blabber so much about without installing anything on your harddrive, and if you like it, you can install it anyway.
WUF: Wow, I'll try that. Thanks!
Buy Lindows, install it on your PeeCee, quit yer whining.
Not that I've ever done such a thing :)
(I am trying to be funny here, no disrespect, just brainless male bushido)
They got rewritten from scratch. :)
Which is exactly what DCOP is. And guess what, it's not even tied to KDE and Qt. It's just bundled with KDE, and KDE depends on it. You could build dcop and use it in your apps without the need for KDE and Qt.
Not to badmouth it (well, I am biased), but I've heard that the KDE people plan to integrate DBUS into KDE to make GNOME apps integrate better. I'm all for it.
And X is NOT slow. For what it does, it does it quite efficiently, and it even has network transparancy thrown in for "free", because of the way it works. Just because the code base of XFree86 is a bit aged and has accumulated a lot of cruft over the years, doesn't mean the initial design is flawed. It was ahead of it's time, and it's still relevant.
Oh, and X works pretty good for me. Haven't seen a crash because of X in years. Maybe it's something else (buggy driver? broken hardware?) that's plagueing you. It's not X, in any case.
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Gstreamer needs glib to run. So what? :)
You can plug in modules, and synthesise any sound you like though plugins and modules, not unlike the pipeline editor in gstreamer.
Which is why you should put at least one obscure easter egg in the source, which is hard to find on casual inspection, but easy to trigger if you know how.
Imagine the blushing faces of KISS when Gabucino triggers an easter egg in the KISS player's subtitle code. Now who stole what from who again?
My memory is a little vague, but I do remember some incident where a case was one by a company because one of the programmers triggered an easter egg in the defendant's code, which blatantly showed that the defendant _had_ been stealing code. Can someone who has better recollection than me refresh my memory?
Sure, and plane tickets from europe to australia cost virtually nothing, and the plane trip is short. :)
Does it matter? Well, if it does, I'd guess most of us are "Israel-neutral".
Heck, I can fully understand why Israel says no.
Maybe the ability of the free *nixen wrt input methods, locales and bidirectional text might have won Israel over. The internationalisation effort on the free systems certainly is a lot futher than Microsoft has ever gotten. The fact still is that you need a special japanese windows version to write japanese in it, same goes for arabic, hebrew or whatever language you write in.
With UNIX-like systems, you only need ONE system. The internationalisation is all done in userspace, and easily added without changing the core system.
Such an illusion. But that's packaging for ya.