I know that a huge pissing match ensued between Gnome and KDE over the use of a proprietary technology in a Linux GUI, and perhaps now is the time for that relationship to be reviewed (in the light of Canopy's behavior). Should those APIs be rewritten in an attempt to dump Qt, or is that over-reacting?
QT is now GPL because of that "pissing match", and Canopy only owns about five or so percent of Troll Tech stock.
That's too complicated. Can someone please write an ebuild? "emerge sco-sources"
Just "alien" it to a tgz and unpack the sources in/usr/src if you really want to bother. Since your using Gentoo why don't you just use the 2.6 kernel instead?
If you put it that way, it's borderline market manipulation. IBM largely a services company, they get money from supporting Windows, AIX, Linux, whatever people will pay them for. If they can destroy the market by providing an OS that's as good as anything else, they can take out their biggest competition (Sun & MS).
Not if Sun & MS followed the same business method and GPL'd their software too. Hmmm...this is a business method, is it not? Remember, you saw it here first when you rush off to file your patents.
If the efforts of Gentoo developers were put towards improving an existing non-commercial distributions such as Debian, or improving the open source programs themselves, it would clearly be advancing the cause of Linux -- instead they are duplicating existing work and stepping backward in time, producing a product that almost no one wants, and no one at all needs, and this doesn't help linux at all.
Just as the users who want a stable system with prebuilt packages where the maintainer decides the dependencies are served by Debian, Gentoo serves those who want to make those decisions themselves. If Linux and open source in general is about anything, it's choice.
Besides, perhaps a few of the ideas that Gentoo experiments with will make it back into Debian making it an even better distro than it already is.
they take the kernel from somewhere, which has a piece of code, copied from S V, by some tom, dick or harry, reviewed by some tom, dick or harry and now IBM is sued.
How do you know that some Tom, Dick, or Harry at Microsoft didn't violate somebody else's "IP"? You don't, and Microsoft has been recently accused of doing that very thing with DRM patents.
As for checking open source code for violations, there already exists a very easy system. You can read the source. If you find copyrighted code, just tell them where it is and it will be removed.
Hmm...but Civ3 PTW has missing menus and both it and the original has sound looping problems that are quite irritating. Most of Transgaming's development seems focused on FPS's and the MMORPG's.
Whethever it's running under VMWare or WINE, whether it requires a purchased copy of Windows or not, it's still considered "OK" to run a Windows-native program under WINE, rather than develop specifically for linux. A little hack or workaround is not as enticing as a native port, and really does little for Linux.
Until users can run all their favorite apps under Linux they'll stick with the Windows OS, and developers will stick to the OS that their customers use.
Which means you can use it, read it, copy it, distribute it, and change it to suit your needs. As a matter of fact the GPL even ensures nobody can close it keeping forever free.
You do know that many bands themselves enjoy the Album format? Yes, they consider the entire album an artistic creation, it is not one that is put upon them by the RIAA. I think the album format will be around forever for those who enjoy it.
It is true that a few albums are a work of art in themselves but the majority are not despite what the bands that produce them think.
For instance, in the last year or so I really have discovered country (yeah, go ahead and laugh--I would have ten years ago).
I would be laughing, but I'm in my mid-forties and the same thing happened to me a few years ago. Though I still listen to classic rock the majority of the time I've found that country music is not just all "twang", some of it is actually socially relevant unlike much of the swill being churned out by the poplular mainstream bands today.
I disagree. I like the life + 90, and I think it is very reasonable.
I think being paid life + 90 years for the work I did yesterday would be reasonable too, but for some strange reason the people who pay my salary disagree. Go figure.
I'm with you! I've always thought of Mozilla as "the ultimate web suite", and every time I hear about it disintergration I get worried I'm going to be stuck with the equivilant of the IE/Outlook type of situation that the Winders user have to suffer through.
I'll chime in here too, but I think it's a lost cause. There are some good games that are either natively supported or will work with winex, but by far the majority are multiplayer or fp shooters. Those of us who prefer a good adventure are pretty much out of luck.
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When is the last time Slashdotters actually cheered on IBM?
When IBM realised that there was money to be made from supporting free software.
I know that a huge pissing match ensued between Gnome and KDE over the use of a proprietary technology in a Linux GUI, and perhaps now is the time for that relationship to be reviewed (in the light of Canopy's behavior). Should those APIs be rewritten in an attempt to dump Qt, or is that over-reacting?
QT is now GPL because of that "pissing match", and Canopy only owns about five or so percent of Troll Tech stock.
That's too complicated. Can someone please write an ebuild? "emerge sco-sources"
/usr/src if you really want to bother. Since your using Gentoo why don't you just use the 2.6 kernel instead?
Just "alien" it to a tgz and unpack the sources in
If you put it that way, it's borderline market manipulation. IBM largely a services company, they get money from supporting Windows, AIX, Linux, whatever people will pay them for. If they can destroy the market by providing an OS that's as good as anything else, they can take out their biggest competition (Sun & MS).
Not if Sun & MS followed the same business method and GPL'd their software too. Hmmm...this is a business method, is it not? Remember, you saw it here first when you rush off to file your patents.
It could make good business sense - allow anyone to use the roads/OS, make money on the cars.
Yep, but how do you get the 95% who insist on using the Microsoft toll bridge to see the light?
If the efforts of Gentoo developers were put towards improving an existing non-commercial distributions such as Debian, or improving the open source programs themselves, it would clearly be advancing the cause of Linux -- instead they are duplicating existing work and stepping backward in time, producing a product that almost no one wants, and no one at all needs, and this doesn't help linux at all.
Just as the users who want a stable system with prebuilt packages where the maintainer decides the dependencies are served by Debian, Gentoo serves those who want to make those decisions themselves. If Linux and open source in general is about anything, it's choice.
Besides, perhaps a few of the ideas that Gentoo experiments with will make it back into Debian making it an even better distro than it already is.
they take the kernel from somewhere, which has a piece of code, copied from S V, by some tom, dick or harry, reviewed by some tom, dick or harry and now IBM is sued.
How do you know that some Tom, Dick, or Harry at Microsoft didn't violate somebody else's "IP"? You don't, and Microsoft has been recently accused of doing that very thing with DRM patents.
As for checking open source code for violations, there already exists a very easy system. You can read the source. If you find copyrighted code, just tell them where it is and it will be removed.
Then can we assume they'll be throwing a million or two into the pot?
According to SCO:
"The license gives end users the right to use the SCO intellectual property contained in Linux, in binary format only."
So, according to them, you can't use the kernel source at all.
Hmm...but Civ3 PTW has missing menus and both it and the original has sound looping problems that are quite irritating. Most of Transgaming's development seems focused on FPS's and the MMORPG's.
Why no focus on something that could stop the shipping of ALL microsoft products ?
Because nobody would care if it did. Anyway, that story was covered last week.
Most of keep a Windows partition for the same reason. If Transgaming would ever get the Civ3 series up to a five, I'd blow mine away again too.
100% agreed, and that is why WINE is such an important project. Keeping WINE compatibility in mind also keeps Linux compatibility in mind.
Whethever it's running under VMWare or WINE, whether it requires a purchased copy of Windows or not, it's still considered "OK" to run a Windows-native program under WINE, rather than develop specifically for linux. A little hack or workaround is not as enticing as a native port, and really does little for Linux.
Until users can run all their favorite apps under Linux they'll stick with the Windows OS, and developers will stick to the OS that their customers use.
Has everybody finished rolling on the floor laughing their asses off yet?
It's GPL: stop spreading FUD.
Which means you can use it, read it, copy it, distribute it, and change it to suit your needs. As a matter of fact the GPL even ensures nobody can close it keeping forever free.
I know...don't feed the trolls.
You do know that many bands themselves enjoy the Album format? Yes, they consider the entire album an artistic creation, it is not one that is put upon them by the RIAA. I think the album format will be around forever for those who enjoy it.
It is true that a few albums are a work of art in themselves but the majority are not despite what the bands that produce them think.
Right but for every one of you, there's a ton of people out there who download the music without ever buying the CD, even if they might have before.
The same as there are a ton of people out there who listen and tape music off their stereos without ever buying the music too.
For instance, in the last year or so I really have discovered country (yeah, go ahead and laugh--I would have ten years ago).
I would be laughing, but I'm in my mid-forties and the same thing happened to me a few years ago. Though I still listen to classic rock the majority of the time I've found that country music is not just all "twang", some of it is actually socially relevant unlike much of the swill being churned out by the poplular mainstream bands today.
Really, so I can now compile my Window's kernel with the different options to get my hardware to work?
If 9 years later those images that I took go into the public domain, I will be forever working to maintain a barely-decent level of income.
Man, I feel your pain. If I don't go out and work today I won't get paid next week either.
I disagree. I like the life + 90, and I think it is very reasonable.
I think being paid life + 90 years for the work I did yesterday would be reasonable too, but for some strange reason the people who pay my salary disagree. Go figure.
If you can't find a software fix for Linux, then you sure ain't gonna find one for Window.
I'm with you! I've always thought of Mozilla as "the ultimate web suite", and every time I hear about it disintergration I get worried I'm going to be stuck with the equivilant of the IE/Outlook type of situation that the Winders user have to suffer through.
I'll chime in here too, but I think it's a lost cause. There are some good games that are either natively supported or will work with winex, but by far the majority are multiplayer or fp shooters. Those of us who prefer a good adventure are pretty much out of luck.