On a related note, I have been told by friends on the gnome mailing lists that Helix isn't going to make Debian packages because they feel it is "too hard". What the hell kind of logic is this? As if it is any harder to make a.deb than it is to make a.rpm?
While the Debian release was later than the others, Helix made Debian (Woody) packages available on May 18. For more information, see the announceme nt.
Re:NY Times article about Eazel & GNOME 2.0
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While I don't think the characterization of Eazel as being responsible for the future GNOME UI is entirely correct (they're designing the file manager, which is a big component, but not all of the UI), the article never implied that Helix was responsible for all the "plumbing." It said that the "Gnome group" would work on that, which is, of course, a truism (the GNOME team will work on all of GNOME not being done by someone else).
To save people the link-clicking, "...the Ezel team has taken responsibility for the appearance--- the 'look and feel' of the program that serves as the control panel for the Linux operating system--- while the Gnome group will concentrate on the internal plumbing."
HelixCode is first referred to four paragraphs later as working on productivity applications, not infrastructure. (Although the individual hackers working at Helix are still responsible for much of gnome-libs, gnome-core, etc.)
The Free Software Foundation does have lawyers who work (at no charge) to help defend free software against license violations. One of them happens to be my one of my professors.:)
It should be noted, however, that the United States (i.e. the Solicitor General's office) has a much higher percentage of its petitions for certiorari granted than any other party. I don't have the numbers handy, but I recall it being a fairly significant edge.
In addition, I suspect the Court would be somewhat reluctant to allow the export regulations to be effectively crippled without a hearing. (How effective could the regs be, if all one needed to do to export crypto source code was to set up shop in the 9th circuit? And would it be legal for a U.S. citizen, say, in the 5th Circuit to transfer code to a U.S. citizen in the 9th Circuit, knowing it would be legal to export it from the 9th?)
Insert all relevant disclaimers: IANAL, nobody can predict the Supreme Court, etc...
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While I don't think the characterization of Eazel as being responsible for the future GNOME UI is entirely correct (they're designing the file manager, which is a big component, but not all of the UI), the article never implied that Helix was responsible for all the "plumbing." It said that the "Gnome group" would work on that, which is, of course, a truism (the GNOME team will work on all of GNOME not being done by someone else).
To save people the link-clicking, "...the Ezel team has taken responsibility for the appearance--- the 'look and feel' of the program that serves as the control panel for the Linux operating system--- while the Gnome group will concentrate on the internal plumbing."
HelixCode is first referred to four paragraphs later as working on productivity applications, not infrastructure. (Although the individual hackers working at Helix are still responsible for much of gnome-libs, gnome-core, etc.)
The Free Software Foundation does have lawyers who work (at no charge) to help defend free software against license violations. One of them happens to be my one of my professors. :)
It should be noted, however, that the United States (i.e. the Solicitor General's office) has a much higher percentage of its petitions for certiorari granted than any other party. I don't have the numbers handy, but I recall it being a fairly significant edge.
In addition, I suspect the Court would be somewhat reluctant to allow the export regulations to be effectively crippled without a hearing. (How effective could the regs be, if all one needed to do to export crypto source code was to set up shop in the 9th circuit? And would it be legal for a U.S. citizen, say, in the 5th Circuit to transfer code to a U.S. citizen in the 9th Circuit, knowing it would be legal to export it from the 9th?)
Insert all relevant disclaimers: IANAL, nobody can predict the Supreme Court, etc...