2. Being paid to code is good, being paid to write proprietary code is bad.
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1. Nope. It's more reminiscent of the anti-slavery lobby. People are doing something fundamentally wrong : making proprietary software, and this will shortly (maybe 10, 20 years?) be oselete.
2. Being paid to code is bad. Being paid to write proprietary code is bad. I hope I never fall so low as to need to get a job like that.
RedHat would have had to pay 0 royalties to put QT in RedHat. The reason why they didn't was that it was not free (as in free speech), not free (as in free beer).
And please don't stoop to deluded paranoid ramblings about RPM.
Fortunately, it looks like it should be fairly easy to parse IA64 (well, compared to IA32 code, anyway), as all instructions are quadword aligned. This would allow a "scan" and "replace" technique to work well with untrappable instructions.
Previously, Microsoft were in control of the market ; if you didn't install IE on a Windows PC, you wouldn't get windows.
In the future : Microsoft will be in no position to demand that IE be installed upon Linux boxes, as they have nothing to threaten with.
That's what it's all about : abuse of a monopoly (the monopoly of supplying Win32 operating systems). They don't and can't have a monopoly in Linux, therefore they can't abuse their it.
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Either it is or they rewrote it in the manner described. Certainly if you used the "cp" out of the GNU shell-utils, it would be broken, yes.
From : http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html
:Yes. All ROMs available on the Internet are unauthorized and :infringing copies of copyrighted works.
This is quite clearly false. There are many ROMs which the copyright owners have allowed free distribution of.
:An emulator is a software program that is designed to allow game :play on a platform that it was not created for. The emulator software :allows for console based or arcade games to be played on personal :computers. The video games are obtained by downloading illegally copied ^^ Here you seem to have forgotten to put "or downloaded legally from sites which only have ROMs which are legal to distribute freely"
:software, ROMs, from internet distributors. The ROMs then work with :the emulator to enable game play on the computer.
:The only purpose of video game emulators are to play illegal :copied games from the Internet.
This is quite clearly false as well ; I play legally copied games, and even do some development work using emulators of assorted types.
I'd just like to make it clear I have no problem with you attempting to enforce IP law, it's just that I object to you claiming blanketly that emulators/ROMs/etc, are by definition illegal.
Thanks for your time, Robert.
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I think you can safely assume that the holes will be filled in with big names.
p.s. the name of the nation is "United Kingdom", not England. Alan Cox lives in Wales, a different component of the UK to England.
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Converting all the sh-utils, binutils, textutils, all file managers, etc, to take this meta-data into account is a non-trivial task.
That's why it's not been done.
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We could fix that just by releasing future versions of libc under the GPL. This is unlikely to happen whilst people still want to make proprietary software for glibc-based systems, though, as they could just fork the project.
We're already making good progress in MS-Office document compatability, and on the Desktop, by the time (2, 3 years?) MS make Office available for Linu, we'll have caught up with it.
I don't like it either, but it's better for the closest thing we have to a World Government to be doing this than that US government of yours, which seems to treat *.com, *.org as if it owned them, and has the arrogance to have *.gov and *.mil.
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That's funny. I see plenty of proprietary software companies claiming software is "Free" when it quite clearly isn't.
Ok, if alien is too hard for you, try rpm2cpio $FILENAME | cpio --extract --make-directories
2. Being paid to code is good, being paid to write proprietary code is bad.
2. Being paid to code is bad. Being paid to write proprietary code is bad. I hope I never fall so low as to need to get a job like that.
Also, try looking CheapBytes.
You aren't part of our community. Go away.
RedHat would have had to pay 0 royalties to put QT in RedHat. The reason why they didn't was that it was not free (as in free speech), not free (as in free beer).
And please don't stoop to deluded paranoid ramblings about RPM.
Tough, it's not going to happen.
We do have common carrier laws. For some bizarre reason, they aren't being applied.
Or are you just talk?
You can't be a properly free country if you've banned stuff like murdering people.
Oh, oops, you never have.
If they are just used as extension languages, they don't count as having "KDE Bindings"
Fortunately, it looks like it should be fairly easy to parse IA64 (well, compared to IA32 code, anyway), as all instructions are quadword aligned. This would allow a "scan" and "replace" technique to work well with untrappable instructions.
In the future : Microsoft will be in no position to demand that IE be installed upon Linux boxes, as they have nothing to threaten with.
That's what it's all about : abuse of a monopoly (the monopoly of supplying Win32 operating systems). They don't and can't have a monopoly in Linux, therefore they can't abuse their it.
Either it is or they rewrote it in the manner described. Certainly if you used the "cp" out of the GNU shell-utils, it would be broken, yes.
Hi. You appear to misunderstand IP law.
From : http://www.nintendo.com/corp/faqs/legal.html
:Yes. All ROMs available on the Internet are unauthorized and
:infringing copies of copyrighted works.
This is quite clearly false. There are many ROMs which the copyright
owners have allowed free distribution of.
:An emulator is a software program that is designed to allow game
:play on a platform that it was not created for. The emulator software
:allows for console based or arcade games to be played on personal
:computers. The video games are obtained by downloading illegally copied
^^ Here you seem to have forgotten to put "or downloaded legally from
sites which only have ROMs which are legal to distribute freely"
:software, ROMs, from internet distributors. The ROMs then work with
:the emulator to enable game play on the computer.
:The only purpose of video game emulators are to play illegal
:copied games from the Internet.
This is quite clearly false as well ; I play legally copied games, and
even do some development work using emulators of assorted types.
I'd just like to make it clear I have no problem with you attempting to
enforce IP law, it's just that I object to you claiming blanketly that
emulators/ROMs/etc, are by definition illegal.
Thanks for your time,
Robert.
p.s. the name of the nation is "United Kingdom", not England. Alan Cox lives in Wales, a different component of the UK to England.
That's why it's not been done.
*sigh*
We're already making good progress in MS-Office document compatability, and on the Desktop, by the time (2, 3 years?) MS make Office available for Linu, we'll have caught up with it.
That's just not true.
That wouldn't be a problem if the apps were open-source.
Cool, then you'll have made BSD/Linux, and proved the point.
Lots of people download the kernel. It's much more efficient to just have tarballs for people to download. :)
I don't like it either, but it's better for the closest thing we have to a World Government to be doing this than that US government of yours, which seems to treat *.com, *.org as if it owned them, and has the arrogance to have *.gov and *.mil.