You might want to check on your economic theory there. Capitalism is based on an exchange of values. So is the GPL: I exchange the code I have written for the work you put in in improving it. Both parties gain from the transaction.
BSD is more like communism/dictatorship: I give you my work - you can take it and improve it and give nothing back. You gain from my hard work.
Nice try at misdirection, troll, but the squabbling is over. ODF has already been accepted as an ISO standard, and is already supported by all of the following groups:
I haven`t seen the other one you mention but I`ll check it out:-)
Definately try to see Paris, Texas again. I watched it again last year after almost forgetting the storyline, and it was still every bit as good as I remembered it (maybe even more so, since at my current age I could identify even more with Travis...)
I quite agree. In fact I have been working in this area for the last 5 years, trying to get projects like LiVES, videojack, Weed/Livido and OMC off the ground. However, there is no funding for this to be found anywhere - I have applied to literally dozens of groups, including the FSF, google and other places, but nobody seems interested in free standards in multimedia.
I got a donation from LinuxFund a couple of years ago to help with my development of LiVES. At the time it was very useful, though of course that money has long since run out.
To all those people saying "why give money to LinuxFund, why not donate directly ?", well...go ahead...why don`t you donate to my project ? The fact is that people hardly ever donate at all, and I`d rather have a couple of thousand dollars from LinuxFund in one go, than get $20 a month or whatever through personal donations.
That`s nothing. I once DM`ed a game where one of the players was a neutral-evil magic user. Playing his god, I informed him that he would earn extra experience by secretly killing other members of the party, particularly if they were killed in nasty ways.
During one session, the magic user created a small metal cube with tiny holes in it. He abducted one of the other players, shrank the other player and forced him into the box. He then reversed the shrink spell, killing the other player. He collected the *liquid* which was strained through the holes in the cube, and sold it back to other members of the party as a "special potion of strength".
I awarded him quite a lot of experience for his inventiveness...
if you want to release a binary version of your software, you have to compile and package it for each and every distribution you wish to support.
You speak as if you have personal experience of this, but I am willing to bet you don`t. How many projects do you develop for ?
As a matter of fact it works like this: periodically, I release source code builds of LiVES. Then somebody from the Mandriva team builds a Mandriva package. Somebody else builds an Ubuntu package. Yet another person makes a debian package, etc. All I have to do is notify the packagers when a new release is available, and then link to the packages when they are built.
A frog is not as intelligent because... he doesn't need to be that smart and reasoning to survive. His mechanism is having 10,000 little eggs and, with any luck, a handful will survive to reproduce.
Surely you mean her mechanism ? Males generally don`t lay eggs...
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Can`t edit videos ? What do you think LiVES is ? A word processor ?
You might want to check on your economic theory there. Capitalism is based on an exchange of values. So is the GPL: I exchange the code I have written for the work you put in in improving it. Both parties gain from the transaction.
BSD is more like communism/dictatorship: I give you my work - you can take it and improve it and give nothing back. You gain from my hard work.
Nice try at misdirection, troll, but the squabbling is over. ODF has already been accepted as an ISO standard, and is already supported by all of the following groups:
http://www.odfalliance.org/members.php#viewall
Now perhaps you would care to answer the original question: why are two standards better than one ?
I haven`t seen the other one you mention but I`ll check it out :-)
Definately try to see Paris, Texas again. I watched it again last year after almost forgetting the storyline, and it was still every bit as good as I remembered it (maybe even more so, since at my current age I could identify even more with Travis...)
Cool that you like that film too. The final scenes always bring a tear to my eye, no matter how many times I watch it ;-)
I wonder if the blogger kept his anonymity by dictating his message through a one-way mirror to a woman in a strip joint ?
(In case you are wondering what the hell I am talking about, click here and see the movie; it`s great !)
You mis-spelled "appalling".
You make this sound like it`s a bad thing.
Don`t worry about it. It`s part of M$ current FUD program, which is to make it appear like there are splits and rifts in the Free Software movement.
Nothing to see here.
Aren`t Apple fans used to paying for more and getting less ?
No I wasn`t trolling. I looked at the features on the site, and there was no mention of it.
But anyway, I am pleased to see that it supports it by default.
Interesting, but does it support odf format ? If not then it`s missing a big chunk of interoperability.
I quite agree. In fact I have been working in this area for the last 5 years, trying to get projects like LiVES, videojack, Weed/Livido and OMC off the ground. However, there is no funding for this to be found anywhere - I have applied to literally dozens of groups, including the FSF, google and other places, but nobody seems interested in free standards in multimedia.
- docs/l ives-OMC.txt
Anyway, you can check out some of these projects:
http://lives.sourceforge.net/
http://www.piksel.org/videojack
http://livido.dyne.org/codedoc/
http://lives.cvs.sourceforge.net/lives/lives/weed
http://lives.cvs.sourceforge.net/lives/lives/OMC/
Well, LiVES is trying to be that video editor you dream of...
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=LiVES
I was under the impression that flash 9 was already using h264. If not, then what were they using before ?
I got a donation from LinuxFund a couple of years ago to help with my development of LiVES. At the time it was very useful, though of course that money has long since run out.
To all those people saying "why give money to LinuxFund, why not donate directly ?", well...go ahead...why don`t you donate to my project ? The fact is that people hardly ever donate at all, and I`d rather have a couple of thousand dollars from LinuxFund in one go, than get $20 a month or whatever through personal donations.
Splat into what ? There is pretty much nothing out there for it to hit...
That`s nothing. I once DM`ed a game where one of the players was a neutral-evil magic user. Playing his god, I informed him that he would earn extra experience by secretly killing other members of the party, particularly if they were killed in nasty ways.
During one session, the magic user created a small metal cube with tiny holes in it. He abducted one of the other players, shrank the other player and forced him into the box. He then reversed the shrink spell, killing the other player. He collected the *liquid* which was strained through the holes in the cube, and sold it back to other members of the party as a "special potion of strength".
I awarded him quite a lot of experience for his inventiveness...
LiVES ?
You speak as if you have personal experience of this, but I am willing to bet you don`t. How many projects do you develop for ?
As a matter of fact it works like this: periodically, I release source code builds of LiVES. Then somebody from the Mandriva team builds a Mandriva package. Somebody else builds an Ubuntu package. Yet another person makes a debian package, etc. All I have to do is notify the packagers when a new release is available, and then link to the packages when they are built.
4 years ago, you could buy a 3.0GHz CPU.
Today, the fastest CPU`s are still under 4GHz.
Have the CPU manufacturers stopped innovating ? Where`s my 10GHz CPU ?
Surely you mean her mechanism ? Males generally don`t lay eggs...
Even simpler than that now in Linux:
modprobe -r somemodule
http://freshmeat.net/stats/