So perhaps you can enlighten us with your great wisdom...which GNU projects (apart from the Linux kernel) are licensed under the GPL 2 only (as opposed to GPL 2 or later) ?
You didn't mention it in your post (I wonder why ?), but LiVES is intended to fill that gap. It's not quite there yet, but it's close (give it a few more months).
Is there some reason why they (Sun Java) can't merge with GNU classpath ? It seems quite likely the latter would be able to provide all of the missing libraries, since they were working for many years on a free implementation of Java.
1) Will it run or at least synch with Linux ? That is a serious question for once. My iPod runs quite nicely with all of my machines. I wouldn't even consider replacing it with something I couldn't use just as easily.
2) Will the iPhone support ogg vorbis and ogg theora, or will Apple continue paying lip service to the open source community, whose software their entire business depends on ?
Mencoder is an encoder, it's not a video editor. So yes, you could use it to convert existing files, but not to create completely new content.
So, as you say, it depends on the task. Besides, not everybody is comfortable using a commandline tool. A friend recently wanted to convert an mpeg2 file to xvid, and resize the frames. I showed him how to do it in LiVES and he was very happy. Yes, he could have used mencoder to do it, but he's not really a commandline person.
And anyway, my "shilling" as you call it seems to have been beneficial. Read the other reply to my post. I'm probably wasting my time replying to an AC anyway.
You claim Apple contributes a lot to the FOSS community. Apart from some small contributions to khtml and (possibly) gnustep, what are these great contributions you mention ?
Why would anyone bother paying though, when you can just fire up streamtuner and pick from about 2,000 free stations ? Are there any US internet radio stations anyway ? All the ones I listen to seem to come from France, Germany, the UK or Poland.
My guess is that they don't have or can't raise the capital to take on the large manufacturers toe-to-toe
You are kidding right ? Do you know anything about the Tata group ? I'll give you a hint (from wikipedia):
"Tata is India's largest conglomerate, with revenues in 2005-06 of Rs 967,229 million (US $21.9 billion), the equivalent of about 2.8% of India's GDP, and a market capitalisation of US $57.6 billion now (only 28 of the 96 tata group companies are publicly listed). The Tata Group has operations in more than 40 countries across six continents and its companies export products and services to 140 nations."
On the other hand quality of OSS software can be low, documentation often sucks and user friendliness is also an issue
You get what you pay for. Want good documentation for a FOSS project ? How about *paying the author to document it* ? I know, I know, it's a truly revolutionary idea. They have already given you the code for free, and yet you demand even more for free. In my own case, I spend several hours a week coding (for free), and I just don't have the time to document it as well, although I would like to - but I have to make a living somehow. If somebody paid me to document my program, I would happily do it, since all of my users would benefit.
Don't forget Linus had the Minix code to refer to when starting Linux. SCO claimed that this was one way Linux was an illegal derivative of Unix. However, as was pointed out by IBM and others, a simple list of #defines cannot be copyrighted.
I don't think we will ever answer these kinds of questions, no matter how long we study them - why does anything *exist at all* - space, time, matter, energy ? Surely it makes more sense for nothing to exist, ever.
On the other hand, if nothing exists at all, then there are no laws of physics, so maybe there is nothing to prevent something from coming into existence spontaneously.
But then, if something can come into existence spontaneously, what prevents it from spontaneously not-existing ?
And what do we even mean by existence ? How do we define it ?
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* "consumer product" definition doesn't involve a fair chance to negotiate a contract
The GPL is a license, not a contract. If you release your code under the GPL, you are still free to negociate a contract with whomever.
So perhaps you can enlighten us with your great wisdom...which GNU projects (apart from the Linux kernel) are licensed under the GPL 2 only (as opposed to GPL 2 or later) ?
You didn't mention it in your post (I wonder why ?), but LiVES is intended to fill that gap. It's not quite there yet, but it's close (give it a few more months).
That's exactly my point. They should hire some of the classpath guys, and then they'd have a clean-room implementation ready for use.
Is there some reason why they (Sun Java) can't merge with GNU classpath ? It seems quite likely the latter would be able to provide all of the missing libraries, since they were working for many years on a free implementation of Java.
So why not use your skills to create a Linux version which is free from Microsoft patents ?
To do otherwise suggests you are complicit in MS scheming. Do you understand why so many people are angry with what you do ?
Somebody wake me up when: a) I can use the (preferrably DRM free) iTunes store on my Linux boxen, and b) I can distribute deCSS legally.
That's not right. mpeg4 is a codec, quicktime is a container format (.mov). You can put any kind of video and/or audio in a quicktime container.
I'm sorry, I can't seem to find the sourcecode for windows. Which CD was it on again ?
Have you tried LiVES ?
1) Will it run or at least synch with Linux ? That is a serious question for once. My iPod runs quite nicely with all of my machines. I wouldn't even consider replacing it with something I couldn't use just as easily.
2) Will the iPhone support ogg vorbis and ogg theora, or will Apple continue paying lip service to the open source community, whose software their entire business depends on ?
Embrace.
Mencoder is an encoder, it's not a video editor. So yes, you could use it to convert existing files, but not to create completely new content.
So, as you say, it depends on the task. Besides, not everybody is comfortable using a commandline tool. A friend recently wanted to convert an mpeg2 file to xvid, and resize the frames. I showed him how to do it in LiVES and he was very happy. Yes, he could have used mencoder to do it, but he's not really a commandline person.
And anyway, my "shilling" as you call it seems to have been beneficial. Read the other reply to my post. I'm probably wasting my time replying to an AC anyway.
Or you could, you know, just use LiVES and create H264 files for free.
You claim Apple contributes a lot to the FOSS community. Apart from some small contributions to khtml and (possibly) gnustep, what are these great contributions you mention ?
Why would anyone bother paying though, when you can just fire up streamtuner and pick from about 2,000 free stations ? Are there any US internet radio stations anyway ? All the ones I listen to seem to come from France, Germany, the UK or Poland.
You are kidding right ? Do you know anything about the Tata group ? I'll give you a hint (from wikipedia):
"Tata is India's largest conglomerate, with revenues in 2005-06 of Rs 967,229 million (US $21.9 billion), the equivalent of about 2.8% of India's GDP, and a market capitalisation of US $57.6 billion now (only 28 of the 96 tata group companies are publicly listed). The Tata Group has operations in more than 40 countries across six continents and its companies export products and services to 140 nations."
You get what you pay for. Want good documentation for a FOSS project ? How about *paying the author to document it* ? I know, I know, it's a truly revolutionary idea. They have already given you the code for free, and yet you demand even more for free. In my own case, I spend several hours a week coding (for free), and I just don't have the time to document it as well, although I would like to - but I have to make a living somehow. If somebody paid me to document my program, I would happily do it, since all of my users would benefit.
LiVES is already ported to Feisty:
http://www.getdeb.net/release.php?id=470
Comments in code are not copyrightable.
Don't forget Linus had the Minix code to refer to when starting Linux. SCO claimed that this was one way Linux was an illegal derivative of Unix. However, as was pointed out by IBM and others, a simple list of #defines cannot be copyrighted.
Ah, that's an easy one. Just make a suitable black hole, and transport it to the centre of the planet.
Primitive earthlings !
I don't think we will ever answer these kinds of questions, no matter how long we study them - why does anything *exist at all* - space, time, matter, energy ? Surely it makes more sense for nothing to exist, ever.
On the other hand, if nothing exists at all, then there are no laws of physics, so maybe there is nothing to prevent something from coming into existence spontaneously.
But then, if something can come into existence spontaneously, what prevents it from spontaneously not-existing ?
And what do we even mean by existence ? How do we define it ?
As everybody knows, the true cause of global warming is a lack of pirates in the world.
No mention of fink or Darwin ? Those are pretty much the only tools I know on OSX.