So tell me, how do I test PPC compilation on an X86 machine with VMware ? How do I test 64 bit compilation on a 32 bit machine with VMWare ? How do I test compilation under OSX/Darwin on a standard intel machine with VMWare ?
You see, VM is not a solution for most cross compilation.
Yes, you are exactly right. What's your full name, bank account number, National Insurance number, passport number, address, and credit card number (including security code) ? What's your telephone number and car registration number ? How much money do you have in your current account ? What was the last crime you commited ? I'd be greatful if you could let me know ASAP.
The projected growth will still happen, just not in the US. If I start up streamtuner, I can listen to any of over 2000 streams for free. (None of the ones I listen to happen to be in the US anyway.)
Actually that idea is not new. Somebody actually patented it in 1988, and Richard Stallman (RMS !) frequently refers to it as an example of the dangers of software patents.
Also Microsoft is making a lot of effort to standardise their stuff ( they tried first to license it for free, now they go to a standardisation process ).
But it's not free. The very source you gave says: Distribution Restrictions. You may not... modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License. An Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use, modification or distribution, that the code be disclosed or distributed in source code form; or others have the right to modify it.
If they run on.net, then most likely they will run on Mono. Miguel de Icaza estimates that by the summer, 70% of all.net apps will run natively on Linux, either out of the box, or with less than a dozen changes.
I take it you use a fully paid, licensed version of Photoshop then. Or are you one of these people who likes to steal software, and then claim that the truly Free competition is not up to scratch ?
The general method is to patent a "computer configured in such a way as to run a particular program". Software by itself has never been patentable anywhere AFAIK, so TFA contains nothing new.
1) being sued for including mp3 software without a full patent license 2) being sued by AT&T by shipping development work overseas to avoid US patents 3) got succesfully sued by Eolas for the browser plugins patent infringement 4) is currently being sued by a company called Visto for mobile email and data patent infringements 5) got successfully sued by Timeline for patent infringement in SQL Server 6) is being sued by a company called VirnetX for patent infringement in VPN
Well, perhaps I didn't make myself clear then. Mencoder is required for most encoding formats, but not if you only want to encode to ogg theora, gif, or mng.
No, you are not reading what I wrote. Yes, the app is crippled without mplayer (but you can run it that way if you want), but a plain build of mplayer no longer contains patented code. The same for mencoder.
Nope, my application doesn't rely on any encoders. All encoders are _optional_, and it is perfectly possible to use a version which will encode only to ogg theora, dirac, snow, gif and mng for example. In fact, I even offered to prepare a version for debian which used only free codecs.
It seems like you are jumping to the same conclusions as every other debian maintainer.
I also have statements on record from both the mplayer developers and debian legal that mplayer no longer contains patented code. In spite of this, I even altered my program so it could run alone without mplayer (you can't do very much with it, except edit generated content and images...)
No, if that is the problem then it is down to Debian misunderstanding. A couple of people in Debian suggested that since my project is dependant on mplayer, there must be legal problems with it. This has been proven not to be the case several times - mplayer no longer contains patented code, at least in the default build. In fact there are even debian packages of mplayer in main.
Well, the system may be perfect, but the packagers certainly are not. It's next to impossible to get a new package into their repositories (I've been asking for over 2 years now !), which is I why I have to rely on the good people at getdeb.net (Ubuntu), and debian-multimedia.org (debian).
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Right...I wasn't thinking about the incredible speeds involved.
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Perhaps a simpler way would be to put the ark in orbit around a suitable moon. You could then send out smaller shuttles which would need much less energy to decelerate.
Well, they could send along a few executives from McDonalds and Starbucks, then at least they'd be able to build a hamburger joint and a coffee shop there.
Exactly. In the same way that the Earth sits on the back of a *giant* turtle. It would be ridiculous to think that the Earth rested on the back of a normal turtle - why, a normal sized turtle would get crushed by the weight !
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So tell me, how do I test PPC compilation on an X86 machine with VMware ? How do I test 64 bit compilation on a 32 bit machine with VMWare ? How do I test compilation under OSX/Darwin on a standard intel machine with VMWare ?
You see, VM is not a solution for most cross compilation.
Yes, you are exactly right. What's your full name, bank account number, National Insurance number, passport number, address, and credit card number (including security code) ? What's your telephone number and car registration number ? How much money do you have in your current account ? What was the last crime you commited ? I'd be greatful if you could let me know ASAP.
The projected growth will still happen, just not in the US. If I start up streamtuner, I can listen to any of over 2000 streams for free. (None of the ones I listen to happen to be in the US anyway.)
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but based on some web searches it sounds like it was fairly quickly resolved in a way that enabled GPL implementations
Wrong ! See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Photo#Licensing
The remaining JPEG patents expired last year. So JPEG is now a free format ! Woot !
But it's not free. The very source you gave says: Distribution Restrictions. You may not ... modify or distribute the source code of any Distributable Code so that any part of it becomes subject to an Excluded License. An Excluded License is one that requires, as a condition of use, modification or distribution, that the code be disclosed or distributed in source code form; or others have the right to modify it.
I read his comments about his negative experience with Kino. I wonder why he didn't just install LiVES from getdeb.net ?
If they run on .net, then most likely they will run on Mono. Miguel de Icaza estimates that by the summer, 70% of all .net apps will run natively on Linux, either out of the box, or with less than a dozen changes.
I take it you use a fully paid, licensed version of Photoshop then. Or are you one of these people who likes to steal software, and then claim that the truly Free competition is not up to scratch ?
1) God is referred to as a He in the Bible, therefore, He is male.
2) God created us in His own image, according to the Bible; therefore God has a penis.
3) God does not need to urinate, since He doesn't need to drink (at least there is no mention of it in the Bible).
4) God does not have a wife or a girlfriend (no mention of one in the Bible).
Think about it for a moment: what does God do with His penis ??? And why did He create a *naked* man (and woman) ?
I think the answers are obvious if you consider the above points.
Please explain how a ruling on software *patents* could possibley affect the GPL, which is based on *copyright* law.
The general method is to patent a "computer configured in such a way as to run a particular program". Software by itself has never been patentable anywhere AFAIK, so TFA contains nothing new.
Coming from the chairman of a company which is:
1) being sued for including mp3 software without a full patent license
2) being sued by AT&T by shipping development work overseas to avoid US patents
3) got succesfully sued by Eolas for the browser plugins patent infringement
4) is currently being sued by a company called Visto for mobile email and data patent infringements
5) got successfully sued by Timeline for patent infringement in SQL Server
6) is being sued by a company called VirnetX for patent infringement in VPN
the list goes on...
Well, perhaps I didn't make myself clear then. Mencoder is required for most encoding formats, but not if you only want to encode to ogg theora, gif, or mng.
No, you are not reading what I wrote. Yes, the app is crippled without mplayer (but you can run it that way if you want), but a plain build of mplayer no longer contains patented code. The same for mencoder.
Nope, my application doesn't rely on any encoders. All encoders are _optional_, and it is perfectly possible to use a version which will encode only to ogg theora, dirac, snow, gif and mng for example. In fact, I even offered to prepare a version for debian which used only free codecs.
It seems like you are jumping to the same conclusions as every other debian maintainer.
I also have statements on record from both the mplayer developers and debian legal that mplayer no longer contains patented code. In spite of this, I even altered my program so it could run alone without mplayer (you can't do very much with it, except edit generated content and images...)
No, if that is the problem then it is down to Debian misunderstanding. A couple of people in Debian suggested that since my project is dependant on mplayer, there must be legal problems with it. This has been proven not to be the case several times - mplayer no longer contains patented code, at least in the default build. In fact there are even debian packages of mplayer in main.
Well, the system may be perfect, but the packagers certainly are not. It's next to impossible to get a new package into their repositories (I've been asking for over 2 years now !), which is I why I have to rely on the good people at getdeb.net (Ubuntu), and debian-multimedia.org (debian).
Right...I wasn't thinking about the incredible speeds involved.
Perhaps a simpler way would be to put the ark in orbit around a suitable moon. You could then send out smaller shuttles which would need much less energy to decelerate.
Well, they could send along a few executives from McDonalds and Starbucks, then at least they'd be able to build a hamburger joint and a coffee shop there.
Exactly. In the same way that the Earth sits on the back of a *giant* turtle. It would be ridiculous to think that the Earth rested on the back of a normal turtle - why, a normal sized turtle would get crushed by the weight !
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See those little icons at the bottom ?
Obviously you don't have clue what you are talking about.