I believe if a library is released under GPL and not LGPL it is not possible to link against it in non free (non GPL?) software.
The GPL covers only the distribution terms of software not its private use. The licence we are examining here covers both distribition and also
private use.
The GPL says dont attach this code to something with an incompatible licence. This EULA says dont distibute WITH GPLd code. With no clarification on what "with" means. So "with" is the standard dictionary word.
What this licence says to me is this.
1) You can modify and distribute the device drivers, as long as its for interoperability with this software.
2) You can't distridute the device drivers to our competitors. We dont want them interoperating.
3) You cant use our competitors tools with this software either.
4) You cant distribute the rest of this software at all.
Yeah Visual Basic, you can't forget an 'End If', it doesnt understand your indenting and its less powerful than C.
As a result of these problems I've learned to indent properly for easier reading. I use the Allman(?) style of C indenting whereby the braces go on a line of their own:
if (thing)
{
do some things;
}
and I use a similar style in VB. I like Python's enforced whitespace because it make it easier to pick up another programmers code. I just dont like the rest of the language...
I will definitely have a look at TheDullBlade's Cugar because it will save on vertical space in C programs and hopefully give me the best of both worlds.
Preprocessors like these should be available for all languages so that a project team can enforce an indenting style across the project.
Of course there are many other reasons why debugging others source code can be difficult, but I find it easier to read my own code from 7 years ago (when my ability and technique were different) tha anyone elses code because I was indenting in the same way.
On the other hand, these syntax highlighing glorified text editors which appear to know what my code means and put indents in for me in almost the right place, could't they reformat a text file into my preferred style and save it back out into a compiler compatible format, with or without braces, ?
I like them to be one half inch wide, but neither windows nor linux seem to care what size my monitor is. I still have to get a ruler up to the screen to measure my dpi.
Surely an A4 page at 100% on your screen should be the same size as an A4 piece of paper ?
once the public is sophisticated enough to know the difference.
From where I sit it seems that the media are the people that need educating.
I've seen too many articles like this one reinforcing the same ill-informed opinions which only help lazy developers who are only interested in selling products and not supporting their users with upgrades and fixes.
Once the media finally realise that the security problems we face every day are mainly cause by lazyness or rushed product cycles then maybe we'll stop having to read this kind of crap
my perfect OS is apparently OS/2 Warp 4 and 5, PAH! pseudo scientific my auntie. I would've answered other for all of the questions had there been the option.
Just like Linux, Windows 95 comes with a TCP/IP Its on the CD yeah, but you have to manually install TCP/IP (netbuei was default) after your network card / DUN, and then ping.exe and ftp.exe got installed. So you pretty much knew what was installed and what it did. IMHO, that's why the FTP client and TCP/IP stack are all that come with some OSes, so you can download and install your own web browser Thats true, I remember many stories about ISP support staff talking people through command line ftp to get a web browser. Theyre always on the CD nowadays though.
No, the flexibility of Mac cut n paste more than makes up for having to go to a menu or Cmd-C). Personally I'll just select with the mouse then click my middle button somewhere.
Well, do you want Quicken or vi? Word or LyX? Can I use gnucash and staroffice ?
It seems to me this completely neglects Linux's strengths - vastly better performance and a CLI. I'd say it neglects macOS's strengths too, whatever they are. I know a mac zealot or two but I switch off when they start talking.
Actually most browsers support file:// access to local filesystems and no-one really complained about that. It started with win95 OSR2 and most of the complaining was from people who hated IE and wanted to use something else. "why do I have to have this installed ?" they asked, "I used win95 release 1 with no problem without that crappy IE thing on my system".
Before this time win95 had no internet connectivity without the user installing it themselves. The users started losing control over their environment at that point, had no idea what was on their systems or how it worked, and then all of a sudden a huge outbreak of email worms, nice.
vending machines, i.e. all those retired cigarette machines could be retrofitted to dispense 'knowlege' (do you want the hard pack or the soft pack epistemology course?)
a feature you don't see on PC browsers - the ability to define how each page you visit appears. I will concede that no mention has been made of CSS yet
You're probably talking about the same thing here. Opera allows you to have a user defined CSS override the document CSS so you can define how each page you visit appears. And a PC browser too.
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try it with heidi klum !
So I get it! How about we reconfigure the solar matrix in parallel for endothermic propulsion!
You would surely need a transpacitor to do that ?
I believe if a library is released under GPL and not LGPL it is not possible to link against it in non free (non GPL?) software.
The GPL covers only the distribution terms of software not its private use. The licence we are examining here covers both distribition and also private use.
The GPL says dont attach this code to something with an incompatible licence. This EULA says dont distibute WITH GPLd code. With no clarification on what "with" means. So "with" is the standard dictionary word.
What this licence says to me is this.
1) You can modify and distribute the device drivers, as long as its for interoperability with this software.
2) You can't distridute the device drivers to our competitors. We dont want them interoperating.
3) You cant use our competitors tools with this software either.
4) You cant distribute the rest of this software at all.
Seems fair enough to me.
For the love of God, you CAN'T open source a good sandwich!
Why not ? if you can open source a soft drink ?
Might this work for a Tivo too ?
Also of interest may be this project to build a white LED front light for your bicycle
The Register has a story about this
Yeah Visual Basic, you can't forget an 'End If', it doesnt understand your indenting and its less powerful than C.
As a result of these problems I've learned to indent properly for easier reading. I use the Allman(?) style of C indenting whereby the braces go on a line of their own:
if (thing)
{
do some things;
}
and I use a similar style in VB. I like Python's enforced whitespace because it make it easier to pick up another programmers code. I just dont like the rest of the language...
I will definitely have a look at TheDullBlade's Cugar because it will save on vertical space in C programs and hopefully give me the best of both worlds.
Preprocessors like these should be available for all languages so that a project team can enforce an indenting style across the project.
Of course there are many other reasons why debugging others source code can be difficult, but I find it easier to read my own code from 7 years ago (when my ability and technique were different) tha anyone elses code because I was indenting in the same way.
On the other hand, these syntax highlighing glorified text editors which appear to know what my code means and put indents in for me in almost the right place, could't they reformat a text file into my preferred style and save it back out into a compiler compatible format, with or without braces, ?
I like them to be one half inch wide, but neither windows nor linux seem to care what size my monitor is. I still have to get a ruler up to the screen to measure my dpi.
Surely an A4 page at 100% on your screen should be the same size as an A4 piece of paper ?
Is it just me, or do others have this problem ?
Yes putting all you eggs in one basket may be dangerous, but it is especially so when that basket is full of holes
As the article said:
The Melissa virus and the ILOVEYOU worm plagiarized much of their innards from other viruses that came before.
And why were these holes not plugged up when the "viruses that came before" were discovered ?
Maybe someone somewhere just doesnt care ??
once the public is sophisticated enough to know the difference.
From where I sit it seems that the media are the people that need educating.
I've seen too many articles like this one reinforcing the same ill-informed opinions which only help lazy developers who are only interested in selling products and not supporting their users with upgrades and fixes.
Once the media finally realise that the security problems we face every day are mainly cause by lazyness or rushed product cycles then maybe we'll stop having to read this kind of crap
Let me know when they start making 600 dpi, or even 300 dpi, CRTs.
like these ones ?
Didnt you say that in the other thread about this story ?
Do you think anyone else will notice ?
my perfect OS is apparently OS/2 Warp 4 and 5, PAH! pseudo scientific my auntie.
I would've answered other for all of the questions had there been the option.
Just like Linux, Windows 95 comes with a TCP/IP
Its on the CD yeah, but you have to manually install TCP/IP (netbuei was default) after your network card / DUN, and then ping.exe and ftp.exe got installed. So you pretty much knew what was installed and what it did.
IMHO, that's why the FTP client and TCP/IP stack are all that come with some OSes, so you can download and install your own web browser
Thats true, I remember many stories about ISP support staff talking people through command line ftp to get a web browser. Theyre always on the CD nowadays though.
Wouldn't it make more sense to compare two OSs that actually run on the same hardware
Absolutely, and mention that you can have Mac on Linux too. Why wait for OS/X ?
Unfortunately CNET articles are always this bad.
No, the flexibility of Mac cut n paste more than makes up for having to go to a menu or Cmd-C).
Personally I'll just select with the mouse then click my middle button somewhere.
Well, do you want Quicken or vi? Word or LyX?
Can I use gnucash and staroffice ?
It seems to me this completely neglects Linux's strengths - vastly better performance and a CLI.
I'd say it neglects macOS's strengths too, whatever they are.
I know a mac zealot or two but I switch off when they start talking.
Actually most browsers support file:// access to local filesystems and no-one really complained about that.
It started with win95 OSR2 and most of the complaining was from people who hated IE and wanted to use something else.
"why do I have to have this installed ?" they asked, "I used win95 release 1 with no problem without that crappy IE thing on my system".
Before this time win95 had no internet connectivity without the user installing it themselves.
The users started losing control over their environment at that point, had no idea what was on their systems or how it worked, and then all of a sudden a huge outbreak of email worms, nice.
That'd be 'Al Bundy'
I had to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
chmod +x
to get it working on my system.
thank $DEITY for color xterm or I wouldn't have noticed.
vending machines, i.e. all those retired cigarette machines could be retrofitted
to dispense 'knowlege' (do you want the hard pack or the soft pack epistemology course?)
That would be "epistemology lights" then ?
You could run out of disk space by deleting a byte from a file !
Ok so the file is, say, 800mb and is a duplicate of another.
I delete one byte from the end of one instance the os magically
tries to make a new copy and finds no disk space.
Great.
Its as annoying as compressing filesystems which lie about
the free space that they have.
a feature you don't see on PC browsers - the ability to define how each page you visit appears. I will concede that no mention has been made of CSS yet
You're probably talking about the same thing here. Opera allows you to have a user defined CSS override the document CSS so you can define how each page you visit appears.
And a PC browser too.