Well, some parts of this are nice. I have reservations about the actual 3D parts, but window scaling would come in handy.
Having another X server to mediate this stuff isn't very clean though; I understand that they went that way for early development, since there isn't really anything finished that would be better, and they apparently wanted to get to the effects stuff. On the long run, however, it seems that this stuff should be done by a Compositing Manager. Of course, this also requires that the X Composite Extension be implemented in mainstream X servers (read: X.org).
How's about we coin a new term: "kenbrown". Usage:
kenbrown, n.: a person with no real idea of what he or she is talking about. Kenbrowns usually have ulterior motives and are fond of using quotes out of context. Eg. "The kenbrown just kept droning on and on, I couldn't talk any sense into him."
kenbrown, adj.: lacking scruples, misinformative, dishonest to the point of absurdity. Eg. "The marketing speech was totally kenbrown."
Freedesktop.org compliant systems (such as Gnome, KDE and friends) consistently use the primary selection for pasting the selection, and the clipboard for explicit copypasting. Then you can use the one which is more handy for the task at hand.
Of course, some legacy applications don't respect this system, but mostly they can be traded in for more modern applications.
Indeed; I've said it once and I'll say it again: The more patent challenges arrive towards big business the better. Not because the challenges are ethically sound, but because it'll always slightly add incentive for them to change their lobbying ways.
Sure it can make some business sense, from a
certain perspective, to cover one's ass in this
way, especially given that you get a lot of
free publicity to boot.
However, there is one simple reason that I hope
that the negativeness of the publicity negates
in this case the sheer amount of it: ev1 has
voluntarily given SCO's claims credibility (in
the eyes of some) and financed their crusade
against Linux. This is, as such, inexcusable.
Someone in their forums suggested that ev1
redeem itself by voluntarily donating the same
amount to some of the SCO legal defence funds.
This would be a good start, but I can't see it
being very likely.
If the Apache Foundation indeed is of the opinion that Apache Licensed code may be distributed under the GPL, maybe they could just make things easier for everyone and distribute everything explicitly under both their new license and the GPL.
This is not about UserLinux including KDE or supporting it. This is about Perens LLC offering support for UserLinux with KDE added on for paying customers. Perens has always maintained that this is an option for any support provider, as any support provider may offer support for, say, UserLinux with MySQL added on.
This also means that a service provider supporting UserLinux does not have to support KDE (or MySQL for that matter) to live up to their advertising.
The complete ridiculousness of the patent notwithstanding, at least iki.fi has long offered, along with their mail forward service, a subdomain service in this format. That is, a user foo has an "Iki address" foo@iki.fi.invalid (invalid added to discourage spam and indicate that the address is fictional) and has the option to get the subdomain foo.iki.fi.invalid. The subdomains of this format are reserved for the users whether they currently want them or not.
While Iki has been operating since 1995, the Iki domains are a bit newer. Still, the earliest reference I can find for this domain service is dated February 2nd 1998. This clearly predates the patent filing date of November 23th, 1999.
Scrap the "maybe even". They have a chance of
differentiating themselves from the competition
if they offer good quality free (speech) drivers.
They do that, they'll make a client and a
recommender out of me. They don't, well, they're
just another poser with respect to supporting
Linux.
A particularly funny twist in this particular
case is that "Both parties are satisfied with
the agreement and believe that it is fair and
reasonable".
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't think
paying 23.25 million dollars is especially
fair or reasonable to Microsoft if there
had been no wrongdoing whatsoever...
Indeed. Anyway, IIRC originally Transgaming promised to publish their code, D3D and all, under the pre-LGPL Wine license once they reached X subscribers. I was wondering if anyone recalls what X was and how many are lacking, or if Transgaming has actually gone back on their word after the LGPL switch and all? (I couldn't easily find the information from their site.)
I don't remember the exact details, but
you featured (at least) once in the sf series
"Outer Limits" as some sort of a space cadet
on a ship destined to an alien homeworld,
ending up with not quite as happy results as
Wesley would likely achieve in Star Trek.
So, did you get this role intentionally to
distance yourself a bit from Wesley the
Wonderkid who saves the day? Any other comments
on this (quite nice) episode or your part in it?
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Sure; take GNUstep, finish it up and slap QEMU and a MacOS X binary loader on top of it :)
(I'm half-serious, by the way. GNUstep does implement a lot of the necessary APIs.)
Rather it makes me wonder if they're nice enough to pull an id and release the old version as free software sometime after the new one's release.
(No, not holding my breath.)
Well, some parts of this are nice. I have reservations about the actual 3D parts, but window scaling would come in handy.
Having another X server to mediate this stuff isn't very clean though; I understand that they went that way for early development, since there isn't really anything finished that would be better, and they apparently wanted to get to the effects stuff. On the long run, however, it seems that this stuff should be done by a Compositing Manager. Of course, this also requires that the X Composite Extension be implemented in mainstream X servers (read: X.org).
...and I'd hazard a guess that most other who use X nowadays are also doing it from the console of the computer that they're primarily using.
Cheers from the Terminology Liberation Front.
Indeed these would be nice. Start holding your breath... now.
How's about we coin a new term: "kenbrown". Usage:
kenbrown, n.: a person with no real idea of what he or she is talking about. Kenbrowns usually have ulterior motives and are fond of using quotes out of context. Eg. "The kenbrown just kept droning on and on, I couldn't talk any sense into him."
kenbrown, adj.: lacking scruples, misinformative, dishonest to the point of absurdity. Eg. "The marketing speech was totally kenbrown."
Freedesktop.org compliant systems (such as Gnome, KDE and friends) consistently use the primary selection for pasting the selection, and the clipboard for explicit copypasting. Then you can use the one which is more handy for the task at hand.
Of course, some legacy applications don't respect this system, but mostly they can be traded in for more modern applications.
Indeed; I've said it once and I'll say it again: The more patent challenges arrive towards big business the better. Not because the challenges are ethically sound, but because it'll always slightly add incentive for them to change their lobbying ways.
Sure it can make some business sense, from a certain perspective, to cover one's ass in this way, especially given that you get a lot of free publicity to boot.
However, there is one simple reason that I hope that the negativeness of the publicity negates in this case the sheer amount of it: ev1 has voluntarily given SCO's claims credibility (in the eyes of some) and financed their crusade against Linux. This is, as such, inexcusable.
Someone in their forums suggested that ev1 redeem itself by voluntarily donating the same amount to some of the SCO legal defence funds. This would be a good start, but I can't see it being very likely.
If the Apache Foundation indeed is of the opinion that Apache Licensed code may be distributed under the GPL, maybe they could just make things easier for everyone and distribute everything explicitly under both their new license and the GPL.
This is not about UserLinux including KDE
or supporting it. This is about Perens LLC offering
support for UserLinux with KDE added on for paying
customers. Perens has always maintained
that this is an option for any support provider,
as any support provider may offer support for,
say, UserLinux with MySQL added on.
This also means that a service provider supporting UserLinux
does not have to support KDE (or MySQL for that
matter) to live up to their advertising.
The IKI chairman has put up a statement about this (in English).
The complete ridiculousness of the patent notwithstanding, at least iki.fi has long offered, along with their mail forward service, a subdomain service in this format. That is, a user foo has an "Iki address" foo@iki.fi.invalid (invalid added to discourage spam and indicate that the address is fictional) and has the option to get the subdomain foo.iki.fi.invalid. The subdomains of this format are reserved for the users whether they currently want them or not.
While Iki has been operating since 1995, the Iki domains are a bit newer. Still, the earliest reference I can find for this domain service is dated February 2nd 1998. This clearly predates the patent filing date of November 23th, 1999.
So there.
Just thought to mention a relevant tidbit: Gnome-VFS filesystems can also be mounted, but via the lufs userspace filesystem project.
Scrap the "maybe even". They have a chance of differentiating themselves from the competition if they offer good quality free (speech) drivers. They do that, they'll make a client and a recommender out of me. They don't, well, they're just another poser with respect to supporting Linux.
See GNUnet, a secure, anonymous, searchable p2p network with support for other nice stuff like signed files and namespaces.
A particularly funny twist in this particular case is that "Both parties are satisfied with the agreement and believe that it is fair and reasonable".
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't think paying 23.25 million dollars is especially fair or reasonable to Microsoft if there had been no wrongdoing whatsoever...
Sarien worked for my until trying to launch the
;)
escape pod. Then the game got stuck, while still
accepting input.
Nagi, on the other hand, got me onto the planet.
So, apt-get install nagi
Indeed. Anyway, IIRC originally Transgaming promised to publish their code, D3D and all, under the pre-LGPL Wine license once they reached X subscribers. I was wondering if anyone recalls what X was and how many are lacking, or if Transgaming has actually gone back on their word after the LGPL switch and all? (I couldn't easily find the information from their site.)
I don't remember the exact details, but you featured (at least) once in the sf series "Outer Limits" as some sort of a space cadet on a ship destined to an alien homeworld, ending up with not quite as happy results as Wesley would likely achieve in Star Trek.
So, did you get this role intentionally to distance yourself a bit from Wesley the Wonderkid who saves the day? Any other comments on this (quite nice) episode or your part in it?