So you think that redhat has no interest in GUI. Is that why they wrote GUI admin tools, and are now helping out with the GNOME project in the form of programmers and documentation writers?
And what is wrong with the price? Last I checked you could get the whole distribution free off your local mirror.
Yes there is more than winnt/intel, but the fact is that they are not creating new ports of NT. They are abandoning the ports (do you think there is a MIPS or PPC beta of NT5?). If it wasn't for DEC's insistance, MS would have dropped the alpha port as well.
PentiumPro/Pentium2 was also not a consumer chip to start with. About 6 to 18 months after release, you will probably be able to get a higher end home system with a merced chip.
Since it seems OK to patent variations on the idea of selling products or services, maybe I will take out a patent on taking money from shifty people in exchange for frivolous patents on obvious things, and stuff other people invented.
Then we can licence this technology to the patent office for 25% of their profits (which could then be put to good use). If the patent office refuses to pay, we can sue them and take an injunction out against the office, preventing them giving out any more frivolous patents.
You are a bit misguided. In the licence, the definition of the software includes all the relevant libraries (excluding those that are included with the OS, and whatever you may think, qt is not a fundamental inseperable part of linux or any other OS). Here is the relevant part out of the GPL:
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.
Now, the qt licence would not allow you to licence the complete package under the GPL, and the GPL licence on the original package requires modified versions to be distributed under GPL. Hence the package can't be distributed.
MICO was replaced by ORBit because MICO generated huge stubs. This was alright if you are only having a few objects, but for the panel, where each applet is a separate object, the memory requirements went up through the roof.
ORBit is currently C only, but C++ bindings are in development that would be compatible with just about every other ORB.
For learning uses, first decide what you want to learn, then which language you want to program with (C or C++ are the main ones. There may be some other bindings out there). That will narrow down the choices.
libart is not proprietary. You can get its source off the GNOME CVS server. There is an LGPL portion that is included with gnome-libs (for the antialiased canvas) that can be used by anyone, and a GPL'd portion that can be used only by GPL'd programs.
The author (Raph) also licences it commercially for people who don't want the restrictions on the GPL portion (this is how he makes a living -- similar to the ghostscript author). What is wrong with this?
You can do multithreading with both threads accessing the server simultaneously if you code the program correctly. You would need to create the X connection AFTER spawning the threads.
Then you just have to make sure that each thread uses its own X connection. Of course this would be a lot easier if this was handled by a widget library.
That is true. I once tried out glquake using winnt's software opengl. It did run, but 0.5 frames a second wasn't acceptable for a game. I expect it is a similar problem with this game and Q3
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So you think that redhat has no interest in GUI. Is that why they wrote GUI admin tools, and are now helping out with the GNOME project in the form of programmers and documentation writers?
And what is wrong with the price? Last I checked you could get the whole distribution free off your local mirror.
How is putting user configuration files in ~/etc different to putting them in ~ with a dot as the first character?
Yes there is more than winnt/intel, but the fact is that they are not creating new ports of NT. They are abandoning the ports (do you think there is a MIPS or PPC beta of NT5?). If it wasn't for DEC's insistance, MS would have dropped the alpha port as well.
PentiumPro/Pentium2 was also not a consumer chip to start with. About 6 to 18 months after release, you will probably be able to get a higher end home system with a merced chip.
Or more likely just VM (if the other tasks are more active).
Since it seems OK to patent variations on the idea of selling products or services, maybe I will take out a patent on taking money from shifty people in exchange for frivolous patents on obvious things, and stuff other people invented.
Then we can licence this technology to the patent office for 25% of their profits (which could then be put to good use). If the patent office refuses to pay, we can sue them and take an injunction out against the office, preventing them giving out any more frivolous patents.
Its a win-win situation
Now, the qt licence would not allow you to licence the complete package under the GPL, and the GPL licence on the original package requires modified versions to be distributed under GPL. Hence the package can't be distributed.
MICO was replaced by ORBit because MICO generated huge stubs. This was alright if you are only having a few objects, but for the panel, where each applet is a separate object, the memory requirements went up through the roof.
ORBit is currently C only, but C++ bindings are in development that would be compatible with just about every other ORB.
For learning uses, first decide what you want to learn, then which language you want to program with (C or C++ are the main ones. There may be some other bindings out there). That will narrow down the choices.
libart is not proprietary. You can get its source off the GNOME CVS server. There is an LGPL portion that is included with gnome-libs (for the antialiased canvas) that can be used by anyone, and a GPL'd portion that can be used only by GPL'd programs.
The author (Raph) also licences it commercially for people who don't want the restrictions on the GPL portion (this is how he makes a living -- similar to the ghostscript author). What is wrong with this?
You can do multithreading with both threads accessing the server simultaneously if you code the program correctly. You would need to create the X connection AFTER spawning the threads.
Then you just have to make sure that each thread uses its own X connection. Of course this would be a lot easier if this was handled by a widget library.
That might not be true -- software is often more expensive in Australia. Still $26 is a bit low.
It looks like this interview was done quite a while ago (before netscape source release in fact).
That is true. I once tried out glquake using winnt's software opengl. It did run, but 0.5 frames a second wasn't acceptable for a game. I expect it is a similar problem with this game and Q3