the reason the GPL doesnt hit headlines is this: 1) its old news 2) the major companys now jumping on the bandwagon (the sort of thing that does make headlines) dont want something as free as the GPL, they want "Free with the exception of...."
thats how i see it, if i was to do a search on an achive, maybe freshmeat i think youwould find the GPL the most common, it is the most common i come accross, and i`d say its one of the best
personaly i dislike the current comercilastaion (sorrie i will learn to spell one day) thats happening to Linux, but i do think that in the same way we have the right to writing things under the GPL and expect the big copmanys not to rip us off on it, cant little companys expect us not to rip them off for what they slaved over? sorrie if i make no sense, i am not great with words
while i do agree that a Free Software/opensource alternitive is a good idea, we are also driving away alot of people from Linux, everytime someone makes a good product for Linux it gets opensource alternative and everyone uses that. In the end it wont make people turn to programming open source programs but instead drive them away from the platform.
I agree all software should be free... but sometimes, like with the Harmony project for the Qt lib, i feel we are ripping off people sometimes...
while i do agree that a Free Software/opensource alternitive is a good idea, we are also driving away alot of people from Linux, everytime someone makes a good product for Linux it gets opensource alternative and everyone uses that. In the end it wont make people turn to programming open source programs but instead drive them away from the platform.
I agree all software should be free... but sometimes, like with the Harmony project for the Qt lib, i feel we are ripping off people sometimes...
all they ask is a little credit is that too much???
i sat here and read almost all these comments and to be blunt, i am sickened by them.
just remove all the GNU stuff from your system, then see if you feel more like giving them the credit they desurve? now remove everything under the GPL since thats made by GNU, feel more like it now???
give the GNU credit, they have made what we have, in software, in liecnse, in morels, so blasted say thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
Um... Linus gets his credit from the kernels name. Am i the only one whos noticed this? why sint GNU called RMS? yet you all call RMS the big head, shesh, reading all these comments is really getting me worked up. Morels really are nothing in todays world are they.. i want a new world
many people who come into the Linux world dont know what GNU is for a long time. Some know what the GPL is, but it often takes a long time, especialy with all this "open source" hype some of which is so not open its sickening. Alot of a Linux system is GNU, so why not say thanks? I meen Linux is based on Linus' name. Yet no one objects to crediting him. GNU is not based on RMS' name, so lets give the poor guy some credit? hes worked 15 years for what we have, lets say thank you at least once.
how is it forced on you? i agree we should give credit where credits due. I`m sorrie but noone is forcing it upon you. If you look at the majority of these comments they seem to still call it Linux and not GNU/Linux. So if its forced its not very forcefully forced. Also the "dick" has a point, wihtout GNU we would only have a kernel.
Try this, remove all GNU tools from your "Linux" system, maybe then you will give some credit to GNU for what it actually does.
i think you are being very unfair. The world today likes people to hide their opinions, to keep how they feel to themselves, even to change their opinions without understanding the changes. You most certainly are _not_ encouraged to stand up for something you believe. RMS basicly says screw that. He stands up for what he believes, you _have_ to credit him for that. Like anything that is good we need people who are maybe a little over the top to keep reminding us what we are really about, especialy now that "the indestry" have noticed GNU/Linux and start buzzing "open source". Too many people seem to have lost the morels that made the Free Software community and GNU/Linux what it is
good to see the suits not winning for a change. Unless a person brought the name just to make money off a copmany then its his/hers, the sooner the suits get used to it the better.
it may just be me but i dont feel secure when one copmany really controls whats going on with something as imortant as a lib, thats why i never wrote any qt apps even though i been told time and time again its a very nice widget set. I say good luck to them... with all this widget sets around now though i wish there was someway of making them all look the same, like the gtk themes but through all the widget sets.. a common interface would be a nice thing to *dream*
not quite... the love(source) would have to be made availble.. but they dont have to have it if they dont want to, most women i know just want the sex(binary).
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the reason the GPL doesnt hit headlines is this:
1) its old news
2) the major companys now jumping on the bandwagon (the sort of thing that does make headlines) dont want something as free as the GPL, they want "Free with the exception of...."
thats how i see it, if i was to do a search on an achive, maybe freshmeat i think youwould find the GPL the most common, it is the most common i come accross, and i`d say its one of the best
i just had a look at that, and yea, thanks for briing that to our attention. seems "free" and "opensource" really do meen _nothing_ now
personaly i dislike the current comercilastaion (sorrie i will learn to spell one day) thats happening to Linux, but i do think that in the same way we have the right to writing things under the GPL and expect the big copmanys not to rip us off on it, cant little companys expect us not to rip them off for what they slaved over? sorrie if i make no sense, i am not great with words
while i do agree that a Free Software/opensource alternitive is a good idea, we are also driving away alot of people from Linux, everytime someone makes a good product for Linux it gets opensource alternative and everyone uses that. In the end it wont make people turn to programming open source programs but instead drive them away from the platform.
I agree all software should be free... but sometimes, like with the Harmony project for the Qt lib, i feel we are ripping off people sometimes...
while i do agree that a Free Software/opensource alternitive is a good idea, we are also driving away alot of people from Linux, everytime someone makes a good product for Linux it gets opensource alternative and everyone uses that. In the end it wont make people turn to programming open source programs but instead drive them away from the platform.
I agree all software should be free... but sometimes, like with the Harmony project for the Qt lib, i feel we are ripping off people sometimes...
all they ask is a little credit is that too much???
i sat here and read almost all these comments and to be blunt, i am sickened by them.
just remove all the GNU stuff from your system, then see if you feel more like giving them the credit they desurve? now remove everything under the GPL since thats made by GNU, feel more like it now???
give the GNU credit, they have made what we have, in software, in liecnse, in morels, so blasted say thank you!!!!!!!!!!!
grr
sorrie i _really_ had to get that out
in the same way the fundermental morels of a Church nor should they of the GNU. Maybe some people aint in it for the money?
Um...
Linus gets his credit from the kernels name. Am i the only one whos noticed this? why sint GNU called RMS? yet you all call RMS the big head, shesh, reading all these comments is really getting me worked up. Morels really are nothing in todays world are they.. i want a new world
many people who come into the Linux world dont know what GNU is for a long time. Some know what the GPL is, but it often takes a long time, especialy with all this "open source" hype some of which is so not open its sickening. Alot of a Linux system is GNU, so why not say thanks? I meen Linux is based on Linus' name. Yet no one objects to crediting him. GNU is not based on RMS' name, so lets give the poor guy some credit? hes worked 15 years for what we have, lets say thank you at least once.
how is it forced on you? i agree we should give credit where credits due. I`m sorrie but noone is forcing it upon you. If you look at the majority of these comments they seem to still call it Linux and not GNU/Linux. So if its forced its not very forcefully forced. Also the "dick" has a point, wihtout GNU we would only have a kernel.
Try this, remove all GNU tools from your "Linux" system, maybe then you will give some credit to GNU for what it actually does.
the restriction applyed is that you cant apply a restriction. you fail to see this?
i think you are being very unfair. The world today likes people to hide their opinions, to keep how they feel to themselves, even to change their opinions without understanding the changes. You most certainly are _not_ encouraged to stand up for something you believe. RMS basicly says screw that. He stands up for what he believes, you _have_ to credit him for that. Like anything that is good we need people who are maybe a little over the top to keep reminding us what we are really about, especialy now that "the indestry" have noticed GNU/Linux and start buzzing "open source". Too many people seem to have lost the morels that made the Free Software community and GNU/Linux what it is
hmmm... wouldnt that be the same as the 3.x kernel?
i dont know why they say all this hype, it will simply never happen
Pizza vending machines, computers, Linux.. my worlds falling apart
lets have a /. compition to see who can make a GNU/Linux distro out off jelly/jello!
on a computer course huh? maybe i should sue that the women that are in my classes aint like the ones in the course leaflett
maybe i could sue my college for "selling" me a BTEC GNVQ advanced, theres nothing advanced about it, just 2 wasted years.
I wish i was in the usa...
i think Gtk-- does a dang good job at that
good to see the suits not winning for a change. Unless a person brought the name just to make money off a copmany then its his/hers, the sooner the suits get used to it the better.
i ment a common interface as in the interface to program... i think i`m gonna go learn how to use that preview button now (:
it may just be me but i dont feel secure when one copmany really controls whats going on with something as imortant as a lib, thats why i never wrote any qt apps even though i been told time and time again its a very nice widget set. I say good luck to them... with all this widget sets around now though i wish there was someway of making them all look the same, like the gtk themes but through all the widget sets.. a common interface would be a nice thing to *dream*
we voted with the GPL.
not quite... the love(source) would have to be made availble.. but they dont have to have it if they dont want to, most women i know just want the sex(binary).
i actually get extreamly violently mad at my college admins.. its a two way thing