Wow. They release 2D specs for the Banshee. Matrox released full specs on the G200 a week ago, including 3D. I know which manufacturer I will be buying from.
The GPL makes exceptions for libraries included with the compiler or operating systems, such that they may be non-free. And if you don't distribute the binaries, you're not in violation of the GPL, because it doesn't cover use, only distribution.
./configure --prefix=/usr Now stuff goes in/usr/bin etc and overwrites the rpm-installed stuff. Or you can make an rpm yourself, I'm sure it's not that hard. The reason it doesn't go into/usr/local is that/usr/local shouldn't be touched by the vendor. That's in the FHS.
What's wrong with GTK? I think it looks better, has features that Motif lacks (like tearable menus), not to mention that there is a fully functional free version. LessTif mostly works, but it's still not quite finished. GTK also seems to be easier to program, but I don't have much experience with GTK, and none with Motif, which I thought was too yucky when I looked at it.
The web page says that only the binary modules is proprietary, the modifications to the kernel are under GPL. So as long as binary modules are allowed, this should be legal.
It's definitely not an inherent X thing that makes games on X slow. In fact, Quake is faster in X than on the console for me. And look at SGI. They do their graphics in X. Are you going to suggest that they are not fast? Now, what we need is a good OpenGL infrastructure (being worked on by Precision Insight) and good drivers. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much interest from the hardware companies in releasing either specs or drivers.
When did Sun announce plans for x86 based systems? They have Solaris x86, true, but they don't sell systems for it, and they have announced that they will support Solaris on IA64, but Sun workstations with x86 processors?
Sweden has a socialist government. France has a socialist government. Germany has a socialist government. Denmark has a socialist government. Finland has a socialist government. The UK has has a socialist government. Probably some other European countries have socialist governments, too, but I can't be bothered to look it up right now. And the socialist group in the European parliament is the largest of the political groups. So I'd say there is quite a bit of socialist leaning in Europe, at least in the part of Europe that is in the EU. Though to tell the truth, not all of these socialists are all that socialistic nowadays. So it's not as bad as it might sound to those who are non-socialist in their leanings. But socialism is definitely way more common and accepted in Europe that it is in the US.
So who's going to stop them from calling the next stable version 2.0, if they want to? And how would using C++ have helped? If you need to redo the interface, you need to redo the interface, no matter what language it is in. Using C++ wouldn't have helped at all.
The person who copies the software isn't breaking the license agreement, since he never entered into it. He is breaking copyright law, which states he may not make copies without permission from the copyright holder.
Intel probably won't be interested, since they are concerned with keeping competitors away. But IDT and Cyrix would gain from economies of scale, and a saving in R&D. Unless they plan to just stay with Super7, in which case they won't have to spend any money on developing a new platform, but they'd still lose on economy of scale, if the K7 lives up to the hype and sells as well as AMD is hoping.
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AFAIK, the Sun lawsuit is about them merging new incompatible features into Java in such a way as to make it hard for the developer to see a difference between real Java and MS extensions. Cleanly separating the extensions from the core language shouldn't be much of a problem from the developers point of view. I don't actually know anything about this, though, since I use neither Java nor Windows.
Not only can you install it over ftp, you can upgrade to the newest version of all packages daily, using apt-get. It totally rocks. And with about 3000 packages in total, almost all interesting freely distributable pieces of software are prepackaged.
SGI does OpenGL in X. Even the high end stuff. High end SGI boxen have kick-ass 3D. Ergo, X is not the problem. XFree86 might be, though. But Precision Insight is working on a multipipe rendering system modelled after papers published by SGI, which will AFAIK be released under the X license. That should solve any performance problems in XFree86, I hope.
X is not a GUI! X has never been a GUI! X will never be a GUI! X is quite user friendly. You type startx and it starts. After that, it's not X that decides whether the system is user friendly, it's the applications. And just so you know, I consider Emacs to be far more user-friendly than any form of editor MS has ever made. Not as newbiefriendly, perhaps, but definitely more friendly to me.
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How come you people always just say "Windows/MacOS is better" but never explain what is lacking in Gnome/KDE/whatever?
Perhaps because CVS is free and ClearCase is not.
So register as a developer. It takes a few days, but anyone can do it.
Wow. They release 2D specs for the Banshee. Matrox released full specs on the G200 a week ago, including 3D. I know which manufacturer I will be buying from.
The idea is that they will have content for PIII-only plugins, not ActiveX controls and stuff like that. At least that's how I understood the article.
The GPL makes exceptions for libraries included with the compiler or operating systems, such that they may be non-free.
And if you don't distribute the binaries, you're not in violation of the GPL, because it doesn't cover use, only distribution.
./configure --prefix=/usr /usr/bin etc and overwrites the rpm-installed stuff. Or you can make an rpm yourself, I'm sure it's not that hard. /usr/local is that /usr/local shouldn't be touched by the vendor. That's in the FHS.
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You should try the Notif theme. Looks very much like Motif. And what you mean by loud?
Try Debian. It doesn't have support for compiling from source automatically, but you can do automatic updates with apt. Very nice.
What's wrong with GTK? I think it looks better, has features that Motif lacks (like tearable menus), not to mention that there is a fully functional free version. LessTif mostly works, but it's still not quite finished. GTK also seems to be easier to program, but I don't have much experience with GTK, and none with Motif, which I thought was too yucky when I looked at it.
The web page says that only the binary modules is proprietary, the modifications to the kernel are under GPL. So as long as binary modules are allowed, this should be legal.
It's definitely not an inherent X thing that makes games on X slow. In fact, Quake is faster in X than on the console for me. And look at SGI. They do their graphics in X. Are you going to suggest that they are not fast?
Now, what we need is a good OpenGL infrastructure (being worked on by Precision Insight) and good drivers. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much interest from the hardware companies in releasing either specs or drivers.
When did Sun announce plans for x86 based systems? They have Solaris x86, true, but they don't sell systems for it, and they have announced that they will support Solaris on IA64, but Sun workstations with x86 processors?
Sweden has a socialist government. France has a socialist government. Germany has a socialist government. Denmark has a socialist government. Finland has a socialist government. The UK has has a socialist government. Probably some other European countries have socialist governments, too, but I can't be bothered to look it up right now. And the socialist group in the European parliament is the largest of the political groups. So I'd say there is quite a bit of socialist leaning in Europe, at least in the part of Europe that is in the EU.
Though to tell the truth, not all of these socialists are all that socialistic nowadays. So it's not as bad as it might sound to those who are non-socialist in their leanings. But socialism is definitely way more common and accepted in Europe that it is in the US.
Trademark dilution only applies to stuff that has similar names. They're going after every Tetris clone, whatever the name.
Radiance is open source, but not Open Source(tm). You can't modify it or redistribute it, even though it comes with source.
So who's going to stop them from calling the next stable version 2.0, if they want to? And how would using C++ have helped? If you need to redo the interface, you need to redo the interface, no matter what language it is in. Using C++ wouldn't have helped at all.
The person who copies the software isn't breaking the license agreement, since he never entered into it. He is breaking copyright law, which states he may not make copies without permission from the copyright holder.
If you're not violating copyrights, then exactly what are you violating?
Intel probably won't be interested, since they are concerned with keeping competitors away. But IDT and Cyrix would gain from economies of scale, and a saving in R&D. Unless they plan to just stay with Super7, in which case they won't have to spend any money on developing a new platform, but they'd still lose on economy of scale, if the K7 lives up to the hype and sells as well as AMD is hoping.
AFAIK, the Sun lawsuit is about them merging new incompatible features into Java in such a way as to make it hard for the developer to see a difference between real Java and MS extensions. Cleanly separating the extensions from the core language shouldn't be much of a problem from the developers point of view. I don't actually know anything about this, though, since I use neither Java nor Windows.
X has nothing to do with CORBA. KDE and Gnome target X and use CORBA, but there's no more connection than that.
Not only can you install it over ftp, you can upgrade to the newest version of all packages daily, using apt-get. It totally rocks. And with about 3000 packages in total, almost all interesting freely distributable pieces of software are prepackaged.
SGI does OpenGL in X. Even the high end stuff. High end SGI boxen have kick-ass 3D. Ergo, X is not the problem. XFree86 might be, though. But Precision Insight is working on a multipipe rendering system modelled after papers published by SGI, which will AFAIK be released under the X license. That should solve any performance problems in XFree86, I hope.
X is not a GUI! X has never been a GUI! X will never be a GUI!
X is quite user friendly. You type startx and it starts. After that, it's not X that decides whether the system is user friendly, it's the applications. And just so you know, I consider Emacs to be far more user-friendly than any form of editor MS has ever made. Not as newbiefriendly, perhaps, but definitely more friendly to me.