This caused them to grow really complacent and unimaginative and slow to react to market changes.
Were they ever imaginative and fast to react?
They inherited a monopoly from IBM, they leveraged that monopoly, but outside of the warm, reassuring PC world, that IBM created, they seem to be astray.
So? These days, Naughty Dog use C++. On Visual Studio. Because they're part of Sony and that's what Sony uses.
They were already part of Sony at the time and yet they used X Emacs. They used and use Linux a lot, they used and use Scheme/LISP a lot and they used and use X Emacs a lot. Take a look at their presentation for the development of Uncharted from GDC '08: there's a nice screenshot of Emacs on Windows (they use Cygwin!) with some Scheme code.
It helps that the compiler vendor is the same as the IDE vendor. This enabled VS to be knowledgeable about the languages you write in it in a way that gcc has expressly forbid Linux tools from ever possibly matching, for years. (With the proliferation of LLVM-based compilers this may change.)
No kidding, kiddo, here is a list of Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter development tools:
Allegro, Common Lisp, Visual C++, Maya, Photoshop, X Emacs, Visual Slick Edit, tcsh, Exceed, CVS
From Gamasutra and Visual C++ is there just because it was the only compiler supported by Sony at the time.
Even if they don't send in any patches, FreeBSD probably comes out ahead just from the exposure.
What exposure? My Sony Bluray Player came with a booklet with the full GPL and LGPL texts, but they are obliged to do so by the licence. I don't expect a reference to BSD, in any form, in the whole package of the PS4.
If Google is a very very closed company, is Apple a very very very closed one? And M$, is it a very very very very closed one? So Adobe must be a very very very very very closed company at the very least.
Try harder, it's going to launch in Brazil, but not in Portugal and I seriously doubt that Kinect will get to work with Russian/Finnish/Norwegian (which is just a continuum of dialects) languages at all during its lifetime. So, no, it's not Kinect the cause of the 1 year delay in Asia.
I bought Crusader Kings II on Steam and installed it on my laptop. Then I copied its directory to my desktop computer where Steam is not installed and I played it there since. Do that with a XBone.
Are you aware that the Xbox One is thought to have grave manufacturing problems and that it will be available in only 21 countries at launch, missing all Asia?
Same as Chernobyl: Nuclear Hysteria -> early screening -> increase in detected cases. I don't think that the Ukrainian Health System is that good, however, according to the WHO, the recovery rate from thyroid cancer "caused" by the Chernobyl disaster is far higher than usual. That means one only thing: early screening.
No, Sony confirmed that "PS4 games will be playable without an Internet connection". That pretty much nails it: this used game policy can only be enforced with an online DRM. That's why the Xbox One FAQ states:
Q: Does Xbox One require an “always on” Internet connection?
A: No, it does not have to be always connected, but Xbox One does require a connection to the Internet. We’re designing Xbox One to be your all-in-one entertainment system that is connected to the cloud and always ready. We are also designing it so you can play games and watch Blu-ray movies and live TV if you lose your connection.
The classification of the African languages: literally thousands of dialects that Greenberg reliably classified through the means of mass comparison. His good work with the African languages is acknowledged even by his detractors and it is generally accepted in whole or in part.
And yet we have: patèr -> pappas (ancient Greek), pater -> papa (Latin), padre -> papà (Italian), père -> papa (French), but father -> dad (English). In German there are Vater and Papa, but Papa is a French loanword attested since the 15th century. In Latin we have also tata for dad, but after all "pater" is a p-t- sequence.
As far as I know Greenberg's mass-comparison method wasn't so mass, it was limited to a statistically meaningful set of words that he thought were pretty "steady", that is numbers, familial words, basic actions like "to be", "to have", "to do", "to go" etc.
Obviously it all depends on the sample, however it is not a method for crackpots, if used correctly. It proved useful a few times.
Because "yes" and "no" are very recent words, they were not present in Latin or Ancient Greek for example. Usually they're shortcuts for expression like "so it is" or "it is not"; in Latin "sic" means "so", hence "sì" in Italian, Spanish and so on (even French). "Yes" and "yeah" are related to German "ja", take a look here: etymonline.
The total Islamic population of France is probably under 10% - the total African and Islamic-descended population is under 15%. Even if ALL of those people wanted Sharia, they would be a tiny minority. I'm calling you on your thesis.
And so what? Those who wanted a theocracy during the Iranian revolution were a minority, still Iran became a theocracy. Same stuff for the Arabian Spring. Mussolini became prime minister with just 35 members of parliament on a total of 535. The Bolsheviks, despite their name, were a minority in the revolutionary forces. The sheer numbers do not matter, but being vocal matters, laissez-faire matters: religious and political extremism in Europe is on the rise.
So, to put it straight:
GPL "steals" code from BSD = your wife cheats on you and you feel ashamed because you know it and there's little you can do about it.
Close source "steals" code from BSD = your wife cheats on you and everybody knows and laughs at you, but you don't know so you're happy.
For some reason BSD zealots prefer the latter situation and don't know why everybody laughs at them.
Um what? Clang is open source. WebKit was open sourced by Apple. Under the GPL they are only obligated to release modifications to the original KHTML base code. They are under no obiligations to release JavascriptCore or WebCore but they did.
They actually are: JavascriptCore and WebCore are both under the LGPL and KHTML derived.
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That doesn't change the fact that a more extreme event would be worse.
This caused them to grow really complacent and unimaginative and slow to react to market changes.
Were they ever imaginative and fast to react?
They inherited a monopoly from IBM, they leveraged that monopoly, but outside of the warm, reassuring PC world, that IBM created, they seem to be astray.
So? These days, Naughty Dog use C++. On Visual Studio. Because they're part of Sony and that's what Sony uses.
They were already part of Sony at the time and yet they used X Emacs. They used and use Linux a lot, they used and use Scheme/LISP a lot and they used and use X Emacs a lot. Take a look at their presentation for the development of Uncharted from GDC '08: there's a nice screenshot of Emacs on Windows (they use Cygwin!) with some Scheme code.
It helps that the compiler vendor is the same as the IDE vendor. This enabled VS to be knowledgeable about the languages you write in it in a way that gcc has expressly forbid Linux tools from ever possibly matching, for years. (With the proliferation of LLVM-based compilers this may change.)
PS4 use LLVM/Clang. PS3 allegedly used gcc as backend. Both use Visual C++, but only as a frontend and only if you want to use it. Bonus slide: http://image.slidesharecdn.com/unchartedtechgdc2008-110214171906-phpapp02/95/slide-25-728.jpg?1297725639 .
Real men use Emacs...
No kidding, kiddo, here is a list of Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter development tools:
Allegro, Common Lisp, Visual C++, Maya, Photoshop, X Emacs, Visual Slick Edit, tcsh, Exceed, CVS
From Gamasutra and Visual C++ is there just because it was the only compiler supported by Sony at the time.
So these must be mirages:
Left 4 Dead 2
Half Life 2
Half Life 2: Episode One
Half Life 2: Episode Two
Man doth not die by prostate cancer only etc. etc.
Don't worry, it's the usual anti-FSF, anti-GPL FUD by soulskill.
Voluntary is fine, no need to change licenses.
Even if they don't send in any patches, FreeBSD probably comes out ahead just from the exposure.
What exposure? My Sony Bluray Player came with a booklet with the full GPL and LGPL texts, but they are obliged to do so by the licence. I don't expect a reference to BSD, in any form, in the whole package of the PS4.
You can try to take over something without using the scorched earth tactics employed by MS, you know.
Google is a very very closed company.
If Google is a very very closed company, is Apple a very very very closed one? And M$, is it a very very very very closed one? So Adobe must be a very very very very very closed company at the very least.
Try harder, it's going to launch in Brazil, but not in Portugal and I seriously doubt that Kinect will get to work with Russian/Finnish/Norwegian (which is just a continuum of dialects) languages at all during its lifetime. So, no, it's not Kinect the cause of the 1 year delay in Asia.
I bought Crusader Kings II on Steam and installed it on my laptop. Then I copied its directory to my desktop computer where Steam is not installed and I played it there since. Do that with a XBone.
Are you aware that the Xbox One is thought to have grave manufacturing problems and that it will be available in only 21 countries at launch, missing all Asia?
Same as Chernobyl: Nuclear Hysteria -> early screening -> increase in detected cases. I don't think that the Ukrainian Health System is that good, however, according to the WHO, the recovery rate from thyroid cancer "caused" by the Chernobyl disaster is far higher than usual. That means one only thing: early screening.
Because those other solutions are not as cost effective, safe from hacking and practical.
No, Sony confirmed that "PS4 games will be playable without an Internet connection". That pretty much nails it: this used game policy can only be enforced with an online DRM. That's why the Xbox One FAQ states:
Q: Does Xbox One require an “always on” Internet connection?
A: No, it does not have to be always connected, but Xbox One does require a connection to the Internet. We’re designing Xbox One to be your all-in-one entertainment system that is connected to the cloud and always ready. We are also designing it so you can play games and watch Blu-ray movies and live TV if you lose your connection.
The classification of the African languages: literally thousands of dialects that Greenberg reliably classified through the means of mass comparison. His good work with the African languages is acknowledged even by his detractors and it is generally accepted in whole or in part.
And yet we have: patèr -> pappas (ancient Greek), pater -> papa (Latin), padre -> papà (Italian), père -> papa (French), but father -> dad (English). In German there are Vater and Papa, but Papa is a French loanword attested since the 15th century. In Latin we have also tata for dad, but after all "pater" is a p-t- sequence.
As far as I know Greenberg's mass-comparison method wasn't so mass, it was limited to a statistically meaningful set of words that he thought were pretty "steady", that is numbers, familial words, basic actions like "to be", "to have", "to do", "to go" etc.
Obviously it all depends on the sample, however it is not a method for crackpots, if used correctly. It proved useful a few times.
You should at least try to gather some information, shouldn't you?
[si/oui/non]
Because "yes" and "no" are very recent words, they were not present in Latin or Ancient Greek for example. Usually they're shortcuts for expression like "so it is" or "it is not"; in Latin "sic" means "so", hence "sì" in Italian, Spanish and so on (even French). "Yes" and "yeah" are related to German "ja", take a look here: etymonline.
They have a leading system now.
Third out of three is "having a leading system" now? At least original Xbox was second.
The total Islamic population of France is probably under 10% - the total African and Islamic-descended population is under 15%. Even if ALL of those people wanted Sharia, they would be a tiny minority. I'm calling you on your thesis.
And so what? Those who wanted a theocracy during the Iranian revolution were a minority, still Iran became a theocracy. Same stuff for the Arabian Spring. Mussolini became prime minister with just 35 members of parliament on a total of 535. The Bolsheviks, despite their name, were a minority in the revolutionary forces. The sheer numbers do not matter, but being vocal matters, laissez-faire matters: religious and political extremism in Europe is on the rise.
So, to put it straight:
GPL "steals" code from BSD = your wife cheats on you and you feel ashamed because you know it and there's little you can do about it.
Close source "steals" code from BSD = your wife cheats on you and everybody knows and laughs at you, but you don't know so you're happy.
For some reason BSD zealots prefer the latter situation and don't know why everybody laughs at them.
Um what? Clang is open source. WebKit was open sourced by Apple. Under the GPL they are only obligated to release modifications to the original KHTML base code. They are under no obiligations to release JavascriptCore or WebCore but they did.
They actually are: JavascriptCore and WebCore are both under the LGPL and KHTML derived.