There's something I quite simply don't understand: although SCO is attacking the GPL in public, why would the GPL be mentioned in court at all?
Let's not forget the actual case is a contract dispute - IBM would have misused code given to them when they contributed to the Linux kernel. The core of the allegation is not the destination of that code (a GPL'd kernel) but rather the supposed origin of it (source code allegedly owned by SCO, and provided to IBM under a restrictive contract).
There's where the lawyers might concentrate their efforts, instead of going after what looks (to me) like a very solid license agreement.
I think when you're using "nightly snapshots", you're not really an end user - This is a beta product: you're a tester. The title bars *will* be different than those the real final user will see.
There's an identical project under way at TheOpenCD.org, where they already voted for applications to be included, and have a categorized list, with links and reviews, including rating for documentation, ease-of-use, appearance...
One of the most useful things I found in StarOffice, was the ability to search for regular expressions, or to write formulas (like vlookup or sum.if) using regular expressions. I understand there were part of what got "left behind" when Sun decided to open the source code, for whatever legal reasons. Previous versions of OpenOffice (up to 641D) didn't have that functionality (despite appearing to have it, as checkboxes and other options would indicate). Any of the lucky few getting through the mirrors could confirm wether they fixed this? Otherwise is back to wating for StarOffice6 for me...
I just read the author's suggestion of making a gzipped version of the database available. Couldn't they use XML to share the same database, as/. shares their list of articles? how would this work, is there a lyrics-sharing standard? what implications could it have?
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There's something I quite simply don't understand: although SCO is attacking the GPL in public, why would the GPL be mentioned in court at all?
Let's not forget the actual case is a contract dispute - IBM would have misused code given to them when they contributed to the Linux kernel. The core of the allegation is not the destination of that code (a GPL'd kernel) but rather the supposed origin of it (source code allegedly owned by SCO, and provided to IBM under a restrictive contract).
There's where the lawyers might concentrate their efforts, instead of going after what looks (to me) like a very solid license agreement.
I think when you're using "nightly snapshots", you're not really an end user - This is a beta product: you're a tester. The title bars *will* be different than those the real final user will see.
There's an identical project under way at TheOpenCD.org, where they already voted for applications to be included, and have a categorized list, with links and reviews, including rating for documentation, ease-of-use, appearance...
And don't forget to check out GNU Software for Windows
One of the most useful things I found in StarOffice, was the ability to search for regular expressions, or to write formulas (like vlookup or sum.if) using regular expressions. I understand there were part of what got "left behind" when Sun decided to open the source code, for whatever legal reasons.
Previous versions of OpenOffice (up to 641D) didn't have that functionality (despite appearing to have it, as checkboxes and other options would indicate).
Any of the lucky few getting through the mirrors could confirm wether they fixed this? Otherwise is back to wating for StarOffice6 for me...
I just read the author's suggestion of making a gzipped version of the database available. /. shares their list of articles? how would this work, is there a lyrics-sharing standard? what implications could it have?
Couldn't they use XML to share the same database, as