But seriously, even though he mentions Reiser, he doesn't seem to consider it's future direction, which is to allow varying degrees of structure, that could include attributes, as the user sees fit. At least that's how I understand it.
Open music is what Magnatune.com sells. From the site: "All songs are available in MP3, CD-quality WAV, OGG, FLAC and MP3-VBR: download whichever formats you like." The best part is you can download and audition the music, then decide what you want to pay, if anything. "Magnatune lets you choose how much you want to pay for your downloaded album. The more you choose to pay, the more the artist makes, because at Magnatune, half goes directly to the artist, while the other half supports Magnatune." They are also members of the Creative Commons.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with Magnatune.com. This is just a really cool idea whose time has come.
No, Linux means Linux. There are native PowerPC versions of Linux that run just fine on Mac hardware. Of course you have to install it yourself first, but what's new there? Unless you buy from specialty companies, you do that with every machine you want Linux running.
Maybe I'm blind, but I just don't see the benefit to Pixar here. Unless they got some sweetheart deal from Jobs, they now must buy all new hardware and pay for software updates. I noticed there was a comment about challenging Apple to come up with a way to view HD media in smaller file sizes, but that's just software compression, right? Except for the Cocoa interface, how hard would it be to have Pixlet running on their existing systems, especially since Pixar helped develop it in the first place? Please help me out here.
I remember my excitement a few years ago when I found out about the frotz z-code engine to interpret all the old Infocom games. I had purchased the Activision collectors editions a long time ago and so had a lot of games to play with. It brought back a lot of memories. I think the first game on disk (of course I had pac-man et.al. on cartridge) I ever bought for my Atari 800 was Zork III: The Dungeonmaster. The thrill of discovery was still there as I tried some of the games I had never played. I encourage everyone to try this tremendous form of entertainment. Great for those airport waits.
Also, if I remember correctly, Interactive Fiction was the term Infocom used itself as a description of the games, not any kind of politically correct nonsense. I think they were trying to indicate that their offerings were more like literature than the run of the mill text adventure, although off hand I can't remember anyone else who marketed games of this sort.
I don't care about taking full advantage of their offerings. I just wanted to check the site out and see what it was like. Partial advantage would have been fine for that. Unless I'm missing the meaning...
"I'm sorry officer, I swear I wasn't gonna take full advantage of her..."
Actually, though, a "binary only Linux license" is not software piracy, it's just a license. This may seem like I'm splitting hairs, and maybe I am but I think I have a good reason.
Now if they distribute the software, that would be piracy, but if they just sit back and collect from those already using the software, for a promise not to sue, then that really has nothing to do with the actual license of the software concerned, does it? I mean it might be blackmail, but...
I'm wondering if this is not what they're up to, since actually distributing the software under licensing terms specifically prohibited by its owners would open them up to legal liability of their own. Just because a little of their code may or may not be in Linux doesn't mean they own all the code and can do anything they like with it. I don't think even they'd be arrogant enough to do that. Of course I could be wrong here.;^)
Anyway, if they do not distribute the binaries themselves, they can just sit back and watch the dough roll in from all those companies not wanting to risk it.
In any case they are calling it a Unixware license. Of course they didn't offer any details on that either. So Linux might not even be part of the equation except that along with whatever else you get for buying it (if anything), you get the peace of mind that they won't come after you.
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But seriously, even though he mentions Reiser, he doesn't seem to consider it's future direction, which is to allow varying degrees of structure, that could include attributes, as the user sees fit. At least that's how I understand it.
Open music is what Magnatune.com sells. From the site: "All songs are available in MP3, CD-quality WAV, OGG, FLAC and MP3-VBR: download whichever formats you like." The best part is you can download and audition the music, then decide what you want to pay, if anything. "Magnatune lets you choose how much you want to pay for your downloaded album. The more you choose to pay, the more the artist makes, because at Magnatune, half goes directly to the artist, while the other half supports Magnatune." They are also members of the Creative Commons.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with Magnatune.com. This is just a really cool idea whose time has come.
No, Linux means Linux. There are native PowerPC versions of Linux that run just fine on Mac hardware. Of course you have to install it yourself first, but what's new there? Unless you buy from specialty companies, you do that with every machine you want Linux running.
Maybe I'm blind, but I just don't see the benefit to Pixar here. Unless they got some sweetheart deal from Jobs, they now must buy all new hardware and pay for software updates. I noticed there was a comment about challenging Apple to come up with a way to view HD media in smaller file sizes, but that's just software compression, right? Except for the Cocoa interface, how hard would it be to have Pixlet running on their existing systems, especially since Pixar helped develop it in the first place? Please help me out here.
I remember my excitement a few years ago when I found out about the frotz z-code engine to interpret all the old Infocom games. I had purchased the Activision collectors editions a long time ago and so had a lot of games to play with. It brought back a lot of memories. I think the first game on disk (of course I had pac-man et.al. on cartridge) I ever bought for my Atari 800 was Zork III: The Dungeonmaster. The thrill of discovery was still there as I tried some of the games I had never played. I encourage everyone to try this tremendous form of entertainment. Great for those airport waits.
Also, if I remember correctly, Interactive Fiction was the term Infocom used itself as a description of the games, not any kind of politically correct nonsense. I think they were trying to indicate that their offerings were more like literature than the run of the mill text adventure, although off hand I can't remember anyone else who marketed games of this sort.
I don't care about taking full advantage of their offerings. I just wanted to check the site out and see what it was like. Partial advantage would have been fine for that. Unless I'm missing the meaning...
"I'm sorry officer, I swear I wasn't gonna take full advantage of her..."
Actually, though, a "binary only Linux license" is not software piracy, it's just a license. This may seem like I'm splitting hairs, and maybe I am but I think I have a good reason.
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;^)
Now if they distribute the software, that would be piracy, but if they just sit back and collect from those already using the software, for a promise not to sue, then that really has nothing to do with the actual license of the software concerned, does it? I mean it might be blackmail, but
I'm wondering if this is not what they're up to, since actually distributing the software under licensing terms specifically prohibited by its owners would open them up to legal liability of their own. Just because a little of their code may or may not be in Linux doesn't mean they own all the code and can do anything they like with it. I don't think even they'd be arrogant enough to do that. Of course I could be wrong here.
Anyway, if they do not distribute the binaries themselves, they can just sit back and watch the dough roll in from all those companies not wanting to risk it.
In any case they are calling it a Unixware license. Of course they didn't offer any details on that either. So Linux might not even be part of the equation except that along with whatever else you get for buying it (if anything), you get the peace of mind that they won't come after you.