Oh, I'm not bashing him, his opinions, or his viewpoint. I'm stating the fact that he's a turd for not directly answering Jorrit's question, which was painfully obvious, and being a infinte-looping FSM pundit.
Yes, but it didn't answer Jorrit's question at all, and even though it was very concise and to the point. Jorrit wasn't asking a philosophical question. It was simply "Will this work under the LGPL or not", which is pretty much a Yes/No/Maybe type of question. I think Richard was just barking to hear his head rattle there...
This entire article would have been completely avoided had Richard answered his question, "Is it possible to use a separate,closed-source module in a LGPL-licensed piece of software?", and not stuff his head full of dogma about how "Free Software" is better than "Open Source".
I don't recall Jorrit asking "Should I make Crystal Space Free Software instead of Open Source?".
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You can definitely lock a Windows machine down to where you can only run IE. I know, because I've done it. Internet Explorer and Explorer are separate programs. They both call upon IE dlls (which is why IE is so integrated into the system, as Explorer depends on it for it's interface), but they aren't the same. I can't remember the name of the software I used, but it enabled me to lock down every operation of the machine (including the 3-finger salute) except the execution of iexplore.exe. We used this in a kiosk in combination with a WebRamp 700s to filter what sites the kiosk users could browse.
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If you really believed that, I don't think you'd be posting AC.
Have you brought this up HP OpenMail with them? Its a very nice system, and is compatible with almost any mail client, including Outlook.
Looks like Enlightenment running the Window Maker dock
Oh, I'm not bashing him, his opinions, or his viewpoint. I'm stating the fact that he's a turd for not directly answering Jorrit's question, which was painfully obvious, and being a infinte-looping FSM pundit.
Yes, but it didn't answer Jorrit's question at all, and even though it was very concise and to the point. Jorrit wasn't asking a philosophical question. It was simply "Will this work under the LGPL or not", which is pretty much a Yes/No/Maybe type of question. I think Richard was just barking to hear his head rattle there...
This entire article would have been completely avoided had Richard answered his question, "Is it possible to use a separate,closed-source module in a LGPL-licensed piece of software?", and not stuff his head full of dogma about how "Free Software" is better than "Open Source".
I don't recall Jorrit asking "Should I make Crystal Space Free Software instead of Open Source?".
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You can definitely lock a Windows machine down to where you can only run IE. I know, because I've done it. Internet Explorer and Explorer are separate programs. They both call upon IE dlls (which is why IE is so integrated into the system, as Explorer depends on it for it's interface), but they aren't the same. I can't remember the name of the software I used, but it enabled me to lock down every operation of the machine (including the 3-finger salute) except the execution of iexplore.exe. We used this in a kiosk in combination with a WebRamp 700s to filter what sites the kiosk users could browse.
That was 1/10 mm, not 10 mm, not even 1 mm