First, since GNUCash is based on other GPL'd software the GNUCash maintainors would have to get permission from everyone who ever contributed to that project.
Second, this is the entire idea of the GPL. If a company doesn't want to contribute to GNUCash in a sharing way, then that is their problem. I suspect many of the GNUCash contributors would not want to sacrifice the freedom of their code because some company doesn't want to share.
That is a nice idea, however it is counter to the Free Software philosophy. A piece of software cannot be Free if it restricts who can use it. (It is similar to the reason the ACLU occasionally backs hate groups in court.)
If they were to do that, then nobody would use FastLane.
What I have thought would be an interesting use of FastLane data is real-time traffic monitoring. Assuming that FastLane users are a representative sample of all drivers (which may or may not be the case), a system like MapQuest could know what the true current average and dev. speeds were on major roads and give predictions accordingly, etc... There are dozens of good ways the data could be used.
I havn't looked into that license but it could well be Free. There are Free Software Licenses other than the GPL. There are even Free Software licenses which are incompatable with the GPL. See the FSF's page.
I realize this is a joke, but you are completely missing the point of free software. Replacing ``Open Source'' with ``Free Software'' in language is not what RMS intends. Furthermore, you are implying that Open Source and Free Software are the same thing which, of course, they are not. (And this is the line Microsoft is trying to blur.)
The founding fathers of the US didn't like excessive taxation, but low taxes wasn't the most important problem. They saught Freedom.
I was noticing that too. I suspect most of it is due to the fact that the three lenses are in different places in space. Anything with a specular reflection like water should show this effect because the glare on something appears to be in a different place depending on viewing angle.
There are a few other things that make these pictues look unusual. One is that many of them have a very high depth of field. The other is that they are high resolution with few dust-marks. I suspect that is partially due to the fact that there are three films and thus three times the resolution in some sense. Also, any marks in one plate could probably be repaired using information from the other two.
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Yes and no... I think it's being made quite clear that Perl 6 will be different from previous versions. not just another round of improvmens. I don't think it's a moving target but rather Perl 6 will be a new target distinct from classic Perl.
They are trying to be the big name in a new market. The old ``if you build it, they will come'' type of thing. When linux *is* ready for Joe Sixpack to use, then there are potentially huge profits to be made.
Also, the people who started Eazel love building GUIs. I'm sure that in a way this project was just an excuse to experiment.
That's a good point. I may post a bug report on it...
The other option that you didn't mention, though (which is what I did) is to do a minimal install, then to run red-carpet once you have the minimal install to install aditional packages.
That doesn't compile it. That downloads binaries through a nice gui. Now it may take a full day to download things if you have a slow link but that's another issue.
I did some RealMedia stuff in high school. The major advantage of pnm:// for archived files is that http doesn't give you random access. You couldn't just jump to the middle of a video without downloading everything before that. Perhaps streaming video over FTP would work? (I know very little about protocols. Perhaps I am wrong that http doesn't allow starting a transfer mid-file?)
If you'd clicked the link you'd find what it really is. It's basicly a little Ximian-run irc-like chanel for help. They will have staff on it so users can come for quick help from *real people*. Here's the link: http://www.ximian.com/desktop/monkeytalk.php3
It would have taken you less time to click the link than post a comment.
Eazel's potential problem at the moment is not that they don't charge for software, it's that they don't charge for anything yet. Their problems may or may not be bad planing, but Eazel still hasn't gotten to the ``ask for money'' phase of their plan. In short, it is not that ``if you want to make money from software, you got to charge for it'' rather it's ``if you want to make money, you have to charge.'' This is something that the people at Eazel have known all along.
Instead of depending on selling products that are far from their core product (think stuffed animals and t-shirts)
This is just silly. Selling things like this has one purpose: it gets the company name out. This is obviously not their long the long-term plan for making money.
It looks from this situation like, just as in the beginning, many people in the KDE community simply do not understand why software must be free. Perhaps it's just a basic philosophical difference, but if you think the Kompany selling closed software is OK, have a read of Why Software Should Be Free. I have no problem paying for what I get, but I believe in the right to modify and redistribute the programs that I use.
As for Eazel and Ximian not having a plan for making money, you havn't done your research. They do. I am looking foreward to the servaces they will be providing.
In other words, there is absolutely nothing here that's interesting unless you're a diehard GNOME programmer. Move along, people.
...Or unless you're a diehard GNOME user. Bonobo is very cool technology---it's what allows Evolution (the mail client) and Nautilus (the file manager) do what they do in a sane componentized mannor.
Bonobo going 1.0 means that the technology has stabalized enough to be ready for programmers to really work with which will mean a lot of cool stuff is just around the corner.
Real Genious is great. I didn't realize just how acurate it was untill I watched it last month. Try to remember the sceen in which the dorm is frozen over an someone rides a home-made chair/sled down the stiars. Compare that image with this picture from a recent dorm trip from Harvey Mudd College.
With regard to seamless opperation: If you ssh to another computer and run an X app, it just works (with most default settings). There is no editing of.mumble files or any ``right'' set of arguments. It is exactly transparent.
Also, ``no one was directly killed by the hydrogen fire in the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. Some died in a diesel-oil fire or by jumping out of the airship, but all sixty-two passengers who rode the flaming dirigible back to earth, as the clear hydrogen flames swirled upward above them, escaped unharmed.'' (Natural Capitilism, p. 35)
Note that, as this quote mentions, hydrogen flames are basicly transparent. The big fireballs in the Hindnburg footage were not burining hydrogen. Also, hydrogen needs a ritcher mixture than gasoline, and it disipates up rater than sticking to things like gasoline.
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Second, this is the entire idea of the GPL. If a company doesn't want to contribute to GNUCash in a sharing way, then that is their problem. I suspect many of the GNUCash contributors would not want to sacrifice the freedom of their code because some company doesn't want to share.
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Even without EZ-Pass or FastLane, the ticket you get when you enter a toll road is time-stamped so the same issues exist with the ``old way''
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What I have thought would be an interesting use of FastLane data is real-time traffic monitoring. Assuming that FastLane users are a representative sample of all drivers (which may or may not be the case), a system like MapQuest could know what the true current average and dev. speeds were on major roads and give predictions accordingly, etc... There are dozens of good ways the data could be used.
--Ben
I'm not sure how you would deal with corrupted files, however. Any thoughts?
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The founding fathers of the US didn't like excessive taxation, but low taxes wasn't the most important problem. They saught Freedom.
--Ben
There are a few other things that make these pictues look unusual. One is that many of them have a very high depth of field. The other is that they are high resolution with few dust-marks. I suspect that is partially due to the fact that there are three films and thus three times the resolution in some sense. Also, any marks in one plate could probably be repaired using information from the other two.
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Also, the people who started Eazel love building GUIs. I'm sure that in a way this project was just an excuse to experiment.
--Ben
The other option that you didn't mention, though (which is what I did) is to do a minimal install, then to run red-carpet once you have the minimal install to install aditional packages.
--Ben
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It would have taken you less time to click the link than post a comment.
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This is just silly. Selling things like this has one purpose: it gets the company name out. This is obviously not their long the long-term plan for making money.
It looks from this situation like, just as in the beginning, many people in the KDE community simply do not understand why software must be free. Perhaps it's just a basic philosophical difference, but if you think the Kompany selling closed software is OK, have a read of Why Software Should Be Free. I have no problem paying for what I get, but I believe in the right to modify and redistribute the programs that I use.
As for Eazel and Ximian not having a plan for making money, you havn't done your research. They do. I am looking foreward to the servaces they will be providing.
--Ben
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...Or unless you're a diehard GNOME user. Bonobo is very cool technology---it's what allows Evolution (the mail client) and Nautilus (the file manager) do what they do in a sane componentized mannor.
Bonobo going 1.0 means that the technology has stabalized enough to be ready for programmers to really work with which will mean a lot of cool stuff is just around the corner.
--Ben
picture from a recent dorm trip from Harvey Mudd College.
--Ben
(Here in California we've got much smaller molecules.)
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Note that, as this quote mentions, hydrogen flames are basicly transparent. The big fireballs in the Hindnburg footage were not burining hydrogen. Also, hydrogen needs a ritcher mixture than gasoline, and it disipates up rater than sticking to things like gasoline.
--Ben