From the point of view of the manufacturer, they will have to go to the owner of the copyright of the code in question, and negotiate a seperate license.
Adobe objected to Microsoft building the "save as PDF" option into Office and Windows, arguing that the ability to save a document in a fixed document format, such as PDF, is a separate product and should not be free, Microsoft said....
Adobe declined to comment on the nature of its discussions with Microsoft, but company spokeswoman Jodi Warner said it has discussed with regulators around the world its concerns that Microsoft may abuse its "monopoly" position.
In the past, Microsoft has run afoul of regulators in the U.S. and Europe, in part because officials deemed the company's strategy of bundling features, such as a Web browser and media player, into its dominant Windows operating system as anti-competitive.
In order to avoid a legal clash, Adobe requested Microsoft remove the "save as PDF" option from the new Office and wanted to have users download the "add-on" function for a fee, said Heiner, who is also Microsoft's deputy general counsel.
If you would RTF Sample Chapter, you would see that this is exactly what Wildberger has done: redefined trignometry in terms of "rise/run" ratio ("spread") and the pythagorean theorem ("quadrance").
So your complaint basically boils down to this: "carpenters don't need to know trignometry, they only need to know Rational Trignometry".
Horse manure. Another case of history being written by the victors. Computing had already been taken out of the hands of the wizards (due more to Wozniak and Jobs than anybody) when IBM came along, and, through a series of accidents, settled on Microsoft and Intel as the core of what was destined to become the industry standard personal computer architecture.
They very easily could have picked CP/M on Z80 or OS/9 on 6809, and the history of personal computing would have been completely different. Intel and Microsoft brought nothing to the computing masses that the rest of the flourishing industry wasn't able and eager to bring. They just happened to receive IBM's blessing, and nothing more.
Sorry, I don't know of any public SVN repository using ViewCVS. However, installation and configuration of ViewCVS to use SVN is really very easy; if you're curious, I encourage you to set it up and play with it a bit.
If you use ViewCVS, it's every bit as easy to check a file's revision history in an SVN repository as in a CVS repository. Furthermore, the revision number on a file doesn't get incremented unless it's changed, copied or moved. With CVS, you have no visibility at all into copies or moves.
"If I convert from CVS to Subversion will it retain all the tags, commit comments, etc.? Can I retrieve an old version of the source code (pre-Subversion)?"
Yes. You have to understand that the SVN model of "everything is a directory" requires a different way of thinking from the CVS "everything is a file with attributes" model, but cvs2svn does an excellent job of preserving your entire project history.
Also, it is not mentioned anywhere that I've seen in any documentation, but the output of cvs2svn is a very tractable ascii-formatted sequence of svn repository transaction instructions. This makes it very simple and straighforward to do an intermediate processing step (with sed, perl, whatever) to ensure you get an SVN repository structure that meets your own requirements rather than the default layout that cvs2svn uses.
"Is there anything in Subversion like the commitinfo stuff in CVS that allows you to call other scripts/programs and do verifications before a commit is completed?"
SVN supports pre-commit, commit, and post-commit script hooks. The design is simple (due in no small part to the fact that the SVN model is much more simple) and the documentation is clear.
"Is there anything like CVSweb for Subversion? If not, forget about moving. If there is, will it display the pre-Subversion information (from a previous CVS repository) in the repository?"
ViewCVS has excellent SVN support right out of the box (although I strongly recommend using the much-improved development version out of CVS, rather than the rather stale stable release). Because cvs2svn copies over your CVS-era project history into the new SVN repository, all that information is viewable through ViewCVS. Because of fundamental differences in the underlying model (directory-oriented vs. file-oriented), there are a few minor rough edges that are probably unavoidable in a unified CVS/SVN repository browser, but overall, the ViewCVS user experience with an SVN repository is quite satisfactory.
Not mentioned in your requirements, but a show-stopper for many projects is Eclipse support. I'm happy to report that Subclipse works great once you get around the fiddly javahl library installation issue. Just don't forget to read the documentation if you are checking out a Java project from SVN for the first time.
Once you get your brain around the differences in the underlying model, SVN is so clearly superior you'll never look back.
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"a good programming tool for quickly developing a professional one off application"
All well and good, but if your professional application is proprietary (non-open), you'll need a paid-up Qt licence to go with it.
Except that roughly one out of five children is Chinese, and never learns plurals or past tense (or if they do, they do painfully, by rote, when they study English in school). Likewise the difference between gender (he/she), and countable/uncountable nouns (cloth, pants).
And conversely, all the Indo-European speaking children never learn resultative complements, structural particles, etc. (or if they do, they do painfully, by rote, when they study Chinese in school).
The "hard-wired" school of grammar theory exemplified by Chomsky suffers grievously from excessive ethnocentrism (as well as computational fetishism).
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"And, as you've mentioned: non-democratic and illegitimate. Would you agree that sometimes these words are not so easy to be defined clearly?"
Consider this. You claim that the people of Taiwan are Chinese people. The current Communist Party government already has an agreement with the Chinese people in the form of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. This agreement guarantees free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to organize labor unions, etc.
Can you tell me why the Chinese people of Taiwan should trust the Communist Party to respect the terms of a new unification agreement while the Communist Party has no shame about breaking its current agreement with the Chinese people on the mainland?
If you spend some time reading the Debian package maintainers' mailing lists, you'll realize that the Debian approach is the only realistic solution to the problem.
You need "distro guys" to test everything with everything else, and to take responsibility for making sure the whole system all works together as a system.
Too many things depend on too many other things in too many unpredictable ways for an automated process to be successful.
It's never failed me yet. Since the two reviewed distributions are Debian under the hood, the respective package management tools should work every bit as well.
"Also, consider that fingerprints of criminals has been a forensic tool for over a century now, yet most criminals don't think to put on gloves"
Exactly right.
Criminals are stupid. All the "pry my gun from my cold dead fingers" types here who are arguing "they could change the rifling, they could swap the barrel, they could build their own guns, they could smuggle a gun in from Brazil using a remotely-operated submersible, etc." are completely missing that point.
In all violent crime investigations, more forensic leads are better than fewer forensic leads, period, full stop. Fingerprinting guns in no way shape or form infringes on the rights or liberties of law-abiding gun owners.
Get over it, already.
The only argument against this proposal is that the false-positive rate would be so high that the program would show a negative social return on investment, and we don't know whether that's the case until the issue has been competently studied, which it hasn't, yet.
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From the point of view of the manufacturer, they will have to go to the owner of the copyright of the code in question, and negotiate a seperate license.
e nsing/licensingoverview
For example:
http://www.sleepycat.com/company/licensing.html
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licenses/lic
http://www.artifex.com/licensing/index.htm
Adobe objected to Microsoft building the "save as PDF" option into Office and Windows, arguing that the ability to save a document in a fixed document format, such as PDF, is a separate product and should not be free, Microsoft said....
Adobe declined to comment on the nature of its discussions with Microsoft, but company spokeswoman Jodi Warner said it has discussed with regulators around the world its concerns that Microsoft may abuse its "monopoly" position.
In the past, Microsoft has run afoul of regulators in the U.S. and Europe, in part because officials deemed the company's strategy of bundling features, such as a Web browser and media player, into its dominant Windows operating system as anti-competitive.
In order to avoid a legal clash, Adobe requested Microsoft remove the "save as PDF" option from the new Office and wanted to have users download the "add-on" function for a fee, said Heiner, who is also Microsoft's deputy general counsel.
http://www.pad2pad.com/
You can design your computer at home, and have someone build it to order.
Even better, if you ask me.
Try this: Cationic Steroid Antibiotics
"This isn't MS being monopolistic, it's just good business practice."
So all that hype about how C#/CLR is an open industry standard and Java is closed and proprietary, that was just good marketing horse manure, then?
If you would RTF Sample Chapter, you would see that this is exactly what Wildberger has done: redefined trignometry in terms of "rise/run" ratio ("spread") and the pythagorean theorem ("quadrance").
So your complaint basically boils down to this: "carpenters don't need to know trignometry, they only need to know Rational Trignometry".
Berkeley TCP/IP?
MIT X Window System?
CERN Httpd?
NCSA Mosaic?
Bittorrent?
I could go on, but that's five.
You contradict yourself. If it works on "beige-box", then there will be no "pseudo-clone" market to spring up; beige is beige.
And if people can run OS X on beige, who does that hurt most?
Think about that for a while.
(cough, Longhorn, cough)
Amphibians with mammary glands.
Think about it, and then get back to us.
Horse manure. Another case of history being written by the victors. Computing had already been taken out of the hands of the wizards (due more to Wozniak and Jobs than anybody) when IBM came along, and, through a series of accidents, settled on Microsoft and Intel as the core of what was destined to become the industry standard personal computer architecture.
They very easily could have picked CP/M on Z80 or OS/9 on 6809, and the history of personal computing would have been completely different. Intel and Microsoft brought nothing to the computing masses that the rest of the flourishing industry wasn't able and eager to bring. They just happened to receive IBM's blessing, and nothing more.
Sorry, I don't know of any public SVN repository using ViewCVS. However, installation and configuration of ViewCVS to use SVN is really very easy; if you're curious, I encourage you to set it up and play with it a bit.
If you use ViewCVS, it's every bit as easy to check a file's revision history in an SVN repository as in a CVS repository. Furthermore, the revision number on a file doesn't get incremented unless it's changed, copied or moved. With CVS, you have no visibility at all into copies or moves.
Yes. You have to understand that the SVN model of "everything is a directory" requires a different way of thinking from the CVS "everything is a file with attributes" model, but cvs2svn does an excellent job of preserving your entire project history.
Also, it is not mentioned anywhere that I've seen in any documentation, but the output of cvs2svn is a very tractable ascii-formatted sequence of svn repository transaction instructions. This makes it very simple and straighforward to do an intermediate processing step (with sed, perl, whatever) to ensure you get an SVN repository structure that meets your own requirements rather than the default layout that cvs2svn uses.
"Is there anything in Subversion like the commitinfo stuff in CVS that allows you to call other scripts/programs and do verifications before a commit is completed?"
SVN supports pre-commit, commit, and post-commit script hooks. The design is simple (due in no small part to the fact that the SVN model is much more simple) and the documentation is clear.
"Is there anything like CVSweb for Subversion? If not, forget about moving. If there is, will it display the pre-Subversion information (from a previous CVS repository) in the repository?"
ViewCVS has excellent SVN support right out of the box (although I strongly recommend using the much-improved development version out of CVS, rather than the rather stale stable release). Because cvs2svn copies over your CVS-era project history into the new SVN repository, all that information is viewable through ViewCVS. Because of fundamental differences in the underlying model (directory-oriented vs. file-oriented), there are a few minor rough edges that are probably unavoidable in a unified CVS/SVN repository browser, but overall, the ViewCVS user experience with an SVN repository is quite satisfactory.
Not mentioned in your requirements, but a show-stopper for many projects is Eclipse support. I'm happy to report that Subclipse works great once you get around the fiddly javahl library installation issue. Just don't forget to read the documentation if you are checking out a Java project from SVN for the first time.
Once you get your brain around the differences in the underlying model, SVN is so clearly superior you'll never look back.
"a good programming tool for quickly developing a professional one off application"
All well and good, but if your professional application is proprietary (non-open), you'll need a paid-up Qt licence to go with it.
Except that roughly one out of five children is Chinese, and never learns plurals or past tense (or if they do, they do painfully, by rote, when they study English in school). Likewise the difference between gender (he/she), and countable/uncountable nouns (cloth, pants).
And conversely, all the Indo-European speaking children never learn resultative complements, structural particles, etc. (or if they do, they do painfully, by rote, when they study Chinese in school).
The "hard-wired" school of grammar theory exemplified by Chomsky suffers grievously from excessive ethnocentrism (as well as computational fetishism).
http://www.beauty-fly.com/cpzs.asp
http://www.biliqi.com.cn/cpjs01.htm
http://www.cnqianjiale.com/c-chanpin1.htm
Jonathan Schwartz has a much better analysis of this decision up on his blog now. He really hits on the relevant issues.
Consider this. You claim that the people of Taiwan are Chinese people. The current Communist Party government already has an agreement with the Chinese people in the form of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China. This agreement guarantees free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to organize labor unions, etc.
Can you tell me why the Chinese people of Taiwan should trust the Communist Party to respect the terms of a new unification agreement while the Communist Party has no shame about breaking its current agreement with the Chinese people on the mainland?
Keep in mind that glass house when throwing stones against government control of information.
You need "distro guys" to test everything with everything else, and to take responsibility for making sure the whole system all works together as a system.
Too many things depend on too many other things in too many unpredictable ways for an automated process to be successful.
apt-get install package
apt-get --purge remove package
It's never failed me yet. Since the two reviewed distributions are Debian under the hood, the respective package management tools should work every bit as well.
Debian. Does everything you mention and more.
Mergemaster? Ha. I laugh.
Iridium mirrors, stupid.
There's a company in Russia that will build them to order for you.
Exactly right.
Criminals are stupid. All the "pry my gun from my cold dead fingers" types here who are arguing "they could change the rifling, they could swap the barrel, they could build their own guns, they could smuggle a gun in from Brazil using a remotely-operated submersible, etc." are completely missing that point.
In all violent crime investigations, more forensic leads are better than fewer forensic leads, period, full stop. Fingerprinting guns in no way shape or form infringes on the rights or liberties of law-abiding gun owners.
Get over it, already.
The only argument against this proposal is that the false-positive rate would be so high that the program would show a negative social return on investment, and we don't know whether that's the case until the issue has been competently studied, which it hasn't, yet.