Huh? The DMCA outlaws methods of circumventing copy protection. DeCSS is illegal under the DMCA even if it is used to copy public domain material.
DeCSS is a tool to decrypt the movie. Why would would you want to encrypt public domain material ?
For public-domain material, encryption has no use at all...
Well those numbers are a pretty sight but I base my judgement on Quality... not on Quantity...
Oh... it's nice to have twice as much applications as the other Desktop Environments, but if those applications only perform half the job, you're out of luck.
I use a Desktop Environment with less applications but at least gives my the functionality that it promises... and that's Kool !
AND I know not all of you believe that we evolved from another life form, so the alternative method would be to assume godlike powers, and do whatever gods do when they make intelligent beings.
Maybe Lionhead-studios will release a version of "Black and White" for the CYC .
Cygwin would no longer be allowed to port the GCC compiler to Windows ( a non-free OS).
BeOS (also a non-free OS) uses a lot GNU tools (GCC).
The most important factor : Developers of GNU software that use a non-free OS as a development platform would be unable to develop their software any further.
Companies invest money in open-source projects (ex: PostgreSQL) because the software runs on different flavors of UNIX. If we limit free software to free operating systems (like Linux), the open-source business-model will fail (only companies that use Linux will invest in Open-Source companies
It removes the Free out of Free Software.
This is not a win-win situation. It's a lose-losebigtime situation
Now that Motif is free, I can't see any reason to consider Qt with it's expensive licensing...at least for closed source.
Then I will give you a few reasons:
- It is cross-platform. If they ever decided to switch to Windows or Mac, all they have to do is recompile.
- It is written in C++ which makes GUI programming a lot easier.
- It has a very well-designed class-layout (no spaghetti-inheritance)
- Qt has a good GUI-builder (Qt Designer).
- Since Qt is also licensed under the GPL, you can test it to see if it fits your needs.
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Huh? The DMCA outlaws methods of circumventing copy protection. DeCSS is illegal under the DMCA even if it is used to copy public domain material.
DeCSS is a tool to decrypt the movie. Why would would you want to encrypt public domain material ?
For public-domain material, encryption has no use at all...
GNOME (316 projects)
GTK (137 projects)
KDE (168 projects)
Qt (47 projects)
Well those numbers are a pretty sight but I base my judgement on Quality... not on Quantity...
Oh... it's nice to have twice as much applications as the other Desktop Environments, but if those applications only perform half the job, you're out of luck.
I use a Desktop Environment with less applications but at least gives my the functionality that it promises... and that's Kool !
A friend of mine works as an independant software-developer. He uses Qt for all his applications.
Okay so he had to buy a license (2000$), but it allowed him to write good software easily and he earned the money back by selling his applications...
Therefore, Qt is not a cost, it's an INVESTMENT.
So you like GTK because you can make money from it without paying the GTK developers anything ??!
:-)
Do you actually have a clue what free software is about ??
you create free software -> you can use Qt for free
you create commercial software-> you have to pay Trolltech.
This is a completely healthy economic system
Too bad that stupid hypocrits like you don't understand that...
A Wallet Virus is a program that infects the wallet and drains it.
Are you talking about your wife ??
;-)
Computer games cause violent behaviour !
That's why I spank my monkey in Black & White.
:-)
Linux Magazine has a good article on how GCC could support Microsoft
You can find it here
should be : Desktop Operating System
ofcourse...
Dear Mr. Handy,
Will we ever see some kind of "merging" between OS/2 and Linux ? (a PM-shell for Linux or something?).
What's your opion about the "Linux-ready-for-the-desktop" debate ? Do you see Linux as a potential Desktop Operating ?
How will IBM promote Linux ? Desktop OS, Server OS, or both ?
AND I know not all of you believe that we evolved from another life form, so the alternative method would be to assume godlike powers, and do whatever gods do when they make intelligent beings.
Maybe Lionhead-studios will release a version of "Black and White" for the CYC .
But what about all these artists at mp3.com ?
Most of them can't afford 2000$...
I agree.
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And what about the other problems
Cygwin would no longer be allowed to port the GCC compiler to Windows ( a non-free OS).
BeOS (also a non-free OS) uses a lot GNU tools (GCC). The most important factor : Developers of GNU software that use a non-free OS as a development platform would be unable to develop their software any further.
Companies invest money in open-source projects (ex: PostgreSQL) because the software runs on different flavors of UNIX. If we limit free software to free operating systems (like Linux), the open-source business-model will fail (only companies that use Linux will invest in Open-Source companies
It removes the Free out of Free Software.
This is not a win-win situation. It's a lose-losebigtime situation
I 'don't know much about the X-Window internal architecture. What's so bad about it that everybody wants to get rid of it ?
Now that Motif is free, I can't see any reason to consider Qt with it's expensive licensing...at least for closed source.
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Then I will give you a few reasons
- It is cross-platform. If they ever decided to switch to Windows or Mac, all they have to do is recompile.
- It is written in C++ which makes GUI programming a lot easier.
- It has a very well-designed class-layout (no spaghetti-inheritance)
- Qt has a good GUI-builder (Qt Designer).
- Since Qt is also licensed under the GPL, you can test it to see if it fits your needs.
I use a memory-tracker library I found at www.flipcode.com in the "ask midnight section". It works pretty good...