I don't really get the whole ESR v. RMS thing, seems like they are all working on different sides of the same problem, but one thing really bothered me about this essay. Raymond says:
"1.People who should have known better (Perens/Akkerman/Jackson, RMS) threw bombs in public instead of approaching OSI and Apple privately with their concerns."
This seems kind of hypocritical--if software can (and should) be developed by a community, shouldn't this apply to liscenses, too? Can he advocate code being developed in public while it's liscense is decided behind closed doors (or private channels of communication)?
Anyways, I think the OSI should pick a single liscense that they stand behind and just refer anyone who wants to jump on the bandwagon to that, rather then naming liscenses "Open Source Certified" as they appear.
Don't forget, Harmony is adding the other thing that Qt (and thus, KDE) lacks, real (widget-level) theme support. You can dismiss themes as silly and unneeded, but it is important for these new desktop environments to not only make computing easier, but to make it more fun.
I've heard rumors of QtThemes, (more than just the window border decorations) does anyone know about this?
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> Intel has asked that anti-virsus people list as
> virus a program that *crashes the users computer
> without their consent*!
Uh.. it crashes the computer, but only with your consent. There are big bold letters warning you that this will happen if you press "ok".
Heh, under that definition, Windows itself is quite a virus.
I don't really get the whole ESR v. RMS thing, seems like they are all working on different sides of the same problem, but one thing really bothered me about this essay. Raymond says:
"1.People who should have known better (Perens/Akkerman/Jackson, RMS) threw bombs in public instead of approaching OSI and Apple privately with their concerns."
This seems kind of hypocritical--if software can (and should) be developed by a community, shouldn't this apply to liscenses, too? Can he advocate code being developed in public while it's liscense is decided behind closed doors (or private channels of communication)?
Anyways, I think the OSI should pick a single liscense that they stand behind and just refer anyone who wants to jump on the bandwagon to that, rather then naming liscenses "Open Source Certified" as they appear.
joeld@acm.org
(recovering AC)
Don't forget, Harmony is adding the other thing that Qt (and thus, KDE) lacks, real (widget-level) theme support. You can dismiss themes as silly and unneeded, but it is important for these new desktop environments to not only make computing easier, but to make it more fun.
I've heard rumors of QtThemes, (more than just the window border decorations) does anyone know about this?