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I've heard of them. They tend to link to my software without even notifying me, which in and of itself isn't so bad. But then they don't update the links (I maintain a freshmeat record, and my page. That's enough work already) when I update my software, and I get people complaining to me.
1) It's not his job to deal with KDE or the GPLd code in KDE. He codes Qt. Not KDE. The issue wasn't KDE/GPL, he was addressed why Troll chose the QPL, not the GPL.
2) False. Some are employed my Mandrake, part or full time. Corel has some. Caldera has some. The vast vast majority are volunteers are non-affiliated. KOffice is funded by some company in Asia. KDE, unlike most open source projects, does not have a "benevolent dictator" to steer, anyway.
3) I have no inmmediate problems with the QPL, except for the GPL incompatibility. Compared to crap coming out like the APSL and SCSL, the QPL is a really nice license. I still, however, maintain that it's GPL incompatible (due to my definition of linking). It was nice to learn it's GPL incompatible because of their definition of linking, not from some secondary motive. The issue of the license should be taken up by the KDE team, not Qt. And the KDE team has shown great apathy towards licensing issues. I'm generally a "shut up and code" kind of guy, but this issue has been there for years, and hasn't been solved yet.
KDE and Qt are totally seperate. This guy is from Qt. We heard from Debian before. Let's hear something from KDE, they're the ones at fault in the minds of the Deian developers (and others), not Qt.
100MB tarball of source.. that's a lot of source. Mozilla is 20MB, the kernel is 18MB. Linux has a LOT more drivers in the standard kernel that Solaris, and a LOT more supported architectures. 100MB of source is something along the lines of Windows's 30 million lines. The TNT2 drivers are proprietary because nVidia feels some childish need to protect the names of their hardware registers. It has nothing to do with other companies - free drivers existed previously, in fact. Although, they are facing a GPL violation for _not_ making them open.
Actually, it's called Modern, and it and Classic both use the same chrome (the base XUL). And for the record, I like the Modern skin. It does a good job of presenting a crapload of information neatly and quickly. Although I like Aphrodite better.
The problem is that by the time you remove X, write a new GTK layer, rewrite the libs, etc, you've basically rewritten all of GNOME. Making it pretty useless.
Secondly, my issue isn't the bloat - it's the UI. MS made the same mistake. I don't want a desktop GUI glued onto a PDA, and this is where I feel PalmOS excels - it's perfect for a PDA. I'd never consider it on a desktop, just as I'd never consider GNOME for a PDA.
People complaining about GNOME's speed generally have 3 problems. First, GNOME wants like 32MB RAM. If you have enough RAM, GNOME will run rather decently on 60Mhz+. Secondly, GTK pixmap themes are horrid (luckily the engine is getting rewritten). Thirdly, it's, like you said, faster than Windows, which is still pretty darn slow compared to Blackbox or Window Maker.
They did put out a book on PNG, it had a lot of nice technical information on encoding/decoding, development tools, detailed descriptions of the features, comparisons vs. gif - basically, everything this guide has, plus the nitty gritty stuff that we all want.
peta is a valid prefix meaning 10^8. It's very common in physics or mathematics. Plus, do they actually hate PETA trademarked, or do they have People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals trademarked? Big big difference.
Yet what you propose is a government - either a technocracy (the specific idea) or a meritocracy (the generalization). Of course, a technocracy devolves into a totalitarian state like 1984, and a meritocracy on a large scale tends to cause the rise of those who are best at stealing, not best at creating.
There are three major efforts in progress... I don't use Adobe Illustrator, and I basically use vector graphics tools for basic layout stuff and maps, so I can't comment on how far they really are, but...
1) Sketch. It's been around a long time, and uses Python/Tk (Python/GTK in the unstable version). It has quite a few features, but the unstable version as a GIMP-like interface, and I know some people don't like that (personally, I love it). It does illustrator, svg, and it's own sk format for import and export.
2) Sodipodi. It appears to be built on a slightly better designed codebase than Sketch. It uses SVG as a native format. Biggest thing it appears to have going for it is full 8 bit alpha channel.
3) KIllustrator. Part of KOffice, it has a crapload of import filters. Sketch outdoes it, IMO, but KDE always suprises me in one way or another.
Some more informative answers: 1) Yes, X supports multiple inputs, I use the nipple pad on my IR keyboard and a mouse. Here's some relevant XF86Config lines:
Section "Xinput" SubSection "Mouse" Port "/dev/ttyS1" DeviceName "Second Mouse" Protocol "Microsoft" AlwaysCore EndSubSection End Section
AlwaysCore lets it control the main mouse pointer (as per in the standard Pointer section of the config)
Ditto for stylus, the appropriate SubSections are probably commented out in your XF86Config already, if you use xf86config to generate it. I know Wacom has plenty of support, although I don't have one myself. I know GIMP has pressure sensitivity, I _think_ it has tilt/roll and erasing. I don't own one myself, but I know someone who does, and uses GIMP 1.2 prereleases with it.
This was tried previously with currencies - people printed their own, backed by gold or silver or whatever, and people began to use them. The government (don't recall if it was federal or state) shut them down. Anyone with a hyperlink for this? (and willing to violate patent law by making it?:P)
I know that many parts of Mozilla are dual-licensed under the MPL and GPL. If the parts being used in GNOME (specfically, Nautilus) are dual licensed, there's no problem.
Likewise, if Nautilus has an MPL exception in it, then the issue is again moot - it's once again legal.
I'm not sure if either of these cases are true, but I know GNOME is a lot more concious of license issues than KDE, so any problems have _probably_ been resolved.
libungif can load LZW compressed GIFs, but saves uncompressed ones. I can load GIFs just fine, I just always save as PNGs. libungif is in main, Opt/graphics. Debian XAnim doesn't support any real codecs by default anyway. It'll be no different to compile it yourself. Package: gs-pdfencrypt Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-US Sure doesn't look non-free to me.
Package: libqt2 Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: libs
Package: libqt1g Status: purge ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: non-free/libs
I don't feel like pasting 2.1, since I do have that installed, and it's much longer. Suffice it to say, Debian has had Qt a long time, in non-free when it wasn't free, and in main when it was. The issue with KDE is totally separate from the Qt license.
Well, that's pretty much why anyone starts a country. They don't like the system in the old one, and it's more work to reform it than it is to leave it and start again. Many countries formerly under British rule did it. Most countries under the Roman empire did it. The former USSR did it. Get used to it; it's called history.
This assumes the telcos are competing for a market on high-bandwidth lines, and that they're competing for customers that care about price. T3s, and even T1s, are often owned by businesses and price doesn't matter much. Likewise, telcos don't get much internal competition for high bandwidth wires.
Mozilla can use a crapload of toolkits. I think it _might_ need GTK to build no matter what, keyword being _might_. But it supports Motif, Qt, and a few others as the main toolkit. Plus, almost all of its widgets are native.
The LGPL is far from the same as the BSD license. If your code does something besides import symbols from an LGPLd program (ie, you change an algorithm, or add a feature), those changes must be relesaed under the LGPL (or the GPL at your option, maybe. I'm not sure). With the BSD license, any code can be used for any purpose and changed or linked with anything, as long as the person who originally wrote the code maintains copyright.
Because the people that talk don't often think, and those that think don't often talk.
I don't care if my hellmouth comments are posted. I don't even remember if I posted any of substantial quality. As such, I didn't post to the article about the book, because I didn't have a problem. Unfortunately, people like complaining more than they like complimenting.
People apparently don't want to donate money to charity. People are also rabidly anti-MS. People also don't like Jon Katz. People are either too ignorant, or too stubborn, to deliniate between the two issues.
OK, heading a bit off the main topic, has anyone tried to get a major end-user Free program to the store shelves? Freeciv would be really cool to have in a $20 boxed set with printed manual, and imagine a $30 GIMP on CD with a crapload of plugins and all supported architectures and OSs. Sure, we have distributions out there, "archive" CDs, and lots of server software, but why not aim for an end user market?
OK, before standing here and bitching about the evils of AOL/Time Warner, i actually took the time and read the bug report - and guess what - they didn't take out the feature! The bugzilla report even tells you how to put it back in. Just add
user_pref("imageblocker.enabled", true);
to your prefs.js file, and everything's cool again. Don't worry. There's even real rational as to why they removed it, and I agree with them, as long as I can keep it on.
Side note re. Bruce's earlier comment - Consider leaving ads on, eh? I like Slashdot, so I view their ads. Ditto for Technocrat and many other sites. This is how they stick around. It's just nice to shut off graphics on things like search engines, or heavy sites that take too long to load.
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The things he does don't quite seem awful cold, though :)
I've heard of them. They tend to link to my software without even notifying me, which in and of itself isn't so bad. But then they don't update the links (I maintain a freshmeat record, and my page. That's enough work already) when I update my software, and I get people complaining to me.
Hrm, moderators lost their sense of humour today. Let's try rephrasing (or rather, repunctuating) that:
to slashdot,
who controls the linux media.
I'm probably getting trolled... oh well....
1) It's not his job to deal with KDE or the GPLd code in KDE. He codes Qt. Not KDE. The issue wasn't KDE/GPL, he was addressed why Troll chose the QPL, not the GPL.
2) False. Some are employed my Mandrake, part or full time. Corel has some. Caldera has some. The vast vast majority are volunteers are non-affiliated. KOffice is funded by some company in Asia. KDE, unlike most open source projects, does not have a "benevolent dictator" to steer, anyway.
3) I have no inmmediate problems with the QPL, except for the GPL incompatibility. Compared to crap coming out like the APSL and SCSL, the QPL is a really nice license. I still, however, maintain that it's GPL incompatible (due to my definition of linking). It was nice to learn it's GPL incompatible because of their definition of linking, not from some secondary motive. The issue of the license should be taken up by the KDE team, not Qt. And the KDE team has shown great apathy towards licensing issues. I'm generally a "shut up and code" kind of guy, but this issue has been there for years, and hasn't been solved yet.
KDE and Qt are totally seperate. This guy is from Qt. We heard from Debian before. Let's hear something from KDE, they're the ones at fault in the minds of the Deian developers (and others), not Qt.
100MB tarball of source.. that's a lot of source. Mozilla is 20MB, the kernel is 18MB. Linux has a LOT more drivers in the standard kernel that Solaris, and a LOT more supported architectures. 100MB of source is something along the lines of Windows's 30 million lines. The TNT2 drivers are proprietary because nVidia feels some childish need to protect the names of their hardware registers. It has nothing to do with other companies - free drivers existed previously, in fact. Although, they are facing a GPL violation for _not_ making them open.
Actually, it's called Modern, and it and Classic both use the same chrome (the base XUL). And for the record, I like the Modern skin. It does a good job of presenting a crapload of information neatly and quickly. Although I like Aphrodite better.
The problem is that by the time you remove X, write a new GTK layer, rewrite the libs, etc, you've basically rewritten all of GNOME. Making it pretty useless.
Secondly, my issue isn't the bloat - it's the UI. MS made the same mistake. I don't want a desktop GUI glued onto a PDA, and this is where I feel PalmOS excels - it's perfect for a PDA. I'd never consider it on a desktop, just as I'd never consider GNOME for a PDA.
People complaining about GNOME's speed generally have 3 problems. First, GNOME wants like 32MB RAM. If you have enough RAM, GNOME will run rather decently on 60Mhz+. Secondly, GTK pixmap themes are horrid (luckily the engine is getting rewritten). Thirdly, it's, like you said, faster than Windows, which is still pretty darn slow compared to Blackbox or Window Maker.
They did put out a book on PNG, it had a lot of nice technical information on encoding/decoding, development tools, detailed descriptions of the features, comparisons vs. gif - basically, everything this guide has, plus the nitty gritty stuff that we all want.
peta is a valid prefix meaning 10^8. It's very common in physics or mathematics. Plus, do they actually hate PETA trademarked, or do they have People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals trademarked? Big big difference.
Yet what you propose is a government - either a technocracy (the specific idea) or a meritocracy (the generalization). Of course, a technocracy devolves into a totalitarian state like 1984, and a meritocracy on a large scale tends to cause the rise of those who are best at stealing, not best at creating.
There are three major efforts in progress... I don't use Adobe Illustrator, and I basically use vector graphics tools for basic layout stuff and maps, so I can't comment on how far they really are, but...
1) Sketch. It's been around a long time, and uses Python/Tk (Python/GTK in the unstable version). It has quite a few features, but the unstable version as a GIMP-like interface, and I know some people don't like that (personally, I love it). It does illustrator, svg, and it's own sk format for import and export.
2) Sodipodi. It appears to be built on a slightly better designed codebase than Sketch. It uses SVG as a native format. Biggest thing it appears to have going for it is full 8 bit alpha channel.
3) KIllustrator. Part of KOffice, it has a crapload of import filters. Sketch outdoes it, IMO, but KDE always suprises me in one way or another.
Some more informative answers:
1) Yes, X supports multiple inputs, I use the nipple pad on my IR keyboard and a mouse. Here's some relevant XF86Config lines:
Section "Xinput"
SubSection "Mouse"
Port "/dev/ttyS1"
DeviceName "Second Mouse"
Protocol "Microsoft"
AlwaysCore
EndSubSection
End Section
AlwaysCore lets it control the main mouse pointer (as per in the standard Pointer section of the config)
Ditto for stylus, the appropriate SubSections are probably commented out in your XF86Config already, if you use xf86config to generate it. I know Wacom has plenty of support, although I don't have one myself. I know GIMP has pressure sensitivity, I _think_ it has tilt/roll and erasing. I don't own one myself, but I know someone who does, and uses GIMP 1.2 prereleases with it.
This was tried previously with currencies - people printed their own, backed by gold or silver or whatever, and people began to use them. The government (don't recall if it was federal or state) shut them down. Anyone with a hyperlink for this? (and willing to violate patent law by making it? :P)
I, however, did wake up a few days ago to the sound of the 3 computers in my room shutting *off* as the power went out :)
Take what follows with a grain of salt:
I know that many parts of Mozilla are dual-licensed under the MPL and GPL. If the parts being used in GNOME (specfically, Nautilus) are dual licensed, there's no problem.
Likewise, if Nautilus has an MPL exception in it, then the issue is again moot - it's once again legal.
I'm not sure if either of these cases are true, but I know GNOME is a lot more concious of license issues than KDE, so any problems have _probably_ been resolved.
libungif can load LZW compressed GIFs, but saves uncompressed ones. I can load GIFs just fine, I just always save as PNGs. libungif is in main, Opt/graphics. Debian XAnim doesn't support any real codecs by default anyway. It'll be no different to compile it yourself. Package: gs-pdfencrypt Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-US Sure doesn't look non-free to me.
Package: libqt2
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Package: libqt1g
Status: purge ok not-installed
Priority: optional
Section: non-free/libs
I don't feel like pasting 2.1, since I do have that installed, and it's much longer. Suffice it to say, Debian has had Qt a long time, in non-free when it wasn't free, and in main when it was. The issue with KDE is totally separate from the Qt license.
Well, that's pretty much why anyone starts a country. They don't like the system in the old one, and it's more work to reform it than it is to leave it and start again. Many countries formerly under British rule did it. Most countries under the Roman empire did it. The former USSR did it. Get used to it; it's called history.
This assumes the telcos are competing for a market on high-bandwidth lines, and that they're competing for customers that care about price. T3s, and even T1s, are often owned by businesses and price doesn't matter much. Likewise, telcos don't get much internal competition for high bandwidth wires.
Mozilla can use a crapload of toolkits. I think it _might_ need GTK to build no matter what, keyword being _might_. But it supports Motif, Qt, and a few others as the main toolkit. Plus, almost all of its widgets are native.
The LGPL is far from the same as the BSD license. If your code does something besides import symbols from an LGPLd program (ie, you change an algorithm, or add a feature), those changes must be relesaed under the LGPL (or the GPL at your option, maybe. I'm not sure). With the BSD license, any code can be used for any purpose and changed or linked with anything, as long as the person who originally wrote the code maintains copyright.
Because the people that talk don't often think, and those that think don't often talk.
I don't care if my hellmouth comments are posted. I don't even remember if I posted any of substantial quality. As such, I didn't post to the article about the book, because I didn't have a problem. Unfortunately, people like complaining more than they like complimenting.
People apparently don't want to donate money to charity. People are also rabidly anti-MS. People also don't like Jon Katz. People are either too ignorant, or too stubborn, to deliniate between the two issues.
OK, heading a bit off the main topic, has anyone tried to get a major end-user Free program to the store shelves? Freeciv would be really cool to have in a $20 boxed set with printed manual, and imagine a $30 GIMP on CD with a crapload of plugins and all supported architectures and OSs. Sure, we have distributions out there, "archive" CDs, and lots of server software, but why not aim for an end user market?
OK, before standing here and bitching about the evils of AOL/Time Warner, i actually took the time and read the bug report - and guess what - they didn't take out the feature! The bugzilla report even tells you how to put it back in. Just add
user_pref("imageblocker.enabled", true);
to your prefs.js file, and everything's cool again. Don't worry. There's even real rational as to why they removed it, and I agree with them, as long as I can keep it on.
Side note re. Bruce's earlier comment - Consider leaving ads on, eh? I like Slashdot, so I view their ads. Ditto for Technocrat and many other sites. This is how they stick around. It's just nice to shut off graphics on things like search engines, or heavy sites that take too long to load.