I think transgaming is pretty sleasy. Originally, they promised to release the source as soon as they got 15,000 subscribers. They claimed to release it under a license "similar to the wine license." Now this is nowhere to be seen. I signed up because I thought their business model was an interesting idea, the "Street performers protocol." Now they seem to have renigged on this, after taking many peoples money under false pretenses.
If they can't release the code under the LGPL, how would they ever release it under a wine license? These guys are just crooks.
Remember that Attack of the Clones was done with digital cameras. Traditionally, internally lit models are "overexposed" to make the internal lights brighter. Since there's no film to over expose in digital, ILM had to ramp up the lights so much some models caught on fire.
ILM is trying to push the envelope and get some great technologies ready (by using some that aren't quite ready now like digital cameras), so I don't fault them too much for not using models for a lot of things.
Also, for not internally lit objects, ILM used a significant number of models, probably more than LotR, since LotR could mostly be shot on location.
Cg technology could be a great step forward. By releasing it under a nonrestrictive license, companys like splutterfish can accelerate their plans for a shading language in brazil.
The standardization on a shading language is going to push forward renderers two a new level, creating a massive pool of competition to Pixar's Photorealistic Renderman.
Strategy. Free Software needs a 3d modeler. With Maya seats costing 3k, and the massive amount of money in the Effects Industry, a Free Software solution could gain significant momentum. Projects like Film Gimp have benefitted from programmers under the payroll of such effects houses as Rhythm and Hues, and ILM has been interested in helping with development.
Effect houses create a lot of great software which is used in house only, providing them with a base like blender under the GPL will intice them to use those programmers for projects which are released to the public and thus helping everyone.
If 2.5 million dollars was put into a project, and we can buy it for 100k, and we can make it Free Software, why start from scratch?
Umm according to this at the very least a full third of the money raised will go to the FSF if they don't hit the 100k mark. And NaN has already agreed to sell it under contract if the money can be raised. So stop spreading the FUD and code.
Yeah it shouldn't have been in open free international airspace way outside the chinese jurisdiction. Such legal actions totally should be punished by having a jet rammed into a slow moving plane.
The Transgaming APLed version was forked BEFORE the LGPL change. It is probably the reason the license was changed. If Wine was LGPL to begin with this never would have happened.
All Blizzard has to do is make all its new games use REAL encryption and worse come to worse hard code the servers by IP or domain (yes with some work domains could be faked but most users will not do this). If they use some sort of real encryption, then their games will most likely not be usable without some sort of patching, and if bnetd released a patch of some kind to a blizzard game, I'm sure legally they could put a stop to it.
What this is really about is Warcraft III beta, they didn't think people would use Bnetd to use pirated versions of it, and so now they are trying to kill bnetd until Warcraft III comes out. After that don't expect them to make that mistake with DIII or whatever their next game is. There will be encryption.
Of course you can be a Christian without the Bible. All you have to believe in is the divinity of Christ and you are a christian. The New Testament(the Christ part) was created from vast array of documents all of which could have been included. The Catholic Church decided what and what was not to be included in the official bible with somewhat dubious logic (look it up some of it has to do with Jesse Jackson type numerical logic). So the documents which were included can be rejected individually without collapsing belief in the whole. The New Testament is not the word of god, and is never claimed to be. Rather it is a "historical" description of what happened, written decades after the events happened.
It's really sad that NASA's budget gets cut all the time simply due to lack of interest. NASA is responsible for a great number of innovations in science today and we can't even give them enough money to buy parts at Fry's.
My point wasn't that all of what they are offering is trival, it is that they are withholding trivial stuff like the middle mouse stuff from the wine project (and even the ReWind project) unwilling to share even simple things like that.
I'd like to note, notice that when GPL/LGPL projects fork, it's because of technical/legal issues, as opposed to people trying to fork it for their own best interest, rather than the project's.
This really shows Transgaming's position in the free software / open source worlds. I am a subscriber to Transgaming and have since because of their attitude canceled my subscription. I subscribed because they had an interesting business model and I supported it. When the subscriber base of transgaming reached a certain point (apparently non declared [it used to be on their site some where but I bet they renigged]) then they will release it under a less restrictive license "such as the wine license." I finally read that part over again and noticed that it doesn't actually say anything about what license it will be under, and exactly how less restrictive it will be. The fact that they are negotiating to allow simple trivial things back in to the code base that they have been leeching from for years (such as middle mouse support in DirectX) shows they had no intention of remerging the codebase under the wine license. I can almost guarantee that they will never release their modifications under the wine license now, but rather under some non GPL compatible license.
This is what you get when you trust and give your money to a company founded by ex employees of Corel.
I made a phone call to the number on the site (since I am in orange county). The contents was pretty much
I own 5 internet cafes, 3 in orange county, 2 in san fransisco with 3 more scheduled to open in Dallas. I currently own 121 copies of diablo II plus expansion pack, and 130 copies of starcraft. I would have bought 90 more copies of each game for the new cafes in dallas but because of your actions concerning bnetd I will not be. I most likely would have bought 240 copies of warcraft 3 when it came out, and I will not be doing that, nor will I purchase any blizzard product for my cafes ever again. I will also be telling two of my close friends who also run internet cafes to not purchase warcraft III.
I hope you reconsider your actions concerning bnetd, for my customers enjoy your games.
I live in orange county and we have two of the 20 digital screens. I had the joy of watching Monsters, INC. in digital and the difference is amazing. One, no cigarette burns. Two no flicker whatsoever. Three, extremely clear pictures. One problem however, is that you can pretty much clearly see some pixelation on the edges (at least in an animated film like Monsters, Inc).
Saint-Hubert, Quebec, November 20, 2001 - The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Eurockot Launch Services of Bremen, Germany, today announced the signing of a Launch Service Agreement for Canada's MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) microsatellite.MOST, carrying Canada's first space telescope, is scheduled to be launched in October 2002 as part of a multiple payload mission from Plesetsk, Russia, on an SS-19 based launch vehicle called Rockot.
"MOST is a unique and exciting space astronomy mission involving Canadian government, scientists and industry," said Mr. Barry Wetter, Director General of the CSA's Space Science Branch. "The signing of this launch agreement with Eurockot is a major step toward seeing this project to fruition."
The MOST project uses innovative Canadian technology to enable a cost-effective space science mission involving a small telescope no bigger in diameter than a pie plate, carried on a microsatellite about the size of a small suitcase. The total weight is only 60 kilograms.The telescope will help set a limit on the age of the Universe and probe the properties of planets around other stars.
Funded and managed by the CSA's Space Science Branch under its Small Payloads Program, the MOST project is a co-operative Canadian scientific partnership. Dynacon Enterprises Limited of Mississauga, Ontario, is the prime contractor. The telescope is being developed by the University of British Columbia (UBC) while the satellite is being assembled at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). Other key partners include the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology (CRESTech) of Toronto, Spectral Applied Research of Concord, Ontario, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC).The Principal Investigator, Prof. Jaymie Matthews of UBC, leads a team of scientists from across Canada, the United States and Austria.
The Canadian Space Agency is providing $8.5 million to fund the development of the satellite and ground control station, the launch and operations. An additional $1.2 million in support to UTIAS was provided by the Ontario government through its Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund.
From the page:
Dan East (Pocketquake developer):
I've got Quake II ported to the Pocket PC platform. It will be a couple days before release, because there are details yet to clean up (GAPI drawing and input controls). I've only tried it in the emulator, so I can't give you an indication of the speed. It runs 100% on my 300 mhz laptop in emulator, but that of course is no indication of what I'll see on the StrongARM. The main problem at this time is the shareware pak file is 48 MB. I don't know if I'll have gZip compression ready for the initial release or not. The way I implemented compression for Quake I is so freaking slow that at this point I'm considering something more advanced so the loading won't be so compromised. I only have 16 MB CF Cards, so I'm going to have to strip everything out of the pak I can to get it to install on my hardware.
Here's a screen shot. This is in the Pocket PC emulator, using a non-standard resolution of 240x180 (same as Pocket Quake I in portrait).
Dan East
I'm making these available so those of you w/o 5 bucks can download them. If you have 5 bucks (or more) please subscribe to transgaming as I have to support the cause.
It takes at most 1/10th second on Opera, for comparison, IOW, effectively instant which is how I want it.
Check out Multizilla and see how fast those tabs popup.
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I think transgaming is pretty sleasy. Originally, they promised to release the source as soon as they got 15,000 subscribers. They claimed to release it under a license "similar to the wine license." Now this is nowhere to be seen. I signed up because I thought their business model was an interesting idea, the "Street performers protocol." Now they seem to have renigged on this, after taking many peoples money under false pretenses.
If they can't release the code under the LGPL, how would they ever release it under a wine license? These guys are just crooks.
Remember that Attack of the Clones was done with digital cameras. Traditionally, internally lit models are "overexposed" to make the internal lights brighter. Since there's no film to over expose in digital, ILM had to ramp up the lights so much some models caught on fire.
ILM is trying to push the envelope and get some great technologies ready (by using some that aren't quite ready now like digital cameras), so I don't fault them too much for not using models for a lot of things.
Also, for not internally lit objects, ILM used a significant number of models, probably more than LotR, since LotR could mostly be shot on location.
little chunks of hot dog stir mixed in with everything stirfryed with the little packet that comes w/ the ramen is good too.
Also lightly coated w/ miracle whip.
Cg technology could be a great step forward. By releasing it under a nonrestrictive license, companys like splutterfish can accelerate their plans for a shading language in brazil.
The standardization on a shading language is going to push forward renderers two a new level, creating a massive pool of competition to Pixar's Photorealistic Renderman.
Strategy. Free Software needs a 3d modeler. With Maya seats costing 3k, and the massive amount of money in the Effects Industry, a Free Software solution could gain significant momentum. Projects like Film Gimp have benefitted from programmers under the payroll of such effects houses as Rhythm and Hues, and ILM has been interested in helping with development.
Effect houses create a lot of great software which is used in house only, providing them with a base like blender under the GPL will intice them to use those programmers for projects which are released to the public and thus helping everyone.
If 2.5 million dollars was put into a project, and we can buy it for 100k, and we can make it Free Software, why start from scratch?
Umm according to this at the very least a full third of the money raised will go to the FSF if they don't hit the 100k mark. And NaN has already agreed to sell it under contract if the money can be raised. So stop spreading the FUD and code.
Yeah it shouldn't have been in open free international airspace way outside the chinese jurisdiction. Such legal actions totally should be punished by having a jet rammed into a slow moving plane.
Did anyone see the headbutt scene that supposedly got taken out in the UK? I didn't but I might not have been paying attention...
The Transgaming APLed version was forked BEFORE the LGPL change. It is probably the reason the license was changed. If Wine was LGPL to begin with this never would have happened.
All Blizzard has to do is make all its new games use REAL encryption and worse come to worse hard code the servers by IP or domain (yes with some work domains could be faked but most users will not do this). If they use some sort of real encryption, then their games will most likely not be usable without some sort of patching, and if bnetd released a patch of some kind to a blizzard game, I'm sure legally they could put a stop to it.
What this is really about is Warcraft III beta, they didn't think people would use Bnetd to use pirated versions of it, and so now they are trying to kill bnetd until Warcraft III comes out. After that don't expect them to make that mistake with DIII or whatever their next game is. There will be encryption.
Gnuyen
Of course you can be a Christian without the Bible. All you have to believe in is the divinity of Christ and you are a christian. The New Testament(the Christ part) was created from vast array of documents all of which could have been included. The Catholic Church decided what and what was not to be included in the official bible with somewhat dubious logic (look it up some of it has to do with Jesse Jackson type numerical logic). So the documents which were included can be rejected individually without collapsing belief in the whole. The New Testament is not the word of god, and is never claimed to be. Rather it is a "historical" description of what happened, written decades after the events happened.
Gnuyen
It's really sad that NASA's budget gets cut all the time simply due to lack of interest. NASA is responsible for a great number of innovations in science today and we can't even give them enough money to buy parts at Fry's.
My point wasn't that all of what they are offering is trival, it is that they are withholding trivial stuff like the middle mouse stuff from the wine project (and even the ReWind project) unwilling to share even simple things like that.
I'd like to note, notice that when GPL/LGPL projects fork, it's because of technical/legal issues, as opposed to people trying to fork it for their own best interest, rather than the project's.
They aren't trying to use it as a weapon, they are sick over the massive forking that happens with BSD style licenses.
Plus the fact that no black people seem to live in New York...
This really shows Transgaming's position in the free software / open source worlds. I am a subscriber to Transgaming and have since because of their attitude canceled my subscription. I subscribed because they had an interesting business model and I supported it. When the subscriber base of transgaming reached a certain point (apparently non declared [it used to be on their site some where but I bet they renigged]) then they will release it under a less restrictive license "such as the wine license." I finally read that part over again and noticed that it doesn't actually say anything about what license it will be under, and exactly how less restrictive it will be. The fact that they are negotiating to allow simple trivial things back in to the code base that they have been leeching from for years (such as middle mouse support in DirectX) shows they had no intention of remerging the codebase under the wine license. I can almost guarantee that they will never release their modifications under the wine license now, but rather under some non GPL compatible license.
This is what you get when you trust and give your money to a company founded by ex employees of Corel.
Gnuyen
I made a phone call to the number on the site (since I am in orange county). The contents was pretty much
I own 5 internet cafes, 3 in orange county, 2 in san fransisco with 3 more scheduled to open in Dallas. I currently own 121 copies of diablo II plus expansion pack, and 130 copies of starcraft. I would have bought 90 more copies of each game for the new cafes in dallas but because of your actions concerning bnetd I will not be. I most likely would have bought 240 copies of warcraft 3 when it came out, and I will not be doing that, nor will I purchase any blizzard product for my cafes ever again. I will also be telling two of my close friends who also run internet cafes to not purchase warcraft III.
I hope you reconsider your actions concerning bnetd, for my customers enjoy your games.
Thank you
They could add tabbed browsing for one
I live in orange county and we have two of the 20 digital screens. I had the joy of watching Monsters, INC. in digital and the difference is amazing. One, no cigarette burns. Two no flicker whatsoever. Three, extremely clear pictures. One problem however, is that you can pretty much clearly see some pixelation on the edges (at least in an animated film like Monsters, Inc).
Saint-Hubert, Quebec, November 20, 2001 - The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Eurockot Launch Services of Bremen, Germany, today announced the signing of a Launch Service Agreement for Canada's MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of STars) microsatellite.MOST, carrying Canada's first space telescope, is scheduled to be launched in October 2002 as part of a multiple payload mission from Plesetsk, Russia, on an SS-19 based launch vehicle called Rockot.
"MOST is a unique and exciting space astronomy mission involving Canadian government, scientists and industry," said Mr. Barry Wetter, Director General of the CSA's Space Science Branch. "The signing of this launch agreement with Eurockot is a major step toward seeing this project to fruition."
The MOST project uses innovative Canadian technology to enable a cost-effective space science mission involving a small telescope no bigger in diameter than a pie plate, carried on a microsatellite about the size of a small suitcase. The total weight is only 60 kilograms.The telescope will help set a limit on the age of the Universe and probe the properties of planets around other stars.
Funded and managed by the CSA's Space Science Branch under its Small Payloads Program, the MOST project is a co-operative Canadian scientific partnership. Dynacon Enterprises Limited of Mississauga, Ontario, is the prime contractor. The telescope is being developed by the University of British Columbia (UBC) while the satellite is being assembled at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS). Other key partners include the Centre for Research in Earth and Space Technology (CRESTech) of Toronto, Spectral Applied Research of Concord, Ontario, the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC).The Principal Investigator, Prof. Jaymie Matthews of UBC, leads a team of scientists from across Canada, the United States and Austria.
The Canadian Space Agency is providing $8.5 million to fund the development of the satellite and ground control station, the launch and operations. An additional $1.2 million in support to UTIAS was provided by the Ontario government through its Ontario Research and Development Challenge Fund.
From the page: Dan East (Pocketquake developer): I've got Quake II ported to the Pocket PC platform. It will be a couple days before release, because there are details yet to clean up (GAPI drawing and input controls). I've only tried it in the emulator, so I can't give you an indication of the speed. It runs 100% on my 300 mhz laptop in emulator, but that of course is no indication of what I'll see on the StrongARM. The main problem at this time is the shareware pak file is 48 MB. I don't know if I'll have gZip compression ready for the initial release or not. The way I implemented compression for Quake I is so freaking slow that at this point I'm considering something more advanced so the loading won't be so compromised. I only have 16 MB CF Cards, so I'm going to have to strip everything out of the pak I can to get it to install on my hardware. Here's a screen shot. This is in the Pocket PC emulator, using a non-standard resolution of 240x180 (same as Pocket Quake I in portrait). Dan East
The transgaming stuff is available under the aladdin public license which allows for non-commercial redistribution.
I've mirrored the binaries at
gnuyen bb
For those interested, the binary packages (which transgaming only makes available to subscribers) can be gotten from
m =5 &0
http://bb.gnuyen.org/viewtopic.php?topic=8&foru
I'm making these available so those of you w/o 5 bucks can download them. If you have 5 bucks (or more) please subscribe to transgaming as I have to support the cause.
It takes at most 1/10th second on Opera, for comparison, IOW, effectively instant which is how I want it.
Check out Multizilla and see how fast those tabs popup.