True. Id makes a significant amount of money from licensing the engine.
I think it does make more sense if you wait 5 years or so though, as with Quake 3. By that time you aren't really giving your competitors an advantage, since the engine technology would be 5 years old.
Wow, you managed to take away from my statement that evolutionists don't believe in abogenesis?
I'll just copy-pasta from talk origins since this has been answered hundreds of times before:
Response:
1. The theory of evolution applies as long as life exists. How that life came to exist is not relevant to evolution. Claiming that evolution does not apply without a theory of abiogenesis makes as much sense as saying that umbrellas do not work without a theory of meteorology.
2. Abiogenesis is a fact. Regardless of how you imagine it happened (note that creation is a theory of abiogenesis), it is a fact that there once was no life on earth and that now there is. Thus, even if evolution needs abiogenesis, it has it.
For example setting the hardware clock to GMT (Something everyone who dual boots probably wants). I couldn't believe it when I found out I had to do that via regedit.
Heh, I went to the USA for the first just a year ago, and I was shocked by fox news as well. The reporter started to tell an interviewee that they were wrong! Very strange indeed.
But why would Ubuntu use an unbranded version of Firefox if there was no 'screaming' as you put it? If it wasn't for the screaming, Ubuntu wouldn't have particularly pushed it, and there would now be a EULA.
In the recent Ubuntu/Mozilla case, both Ubuntu and Fedora had behind-the-scenes quiet negotiations with Mozilla over the EULAs. However Mozilla insisted that it wanted and needed the EULA.
It wasn't until there was a fairly big uproar about it did Mozilla come back to the table to renegotiate.
So sometimes the squeaky wheel does get the grease:)
Why does it matter if a doctor doesn't know what an antibiotic actually does? As long as they know when they should prescribe, what the symptons are, and what the results should be, does it matter what the internal mechanism is?
Well you're wrong. The linux kernel comes with far more drivers than Windows comes with natively. The majority of drivers that people use in Windows are 3rd party and Microsoft does not have the source code for them. Microsoft cannot recompile 3rd party drivers for the OLPC.
What about drivers? Windows has very few drivers compared to Linux, so won't this have only minimal support for extra USB devices? I don't think 3rd party drivers will work on the OLPC.
You are claiming that it is reasonable to force the user to accept a EULA in order to use the program, just in the name of protecting the trademark.
I am saying that I really do not want this to set a precedent that every program with a trademark demand that the user agrees to a EULA. The linux kernel being, hopefully, an obvious example of why this is a bad route to go down. There are thousands of programs with a default linux install - it would be a nightmare if they all started showing EULAs.
It is important to show, early on, that EULAs will not be tolerated. This is not just about Firefox, but about nipping this trend in the butt early on.
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True. Id makes a significant amount of money from licensing the engine.
I think it does make more sense if you wait 5 years or so though, as with Quake 3. By that time you aren't really giving your competitors an advantage, since the engine technology would be 5 years old.
They could open source the code but not open source the graphics. That's what Id does. That way you still have to buy the game for the graphics.
Wow, you managed to take away from my statement that evolutionists don't believe in abogenesis?
I'll just copy-pasta from talk origins since this has been answered hundreds of times before:
Response:
1. The theory of evolution applies as long as life exists. How that life came to exist is not relevant to evolution. Claiming that evolution does not apply without a theory of abiogenesis makes as much sense as saying that umbrellas do not work without a theory of meteorology.
2. Abiogenesis is a fact. Regardless of how you imagine it happened (note that creation is a theory of abiogenesis), it is a fact that there once was no life on earth and that now there is. Thus, even if evolution needs abiogenesis, it has it.
I can shoot down your entire point with a simple equation. I hope you can think long and hard about what this means:
evolution != abiogenesis
You state the odds are 1 in:
1,200,000,000,000,000,000
In the visible universe there are approx:
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars.
So even using the number that you pulled from your arse, that's a pretty good chance that life will evolve in the universe.
For example setting the hardware clock to GMT (Something everyone who dual boots probably wants). I couldn't believe it when I found out I had to do that via regedit.
Heh, I went to the USA for the first just a year ago, and I was shocked by fox news as well. The reporter started to tell an interviewee that they were wrong! Very strange indeed.
Woah, that's an awesome quote by RMS.
Which is kinda the point. It's fine until it goes wrong.
I used to wonder about that actually. Then one day I did get mugged. I'm still a liberal :-D
Actually I did debate with myself over whether to use 'gonna'. I figured to use it to appear more friendly and to not appear to be a 'spelling nazi'
DEFINITELY
(If you're gonna write a word in all caps, spell it right :-) )
But why would Ubuntu use an unbranded version of Firefox if there was no 'screaming' as you put it? If it wasn't for the screaming, Ubuntu wouldn't have particularly pushed it, and there would now be a EULA.
Oh sure, I wasn't making any comment in this particular case.
I think it depends really.
In the recent Ubuntu/Mozilla case, both Ubuntu and Fedora had behind-the-scenes quiet negotiations with Mozilla over the EULAs. However Mozilla insisted that it wanted and needed the EULA.
It wasn't until there was a fairly big uproar about it did Mozilla come back to the table to renegotiate.
So sometimes the squeaky wheel does get the grease :)
Playing devil's advocate for a moment..
Why does it matter if a doctor doesn't know what an antibiotic actually does? As long as they know when they should prescribe, what the symptons are, and what the results should be, does it matter what the internal mechanism is?
What's a pst file?
This is why we need true holographic monitors. This would also set the focus correctly.
Ah, okay, they do use an x86 compatible processor. It doesn't support SSE it seems, but I guess that there aren't many drivers compiled requiring SSE.
I wonder why went for an x86 compatible chip for the OLPC. Since it was all based around Linux it would have been fine to just use an ARM chip.
Well you're wrong. The linux kernel comes with far more drivers than Windows comes with natively. The majority of drivers that people use in Windows are 3rd party and Microsoft does not have the source code for them. Microsoft cannot recompile 3rd party drivers for the OLPC.
What about drivers? Windows has very few drivers compared to Linux, so won't this have only minimal support for extra USB devices? I don't think 3rd party drivers will work on the OLPC.
You are claiming that it is reasonable to force the user to accept a EULA in order to use the program, just in the name of protecting the trademark.
I am saying that I really do not want this to set a precedent that every program with a trademark demand that the user agrees to a EULA. The linux kernel being, hopefully, an obvious example of why this is a bad route to go down. There are thousands of programs with a default linux install - it would be a nightmare if they all started showing EULAs.
It is important to show, early on, that EULAs will not be tolerated. This is not just about Firefox, but about nipping this trend in the butt early on.
But not to use. What's the point in bringing up sub-licensing here?
Yeah and that is a bug. It's because the author who packaged it didn't know any better. Please inform that the GPL is not a EULA.
Linux is also trademarked. Would you want a EULA for every new kernel as well?