The way it works in open source projects is similar but with a twist. If there are enough people who want to have a certain application in their language they will have to get together and start working on the translation. The way this works for most applications is through using the gettext library to produce POT files. That is, all output strings are extracted into a file which the translator can then work on. This way, the translators don't have to interact with the source code.
To make things even better, tools that can manipulate those files have been developed, such as KBabel and gTranslator. Even Emacs has a PO
mode.
An example of this is the Arabeyes Project, which is the official
translation team for both Gnome and KDE interfaces.
I don't get it. Not only is this an incredibly annoying thing to have, it doesn't make sense on console-based apps. So what, if I want to run a given program I have to see the license and agree to it each time? Once? Twice? Will it ask me again if I'm SURE?
I think this is a very silly idea. If the software is commercial and is a large application as well, I can understand that being there. But, mandating such a rule, and making it across the board (not case-by-case) is unthinkable.
Okay this IS a troll (this message here).. the original was not, and I don't really understand the/. moderation system, but I don't like it. Legitimately asking when this will end and giving an analogy with the tobacco industry, I would give a score of at least 1 or 2.. but, hey.. what can you say?
I don't mean to troll here, but this is really getting boring. How long until we have all this settled once and for all, kind'a like w/ the Tobacco industry?
I have been spammed more than I would like to admit. And, after running open lists for awhile, the spam level got to a point where we simply had to close it to subscribers only, limiting our potential audience/participants.
Okay, so that sucked. Big deal. Do you know what _really_ annoys me? The junk mail you get in the mailbox. Come on now.. if you can't get the postal service or the government to give you the right to say, I do NOT wish to receive ads/brochures/etc in my mail.. then you think that could be solved on the internet? Get real. Use a mail filtering system and do it yourself.
Another thing is telemarketing. You cannot get the phone company to force those companies to show their phone numbers on your caller-ID. They are forever hidden behind the 'Unknown name/Unknown number'. And these are the 'legit' people. Come on now.. I would rather get rid of the MCI guy telling me to switch my Long distance plan to them than worry about the couple emails that make it through my filters.
At least, you can CONTROL the amount of spam you get yourself in most cases. You have very little control over the other types of spam.
I am going through the comments, and I am confused as to where CVS is coming into this? Not using CVS or any other control management system is rather ridiculous. Controlling access to it, to Linus himself, or whoever else is approved to is another story. Using CVS does NOT cause 'bad code' to enter if you are not allowing everyone and their dogs to commit code to the tree.
Linus is too arrogant for my taste, but as others have pointed out, it's his baby. I may not like his attitude in general, and may even disagree with his decisions.. but, hey, it's his final say. If you don't like it, use something else. FreeBSD doesn't seem to have half the _bad_ code the linux kernel does;)
I have written to 'Ask Slashdot' on this subject a long time ago, and no one ever posted it. Then I emailed the person in the slashdot faq, and no response.. so here it is here, since it is related.
As an international student (CS major) in the United States, I find those rules and regulations quite absurd. I happen to come from one of those... what do you call them? 'terrorist' countries.. yeah, that's it. Because of the passport I hold, I am not allowed to download/use Netscape/Mozilla/IE for instance with 128-bit encryption.
What does that mean? It means that the law says, hey, if you are a citizen of this country, you cannot check your email on the web. That also means that i can't, for instance, connect to my school's machines to do/submit my homework.
I asked in my original post (which was never posted) if there were exceptions to cases as mine, where it would be next to impossible to do my everyday school work with those rules and regulations regarding US encryption. After much research on the subject, I have found none.
Here is my take on it.. as long as the encryption is not top-secret, and everyone knows about it, there is absolutely no point in putting those restrictions. But, hey.. what do I know, right? I'm just a citizen of a country who is labelled terrorist.. so terrorist that the US blew up our pharmeceutical factory so we can't produce medicine.. talk about terrorist.
Funny you should mention this. There seems to be a serious lack of regard for licenses and international law in general in a lot of countries. In fact, one can say, few countries care.
Arabization efforts for the Unix environment have been very slow and rather unsuccessful. Some of them provide certain solutions, but insist on selling it to you, and not allowing you to modify and redistribute their code, whether commercially or not.
Generally, it is a result of not having a serious programming community and therefor not understanding the importance of software.
I wouldn't worry too much, these things are changing. It takes a little longer in some places, but change is surely coming.
I have started using mutt about 4 months ago (maybe 3). The biggest reason I have for using it has little to do with its license (or Pine's, which was my primary mail reader). It's vi.
I also find the features in mutt to be more to my liking over time.. the way it manages mailboxes, and other little features here and there make the difference for me.
The only other thing between mutt and pine is that you can add pgp support for pine, which mutt currently lacks.
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The way it works in open source projects is similar but with a twist. If there are enough people who want to have a certain application in their language they will have to get together and start working on the translation. The way this works for most applications is through using the gettext library to produce POT files. That is, all output strings are extracted into a file which the translator can then work on. This way, the translators don't have to interact with the source code.
To make things even better, tools that can manipulate those files have been developed, such as KBabel and gTranslator. Even Emacs has a PO mode.
An example of this is the Arabeyes Project, which is the official translation team for both Gnome and KDE interfaces.
I don't get it. Not only is this an incredibly annoying thing to have, it doesn't make sense on console-based apps. So what, if I want to run a given program I have to see the license and agree to it each time? Once? Twice? Will it ask me again if I'm SURE?
I think this is a very silly idea. If the software is commercial and is a large application as well, I can understand that being there. But, mandating such a rule, and making it across the board (not case-by-case) is unthinkable.
Okay this IS a troll (this message here).. the original was not, and I don't really understand the /. moderation system, but I don't like it. Legitimately asking when this will end and giving an analogy with the tobacco industry, I would give a score of at least 1 or 2.. but, hey.. what can you say?
I don't mean to troll here, but this is really getting boring. How long until we have all this settled once and for all, kind'a like w/ the Tobacco industry?
I have been spammed more than I would like to admit. And, after running open lists for awhile, the spam level got to a point where we simply had to close it to subscribers only, limiting our potential audience/participants.
Okay, so that sucked. Big deal. Do you know what _really_ annoys me? The junk mail you get in the mailbox. Come on now.. if you can't get the postal service or the government to give you the right to say, I do NOT wish to receive ads/brochures/etc in my mail.. then you think that could be solved on the internet? Get real. Use a mail filtering system and do it yourself.
Another thing is telemarketing. You cannot get the phone company to force those companies to show their phone numbers on your caller-ID. They are forever hidden behind the 'Unknown name/Unknown number'. And these are the 'legit' people. Come on now.. I would rather get rid of the MCI guy telling me to switch my Long distance plan to them than worry about the couple emails that make it through my filters.
At least, you can CONTROL the amount of spam you get yourself in most cases. You have very little control over the other types of spam.
I am going through the comments, and I am confused as to where CVS is coming into this? Not using CVS or any other control management system is rather ridiculous. Controlling access to it, to Linus himself, or whoever else is approved to is another story. Using CVS does NOT cause 'bad code' to enter if you are not allowing everyone and their dogs to commit code to the tree.
;)
Linus is too arrogant for my taste, but as others have pointed out, it's his baby. I may not like his attitude in general, and may even disagree with his decisions.. but, hey, it's his final say. If you don't like it, use something else. FreeBSD doesn't seem to have half the _bad_ code the linux kernel does
I have written to 'Ask Slashdot' on this subject a long time ago, and no one ever posted it. Then I emailed the person in the slashdot faq, and no response.. so here it is here, since it is related.
As an international student (CS major) in the United States, I find those rules and regulations quite absurd. I happen to come from one of those... what do you call them? 'terrorist' countries.. yeah, that's it. Because of the passport I hold, I am not allowed to download/use Netscape/Mozilla/IE for instance with 128-bit encryption.
What does that mean? It means that the law says, hey, if you are a citizen of this country, you cannot check your email on the web. That also means that i can't, for instance, connect to my school's machines to do/submit my homework.
I asked in my original post (which was never posted) if there were exceptions to cases as mine, where it would be next to impossible to do my everyday school work with those rules and regulations regarding US encryption. After much research on the subject, I have found none.
Here is my take on it.. as long as the encryption is not top-secret, and everyone knows about it, there is absolutely no point in putting those restrictions. But, hey.. what do I know, right? I'm just a citizen of a country who is labelled terrorist.. so terrorist that the US blew up our pharmeceutical factory so we can't produce medicine.. talk about terrorist.
Funny you should mention this. There seems to be a serious lack of regard for licenses and international law in general in a lot of countries. In fact, one can say, few countries care. Arabization efforts for the Unix environment have been very slow and rather unsuccessful. Some of them provide certain solutions, but insist on selling it to you, and not allowing you to modify and redistribute their code, whether commercially or not. Generally, it is a result of not having a serious programming community and therefor not understanding the importance of software. I wouldn't worry too much, these things are changing. It takes a little longer in some places, but change is surely coming.
I have started using mutt about 4 months ago (maybe 3). The biggest reason I have for using it has little to do with its license (or Pine's, which was my primary mail reader). It's vi. I also find the features in mutt to be more to my liking over time.. the way it manages mailboxes, and other little features here and there make the difference for me. The only other thing between mutt and pine is that you can add pgp support for pine, which mutt currently lacks.