Rather than using Kylix / Delphi, consider the Free Pascal based Lazarus project.
And, Lazarus and Free Pascal are open source (they use a slightly modified GPL) so they include full source code!
Plus, Free Pascal actually has Delphi and Borland/Turbo Pascal compatibility, so if you are already familiar with the standard libraries and "dialectal" quirks of those compailers, you're all set!
Even better, Free Pascal comes with a reasonably complete port of GTK+!!
I've been a fan of Free Pascal for years, from back when it was called FPK Pascal...:)
Depends on what they are considering an AOL page. Mozilla.org and Netscape.com are both AOL pages, since Netscape is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL.
Moviefone.com, which I've used countless times to find out when movies are on, is an AOL page.
MS owns Salon, at least I think they still do.
Yahoo and MSN have the whole finance section. A lot of people who trade stocks use it, even if they have Ameritrade or similar accounts. And I think it's one of the MSN sites that has free live quotes.
Napster I can't understand at all. I'd think you'd hit that page once to download the client. Unless they are counting every access of the client as an access to their site.
They said: OLED production is currently 20% more expensive than LCD (!). But if a "highly productive" fabrication can ramp up, it will cut the cost.
Right...just like anything else, as soon as economies of scale kick in, the price drops. 17" CRTs just a few years ago were over $1000, but now that they're pretty much standard equipment, you can pick one up for $200 or sometimes even less.
LCD displays have been coming down in price as well...retail desktop units used to be well over $2000 and now you can get them from under $1000.
The same will happen with portable OLED displays.
(If leaving something out of the license was a 100% guaranteed way to withhold permission for it, whither all the stuff about no warrantees, for example?)
Ehhh...the stuff about the warranties actually is required by law and has nothing to do with copyright per se. Copyright is a set of rights given to the copyright holder, specifically the right to copy, distribute, perform (as in a play or muscial recording, for instance), use, modify, and so forth.
Note that USE and MODIFY aren't the same thing. For example, with say a poem, use might mean inclusion in larger work. Modifying, however, would be changing the wording of the poem, thus creating a derivative work, which is also a right granted by copyright.
All rights are implicity reserved under copyright, unless explicity waived by a license. In Reed's license, he says you can use it, you can distribute it (which implies copying it), but never does he say in the license that you can modify it or create derivative works. If he doesn't say it, you can't do it. That's the law.
you know theyve made a FEW improvements since the 3.11 days, not that you're interested
Yeah...it's a lot more polite about crashing now. Now it says "Please wait while your computer shuts down...":-)
The quality of what they sell is really irrelevant from a business standpoint.
Quality doesn't matter? Try telling that to General Motors. That's one of the reasons they slipped from being the #1 on the Fortune 500 to #3, and also one of the reasons why, more importantly, their market share plummetted from ~60% to 30%.
GM has gone to great lengths to improve quality, and they have made some vast improvements. But they're still perceived in the marketplace as not making cars that are as good in the quality department as Toyota and Honda.
And that's my point: it isn't that Microsoft produces quality software..it's that, unfortunately, people perceive that their software is of high quality. They blame the random crashes and BSODs on their own stupidity, because they have been trained to do that. So quality does matter... but it is perception of that quality that matters most in the marketplace.
Hence the reason we must continue to derride Microsoft operating systems. When someone asks you why their poor machine has a BSOD, don't say give them a lengthy technical explanation about illegal operations or protected mode or try to explain it away with hardware or whatever...tell them the truth: they're running crappy Microsoft products and they should expect some instablility. Beat it into their heads.
Eventually the public *will* realize that Microsoft produces crappy software. It's all just a matter of time.
I'm guessing that it could be possible to set up "Linux Kernel Hacker's Foundation" that would be in charge of distributing money to the various kernel hackers.
Of course this begs the question--how many of them are out there and is anyone really keeping track? Remember, for this to work you have to have names and addresses to send checks to. For U.S. hackers, you would need social security numbers (this is, after all, taxable income). Then there's the whole international thing... Linux developers literally reside all over the world.
My guess is that such a foundation would not being dolling out cash, but instead do things like buy equipment, hire hackers to put on the payroll, get office space, or other things. Much like what medical research foundations do (i.e., the American Cancer Society or the Will Rogers Institute)
Isn't that what the Free Software Foundation does?
So if Linux wants users, the coders and OSS companies should start by being painless and pretty: who would you invite to the party- the 800 lb Gorilla or Liv Tyler?
Yeah, Liv Tyler may be prettier, but I'll bet the 800 lb gorilla would be a lot more fun.:)
Any library that uses the GPL (as opposed to the LGPL) is not allowed to be used in closed source apps.
Trolltech's license agreements really having nothing to do with that. It is the viral effect of the GPL. All Trolltech's license does is to provide an alternate license for closed source developers to use...of course they have to pay them to do that. Programmers need to eat, too.
MAI's claim against Peak was that Peak violated MAI's copyright because the act of turning MAI's computer on made a copy of data contained into ROM, and that making this copy without a license was a violation of MAI's copyright. Never mind that the copy was required for the operation of the computer -- the whole point was to squash an independent service provider and force repairs to go only to MAI-approved repair outfits. Customers had a license to make a copy, and authorized repair centers had that same right... but Peak, as an unauthorized repair center (read competition), did not.
Not that I'm doubting the validity of what you said, but I would imagine this has to go QUITE a ways back. Like more than 20 years. The reason I say that is the Software Act of 1980 would have made MAI's claim totally moot. The Software Act basically states that any copies made of a software program that are required to be made in order to use the program are not a violation of copyright -- they fall under fair use exemptions, essentially.
Any developer worth their salt who has a hostname and a permanent connection to the Internet also knows how to edit/etc/aliases and restart their SMTP server so that one could have an endless amount of e-mail acounts.:)
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Rather than using Kylix / Delphi, consider the Free Pascal based Lazarus project. And, Lazarus and Free Pascal are open source (they use a slightly modified GPL) so they include full source code! Plus, Free Pascal actually has Delphi and Borland/Turbo Pascal compatibility, so if you are already familiar with the standard libraries and "dialectal" quirks of those compailers, you're all set! Even better, Free Pascal comes with a reasonably complete port of GTK+!! I've been a fan of Free Pascal for years, from back when it was called FPK Pascal... :)
Depends on what they are considering an AOL page. Mozilla.org and Netscape.com are both AOL pages, since Netscape is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL. Moviefone.com, which I've used countless times to find out when movies are on, is an AOL page. MS owns Salon, at least I think they still do. Yahoo and MSN have the whole finance section. A lot of people who trade stocks use it, even if they have Ameritrade or similar accounts. And I think it's one of the MSN sites that has free live quotes. Napster I can't understand at all. I'd think you'd hit that page once to download the client. Unless they are counting every access of the client as an access to their site.
Right...just like anything else, as soon as economies of scale kick in, the price drops. 17" CRTs just a few years ago were over $1000, but now that they're pretty much standard equipment, you can pick one up for $200 or sometimes even less.
LCD displays have been coming down in price as well...retail desktop units used to be well over $2000 and now you can get them from under $1000. The same will happen with portable OLED displays.
Ehhh...the stuff about the warranties actually is required by law and has nothing to do with copyright per se. Copyright is a set of rights given to the copyright holder, specifically the right to copy, distribute, perform (as in a play or muscial recording, for instance), use, modify, and so forth.
Note that USE and MODIFY aren't the same thing. For example, with say a poem, use might mean inclusion in larger work. Modifying, however, would be changing the wording of the poem, thus creating a derivative work, which is also a right granted by copyright.
All rights are implicity reserved under copyright, unless explicity waived by a license. In Reed's license, he says you can use it, you can distribute it (which implies copying it), but never does he say in the license that you can modify it or create derivative works. If he doesn't say it, you can't do it. That's the law.
you know theyve made a FEW improvements since the 3.11 days, not that you're interested Yeah...it's a lot more polite about crashing now. Now it says "Please wait while your computer shuts down..." :-)
In related news, Ron Popeil, inventor of Mr. Microphone, says that infomercial are good! :)
The quality of what they sell is really irrelevant from a business standpoint.
Quality doesn't matter? Try telling that to General Motors. That's one of the reasons they slipped from being the #1 on the Fortune 500 to #3, and also one of the reasons why, more importantly, their market share plummetted from ~60% to 30%.
GM has gone to great lengths to improve quality, and they have made some vast improvements. But they're still perceived in the marketplace as not making cars that are as good in the quality department as Toyota and Honda.
And that's my point: it isn't that Microsoft produces quality software..it's that, unfortunately, people perceive that their software is of high quality. They blame the random crashes and BSODs on their own stupidity, because they have been trained to do that. So quality does matter... but it is perception of that quality that matters most in the marketplace.
Hence the reason we must continue to derride Microsoft operating systems. When someone asks you why their poor machine has a BSOD, don't say give them a lengthy technical explanation about illegal operations or protected mode or try to explain it away with hardware or whatever...tell them the truth: they're running crappy Microsoft products and they should expect some instablility. Beat it into their heads.
Eventually the public *will* realize that Microsoft produces crappy software. It's all just a matter of time.
I'm guessing that it could be possible to set up "Linux Kernel Hacker's Foundation" that would be in charge of distributing money to the various kernel hackers. Of course this begs the question--how many of them are out there and is anyone really keeping track? Remember, for this to work you have to have names and addresses to send checks to. For U.S. hackers, you would need social security numbers (this is, after all, taxable income). Then there's the whole international thing ... Linux developers literally reside all over the world.
My guess is that such a foundation would not being dolling out cash, but instead do things like buy equipment, hire hackers to put on the payroll, get office space, or other things. Much like what medical research foundations do (i.e., the American Cancer Society or the Will Rogers Institute)
Isn't that what the Free Software Foundation does?
So if Linux wants users, the coders and OSS companies should start by being painless and pretty: who would you invite to the party- the 800 lb Gorilla or Liv Tyler? Yeah, Liv Tyler may be prettier, but I'll bet the 800 lb gorilla would be a lot more fun. :)
Trolltech's license agreements really having nothing to do with that. It is the viral effect of the GPL. All Trolltech's license does is to provide an alternate license for closed source developers to use...of course they have to pay them to do that. Programmers need to eat, too.
Please see http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/117.html for the exact wording of the law I described from Computer Software Act of 1980.
Well, is encryption really necessary here? What about the spread spectrum technology in 2.4 ghz cordless phones?
MAI's claim against Peak was that Peak violated MAI's copyright because the act of turning MAI's computer on made a copy of data contained into ROM, and that making this copy without a license was a violation of MAI's copyright. Never mind that the copy was required for the operation of the computer -- the whole point was to squash an independent service provider and force repairs to go only to MAI-approved repair outfits. Customers had a license to make a copy, and authorized repair centers had that same right ... but Peak, as an unauthorized repair center (read competition), did not.
Not that I'm doubting the validity of what you said, but I would imagine this has to go QUITE a ways back. Like more than 20 years. The reason I say that is the Software Act of 1980 would have made MAI's claim totally moot. The Software Act basically states that any copies made of a software program that are required to be made in order to use the program are not a violation of copyright -- they fall under fair use exemptions, essentially.
Any developer worth their salt who has a hostname and a permanent connection to the Internet also knows how to edit /etc/aliases and restart their SMTP server so that one could have an endless amount of e-mail acounts. :)