No, that's not what Perens is saying. Nobody wants to close-source GNOME or KDE. In fact, it's not possible with either one of those, despite their different licenses.
Instead, the problem with KDE's licensing is that it's not possible to produce new closed-source applications that link against KDE's libraries, because they are GPL only (unless you pay TrollTech). This is different from GNOME's libraries, against which you may link closed-source applications.
The GPL is not harmful for applications or the kernel. It is, however, problematic for libraries, for which the LGPL or a similar license should be used.
It's not actually only those "last 5%" of reliability that would make me happy. At times wikipedia was awfully slow with updates, and when you have to wait 30 seconds for each of, like, 50 edits to arrive at the server, contributing isn't much fun.
I am a lawyer and thus not really interested in pretty math formulas or even images. I still use LaTeX for the dissertation I am working on. Aside from the obvious advantages mentioned earlier (separation of content and formatting, switching layouts, creation of PDFs, etc.), for me there is one killer feature: there is no less painful way to handle citing and bibliographies in a long document, and do it consistently.
Admittedly, bibtex (Latex's bibliography subsystem) is a bitch at first, but there is an extra package called jurabib, originally designed for supporting the awkward quoting/bib style of German law texts, but later expanded to handle about any style on the planet, as far as I can see.
Latex is old and weird, and it has its quirks, but it works best for me.
Mozilla didn't just "get ported". IBM did the port because the corporate customers using OS/2 wanted a decent browser. Look at the mozilla.org release pages, you will even find "contributed by IBM" behind the OS/2 download link.
I haven't gone thru the 2000+ comments to check if this has been mentioned: Out of sight, by Soderbergh, with Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.
I just discovered it and was knocked off of my feet, in part because I thought I pretty much knew every good movie from the late 90's.
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JFS version 1 was originally on AIX. The version 2 of JFS that appeared in OS/2 Warp Server for e-business was pretty much a rewrite, as far as I know (which at least explains the plethora of initial bugs), and later ported back to AIX. It was _this_ OS/2 JFS that got open-sourced and ported to Linux.
Geese. Read the court decision before posting that Germany should be disconnected.
This is not against ISPs in general. Microsoft lost because they assumed ownership of all the content. That is the exact reason why the court treated them differently from other ISPs.
We have sensible Internet legislation, as opposed to the U.S. -- after all it's the U.S. who started with the DMCA and the like. Disconnect yourself.
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Instead, the problem with KDE's licensing is that it's not possible to produce new closed-source applications that link against KDE's libraries, because they are GPL only (unless you pay TrollTech). This is different from GNOME's libraries, against which you may link closed-source applications.
The GPL is not harmful for applications or the kernel. It is, however, problematic for libraries, for which the LGPL or a similar license should be used.
Better hardware would help the content too.
This is totally unlike the DMCA. The "C" in "DMCA" stands for "Copyright", not "Patents."
Better fix my own link to jurabib: http://www.berger-on.net/jurabib/
Admittedly, bibtex (Latex's bibliography subsystem) is a bitch at first, but there is an extra package called jurabib, originally designed for supporting the awkward quoting/bib style of German law texts, but later expanded to handle about any style on the planet, as far as I can see.
Latex is old and weird, and it has its quirks, but it works best for me.
Mozilla didn't just "get ported". IBM did the port because the corporate customers using OS/2 wanted a decent browser. Look at the mozilla.org release pages, you will even find "contributed by IBM" behind the OS/2 download link.
I haven't gone thru the 2000+ comments to check if this has been mentioned: Out of sight, by Soderbergh, with Clooney and Jennifer Lopez. I just discovered it and was knocked off of my feet, in part because I thought I pretty much knew every good movie from the late 90's.
JFS version 1 was originally on AIX. The version 2 of JFS that appeared in OS/2 Warp Server for e-business was pretty much a rewrite, as far as I know (which at least explains the plethora of initial bugs), and later ported back to AIX. It was _this_ OS/2 JFS that got open-sourced and ported to Linux.
This is not against ISPs in general. Microsoft lost because they assumed ownership of all the content. That is the exact reason why the court treated them differently from other ISPs.
We have sensible Internet legislation, as opposed to the U.S. -- after all it's the U.S. who started with the DMCA and the like. Disconnect yourself.