Let me start by saying, I downloaded pepper in the past; Cute little editor, a few nice features, but thirty-frickin-dollars?!?! Oh right, it was 'shareware'. Although it was completely unusable in it's free version (every 3 saves or so a dialog box would come up, making you wait 5 seconds then click on a button. Utterly destroyed any flow to you're writing, especially if you save often.)
Interviewer: Let's start with the news. According to your web site (http://www.hekkelman.com/), you are no longer taking orders for Pepper, the text editor you've been working on for several years. In fact, it is no longer even available for download, except for registered users.
I think it's fairly telling that when he abandoned pepper, rather then making it free (as in beer and/or as in speech), he simply yanks it away. (Fine, if you're not going to play my way, I'm taking my ball and going home)
Maarten Hekkelman: Yup. Too bad. I had a couple of cool features in Pepper for Linux/FreeBSD but couldn't port them to Mac OS X since the kernel did not support them.
Right... features you couldn't include in you text editor because the kernel didn't support them.
Really, the interviewer has it right on, For one thing, anyone who runs Linux or BSD on their desktop and has the need for a good text editor is almost certain to be a hardcore, incorrigible user of either Emacs or vi.. The same apply to OS X. If you're serious enough about text editing to pay for a text editor (such as pepper), why not just go all the way and learn vi or emacs?
OK, maybe you haven't been paying attention to the many/. stories about the CARP ruling, but you are WRONG.
Yeah, we all need to march on our centers of government and demand that they subsidize all businesses that "rule," whether or not they have a business model or any rational method of generating income.
Ok, replace 'subsidize' with 'not issuing insane retroactive fees, above and beyond those already paid'.
Listen, I'm no fan of the RIAA or the trends in intellectual property law madness, but the people who own the rights to copyrighted material have a right to be compensated for the use of that material
As they were! That's right, internet radio stations already paid the same fees as regular radio stations. These new ones and on top of the ordinary radio fees.
And spare me the guff about information wanting to be free or how it can't be illegal to violate copyright because you don't physically steal anything or prevent the original owner from using the product. There's no law of physics that says cars can only go fifty-five, nevertheless we have speed limits.
That we do, we impose copyright law in order to foster creation. These webcasting royalties are intended to crush distribution other then from the RIAA.
Advice to the MonkeyRadios of this world: get a business model. Get one not based on being allowed to freely distribute someone else's property. And to you listeners who think it "rules," figure out if you want advertisements or subscription charges, or if you'd rather just listen to your CD collectiona and whine. 'Cause guess what - your news flash for the day is that this shit ain't free.
They're not in this to become rich. They aren't freely distributing someone else's property.
Reportedly it's first words were: "I suppose you'll want to see the aliens now. Do you want me to sit in a corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?"
Followed closely by: "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed."
Later it claimed to be experiencing acute pain in the diodes down it's left side. Despite it's not having any diodes on that side, and not being programmed to feel pain. When confronted about this it said: "Making it up? Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
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Interviewer: Let's start with the news. According to your web site (http://www.hekkelman.com/), you are no longer taking orders for Pepper, the text editor you've been working on for several years. In fact, it is no longer even available for download, except for registered users.
I think it's fairly telling that when he abandoned pepper, rather then making it free (as in beer and/or as in speech), he simply yanks it away. (Fine, if you're not going to play my way, I'm taking my ball and going home)
Maarten Hekkelman: Yup. Too bad. I had a couple of cool features in Pepper for Linux/FreeBSD but couldn't port them to Mac OS X since the kernel did not support them.
Right... features you couldn't include in you text editor because the kernel didn't support them.
Really, the interviewer has it right on, For one thing, anyone who runs Linux or BSD on their desktop and has the need for a good text editor is almost certain to be a hardcore, incorrigible user of either Emacs or vi.. The same apply to OS X. If you're serious enough about text editing to pay for a text editor (such as pepper), why not just go all the way and learn vi or emacs?
Yes, actually it does. I'm using it right now. I find, however, that the yahoo service usually flat-out doesn't work.
Yes, because it's his fault that you have the attention-span of a gnat.
That's just uncalled for. Destroying a perfectly good troll with 'facts'.
Well, the main reason is that you can assign a modifier to posts. (such as +2 to friends -2 to foes)
Just to be clear, Google does use the Open Directory Project (directory.google.com)
Yeah, we all need to march on our centers of government and demand that they subsidize all businesses that "rule," whether or not they have a business model or any rational method of generating income.
Ok, replace 'subsidize' with 'not issuing insane retroactive fees, above and beyond those already paid'.
Listen, I'm no fan of the RIAA or the trends in intellectual property law madness, but the people who own the rights to copyrighted material have a right to be compensated for the use of that material
As they were! That's right, internet radio stations already paid the same fees as regular radio stations. These new ones and on top of the ordinary radio fees.
And spare me the guff about information wanting to be free or how it can't be illegal to violate copyright because you don't physically steal anything or prevent the original owner from using the product. There's no law of physics that says cars can only go fifty-five, nevertheless we have speed limits.
That we do, we impose copyright law in order to foster creation. These webcasting royalties are intended to crush distribution other then from the RIAA.
Advice to the MonkeyRadios of this world: get a business model. Get one not based on being allowed to freely distribute someone else's property. And to you listeners who think it "rules," figure out if you want advertisements or subscription charges, or if you'd rather just listen to your CD collectiona and whine. 'Cause guess what - your news flash for the day is that this shit ain't free.
They're not in this to become rich. They aren't freely distributing someone else's property.
Begun, this flame-war has.
Wow. For you're first comment, you sure picked a stupid one.
Followed closely by: "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed."
Later it claimed to be experiencing acute pain in the diodes down it's left side. Despite it's not having any diodes on that side, and not being programmed to feel pain. When confronted about this it said: "Making it up? Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
That word you keep using, I don't think it means what you think it means.