The problem is that the transition is so painful and unnecessary, and is really bad from a consistency point of view.
Consider this: what if the XFree guys had just decided to add AA automagically to the X text functions? Some apps that used X in an unusual way would break and need to be fixed. On the other hand, the way it is now, some apps are still broken (they don't do AA text) but there is far less of an impetus to fix them (they still kinda work). Plus, on top of all that, we had to deal with that transition period, which lasted well over a year.
You can support SVG for new apps while retaining support for hundreds of applications that already exist. >>>>>>>>> Careful, that's the same logic that got us the current anti-aliasing fiasco! To this day, I can't use most non-Qt or GTK+ apps because non-AA text is almost unreadable on my LCD.
1) It might not bother you to call them something, even if you mean no offense, but it might bother them. Think about it this way: if you were a houskeeper or a butler, would you prefer to be called "the help," or would you rather be referred to by a more dignified job title? In general, people don't like to be considered secondary to one of their traits.
2) The Indian thing has to stop. It necessitates making annoying clarifications like "feather Indian, not dot Indian." *You* may not care, but be assured that Indians (both kinds!) do.
Yesh. The PPC 970 bus uses something of a packet based protocol. Thus, there is an overhead that the simpler P4 bus does not have. The information is available right from the excellent ArsTechnica articles about the PPC970, specifically, this one.
Geez. The paranoia runs rampent. Canopy invests in several companies, including LinuxNetworx and TrollTech. In some of these companies, they have a controlling interest and can manipulate them quite easily. In other companies, they're just investors. I doubt a place like LinuxNetworx is going to bend over to Canopy, for a possibly small stake they have in the company.
Actually, the newest Canterwood P4's have about the same bandwidth as the G5 bus. In theory, the G5 bus is about 7GB/sec, but its got some protocol overhead that the P4 bus doesn't, so the top theoretical bandwidth is the same 6.4GB/sec.
Usually, when you talk about the "BSD license" you mean the new-style BSD license. If you mean the old-style license, you refer to the "BSD license with advertising clause."
Huh? It features lots of bugfixes over the alpha version that led up to the beta. It is not yet stable enough for regular people to use. If you want stable, then use the stable 1.4 release!
No, its not sure that it compiles. When large changes get made to core structures (say, to the block-IO layer), large parts of the source tree stop compiling. Developers go in and fix the broken pieces, testing their changes as they go. Thus, as the changes propogate, they get tested. So once most of the source tree compiles, most of what is left is final testing.
No. The BSD license is not viral. You can take BSD licensed code and incorporate the changes into your own code without having to put those changes under the BSDL.
Look here for the various companies he controls/subsidizes/owns/sits on the board of >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Look here for the various people he murdered/assulted/beat-up/bumped on the bus...
Not really. Dell is more naturally their enemy, because Apple is, and always has been, a hardware company. Their software is just a draw for their hardware. Besides, you obviously haven't seen any of the "Switch" ads recently:)
Why not show a naked guy? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Because men are ugly? I'm pretty sure its an acknolwedged fact, among men and women, that guys don't really look good naked.
How does a +2 poster make such a blatent error on a math question? Its percentage of total gamers, not percentage of total women! If there are more women, then its more likely they make up a larger percentage of total gamers.
I agree about the documentation (Qt's documentation rocks) but I have to disagree about the signals/slots. Qt relies on a preprocessor to achieve its signals/slots. That's different from Boost::Signals, which is built on actual language mechanisms. Qt signals was a good idea back when the template mechanism wasn't widely available, but its an anachronism today.
However, look at it this way. The voltage differentials were able to drop from 2.5 volts to 0.75 volts (actually, even less than that inside modern microprocessors) because circuits got that much better at overcoming noise and detecting precise voltages. If you can detect a differential of 0.5 volts that you can go ternary without bothering about noise.
Besides, you're wrong. People have built digital systems with non-binary number systems. There are flash memory chips that use a 4-level voltage scheme to increase data capacity.
They *can't* do that. The Free Qt foundation (made up of two members of TT and two members of the KDE Project) ensures taht Qt will always remain free. If TT goes away, or decides to discontinue work of the Free edition of Qt, the latest version automatically becoms BSD licensed.
You don't seem to understand how the GPL works. A derived program can be licensed under any GPL compatible license. Thus, it is entirely legitimate for KDE (which is a mix of LGPL and BSD) to use Qt, which is GPL, since LGPL and BSD are both GPL compatible licenses.
Look, just Read the KDE licensing page. Neither the FSF nor the Debian Project have any futher complaints about KDE's licensing mix. I think they know just a little bit better than you how the GPL interacts with varous licenses.
So let's see. You want to use Trolltech's excellent toolkit, without paying them for it? Great... Hell, according to the FSF, stuff like this is supposed to be GPL'ed! Why do you think the LGPL is called "The Lesser GPL?" RMS says that "when a library provides a significant unique capability" it should be released under the GPL. Qt is one of the best GUI toolkits out there. Its a competitive advantage for free software projects like KDE to have it be GPL rather than LGPL.
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The problem is that the transition is so painful and unnecessary, and is really bad from a consistency point of view.
Consider this: what if the XFree guys had just decided to add AA automagically to the X text functions? Some apps that used X in an unusual way would break and need to be fixed. On the other hand, the way it is now, some apps are still broken (they don't do AA text) but there is far less of an impetus to fix them (they still kinda work). Plus, on top of all that, we had to deal with that transition period, which lasted well over a year.
You can support SVG for new apps while retaining support for hundreds of applications that already exist.
>>>>>>>>>
Careful, that's the same logic that got us the current anti-aliasing fiasco! To this day, I can't use most non-Qt or GTK+ apps because non-AA text is almost unreadable on my LCD.
How can someone with such a low number miss such an obvious joke?
Whoa, you touched on two things I don't like:
1) It might not bother you to call them something, even if you mean no offense, but it might bother them. Think about it this way: if you were a houskeeper or a butler, would you prefer to be called "the help," or would you rather be referred to by a more dignified job title? In general, people don't like to be considered secondary to one of their traits.
2) The Indian thing has to stop. It necessitates making annoying clarifications like "feather Indian, not dot Indian." *You* may not care, but be assured that Indians (both kinds!) do.
Americans before: Competition is good! Suck it up and compete! We must bring free-market capitalism to the whole world!
Americans now: Aw fuck! You mean we have to *compete* now? I don't wanna!
Thanks for liking it. As far as I know, the quote is mine.
Yesh. The PPC 970 bus uses something of a packet based protocol. Thus, there is an overhead that the simpler P4 bus does not have. The information is available right from the excellent ArsTechnica articles about the PPC970, specifically, this one.
Geez. The paranoia runs rampent. Canopy invests in several companies, including LinuxNetworx and TrollTech. In some of these companies, they have a controlling interest and can manipulate them quite easily. In other companies, they're just investors. I doubt a place like LinuxNetworx is going to bend over to Canopy, for a possibly small stake they have in the company.
Actually, the newest Canterwood P4's have about the same bandwidth as the G5 bus. In theory, the G5 bus is about 7GB/sec, but its got some protocol overhead that the P4 bus doesn't, so the top theoretical bandwidth is the same 6.4GB/sec.
Usually, when you talk about the "BSD license" you mean the new-style BSD license. If you mean the old-style license, you refer to the "BSD license with advertising clause."
Huh? It features lots of bugfixes over the alpha version that led up to the beta. It is not yet stable enough for regular people to use. If you want stable, then use the stable 1.4 release!
No, its not sure that it compiles. When large changes get made to core structures (say, to the block-IO layer), large parts of the source tree stop compiling. Developers go in and fix the broken pieces, testing their changes as they go. Thus, as the changes propogate, they get tested. So once most of the source tree compiles, most of what is left is final testing.
No. The BSD license is not viral. You can take BSD licensed code and incorporate the changes into your own code without having to put those changes under the BSDL.
Look here for the various companies he controls/subsidizes/owns/sits on the board of ;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Look here for the various people he
murdered/assulted/beat-up/bumped on the bus...
Man, it was on Seinfeld! It must be true!
Not really. Dell is more naturally their enemy, because Apple is, and always has been, a hardware company. Their software is just a draw for their hardware. Besides, you obviously haven't seen any of the "Switch" ads recently :)
Why not show a naked guy? ;
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Because men are ugly? I'm pretty sure its an acknolwedged fact, among men and women, that guys don't really look good naked.
How does a +2 poster make such a blatent error on a math question? Its percentage of total gamers, not percentage of total women! If there are more women, then its more likely they make up a larger percentage of total gamers.
I agree about the documentation (Qt's documentation rocks) but I have to disagree about the signals/slots. Qt relies on a preprocessor to achieve its signals/slots. That's different from Boost::Signals, which is built on actual language mechanisms. Qt signals was a good idea back when the template mechanism wasn't widely available, but its an anachronism today.
Heh. Nobody ever said the GPL wasn't complicated :)
PS> Nice SNL reference!
However, look at it this way. The voltage differentials were able to drop from 2.5 volts to 0.75 volts (actually, even less than that inside modern microprocessors) because circuits got that much better at overcoming noise and detecting precise voltages. If you can detect a differential of 0.5 volts that you can go ternary without bothering about noise.
Besides, you're wrong. People have built digital systems with non-binary number systems. There are flash memory chips that use a 4-level voltage scheme to increase data capacity.
Why would you want to do that? How is that relevent to his question?
They *can't* do that. The Free Qt foundation (made up of two members of TT and two members of the KDE Project) ensures taht Qt will always remain free. If TT goes away, or decides to discontinue work of the Free edition of Qt, the latest version automatically becoms BSD licensed.
You don't seem to understand how the GPL works. A derived program can be licensed under any GPL compatible license. Thus, it is entirely legitimate for KDE (which is a mix of LGPL and BSD) to use Qt, which is GPL, since LGPL and BSD are both GPL compatible licenses.
Look, just Read the KDE licensing page. Neither the FSF nor the Debian Project have any futher complaints about KDE's licensing mix. I think they know just a little bit better than you how the GPL interacts with varous licenses.
So let's see. You want to use Trolltech's excellent toolkit, without paying them for it? Great... Hell, according to the FSF, stuff like this is supposed to be GPL'ed! Why do you think the LGPL is called "The Lesser GPL?" RMS says that "when a library provides a significant unique capability" it should be released under the GPL. Qt is one of the best GUI toolkits out there. Its a competitive advantage for free software projects like KDE to have it be GPL rather than LGPL.