I'm pretty sure RMS said he isn't going to, he simply outlined why it might be better to run it on GNU/Linux than say windows.
That's not all he said. I suggest you go back and read the paragraph starting with "Thus, in direct practical terms" and the two paragraphs that follow it.
No, they took the clause out that makes you credit the Regents of the University of California: Berkeley.
The attribution clause is present in every version of the BSD license I've seen, traditionally the first clause:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer. (the "following disclaimer" being the "no warranty" disclaimer)
Yes clearly Apache, Webkit, the BSD kernel, etc... aren't sustainable.
Your list would be a lot more convincing if two of those three weren't licensed under the Apache 2.0 and LGPLv2.1 (at least the parts it still has that came from KHTML) licenses respectively.
I didn't know when I made the purchase. That they'd make revisions? Sure, but I was expecting a slim model with dual thumb pads, not a bigger and more efficient one.
I assume they saw how many people were buying DSi XL units for the bigger screens and decided to forgo the smaller Lite model and go straight to XL to pick up the 3DS's lagging sales.
That the new version would be more efficient was a no-brainer, though.
They sound like awful people. Why do you want to do this?
The vast majority hates and fears change. If you want to argue that the vast majority is awful, I can get behind that... But let's just be clear on what we're saying here.
Change can be good, but if you're trying to get them to change OSes because it's what you want, they have no reason to change.
This is particularly important in computers because it means that any software they already own won't run on Linux, at least without tweaking.
And don't even get me started about my last experience with Wine.
I am a Trojan you insensitive clod... and while we are on the subject, where the hell do you get off dragging the name of my home town through the mud?
Well, for one your leaders were stupid enough to bring a giant wooden horse that randomly appeared outside your secure town into said town. The Greeks inside the opened your gates and let the Greek army in, who destroyed your town.
The only reason you find them superior is because you've been using WADS since 1992, you're used to it. If you'd been playing FPSs on a console for the last 20 years, you'd be pointing and laughing at the K&M users.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The reason I find Keyboard and Mouse superior for FPS games is because the mouse has far more precision than an analog joystick does.
It doesn't hurt that I tend to use a lot of the extra keys on the left side of the keyboard for various other things, including various games' "push to talk" voice chat keys.
Because all* of Valve's games run on the same engine, once one game has been ported to a new OS, the rest of their library soon follows. And they are quite good games. On Metacritic, there are three titles tied for "highest-rated game of all time". Two of the three are Valve games.
Except that the Source game engine is generational. Instead of porting all the versions of Source to work on the Mac, they ported 3 versions of their engine and updated all older games to use one of them.
The engines they ported were:
Source MP - Used by Team Fortress 2. Updated Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Day of Defeat: Source, and Counter-Strike: Source to use this engine.
Source 2009 - Updated version of the Source 2007 (aka Orange Box) game engine; formerly used by Team Fortress 2 before Source MP was broken off to its own engine. Updated Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Portal to this engine.
Left 4 Dead - Used by Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.
Newer games are new engine generations based on previous generations, most likely Source MP or Left 4 Dead.
P.S. This is why Half-Life: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, and Alien Swarm don't work on OSX despite being Source games... they weren't updated to the new engines.
I think you're overlooking one thing: Steam has sales. Lots and lots of sales.
Meaning that there's somewhere close to 100% chance that any given game you can find in the Windows store will be cheaper on Steam at some point.
There's a reason that Impulse, Origin, Amazon Downloads, and all the other competitors in the PC digital downloads market don't have anywhere near the market-share Steam does.
I'm not sure if you're serious here. Console FPS games almost always use some sort of auto-aim to help players out and sales figures are not the same as quality, if they were then Windows 95 would've been an amazing operating system....
Windows 95 was amazing... for users used to Windows 3.1 and Mac System 7 anyway... preemptive multitasking for the win!
I give up the ability to upgrade components, but on the plus side I have had this desktop for 5 years or so and it still meets all my computing needs including gaming.
I can't tell if you're kidding or not. Can a 5-year old iMac even run games like Portal 2 or Diablo 3, both of which had native OSX releases?
Anyway, I've had my current Windows 7 PC for about a year now and I have no plans on upgrading it any time soon. Up until now, everything has (to steal a phrase) "just worked."
As for drivers, the only ones I've installed myself were updated video drivers. nVidia even has a neat little program that tells you when new video drivers come out, although I tend to hold off on them for a few months in case they have another fan-speed debacle.
I can probably type far more efficiently than I can orate.
You, maybe.. But why do you think they had to make shorthand and stenotype machines?
Heck, watch the closed captioning on basically any live TV show (or live-to-tape, like late night talk shows). Lots of errors, and missed words, even *with* the more-efficient-than-standard-typing mechanisms.
(I am not claiming that voice input is always the superior interface, simply that it's faster than typing the same text.)
Note: he said efficiently, not quickly. Since one types slower than one speaks, one naturally has more time to think about what one is communicating (see? I changed that from "saying" to "communicating" right before I typed it!)
Also, of all things, I can still run an app up to a decade old (RTCW/Enemy Territory) and have it run just fine, aside from occasional hijinks with audio.
...on Linux? On a recent distro?
On the flip side, I played through 1998's Half-Life 1 and its two Gearbox expansions (Opposing Force and Blue Shift) last year. Although that's probably not the best example, due to Valve having long term support for their products... and I installed the current version through Steam.
It's not just you. When I read the title, I assumed it was just another sloppy/ignorant editor exaggerating things, because to me, Windows 7 already feels fully hardware accelerated. I thought that was the whole point of Aero Glass. I didn't notice any UI sluggishness, not on my balls-out gaming rig, nor the wife's 3 year old AMD with integrated graphics. Really, since I started plopping SSDs in all my machines, that was the only variable I could feel anymore in general browser-heavy usage. Everything else seemed to have reached a plateau.
If Win8 is even faster, well great. Efficiency is always welcome, it will hopefully translate into longer battery life for laptops and tablets.
That confused me, too, but then I remembered that DirectWrite isn't mandatory for applications and was, in fact, one of the major selling points for IE9 (and the reason it wasn't released for WinXP).
I thought the Galaxy Tab 10 and 7.7 were tablets, but Apple was quoted saying:
"Samsung's infringing sales have enabled Samsung to overtake Apple as the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world. Samsung has reaped billions of dollars in profits and caused Apple to lose hundreds of millions of dollars through its violation of Apple's intellectual property."
Why does Samsung's status as a smartphone manufacturer have anything to do with tablets?
And why is Apple suing for $2.5B in damages when by their own admission, they lost only "hundreds of millions of dollars"?
Put them side by side and look at them. Yes, they are copying Apple.
And when I put the iPad next to Samsung's digital photo frame from 2006 (before the iPhone came out, let alone the iPad), they look remarkably similar... at least from the front, which is where the majority of Apple's claims come from.
My guess is that Microsoft set the price point high to avoid the PS3 problem, where every time you turn the damn thing on it has some patch that needs you to read yet another EULA and hit ok before it will apply. I don't know how people read all of the EULAs a PS3 tosses up without going blind.
New EULAs occur with system updates, which are controlled by the system manufacturer (aka Sony)...
Microsoft, on the other hand, only updates its dashboard twice a year. Which makes me wonder what exactly they do when a bug crops up, and since this is Microsoft, you know bugs are popping up.
Maintaining the XBLA platform, curating many many games, watching for bugs (which is why this one even got caught in the first place) and all that is not cheap.
Yup, it's not cheap. As I recall, it's $60 per person per year.
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I'm pretty sure RMS said he isn't going to, he simply outlined why it might be better to run it on GNU/Linux than say windows.
That's not all he said. I suggest you go back and read the paragraph starting with "Thus, in direct practical terms" and the two paragraphs that follow it.
They actually took that clause out ..
No, they took the clause out that makes you credit the Regents of the University of California: Berkeley.
The attribution clause is present in every version of the BSD license I've seen, traditionally the first clause:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
(the "following disclaimer" being the "no warranty" disclaimer)
Yes clearly Apache, Webkit, the BSD kernel, etc... aren't sustainable.
Your list would be a lot more convincing if two of those three weren't licensed under the Apache 2.0 and LGPLv2.1 (at least the parts it still has that came from KHTML) licenses respectively.
added support for the 802.11g standard.
...which isn't supported for standard DS games since Nintendo put the Wi-Fi settings into the games rather than the firmware*.
*There's enough internal memory to save your Wi-Fi settings on a standard DS, though, which is why it's remembered across games.
I didn't know when I made the purchase. That they'd make revisions? Sure, but I was expecting a slim model with dual thumb pads, not a bigger and more efficient one.
I assume they saw how many people were buying DSi XL units for the bigger screens and decided to forgo the smaller Lite model and go straight to XL to pick up the 3DS's lagging sales.
That the new version would be more efficient was a no-brainer, though.
They sound like awful people. Why do you want to do this?
The vast majority hates and fears change. If you want to argue that the vast majority is awful, I can get behind that... But let's just be clear on what we're saying here.
Change can be good, but if you're trying to get them to change OSes because it's what you want, they have no reason to change.
This is particularly important in computers because it means that any software they already own won't run on Linux, at least without tweaking.
And don't even get me started about my last experience with Wine.
"Why won't my {application/game of the week} run?!"
Shoes.
Shoes.
OMG shoes!
I am a Trojan you insensitive clod... and while we are on the subject, where the hell do you get off dragging the name of my home town through the mud?
Well, for one your leaders were stupid enough to bring a giant wooden horse that randomly appeared outside your secure town into said town. The Greeks inside the opened your gates and let the Greek army in, who destroyed your town.
Of course they don't.
Instead, you get this.
Which many people just click right on through.
The only reason you find them superior is because you've been using WADS since 1992, you're used to it. If you'd been playing FPSs on a console for the last 20 years, you'd be pointing and laughing at the K&M users.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The reason I find Keyboard and Mouse superior for FPS games is because the mouse has far more precision than an analog joystick does.
It doesn't hurt that I tend to use a lot of the extra keys on the left side of the keyboard for various other things, including various games' "push to talk" voice chat keys.
Because all* of Valve's games run on the same engine, once one game has been ported to a new OS, the rest of their library soon follows. And they are quite good games. On Metacritic, there are three titles tied for "highest-rated game of all time". Two of the three are Valve games.
Except that the Source game engine is generational. Instead of porting all the versions of Source to work on the Mac, they ported 3 versions of their engine and updated all older games to use one of them.
The engines they ported were:
Source MP - Used by Team Fortress 2. Updated Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Day of Defeat: Source, and Counter-Strike: Source to use this engine.
Source 2009 - Updated version of the Source 2007 (aka Orange Box) game engine; formerly used by Team Fortress 2 before Source MP was broken off to its own engine. Updated Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and Portal to this engine.
Left 4 Dead - Used by Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.
Newer games are new engine generations based on previous generations, most likely Source MP or Left 4 Dead.
P.S. This is why Half-Life: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, and Alien Swarm don't work on OSX despite being Source games... they weren't updated to the new engines.
So, Steam is worth less to Windows than WoW according to those numbers?
You're comparing Steam's peak concurrent users to the total number of WoW subscribers total.
Last time I checked, Steam had over 50 million registered accounts.
I think you're overlooking one thing: Steam has sales. Lots and lots of sales.
Meaning that there's somewhere close to 100% chance that any given game you can find in the Windows store will be cheaper on Steam at some point.
There's a reason that Impulse, Origin, Amazon Downloads, and all the other competitors in the PC digital downloads market don't have anywhere near the market-share Steam does.
I'm not sure if you're serious here. Console FPS games almost always use some sort of auto-aim to help players out and sales figures are not the same as quality, if they were then Windows 95 would've been an amazing operating system....
Windows 95 was amazing... for users used to Windows 3.1 and Mac System 7 anyway... preemptive multitasking for the win!
I give up the ability to upgrade components, but on the plus side I have had this desktop for 5 years or so and it still meets all my computing needs including gaming.
I can't tell if you're kidding or not. Can a 5-year old iMac even run games like Portal 2 or Diablo 3, both of which had native OSX releases?
Anyway, I've had my current Windows 7 PC for about a year now and I have no plans on upgrading it any time soon. Up until now, everything has (to steal a phrase) "just worked."
As for drivers, the only ones I've installed myself were updated video drivers. nVidia even has a neat little program that tells you when new video drivers come out, although I tend to hold off on them for a few months in case they have another fan-speed debacle.
I can probably type far more efficiently than I can orate.
You, maybe.. But why do you think they had to make shorthand and stenotype machines?
Heck, watch the closed captioning on basically any live TV show (or live-to-tape, like late night talk shows). Lots of errors, and missed words, even *with* the more-efficient-than-standard-typing mechanisms.
(I am not claiming that voice input is always the superior interface, simply that it's faster than typing the same text.)
Note: he said efficiently, not quickly. Since one types slower than one speaks, one naturally has more time to think about what one is communicating (see? I changed that from "saying" to "communicating" right before I typed it!)
Also, of all things, I can still run an app up to a decade old (RTCW/Enemy Territory) and have it run just fine, aside from occasional hijinks with audio.
...on Linux? On a recent distro?
On the flip side, I played through 1998's Half-Life 1 and its two Gearbox expansions (Opposing Force and Blue Shift) last year. Although that's probably not the best example, due to Valve having long term support for their products... and I installed the current version through Steam.
It's not just you. When I read the title, I assumed it was just another sloppy/ignorant editor exaggerating things, because to me, Windows 7 already feels fully hardware accelerated. I thought that was the whole point of Aero Glass. I didn't notice any UI sluggishness, not on my balls-out gaming rig, nor the wife's 3 year old AMD with integrated graphics. Really, since I started plopping SSDs in all my machines, that was the only variable I could feel anymore in general browser-heavy usage. Everything else seemed to have reached a plateau.
If Win8 is even faster, well great. Efficiency is always welcome, it will hopefully translate into longer battery life for laptops and tablets.
That confused me, too, but then I remembered that DirectWrite isn't mandatory for applications and was, in fact, one of the major selling points for IE9 (and the reason it wasn't released for WinXP).
Not all of them!
I thought the Galaxy Tab 10 and 7.7 were tablets, but Apple was quoted saying:
"Samsung's infringing sales have enabled Samsung to overtake Apple as the largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world. Samsung has reaped billions of dollars in profits and caused Apple to lose hundreds of millions of dollars through its violation of Apple's intellectual property."
Why does Samsung's status as a smartphone manufacturer have anything to do with tablets?
And why is Apple suing for $2.5B in damages when by their own admission, they lost only "hundreds of millions of dollars"?
It's a Chewbacca Defense.
Put them side by side and look at them. Yes, they are copying Apple.
And when I put the iPad next to Samsung's digital photo frame from 2006 (before the iPhone came out, let alone the iPad), they look remarkably similar... at least from the front, which is where the majority of Apple's claims come from.
Remind me, who is copying who?
The problem with Expression Web is that it's by the same company that made Frontpage*, and people tend to have a long memory.
*or rather the ones who bought FrontPage in the late 90s. AKA Microsoft.
My guess is that Microsoft set the price point high to avoid the PS3 problem, where every time you turn the damn thing on it has some patch that needs you to read yet another EULA and hit ok before it will apply. I don't know how people read all of the EULAs a PS3 tosses up without going blind.
New EULAs occur with system updates, which are controlled by the system manufacturer (aka Sony)...
Microsoft, on the other hand, only updates its dashboard twice a year. Which makes me wonder what exactly they do when a bug crops up, and since this is Microsoft, you know bugs are popping up.
Maintaining the XBLA platform, curating many many games, watching for bugs (which is why this one even got caught in the first place) and all that is not cheap.
Yup, it's not cheap. As I recall, it's $60 per person per year.
Wait, you meant the money Microsoft is spending?