I used to use Windowmaker a lot. There were many beautiful themes available, and for a while it was the best looking desktop available.
Now the themes have disappeared. Alas.
With V2, you could link to GPL'd code, or use GPL'd libraries, in your closed source project and that was OK. If you made changes to the GPL'd code, you needed to make the source for the changes available to anyone who you distributed the software to.
No, this is very much not true. What you are describing is the LGPL, not the GPL2.
Apple, for example, have had to implement their own SMB stack as smbx, instead of using Samba. For a number of years, SMB compatibility and functionality took a huge step backwards on OS X, all because the Samba project started to use GPL v3. This ended up with developers who would have been working on patches and changes for Samba, instead working on their own closed-source implementation that, quite frankly, was nowhere near as good or as mature as Samba.
I asked a lead developer at Samba about this at the time (Tridge), and he said it was fine, Apple wasn't contributing very much anyway.
It was really Apple's loss (and their customers) in that case.
A lot of people should lose their jobs for this fiasco.
You can thank Donald Rumsfeld for that. Yes, another fiasco that leads directly back to that genius.
And military courses on acquisition are already using it as a case-study.
The most illustrious Council of the Elders met beneath the purple sky. Fields of loyal adepts filled the gathering grounds, as many loyal civilians waited on the perimeter, pushing ever forward to hear to words of the great one speaking, to even catch a glimpse of one of his most reputable gelsacs. As K'breel, speaker for the Council stood to speak, a hush fell over the crowd, and all stood in rapt attention, speaking thusly:
Behold how the weaklings have fallen! Our priests and soldiers have toiled many days to finish our planetary defenses, and now they are operational! Our prayers during the last eclipse were especially effective.
A junior reporter who asked a question about 'metric' was hastily removed from the scene.
Just because Microsoft has entered a new market where business customers with some serious money are participating (enterprise cloud services) doesn't mean they can happily move along and let windows die.
Nah, not yet, but that will happen if things continue going as they are. The trend direction is promising.
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ok, that's one of the funniest things you've written recently. Very clever.
they are, in fact, the exact opposite of skeptics. They are completely credulous:
That's pretty funny, and often true, actually.
. I'm also a philosophy undergraduate
That is so great.
I used to use Windowmaker a lot. There were many beautiful themes available, and for a while it was the best looking desktop available.
Now the themes have disappeared. Alas.
Note that this question is very likely to be clarified in the next year or so as Google vs Oracle goes back to the appellate court.
With V2, you could link to GPL'd code, or use GPL'd libraries, in your closed source project and that was OK. If you made changes to the GPL'd code, you needed to make the source for the changes available to anyone who you distributed the software to.
No, this is very much not true. What you are describing is the LGPL, not the GPL2.
VxWorks and QNX run on far more embedded systems than Linux.
I'm not sure this is true. It used to be true, but I'm not sure it is anymore.
If you have a citation, that would be cool.
Apple, for example, have had to implement their own SMB stack as smbx, instead of using Samba. For a number of years, SMB compatibility and functionality took a huge step backwards on OS X, all because the Samba project started to use GPL v3. This ended up with developers who would have been working on patches and changes for Samba, instead working on their own closed-source implementation that, quite frankly, was nowhere near as good or as mature as Samba.
I asked a lead developer at Samba about this at the time (Tridge), and he said it was fine, Apple wasn't contributing very much anyway.
It was really Apple's loss (and their customers) in that case.
We use 'signed off' to mean 'approved' in America too, so......
Oh wait you meant Trump? Nobody's actually accused him of rape.
Someone has accused him of that.
He was the big proponent of the joint-acquisition program: the single plane that is shared across all the services, despite their differing needs.
I think you forgot to mention that the clown actually rapes women.
the polls (if you want to believe ANY of them now)
Is there any particular reason to not believe the polls?
I don't think many people in the US are pro-establishment right now; even those who are voting for Clinton dislike that aspect of her.
Any drone that is not fully autonomous can be jammed.
A lot of people should lose their jobs for this fiasco.
You can thank Donald Rumsfeld for that. Yes, another fiasco that leads directly back to that genius.
And military courses on acquisition are already using it as a case-study.
Automation is a good thing, without it, we'd be stuck in the dark ages.
We need to help people transition, but the automation itself is a good thing.
Which window manager do you use?
Behold how the weaklings have fallen! Our priests and soldiers have toiled many days to finish our planetary defenses, and now they are operational! Our prayers during the last eclipse were especially effective.
A junior reporter who asked a question about 'metric' was hastily removed from the scene.
This wouldn't have happened if they'd used imperial not metric!
New age hippie liberal airheads. If it's not a hogshead, it's not fresh!
IBM AI: Win at jeopardy.
Google AI: self-driving cars + winning at Go.
DARPA AI: self-piloting drones.
Microsoft AI: Racist sexbots
Just because Microsoft has entered a new market where business customers with some serious money are participating (enterprise cloud services) doesn't mean they can happily move along and let windows die.
Nah, not yet, but that will happen if things continue going as they are. The trend direction is promising.
Bush lied, people died!
You explained it so clearly.
Not like in the Ballmer days. Windows is only a small part of Microsoft revenue now.