You know the story.... IANAL I don't think he could take this through legal chanels. He granted the right for some people at Stanford to use it educationally, and that's all we know. The quote implies that the licenses were given to the authors of VMWare, but it never says it for a fact. Even if it was the authors, there would be no suit unless Bochs code was actually used in VMWare ( depending on license and code availability). Quite simply, this probably isn't gonna make Kevin any money unless the users who received licenses decide to reimburse him for his kindness. treke
Open Source Software does have a tendency to take a while to get written when done mainly by volunteers, and if you have a specific need it may not be filled by the community in general. Buy hiring these fellows, you now have very competent GNOME programmers who are going to work towards your deadlines and write what you need. Not something that might be sort of what you need, and whenever they get around to finishing it. treke
Unfortunatly VMWare is a resource hog. Personally I've only been able to get satisfactory performance out of it is using a p3 450 and assighning the thing 96-128 meg. treke
They are actually doing you a favor. If they sold only the raid card it would be for 65 bucks not 20, by disabling raid they can still get 65 bucks from the people who want raid, but if you dont want it then you don't have to pay extra for a feature you don't care about. treke
What restrictions were placed on redistribution by people who have already gotten their hands on the specs? Hopefully the developers already have copies of all the documentation that was available to this point. Advances may come slower, but at least the basics should be there. treke
My understanding of the issue is that the QPL( the license troll is using) allows use of QT for Open Source projects. I'm gonna look at it a little more closely. Only thing i'm not sure about is kdesuport, since it looks like it was just the distribution of other libraries. treke
I think you might have misunderstood his comment. i don't see anything that implies piracy. He's just saying that there would be a large library of games available, unlike the rather modest selection right now. treke
A half life port seems very unlikely to me. If I remember correctly the Mac port got cancelled quite a ways into the development cycle. Doesnt seem like something that is coming anytime soon. Maybe someone would do a Counter Strike for Quake 3:) treke
Hmmm... 15 dvds @ 4 gig a piece ( probably too low ) means I'd need 60 gig of space for them. Although I'd probably be able to watch them now that they are just plain mpeg2 files though. Not likely treke
Nice idea but there's a small problem.... I payed twenty to thirty bucks a piece for the dvds. You can easily convert gif to another format. You know a way I can keep my dvds and still burn them? treke
And you get to keep your socks:) I found a cd with the SRPMS on it and it was a repackager. I wasn't sure at first, but figured SRPM? Must be source. Well, that solves that. treke
I don't know if this is completely true... RedHat has a file labeled netscape-4.61-12.src.rpm. I'm not sure, I think it's a safe guess that this is the source for netscape communicator 4.61. I'd try building it, but I don't have time for a 40 meg dl at 3 k/s. Anyone who wants it can find it on your 6.1 source cd, or the SRPMS directory on any redhat mirror that has the source treke
I'd have to disagree with you... it all depends on the dorm, and the cable isp. My cable modem connection wasn't quite as fast as the dorm connection can be, but it is definitly more consistent in speeds. treke
That's not everyones philosophy though... I, and many other people, like to have the development tools coherently packaged. That's not to say that codewarrior isn't based on many small tools, with a graphical front end added. treke
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Why fix bugs that dont exist and add features you don't need? If security isnt an issue, and on an internal network it may not be as big of one, why take chances upgrading a critical component that is currently working fine. Now if security is an issue, or you want/need the new features by all means upgrade. But if it aint broke don't fix it. treke
Well, the Xfree team has been doing pretty good themselves so far. I'm happy seeing the redhat programmers working on improving the user interface by continuing to support the gnome project. treke
I agree for the most part on not announcing software on slashdot, but if there is a signifant piece of software released it should be put up. Xfree86 is a major component on most systems, as important as the kernel imho. treke
I would actually prefer to have the government write the software as long as there was some guarantee that any output based on correct input would be accepted. None of the "well we can't guarantee we are right" bull treke
I agree 100%. I triple booted linux/98/NT for awhile, but never really learned linux. After I deleted NT (98 never got used for work, just play) I started getting to know Linux real quick. Amazing what the need to get a paper printed out did for encouraging me to learn to set up a printer working properly. I really started to feel almost as comfortable as I did in NT within about a few weeks, although I definilty still have a lot to learn. It really didn't take long to get my system to a working state. --- Rob, let users choose to post their replies at 0 also. treke
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You know the story.... IANAL I don't think he could take this through legal chanels. He granted the right for some people at Stanford to use it educationally, and that's all we know. The quote implies that the licenses were given to the authors of VMWare, but it never says it for a fact. Even if it was the authors, there would be no suit unless Bochs code was actually used in VMWare ( depending on license and code availability). Quite simply, this probably isn't gonna make Kevin any money unless the users who received licenses decide to reimburse him for his kindness.
treke
I believe the best answer for this is that it does not work yet.
treke
Open Source Software does have a tendency to take a while to get written when done mainly by volunteers, and if you have a specific need it may not be filled by the community in general. Buy hiring these fellows, you now have very competent GNOME programmers who are going to work towards your deadlines and write what you need. Not something that might be sort of what you need, and whenever they get around to finishing it.
treke
Unfortunatly VMWare is a resource hog. Personally I've only been able to get satisfactory performance out of it is using a p3 450 and assighning the thing 96-128 meg.
treke
They are actually doing you a favor. If they sold only the raid card it would be for 65 bucks not 20, by disabling raid they can still get 65 bucks from the people who want raid, but if you dont want it then you don't have to pay extra for a feature you don't care about.
treke
What restrictions were placed on redistribution by people who have already gotten their hands on the specs? Hopefully the developers already have copies of all the documentation that was available to this point. Advances may come slower, but at least the basics should be there.
treke
KDE is written in C++ using the QT library from Troll Tech. Although you can write apps using C, and I'm sure other languages as well.
treke
My understanding of the issue is that the QPL( the license troll is using) allows use of QT for Open Source projects. I'm gonna look at it a little more closely. Only thing i'm not sure about is kdesuport, since it looks like it was just the distribution of other libraries.
treke
Actually.... KDE is GPL. It's QT that isn't GPL.
treke
I think you might have misunderstood his comment. i don't see anything that implies piracy. He's just saying that there would be a large library of games available, unlike the rather modest selection right now.
treke
A half life port seems very unlikely to me. If I remember correctly the Mac port got cancelled quite a ways into the development cycle. Doesnt seem like something that is coming anytime soon. Maybe someone would do a Counter Strike for Quake 3 :)
treke
Hmmm... 15 dvds @ 4 gig a piece ( probably too low ) means I'd need 60 gig of space for them. Although I'd probably be able to watch them now that they are just plain mpeg2 files though. Not likely
treke
Nice idea but there's a small problem.... I payed twenty to thirty bucks a piece for the dvds. You can easily convert gif to another format. You know a way I can keep my dvds and still burn them?
treke
And you get to keep your socks :) I found a cd with the SRPMS on it and it was a repackager. I wasn't sure at first, but figured SRPM? Must be source. Well, that solves that.
treke
I don't know if this is completely true... RedHat has a file labeled netscape-4.61-12.src.rpm. I'm not sure, I think it's a safe guess that this is the source for netscape communicator 4.61. I'd try building it, but I don't have time for a 40 meg dl at 3 k/s. Anyone who wants it can find it on your 6.1 source cd, or the SRPMS directory on any redhat mirror that has the source
treke
Damn.... that's a lot of hits :)
treke
Not quite. I'm sure yahoo.com and cnn.com have thousands and thousands of visitors a day.
treke
I'd have to disagree with you... it all depends on the dorm, and the cable isp. My cable modem connection wasn't quite as fast as the dorm connection can be, but it is definitly more consistent in speeds.
treke
That's not everyones philosophy though... I, and many other people, like to have the development tools coherently packaged. That's not to say that codewarrior isn't based on many small tools, with a graphical front end added.
treke
Why fix bugs that dont exist and add features you don't need? If security isnt an issue, and on an internal network it may not be as big of one, why take chances upgrading a critical component that is currently working fine. Now if security is an issue, or you want/need the new features by all means upgrade. But if it aint broke don't fix it.
treke
Well, the Xfree team has been doing pretty good themselves so far. I'm happy seeing the redhat programmers working on improving the user interface by continuing to support the gnome project.
treke
I agree for the most part on not announcing software on slashdot, but if there is a signifant piece of software released it should be put up. Xfree86 is a major component on most systems, as important as the kernel imho.
treke
I would actually prefer to have the government write the software as long as there was some guarantee that any output based on correct input would be accepted. None of the "well we can't guarantee we are right" bull
treke
Wouldn't a game that advocated blowing nazi's into the next world war be advocating the opposite? Just felt like bein a nit-picking ass today :)
treke
I agree 100%. I triple booted linux/98/NT for awhile, but never really learned linux. After I deleted NT (98 never got used for work, just play) I started getting to know Linux real quick. Amazing what the need to get a paper printed out did for encouraging me to learn to set up a printer working properly. I really started to feel almost as comfortable as I did in NT within about a few weeks, although I definilty still have a lot to learn. It really didn't take long to get my system to a working state. --- Rob, let users choose to post their replies at 0 also.
treke