There is a difference, Adobe is trying to limit how the PDF is modified and copied. They aren't trying to limit access to the data like the MPAA wants to do with DVDs. There is nothing that keeps you from using your PDF wherever, you just need a reader that Adobe hasnt seemed to aggressivly fight. The MPAA wants to be able to control your access to the data. When Adobe starts suing users for writing applications that can open and view pdfs, then we can talk about war. treke
Tribes 2 is going to use central authentication, but before the game load's there is a sort of community design. It has it's own IRC client, Email, News page, discussion board, all of which are tied to your account and the "tribal membership" of your account. To play a lan game or single player game won't require you to authenticate, just playing multiplayer over the internet. treke
The debate isnt whether or not to remove xpdf, but whether or not Debian should apply this patch to the version of xpdf they distribute. I don't think they should apply the patch, the author of xpdf went to the trouble of adding the copy protection, and I think it's a good thing. If we start distributing copes that dont pay any attention to copy restrictions then we might start running into issues with trying to support future formats.
If someone wants the capability to copy and print and whatever else, they can apply the patch themselves. treke
Re:is this something to be proud of?
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I'm not proud that linux can do it because it's a technical feat, I'm just glad that I can play the games that I remember from when they were new. And play someof the ones I never got a chance to play (KQ2,3), SQ2, QFG2. On top of that it's a fun way to write a quick game or two for fun. treke
They are still there. Half Life, Homeworld, Swat 3, Tribes and Tribes2. They also do "sports" games, well if you consider fishing, bullriding, and golf sports:). I wouldnt be disappointed if they'd go back and write some new adventure games (The 3d version of Larry previewed on Al Lowes website looked cool).
treke
When i saw this posted I went on a search for old sierra games and found.... http://hyd.org/abandonware/sierra/. they have most of the games, except for some of the "recent" ones like KQ7, SQ6, LSL7. treke
Half Life is based on the Quake 1 engine, and no other games have been written on top of it(except the mods for Half Life. Of course there are other engines out there. Take Tribes 2's new engine for example. treke
Intervideo will most likely not support their product on Alpha's, Sun's, PPC's, and the other architechtures Linux runs on. Eliminating Linux because there is an Authorized Player still leaves other systems. Net BSD, Solaris, GNU/Hurd, and any other system you might possibly want DVD capabilities on. The arguement still holds that there will not be an authorized player for everyplatform that it's wanted on. treke
Some of the developers may use cvs on the sections they maintain, but eventually it all has to be sent in the form of patches to Linus who merges together the official tree using whatever voodoo he uses to manage all of the updates. treke
Re:New 2.4.x Compilation issues under Debian unsta
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I had the same problem, and unless something was upgraded in the last 2 hours I am in fact completly up to date. treke
Uhm no... http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html Lists a number of GPL Compatible licenses. For the lazy these include the first two non GPL licenses in my list (read Artistic as Clarified Artistic). There is also the Cryptix License, Zlib Licence, W3C License, Berkeley Database License, Python 1.6a2 and earlier license, Guile Licence.
These are just the licences officially blessed by the FSF. Any license provides the same freedoms as the GPL should be compatible. treke
The Free Software Foundation will only accept one license -- the one that gives them control, the GPL.
Wrong, the Free Software Licenses page specifically lists licenses that they consider to be free software license, which includes:
GPL
LGPL
X11 License
BSD
Artistic License
Netscape Public License
Apache License
IBM Public License
Mozilla Public License
QT Public License
This also bring up your point that you must GPL your software to link to GPL code. That isn't true, you have to license your code under a GPL compatible license. You could license your program under the BSD license(without advertising clause), LGP, or other licenses that meet the standard for compatibility. The FSF is trying to eliminate non-free software, so of course they aren't going to try and undermine that ideal. But they aren't accepting only the licenses that puts them in control.
If you want to bypass glibc by all means do so, but fullfill the licensing requirements. Wouldn't you demand users of your software to do the same? treke
The British Army had more and better weapons than their subjects in the colonies 200 years ago. And yes I know not everyone lives in the USA, I was not speaking for any other countries. treke
My question is whether this name change would make it to the point of actually having to change the commands. I could concede that the project name might be reasonable, but changing the commands would be pushing it. treke
Well the decryption has to take place on the machine with the drive, then the vob could be streamed just the same as an unencrypted one. The decoding can still take place on the remote client treke
Perl appears to have been around since about 1987, but patch looks like it dates back to about 1984. I'm not certain, but I don't think Norton Antivirus is older, or even that old. treke
The kernel doesn't stop with out him. Most of the day to day development isnt done by Linus, it's don by the maintainers of the specific subsystems. Linus does organize final releases, but that isn't even soley his job. One of the late 2.2 kernels(17 I think) was actually released by Alan Cox before Linus gave it final blessing.
The bug mentioned here was fixed by Linus, but he is certainly not the only one capable of fixing it. He probably fixed it because he was the contact for that part of the kernel and he was the one who found the solution first. If he wasn't reached RedHat would have brought it to someone else.
If Linus was in a car accident, some slow down may occur in areas where Linus would normally be the standard contact, but other developers would take up the slack. It would be much like the head of the NT Executive team being in a car accident. A very valuable programmer(and human being) would be injured, but the project would go on without it. No one talks about the NT kernel team much though. treke
Re:Quake on IPv6. So what?
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and its not being used in up-to-date games because it isn't useful for them. Game companies aren't going to take the time to do ipv6 games untill people actually use ipv6. But people are inclined to test out new things, and a programmer probably decided that he wanted to try ipv6 programming and decided to convert quake to use it. treke
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There is a difference, Adobe is trying to limit how the PDF is modified and copied. They aren't trying to limit access to the data like the MPAA wants to do with DVDs. There is nothing that keeps you from using your PDF wherever, you just need a reader that Adobe hasnt seemed to aggressivly fight. The MPAA wants to be able to control your access to the data. When Adobe starts suing users for writing applications that can open and view pdfs, then we can talk about war.
treke
Tribes 2 is going to use central authentication, but before the game load's there is a sort of community design. It has it's own IRC client, Email, News page, discussion board, all of which are tied to your account and the "tribal membership" of your account. To play a lan game or single player game won't require you to authenticate, just playing multiplayer over the internet.
treke
The debate isnt whether or not to remove xpdf, but whether or not Debian should apply this patch to the version of xpdf they distribute. I don't think they should apply the patch, the author of xpdf went to the trouble of adding the copy protection, and I think it's a good thing. If we start distributing copes that dont pay any attention to copy restrictions then we might start running into issues with trying to support future formats.
If someone wants the capability to copy and print and whatever else, they can apply the patch themselves.
treke
I'm not proud that linux can do it because it's a technical feat, I'm just glad that I can play the games that I remember from when they were new. And play someof the ones I never got a chance to play (KQ2,3), SQ2, QFG2. On top of that it's a fun way to write a quick game or two for fun.
treke
Just to clear it up, they seem to mostly publish the work of other companies, except for the Dynamix stuff. I believe they own them out right
treke
They are still there. Half Life, Homeworld, Swat 3, Tribes and Tribes2. They also do "sports" games, well if you consider fishing, bullriding, and golf sports :). I wouldnt be disappointed if they'd go back and write some new adventure games (The 3d version of Larry previewed on Al Lowes website looked cool).
treke
When i saw this posted I went on a search for old sierra games and found.... http://hyd.org/abandonware/sierra/. they have most of the games, except for some of the "recent" ones like KQ7, SQ6, LSL7.
treke
I believe that slashdot already reported on a patent they were awarded. Although it was a much more general patent.
treke
Half Life is based on the Quake 1 engine, and no other games have been written on top of it(except the mods for Half Life. Of course there are other engines out there. Take Tribes 2's new engine for example.
treke
This seems like a reference to Kyle's mom from South Park(American cartoon). She always said what What WHAT when outraged at some minor offense.
treke
Intervideo will most likely not support their product on Alpha's, Sun's, PPC's, and the other architechtures Linux runs on. Eliminating Linux because there is an Authorized Player still leaves other systems. Net BSD, Solaris, GNU/Hurd, and any other system you might possibly want DVD capabilities on. The arguement still holds that there will not be an authorized player for everyplatform that it's wanted on.
treke
Some of the developers may use cvs on the sections they maintain, but eventually it all has to be sent in the form of patches to Linus who merges together the official tree using whatever voodoo he uses to manage all of the updates.
treke
I had the same problem, and unless something was upgraded in the last 2 hours I am in fact completly up to date.
treke
These are just the licences officially blessed by the FSF. Any license provides the same freedoms as the GPL should be compatible.
treke
The key part I missed was the Clarified Artistic License, listed in the free-compatible section
treke
The Free Software Foundation will only accept one license -- the one that gives them control, the GPL.
Wrong, the Free Software Licenses page specifically lists licenses that they consider to be free software license, which includes:
This also bring up your point that you must GPL your software to link to GPL code. That isn't true, you have to license your code under a GPL compatible license. You could license your program under the BSD license(without advertising clause), LGP, or other licenses that meet the standard for compatibility. The FSF is trying to eliminate non-free software, so of course they aren't going to try and undermine that ideal. But they aren't accepting only the licenses that puts them in control.
If you want to bypass glibc by all means do so, but fullfill the licensing requirements. Wouldn't you demand users of your software to do the same?
treke
Not nearly as out fo date as the debian packages... who here wants Mozilla M18 still...
treke
The British Army had more and better weapons than their subjects in the colonies 200 years ago. And yes I know not everyone lives in the USA, I was not speaking for any other countries.
treke
We will if the second ammendment stays in effect...
treke
My question is whether this name change would make it to the point of actually having to change the commands. I could concede that the project name might be reasonable, but changing the commands would be pushing it.
treke
Well the decryption has to take place on the machine with the drive, then the vob could be streamed just the same as an unencrypted one. The decoding can still take place on the remote client
treke
I think by convention it would be --dont-do-that-gui-shit.
treke
Perl appears to have been around since about 1987, but patch looks like it dates back to about 1984. I'm not certain, but I don't think Norton Antivirus is older, or even that old.
treke
The kernel doesn't stop with out him. Most of the day to day development isnt done by Linus, it's don by the maintainers of the specific subsystems. Linus does organize final releases, but that isn't even soley his job. One of the late 2.2 kernels(17 I think) was actually released by Alan Cox before Linus gave it final blessing.
The bug mentioned here was fixed by Linus, but he is certainly not the only one capable of fixing it. He probably fixed it because he was the contact for that part of the kernel and he was the one who found the solution first. If he wasn't reached RedHat would have brought it to someone else.
If Linus was in a car accident, some slow down may occur in areas where Linus would normally be the standard contact, but other developers would take up the slack. It would be much like the head of the NT Executive team being in a car accident. A very valuable programmer(and human being) would be injured, but the project would go on without it. No one talks about the NT kernel team much though.
treke
and its not being used in up-to-date games because it isn't useful for them. Game companies aren't going to take the time to do ipv6 games untill people actually use ipv6. But people are inclined to test out new things, and a programmer probably decided that he wanted to try ipv6 programming and decided to convert quake to use it.
treke