Perhaps I am misinterpreting what you intend, but that is really quite insulting to open source developers.
You are basically saying that open source is only of value when commercialized, and the fact that the KDE project created the implemenations of public standards isn't innovation, but a port of that software to a commercial platform is.
I wouldn't say that these frameworks are or are not innovative. But I don't think that the KDE project needs Apple in order to give it value.
Unfortunately, I don't think that Ulrich is doing that.
AIX is not a minority platform. What The Fuck. Okay, so the AIX guys are asshats in the way they treat GCC, fine. But GCC's claim to fame is that it it is the cross compiling, multiplatform compiler du jour. I think Ulrich loses a lot of credibility to say that GCC needs to not support AIX because it's a minority platform.
*nix applications which run primarily in userspace should port to the various BSD's and Linux easily, and if they don't then 99% of the time it's a bug. And in many cases, it's a bug that will affect the working platforms eventually (relying on nonstandard behavior of system calls, linker oddities, assumptions about file placement, etc). And if a closed Unix platform has paid developers to assist in the porting, then it should run on that platform too. And if the paid devs are dickbrains, then a good project leader should say so. Behave, or fork and get your whining ass out of my tree.
These AIX GCC guys shouldn't be saying "This patch breaks AIX, kill it", they should be saying "This patch fixes *blank* on AIX", at least most of the time.
This isn't some blogger making a comment about why OSS is better. This is a statistical sample of users and potential users asking why they do or would chose OSS.
"Lock in is just smart business"
But when your customers don't want lock in, then not having any is a marketable advantage. If VC's don't see that yet, they will. Frankly, a VC probably _does_ see it. A smart, successfull investor sees that most businesses are dependent on lock in, and that it pisses customers off, so in 5 years, the successful new businesses will be the ones without lock in, and invest now accordingly.
Besides, when is VC necessary for a successful OSS project? Or frankly, a successful closed source, commercial product? I see plenty of Windows apps that are developed by small companies, with no VC funds, just trying to offer a superior product in a (sometimes) small niche. Download.com is full of this stuff.
Interesting that the primary advantage seen in this study was freedom from vendor lock in.
This isn't from the Eric Raymond "Open Source is a better development model" school of software, this is "My freedom matters", even if that freedom is as much a strong economic advantage as much as anything else.
I just tried it. Boom, the tables were misaligned.
The problem can be resolved with a simple delay in the rendering, so perhaps the pipeline for dealing with that URL slightly delays the rendering process for you enough to make the bug go away?
I think there are a few setbacks, UI wise, in the latest builds.
The new preference dialog sucks. I suspect it's design is an attempt to match what OS X users expect, since Firefox devs have this (IMHO) crazy notion that the product should look as identical as possible across OSes.
The whole thing looks much more cluttered, and it has the same bugs that the UI did in pre 1.0 where the text was rendered inside of windows all the time (Like in the toolbar customization pallete, or in the current prefs). Which makes me worry that actually it's an XUL problem. If text placement is a thing that's hard to get right in XUL, it makes me worry about it as a platform.
However, performance did increase noticably for me, and the sanitize feature could be handy. I don't offhand find it much more useful that the "Clear All" button under privacy now. But it is nicely customizable, and not loosing my login cookies is kinda nice . . .
Debian has still been growing consistently. So they aren't dead yet. Sure, the release will be hugely behind but this gets the ball rolling in the right direction before they become irrelevant.
Of course, a better time for this would have been a year ago, before Ubuntu started to eat into the Debian user base, while breaking compatibility. But it may be soon enough to stop even that from happening.
I'm a time traveller. Unfortunately, you can't tell, because I travel through time with the help of an angel and an invisible lech, and the process causing me to appear identical to someone in the time I'm travelling to.
Hold on, I have to go get this Erik kid married to his one true love.
A researcher here at University Of North Carolina at Asheville (just recently hired) in the Psychology department uses VR to run people through highly realistic but controlled environments.
His name is Dr. Patrick Foo, and he uses an Alienware machine to do the hard work. Pretty cool really
Unicode operators aren't just for math heads. If there were more characters on the keyboard one could imagine a more reasonable solution to the = vs == problem.
The Perl 6 "spec" calls for at least one unicode operator, as a way of wading into those waters for more general purpose use.
PDF sucks. Hardcore dude. The files are too large, it isn't quite as portable as Adobe wants you to believe, and the inclusion of JavaScript may ran as the number 1 stupid thing ever done to a file format. I mean, what the fuck?
But - it's (mostly) a PostScript subset, it's good at random access, it's a vector format that allows me to copy and paste text from the document, and it is at least more portable than everything but a pure image format. It's an open format, no weird licencing issues, and Adobe has some vested interest in making it work everywhere (like Sun and Java).
If MS can retain the pros of PDF and eliminate even one of the cons, I'd be there with open arms. But they have a culture and history of lock in, and "royalty free licencing" is not the same as "open".
Frankly, I think Paul has the need to call it bad at this point.
If it is bad, Paul is the guy who should be the one to call it first, he's life is so tied up with Windows Development.
Second, by calling it a "train wreck" prior to release allows him to provide a nice counterpoint to his ridiculous cheerleading, so that when Longhorn is released, he can whoop and holler and say stuff like "It was touch and go for a while, but MS has released the greatest OS since TOPS-20!".
The fact that Longhorn likely WILL be a trainwreck is orthogonal to whether Paul would call it one at this point in it's development.
I know this has been a while since being posted, but this makes no sense.
MySQL cannot be released under the GPL when there are other limitations regarding it's use. It can however dual licence, and that's what MySQL AB does. They provide a commercial licence which essentially allows you to resell MySQL as a closed source app.
Since the grandparent installed Mandrake, he recieved MySQL from Mandrake under the GPL. Having MySQL under the GPL he can redistribute that sucker under the same licence. His only obligation is that if they ask, he provide source code within a reasonable period of time.
Heck, depending on how he works things out with his client, Mandrake is the distributor and he doesn't have that obligation.
If his client chooses to embedd the installed MySQL into a commercial closed source application, that's their own damn fault, and he has no responsibility for their violation, any more than he would if his client embedded MS SQL Server 2003, had he installed that instead.
Your basic claim seems faulty: namely that because he paid nothing for MySQL (included for free in Mandrake under the GPL) he must have accepted the terms of Commercial Licence (Which does require a fee, and you must get MySQL from MySQL AB, and you do that to use MySQL in a way which he is very much not using it) and so is violating their copyright.
Other way around. There are some 16 bit windows DLLs, and some 32 bit windows DLLs but they really work like wine and can be removed.
NT has lots of code that was previously destined for OS/2. NTFS, in fact, is HPFS on steroids, so much so that Mandrake's install program used to think NT installs were OS/2 when setting up dual boot
ACtually, it doesn't appear to be a stream at all. Saving the FLV should give you the entire video. The video is embedded in a set of flash controls for said video, and like any other flash movie you've seen it can start before the download is complete, and moniter it's own download status.
FLV is essentially MPEG-4 in a flash container, and the flash controls offer no signifigant overhead, so offering a "downloadable" version wouldn't even give you any real difference in terms of download size.
Ahhhh no. Not really. de Beers is a monopoly. While that does require that they behave in certain ways, it makes it practically impossible for them to form a conspiricy to fix prices.
There is no one to conspire with.
De Beers keeps the price up not so much by artifically inflating the price (which would be illegal) but by actively choosing not to exploit their diamond mines (of which they own something like 90% in the world) This guarentees smaller supply, and they very cleverly manipulate media to keep demand high (like pushing small stones as elegant when large numbers of large stones are found, or making small stones be a sign of poverty when large mines of small stones are found).
There is no 100% representative sample. You just do some research to determine who doesn't participate.
For example, I recently presented a paper at a psychology conference. When I presented my research, I offered up my sample - mostly female, all culled from undergraduate psych courses, a majority not psych majors, between ages 19 and 42.
There is no reason my data is only relevent to this sample, though there is always the possibility that, in fact, there is a subtle selection bias. So, my research can be presented as being relatively valid.
These guys also only select people who use their AV software, thus skewing their data again. The question is if that bias matters. It may well not.
nVidia does release open source drivers. The nv driver in X.org is maintained by nVidia.
The nvidia driver, however, is not open source. The difference is the nv driver supports 2d acceleration only, whereas the nvidia binary driver supports hardware 3d.
Unless I misread the XGI info incorrectly, this is exactly the same case with them - they have binary drivers that support hardware 2d and 3d, and they have open sourced their 2d code.
Not sure about the situation with Via, but overall, I think this is a trend. Assuming that the hardware manufacturers are right, and open sourceing the complete stack would give away proprietary and competitive secrets, open sourcing the 2d path likely holds no such danger - it's old, and 2d ain't where it's at any more. Open sourcing the 2d code wins points, and possibly developers.
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Other than both being Unix's behind the times, run by an idiot corporation, I don't know much about Unix Ware or Open Server.
SCO's website is particularly unhelpful.
Can anyone tell me why SCO has two unix products, with apparently divergent kernel codebases?
Perhaps I am misinterpreting what you intend, but that is really quite insulting to open source developers.
You are basically saying that open source is only of value when commercialized, and the fact that the KDE project created the implemenations of public standards isn't innovation, but a port of that software to a commercial platform is.
I wouldn't say that these frameworks are or are not innovative. But I don't think that the KDE project needs Apple in order to give it value.
Don't give them ideas!
Because it's cheap Chinese labor, and women tend to work in the factories.
Since it ECS, shouldn't it be how *not* to make a mainboard?
Sometimes, we use hyperbole to make a point.
Unfortunately, I don't think that Ulrich is doing that.
AIX is not a minority platform. What The Fuck. Okay, so the AIX guys are asshats in the way they treat GCC, fine. But GCC's claim to fame is that it it is the cross compiling, multiplatform compiler du jour. I think Ulrich loses a lot of credibility to say that GCC needs to not support AIX because it's a minority platform.
*nix applications which run primarily in userspace should port to the various BSD's and Linux easily, and if they don't then 99% of the time it's a bug. And in many cases, it's a bug that will affect the working platforms eventually (relying on nonstandard behavior of system calls, linker oddities, assumptions about file placement, etc). And if a closed Unix platform has paid developers to assist in the porting, then it should run on that platform too. And if the paid devs are dickbrains, then a good project leader should say so. Behave, or fork and get your whining ass out of my tree.
These AIX GCC guys shouldn't be saying "This patch breaks AIX, kill it", they should be saying "This patch fixes *blank* on AIX", at least most of the time.
You forgot "Windows"
What the hell are you talking about?
This isn't some blogger making a comment about why OSS is better. This is a statistical sample of users and potential users asking why they do or would chose OSS.
"Lock in is just smart business"
But when your customers don't want lock in, then not having any is a marketable advantage. If VC's don't see that yet, they will. Frankly, a VC probably _does_ see it. A smart, successfull investor sees that most businesses are dependent on lock in, and that it pisses customers off, so in 5 years, the successful new businesses will be the ones without lock in, and invest now accordingly.
Besides, when is VC necessary for a successful OSS project? Or frankly, a successful closed source, commercial product? I see plenty of Windows apps that are developed by small companies, with no VC funds, just trying to offer a superior product in a (sometimes) small niche. Download.com is full of this stuff.
Interesting that the primary advantage seen in this study was freedom from vendor lock in.
This isn't from the Eric Raymond "Open Source is a better development model" school of software, this is "My freedom matters", even if that freedom is as much a strong economic advantage as much as anything else.
I just tried it. Boom, the tables were misaligned.
The problem can be resolved with a simple delay in the rendering, so perhaps the pipeline for dealing with that URL slightly delays the rendering process for you enough to make the bug go away?
I think there are a few setbacks, UI wise, in the latest builds.
The new preference dialog sucks. I suspect it's design is an attempt to match what OS X users expect, since Firefox devs have this (IMHO) crazy notion that the product should look as identical as possible across OSes.
The whole thing looks much more cluttered, and it has the same bugs that the UI did in pre 1.0 where the text was rendered inside of windows all the time (Like in the toolbar customization pallete, or in the current prefs). Which makes me worry that actually it's an XUL problem. If text placement is a thing that's hard to get right in XUL, it makes me worry about it as a platform.
However, performance did increase noticably for me, and the sanitize feature could be handy. I don't offhand find it much more useful that the "Clear All" button under privacy now. But it is nicely customizable, and not loosing my login cookies is kinda nice . . .
Debian has still been growing consistently. So they aren't dead yet. Sure, the release will be hugely behind but this gets the ball rolling in the right direction before they become irrelevant.
Of course, a better time for this would have been a year ago, before Ubuntu started to eat into the Debian user base, while breaking compatibility. But it may be soon enough to stop even that from happening.
I'm a time traveller. Unfortunately, you can't tell, because I travel through time with the help of an angel and an invisible lech, and the process causing me to appear identical to someone in the time I'm travelling to.
Hold on, I have to go get this Erik kid married to his one true love.
Oh boy.
On Technocrat.net they just posted an article from the Washington Post about using VR to treat PTSD
3 60-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_technology
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58
A researcher here at University Of North Carolina at Asheville (just recently hired) in the Psychology department uses VR to run people through highly realistic but controlled environments.
His name is Dr. Patrick Foo, and he uses an Alienware machine to do the hard work. Pretty cool really
Unicode operators aren't just for math heads. If there were more characters on the keyboard one could imagine a more reasonable solution to the = vs == problem.
The Perl 6 "spec" calls for at least one unicode operator, as a way of wading into those waters for more general purpose use.
PDF sucks. Hardcore dude. The files are too large, it isn't quite as portable as Adobe wants you to believe, and the inclusion of JavaScript may ran as the number 1 stupid thing ever done to a file format. I mean, what the fuck?
But - it's (mostly) a PostScript subset, it's good at random access, it's a vector format that allows me to copy and paste text from the document, and it is at least more portable than everything but a pure image format. It's an open format, no weird licencing issues, and Adobe has some vested interest in making it work everywhere (like Sun and Java).
If MS can retain the pros of PDF and eliminate even one of the cons, I'd be there with open arms. But they have a culture and history of lock in, and "royalty free licencing" is not the same as "open".
PDF blows. Looks like Metro blows harder.
Frankly, I think Paul has the need to call it bad at this point.
If it is bad, Paul is the guy who should be the one to call it first, he's life is so tied up with Windows Development.
Second, by calling it a "train wreck" prior to release allows him to provide a nice counterpoint to his ridiculous cheerleading, so that when Longhorn is released, he can whoop and holler and say stuff like "It was touch and go for a while, but MS has released the greatest OS since TOPS-20!".
The fact that Longhorn likely WILL be a trainwreck is orthogonal to whether Paul would call it one at this point in it's development.
I know this has been a while since being posted, but this makes no sense.
MySQL cannot be released under the GPL when there are other limitations regarding it's use. It can however dual licence, and that's what MySQL AB does. They provide a commercial licence which essentially allows you to resell MySQL as a closed source app.
Since the grandparent installed Mandrake, he recieved MySQL from Mandrake under the GPL. Having MySQL under the GPL he can redistribute that sucker under the same licence. His only obligation is that if they ask, he provide source code within a reasonable period of time.
Heck, depending on how he works things out with his client, Mandrake is the distributor and he doesn't have that obligation.
If his client chooses to embedd the installed MySQL into a commercial closed source application, that's their own damn fault, and he has no responsibility for their violation, any more than he would if his client embedded MS SQL Server 2003, had he installed that instead.
Your basic claim seems faulty: namely that because he paid nothing for MySQL (included for free in Mandrake under the GPL) he must have accepted the terms of Commercial Licence (Which does require a fee, and you must get MySQL from MySQL AB, and you do that to use MySQL in a way which he is very much not using it) and so is violating their copyright.
Am I missing something?
Other way around. There are some 16 bit windows DLLs, and some 32 bit windows DLLs but they really work like wine and can be removed.
NT has lots of code that was previously destined for OS/2. NTFS, in fact, is HPFS on steroids, so much so that Mandrake's install program used to think NT installs were OS/2 when setting up dual boot
Well, it worked this time.
Once is better than never.
ACtually, it doesn't appear to be a stream at all. Saving the FLV should give you the entire video. The video is embedded in a set of flash controls for said video, and like any other flash movie you've seen it can start before the download is complete, and moniter it's own download status.
FLV is essentially MPEG-4 in a flash container, and the flash controls offer no signifigant overhead, so offering a "downloadable" version wouldn't even give you any real difference in terms of download size.
Ahhhh no. Not really. de Beers is a monopoly. While that does require that they behave in certain ways, it makes it practically impossible for them to form a conspiricy to fix prices.
There is no one to conspire with.
De Beers keeps the price up not so much by artifically inflating the price (which would be illegal) but by actively choosing not to exploit their diamond mines (of which they own something like 90% in the world) This guarentees smaller supply, and they very cleverly manipulate media to keep demand high (like pushing small stones as elegant when large numbers of large stones are found, or making small stones be a sign of poverty when large mines of small stones are found).
This is horseshit.
There is no 100% representative sample. You just do some research to determine who doesn't participate.
For example, I recently presented a paper at a psychology conference. When I presented my research, I offered up my sample - mostly female, all culled from undergraduate psych courses, a majority not psych majors, between ages 19 and 42.
There is no reason my data is only relevent to this sample, though there is always the possibility that, in fact, there is a subtle selection bias. So, my research can be presented as being relatively valid.
These guys also only select people who use their AV software, thus skewing their data again. The question is if that bias matters. It may well not.
nVidia does release open source drivers. The nv driver in X.org is maintained by nVidia.
The nvidia driver, however, is not open source. The difference is the nv driver supports 2d acceleration only, whereas the nvidia binary driver supports hardware 3d.
Unless I misread the XGI info incorrectly, this is exactly the same case with them - they have binary drivers that support hardware 2d and 3d, and they have open sourced their 2d code.
Not sure about the situation with Via, but overall, I think this is a trend. Assuming that the hardware manufacturers are right, and open sourceing the complete stack would give away proprietary and competitive secrets, open sourcing the 2d path likely holds no such danger - it's old, and 2d ain't where it's at any more. Open sourcing the 2d code wins points, and possibly developers.