Aclerex is a fork of wine if i'm not mistaken, and wine is licenced under the GPL, how can they then sell it?
Ok, I know you can sell free software, but as the article said: they'd rather sell to corporations. So no downloads available, sorry. No source available? WineX has source available which is free, and they also have a version you can buy which has some non-free win32 dll thingies.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, it feels like I am, but can they do this?
this guy is just an idealistic hippy Okey, now how is that a bad thing? Idealistic yes, but he also does something which is writing free software, so he not just one idealistic hippy, he is also a programmer, maybe a progammer just like you. And that he is an idealist doesn't make him bad in any way, it is often in the minds of these radical people new ideas are made.
they do it because someone will pay them. Horray for the good "if he jump in the ocean, so will I" thinking. Yes, most people do write software for money because we live in a society based on money. Most people work to make money, not to help out other people or make new technology for the future. But yes, most people to write software for money, but that doesn't necessary make it the right thing to do.
Software is a product, just like anything else. When you buy a car, they don't include blueprints for free . . why include source code?? I really don't feel like i have enough knowledge to answer this question, since I don't know how easy the blueprints for a car is to get, but the truth is that a car really isn't much of a technology thing, sure, it is, but the technology for how it works is free and available to everyone. (Yes, you can also consider F1-Racing cars, but that's another story, and they are not trying to take control over a market with them, it's just a sport where someone wins, and they usually only make one or two models).
What the hell, I wrote a really long answer to some AC comment, I need sleep now. Watch out for those spelling mistakes.
IIRC there is something called swmgr for IRIX, if that's not what you mentioned in the "SGI open source server" thing. At least it should handle dependencies, and I also found some old slashdot comment on the subject available here. Hope this can help.
Okey, what is this? Isn't this the sort of question you usually ask in a discussion forum or even IRC? I don't see why someone whould make a slashdot article over it. I did a search on google and found many resources for how to fix this, take a look here, here and here. And if you want to browse the results yourself, here.
I've googled and found nothing of real use there.
I don't have a device like this myself, but from the results I got I'll say it looks quite useful.
let individuals sue spammers for $1000 per message
I don't think many individuals would bother with this, it's easier to just the delete the spam mail than it is to risk loosing money on some lawsuit, and even if they did decide to sue them they would only have "defeated" one spammer (or his team or whatever it could be). 1 down 50000 to go.
I don't think they knew about the problems that would come later on at that stage. But still, then they should not announce it until they were sure that it would be released:)
You could create so called "demos" which requires a bit of everything, programming, graphics and music.
More information can be found here.
There is already a lot of them out there from C64, Amiga, texas instument calculator demos and PC demos, most of them can be found here. They are useless but then again fun to make:)
Exactly what are they trying to do? Okey, make money obviously, but it will never work. There is so many alternatives out there which are free, so why would someone who won't even pay for movies or software pay for this? At least Kazaa who also contain so called "spyware" should not really consider this (yes, someone already made this point), so this just have to be a shot in the wrong direction.
And if someone is looking for better alternatives I could recommend gift:-).
I have never tried EvilWM but it looks much like another minimalist window manager called PWM, which is a tabbed Window Manager. It was the first window manager to implement so called "tabs" on windows which can also be found on for example fluxbox. More information on it's homepage.
Why do I feel this has something to do with competition? I can see at least two winning titles which is Doom3 and HalfLife2 at the horizon, so my guess is that they don't have enough eye candy and/or technology to acually get people to buy it.
Slashdot Mirror
Already been done.
Linux is such a good desktop alternative [...] I Hate when people are comparing software with hardware
And I hate it when people compare Linux with XFree.
haha, funny but true. I wish I had modpoints now.
SCO claims to have the copyright on SCOnic...oh wait.
Aclerex is a fork of wine if i'm not mistaken, and wine is licenced under the GPL, how can they then sell it?
Ok, I know you can sell free software, but as the article said: they'd rather sell to corporations. So no downloads available, sorry. No source available? WineX has source available which is free, and they also have a version you can buy which has some non-free win32 dll thingies.
Please correct me if i'm wrong, it feels like I am, but can they do this?
this guy is just an idealistic hippy
Okey, now how is that a bad thing? Idealistic yes,
but he also does something which is writing
free software, so he not just one idealistic hippy,
he is also a programmer, maybe a progammer just
like you. And that he is an idealist doesn't make
him bad in any way, it is often in the minds of
these radical people new ideas are made.
they do it because someone will pay them.
Horray for the good "if he jump in the ocean,
so will I" thinking. Yes, most people do write
software for money because we live in a society
based on money. Most people work to make money,
not to help out other people or make new
technology for the future. But yes, most people
to write software for money, but that doesn't
necessary make it the right thing to do.
Software is a product, just like anything else. When you buy a car, they don't include blueprints for free . . why include source code??
I really don't feel like i have enough knowledge
to answer this question, since I don't know how
easy the blueprints for a car is to get, but the truth
is that a car really isn't much of a technology
thing, sure, it is, but the technology for how
it works is free and available to everyone.
(Yes, you can also consider F1-Racing cars, but
that's another story, and they are not trying to
take control over a market with them, it's just
a sport where someone wins, and they
usually only make one or two models).
What the hell, I wrote a really long answer to some AC comment, I need sleep now. Watch out for
those spelling mistakes.
Are you sure you don't mean the -ffor-scope, fno-for-scope, -mno-under-scores or -fleading-underscore flags?
Okey people, let's prove them wrong! ;-)
Open the links in the story twice from now on
For those interested, slengpung will be updated with pictures later.
It's at the same date as Assembly, so I can't attend.
IIRC there is something called swmgr for IRIX, if that's not what you mentioned in the "SGI open source server" thing. At least it should handle dependencies, and I also found some old slashdot comment on the subject available here.
Hope this can help.
Check here for more information. I am not sure though.
Oh, that's just great.
You could have written this with the OldMiner username, couldn't you? Or are you to afraid to stand for what you just said?
Okey, what is this? Isn't this the sort of question you usually ask in a discussion forum or even IRC? I don't see why someone whould make a slashdot article over it. I did a search on google and found many resources for how to fix this, take a look here, here and here. And if you want to browse the results yourself, here.
I've googled and found nothing of real use there.
I don't have a device like this myself, but from the results I got I'll say it looks quite useful.
I couldn't help noticing, but does this have something to do with the object "Cassini Oval"?
His writing on a Linux machine now what? Or did you mean "Your're"?
;-)
Yes, he meant that and "Excelent" and "compaired" and "hese" and "apear" and "taks".
let individuals sue spammers for $1000 per message
I don't think many individuals would bother with this, it's easier to just the delete the spam mail than it is to risk loosing money on some lawsuit, and even if they did decide to sue them they would only have "defeated" one spammer (or his team or whatever it could be). 1 down 50000 to go.
I don't think they knew about the problems that would come later on at that stage. But still, then they should not announce it until they were sure that it would be released :)
You could create so called "demos" which requires a bit of everything, programming, graphics and music. More information can be found here. There is already a lot of them out there from C64, Amiga, texas instument calculator demos and PC demos, most of them can be found here. They are useless but then again fun to make :)
Okey!! It was completly offtopic, sorry! Blargh, tell me to RTFA or something ;)
Exactly what are they trying to do? Okey, make money obviously, but it will never work. There is so many alternatives out there which are free, so why would someone who won't even pay for movies or software pay for this? At least Kazaa who also contain so called "spyware" should not really consider this (yes, someone already made this point), so this just have to be a shot in the wrong direction. :-).
And if someone is looking for better alternatives I could recommend gift
I have never tried EvilWM but it looks much like another minimalist window manager called PWM, which is a tabbed Window Manager. It was the first window manager to implement so called "tabs" on windows which can also be found on for example fluxbox. More information on it's homepage.
Now there is a game and a movie! Does anyone know when the book will be out?
Why do I feel this has something to do with competition? I can see at least two winning titles which is Doom3 and HalfLife2 at the horizon, so my guess is that they don't have enough eye candy and/or technology to acually get people to buy it.