This is a patent on a means by which someone can change the appearance of hardware, by means of a clear plastic that different patterns of light are shone through using some pretty specific means. Not a patent on 'everything that changes color ever'.
My god, it's like once people on Slashdot hear the word 'patent' their brains shut off and they start typing 'badbadbadbad' without even bothering to examine the facts. Read the summary, *AT LEAST*, before you start making the stupid comments.
Remember that you're asking for a user interface here: the password for the disk needs to be requested. I don't think you can do that from where you're at, before the start of the user login process.
I hear from one of my 'mad sourcez' that QuickTime, when compiled with a MrC compiler that is specially adapted to target the appropriate sort of executables (MachO or CFM, I don't know which) was (depending on operation) consistantly 20% to 50% faster than the same thing compiled on the highest optimization level of gcc. And routinely the old Motorola compilers (running on IBM AIX PPC machines) could crank out code that was at least a few percent faster than MrC could.
> The point is that the APSL is not an acceptable free
> software license. [gnu.org].
To RMS, to you, or to anyone else who is absolutely certain that the doctrine of the GNU people is the One True Faith. Seems pretty acceptable to Apple. And I don't have any real problem with it.
Wouldn't want anyone to have to think for his-or-her-self, eh?
--Fred
Funny, it appears the GNU/Darwin people didn't ask you before mucking around with Apple.
After all, what they did was
1) Start using someone else's software
2) Complained about the licensing
-- Licencing was changed
3) Complained about the licensing
-- Licensing was changed some more
4) Complained about the licensing
5) Said they were going to take their bats and balls (always supposing they have any) and go home.
The Apple license espouses a certain ethical position, which in many ways is quite similar to the position espoused in the GPL. In other ways it is different. If you don't like it, maybe you shouldn't be using the software.
But if you're going to attack people for being heartily sick of the GPL and announcing it to the world, it's kind of hard to defend people who are heartily sick of Apple's license and are announcing it to the world.
Unless you're a zealot. Then it's all good.
--Fred
Remember, most of these guys use Intel/AMD boxes to do all their stuff on. It was getting annoying (not to mention ideologically uncomfortable) for them to have to try everything out on a Mac... I mean, for a lot of these people, Apple has been the Great Satan for a lot longer than Microsoft has been on the radar screen.
So they took this opportunity to ditch a part of the distribution that they never used anyway, stop contributing anything to the company that they never liked anyway, and still use the fruits of the development provided by that company.
Admirable, if looked at in a certain light. I guess.
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This is a patent on a means by which someone can change the appearance of hardware, by means of a clear plastic that different patterns of light are shone through using some pretty specific means. Not a patent on 'everything that changes color ever'.
My god, it's like once people on Slashdot hear the word 'patent' their brains shut off and they start typing 'badbadbadbad' without even bothering to examine the facts. Read the summary, *AT LEAST*, before you start making the stupid comments.
--Fred
Remember that you're asking for a user interface here: the password for the disk needs to be requested. I don't think you can do that from where you're at, before the start of the user login process.
--Fred
I hear from one of my 'mad sourcez' that QuickTime, when compiled with a MrC compiler that is specially adapted to target the appropriate sort of executables (MachO or CFM, I don't know which) was (depending on operation) consistantly 20% to 50% faster than the same thing compiled on the highest optimization level of gcc. And routinely the old Motorola compilers (running on IBM AIX PPC machines) could crank out code that was at least a few percent faster than MrC could.
Ah, the sweet sound of progress.
--Fred
> The point is that the APSL is not an acceptable free > software license. [gnu.org]. To RMS, to you, or to anyone else who is absolutely certain that the doctrine of the GNU people is the One True Faith. Seems pretty acceptable to Apple. And I don't have any real problem with it. Wouldn't want anyone to have to think for his-or-her-self, eh? --Fred
Funny, it appears the GNU/Darwin people didn't ask you before mucking around with Apple. After all, what they did was 1) Start using someone else's software 2) Complained about the licensing -- Licencing was changed 3) Complained about the licensing -- Licensing was changed some more 4) Complained about the licensing 5) Said they were going to take their bats and balls (always supposing they have any) and go home. The Apple license espouses a certain ethical position, which in many ways is quite similar to the position espoused in the GPL. In other ways it is different. If you don't like it, maybe you shouldn't be using the software. But if you're going to attack people for being heartily sick of the GPL and announcing it to the world, it's kind of hard to defend people who are heartily sick of Apple's license and are announcing it to the world. Unless you're a zealot. Then it's all good. --Fred
Remember, most of these guys use Intel/AMD boxes to do all their stuff on. It was getting annoying (not to mention ideologically uncomfortable) for them to have to try everything out on a Mac... I mean, for a lot of these people, Apple has been the Great Satan for a lot longer than Microsoft has been on the radar screen.
So they took this opportunity to ditch a part of the distribution that they never used anyway, stop contributing anything to the company that they never liked anyway, and still use the fruits of the development provided by that company.
Admirable, if looked at in a certain light. I guess.
--Fred Fnord