That's a poor argument. Cars and clothes wear down a lot, I'm happy wearing t-shirts just like the ones I wore 12 years ago. There's a TV in my house that's older than I am (not the main one, but that's only because that broke fairly recently. We use them until they wear out). Shows are often topical and related to the current interest, news from 12 years ago makes no sense. Shows I've already seen are also no good, because shows are a one-off entertainment item, usually. But those shows that aren't topical are just as satisfying *the first time you see them* if they're 12 years old as if they're new. As for the internet, we knew our modems weren't good enough back then, and were always complaining.
It's all the plugins. If you disable them it loads reasonably quickly, not as fast as preview or kpdf but fairly fast. Look through them, see what they all do, and see which you need.
As a serious answer, game balance. If that makes the wonder worth the money in comparison to other wonders, a good game is prefferable to historical accuracy. IMO of course
How about you and me write an opengl frontend that looks nice and is completely rotatable? The server and client are completely separate so you don't need to know any game logic, just good programming.
On a more serious note, notice it's an and clause. If they're only blocking obscene material, most porn will be fine. (Very little is entirely devoid of artistic merit)
100mbps is equal to a 9x dvd, which I think is a bit more than the compression factor for mpeg. So you could probably do it in full colour with svgalib or something.
Depends if the corporation is seen as one person. I'd guess it isn't, since a corporation isn't allowed to internally distribute extra copies of windows to itself without buying licenses for them, is it? So you'd have to at least offer to provide source.
Especially when there's the perfectly good design science license tucked away on the FSF website for when you want a gpl-like license for non-programs.
I'll defend it. If it's my font, in that I hold the copyright, I can impose whatever conditions I like on you distributing documents made of it. I can say you have to stand on your head and whistle the national anthem whenever you distribute a copy of any document with my font in it. If you don't like it, find another font.
Yeah, but it includes the font. It's like distributing a statically linked program - you still have to follow the license of the library you linked in.
Absolutely. I'm surprised these are seen as "unintended consequences", since wanting this is the only reason I can think of for having your fonts GPLed.
Far closer to a gpl-ed library, because the font is part of the finished product - the letters of the font are in the document. No ide code ends up in the finished program
The font is a part of the finished document in a way the gimp isn't a part of a picture and gcc isn't a part of the code it makes. Under today's ridiculous copyright interpretation I can very much believe that having a font used in a document would mean the document was legally a derivative of the font.
Also not possible, since the GPL is simply a license to copy and redistribute copyrighted software, if the GPL is revoked, I still have been granted rights to the version I was given, via the U.S. Copyright system. I am free to do whatever I wish with it, including rebrand it as my own and sell it as a competing product.
Whilst I agree with much of your post, this is wrong. If the GPL is found to be invalid, then you cannot rebrand or distribute the version you have. You can carry on using it (you don't need a license for that) but if you don't own the copyright, you can't distribute copies. So there is a threat there from someone whose program is gpl, who owns all the copyright themselves, and wants to make it propriety. They start selling the propriety version, and claim no-one with a gpl copy can redistribute it because the gpl is invalid.
KDE is now a more than adequate homogenous environment. You can do typical computer use without needing any non-kde applications, and they all work well. Yes kde is a bit more bloaty than windows, but that's because it has more.
I don't see any niftiness. I can do any document I need to using GEM office (using that as an example because it's now free). It was good enough 12 years ago, it's good enough now. I prefer running KDE for the prettiness and more internet stuff, but functionally for non-internet stuff I've never found anything more useful. And it zooms, even under emulation, which it seems I have to do since dos doesn't seem to work on my hardware. (No sound. It's soundblaster compatible, allegedly (via82c686b), enabled in the bios, but doesn't work. Works ok running from within win98, but then I lose most of the speed advantage)
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That's a poor argument. Cars and clothes wear down a lot, I'm happy wearing t-shirts just like the ones I wore 12 years ago. There's a TV in my house that's older than I am (not the main one, but that's only because that broke fairly recently. We use them until they wear out). Shows are often topical and related to the current interest, news from 12 years ago makes no sense. Shows I've already seen are also no good, because shows are a one-off entertainment item, usually. But those shows that aren't topical are just as satisfying *the first time you see them* if they're 12 years old as if they're new. As for the internet, we knew our modems weren't good enough back then, and were always complaining.
It's all the plugins. If you disable them it loads reasonably quickly, not as fast as preview or kpdf but fairly fast. Look through them, see what they all do, and see which you need.
As a serious answer, game balance. If that makes the wonder worth the money in comparison to other wonders, a good game is prefferable to historical accuracy. IMO of course
How about you and me write an opengl frontend that looks nice and is completely rotatable? The server and client are completely separate so you don't need to know any game logic, just good programming.
Freecraft only had to change the name. The project itself is alive and well at http://wargus.sf.net/
On a more serious note, notice it's an and clause. If they're only blocking obscene material, most porn will be fine. (Very little is entirely devoid of artistic merit)
One could think the same about a program using readline to get its input, yet that counts as a derivative and has to be gpled.
The iso-9660 filesystem makes sense without the gpl program there. A document with an embedded font may not.
100mbps is equal to a 9x dvd, which I think is a bit more than the compression factor for mpeg. So you could probably do it in full colour with svgalib or something.
Depends if the corporation is seen as one person. I'd guess it isn't, since a corporation isn't allowed to internally distribute extra copies of windows to itself without buying licenses for them, is it? So you'd have to at least offer to provide source.
Especially when there's the perfectly good design science license tucked away on the FSF website for when you want a gpl-like license for non-programs.
I'll defend it. If it's my font, in that I hold the copyright, I can impose whatever conditions I like on you distributing documents made of it. I can say you have to stand on your head and whistle the national anthem whenever you distribute a copy of any document with my font in it. If you don't like it, find another font.
Yeah, but it includes the font. It's like distributing a statically linked program - you still have to follow the license of the library you linked in.
Absolutely. I'm surprised these are seen as "unintended consequences", since wanting this is the only reason I can think of for having your fonts GPLed.
The whole work may be legally a derivative - it's including the font as an integral part of itself. If it is, it has to be gpled.
Far closer to a gpl-ed library, because the font is part of the finished product - the letters of the font are in the document. No ide code ends up in the finished program
Yeah, but if the presented form is GPL you have to include source, which would presumably mean the original.
The font is a part of the finished document in a way the gimp isn't a part of a picture and gcc isn't a part of the code it makes. Under today's ridiculous copyright interpretation I can very much believe that having a font used in a document would mean the document was legally a derivative of the font.
Do you know what these license violations were? The links to the packages are all broken, presumably because the packages have been removed.
Have you looked at getting an external scsi ramdisk? That might be easier than trying to find a motherboard you can fit it all in
Whilst I agree with much of your post, this is wrong. If the GPL is found to be invalid, then you cannot rebrand or distribute the version you have. You can carry on using it (you don't need a license for that) but if you don't own the copyright, you can't distribute copies. So there is a threat there from someone whose program is gpl, who owns all the copyright themselves, and wants to make it propriety. They start selling the propriety version, and claim no-one with a gpl copy can redistribute it because the gpl is invalid.
I think the good guys are going to be safer. Internet access=less bored=less likely to start a fight, no?
KDE is now a more than adequate homogenous environment. You can do typical computer use without needing any non-kde applications, and they all work well. Yes kde is a bit more bloaty than windows, but that's because it has more.
Use something like it SAYS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE COMMENT BOX. yes im yelling slashcode, get over it
I don't see any niftiness. I can do any document I need to using GEM office (using that as an example because it's now free). It was good enough 12 years ago, it's good enough now. I prefer running KDE for the prettiness and more internet stuff, but functionally for non-internet stuff I've never found anything more useful. And it zooms, even under emulation, which it seems I have to do since dos doesn't seem to work on my hardware. (No sound. It's soundblaster compatible, allegedly (via82c686b), enabled in the bios, but doesn't work. Works ok running from within win98, but then I lose most of the speed advantage)