No, because the GPL says future versions will be "similar in spirit". The FSF publishing a license like that would invalidate the GPL so no-one but the copyright holder would be able to distribute GPLed code at all. It would cause a mess, but it wouldn't let you close the source.
I've thought of something like "this software may be licensed under any license meeting the DFSG provided such a license would not allow the subsequent licensing of the software or any derivative under a license which did not meet the DFSG". Not sure how good that is legally though.
The recommended way to put your stuff under GPL is "version 2 or any later version published by the free software foundation". It's not a flaw in the FSF setup, it's a flaw in linus' deliberate decision to say v2 only.
He didn't want any risk at all. He thought v2 was good enough and wanted to make it completely impossible that linux could ever become propriety. That's also why he doesn't have contributors assign copyright - makes changing the license much harder.
Riva TNT2 and a PCI Geforce2, both using the binary nvidia drivers. Gentoo xorg-6.8.2-r1, no optimisations other than -O2. Input is a ps/2 keyboard using pc105 keymap and uk (non-intl) keyboard layout; mouse is IMPS/2 with two scroll wheels. Setting it as a standard 3 button mouse stops the mouse lockups, but I don't want to do that. The lockups seem to disappear when xinerama is disabled, but I haven't tested it for long enough to be sure, I will take more of a look when I have time. It's probably just some error I've made, and I will look into it and I have no doubt find a solution, but it's just that this isn't the first time I've had such issues, and I don't think it's the case that X is markedly more stable than the alternatives.
Yes, linux has IPC, but it's horrible IPC. The kde way of doing things was really neat, because you as the developer don't have to do anything. Nothing at all. Zip. Nada. Anything that's an action is automatically accessible though DCOP. Yes, there were plenty of other ways to do this, but none of them were so easy for the developer. That's why gnome, even though it uses standard CORBA which ought to work better than kde's hacked together own protocol, never had as good IPC. If it takes effort to do it, many developers won't bother.
And I think a large part of the reimplementation is the need for platform independence. KDE wants to become the platform. Yes, you can do network i/o, multithreading, printing, IPC, you name it on *nix/mac/windows/beos/etc., but it's usually with different methods. Wheras you write your applications for KDE and they will run on anything KDE supports, same with gnome.
Not at all. The EU told them to sell it without windows media player. They didn't say they had to remove the codecs or libraries or anything. As others have pointed out it's bad business sense for MS to ship the framework without the player, but it's not impossible.
Qt/Embedded doesn't use directfb, it writes directly to the framebuffer. Simplest demonstration of the fact it's not X is that there's no way to get network transparency with it.
Not really. They say it's only supported for approved machines, but almost any support site will say that. Other than that the only issue seems to be that you can only use USB devices which act as hard drives to boot from, not anything you can store data on. Which seems pressy obvious.
All Macs with built in Firewire can do it. Vaio's can do it. Some Asus boards can do it. There are probably more computers that support 1394 booting that USB booting.
I seriously doubt that. Almost every new PC in the last 7 years has shipped with USB and I have yet to see one which won't boot from it (though the oldest ones need a bios upgrade first)
Having the different types of thing in different places. Binaries in/usr/bin, libraries in/usr/lib, config files in/etc, shared data folder in/usr/share, all seems much neater to me than the "folder for each program" layout. I can understand the desire for a distinction between system and applications, but to me it seems a false duality, because the more useful an application gets quite often the more integrated it becomes, and the more a part of the system. Maybe this is true of linux much more than other OSes, which are normally made as a coherent whole, rather than aggregating together.
I *am* the great grandparent, and I would have thought it was obvious that I meant the standard method in general for removing that type of thing, which isn't always the add/remove programs dialog. And yes, I can remove linux installs, but because of configurations being stored in home folders and other things it is tricky to remove it completely enough to install another distro on top of it. Wheras I had no trouble removing win98 and installing freedos and keeping all my data files.
No. This is a prime example of Yahoo doing something innovative, and it's not the only one either. They don't do all the leading edge stuff because they're trying to be reliable. They don't want to be the absolute best for searching, they want to be the only place you ever need to go on the internet.
Yeah, KDE's a gnome ripoff. That's why it started before gnome, has had IPC for all applications for years while gnome is only just adding it, had integrated remote access from 3.0 while gnome didn't add it until 2.6, is still the only environment to have a good way to embed applications in each other...I could go on.
Hmm, my X windows has recently become less stable than the winME laptop I sometimes use. Ever since enabling Xinerama I've found it will occasionally lock up for long periods. And it still loses the mouse input quite frequently, requiring a VT switch to get it working again.
The reason is that every single story about spam says "never reply to spam or you'll get more". Once we reverse that and get people to reply to all the spam they recieve and string them along as long as you can, then we can destroy it.
As a serious solution for more modern computers, look at the chernobyl virus. Basically you reflash the bios with random data. The flash rom is usually soldered so it costs more to replace than to buy a new motherboard. Nasty, very nasty.
1. They only want to protect the *attributions*. They don't mind the pictures being published as long as they are *credited*. And google is removing the credits.
2.That's opt-out rather than opt-in which is always a bad idea. Furthermore I read below that they *do( have a robots.txt *and google is ignoring it*.
3.And we hate them for it. They want to make it easy for real users at their actual website.
4. They only care about making sure it's attributed. It's equivalent to a BSD license, would you say that BSD-licensed code obviously shows the author doesn't deserve the copyright to it?
They criticise the U.S. as and when the U.S. is wrong. Some people would say that a true friend will do this rather than sychophantically singing the praises of everything you do. And don't forget that a) France has saved the US too b) other countries did a lot more to save france in WWII than the US.
I don't think so. Despite all the problems they cause, dynamic libraries and perhaps even the registry are basically good ideas. Install gives a better laid out system, I've felt that especially since moving to linux, where the packages that stuff themselves in a folder in/opt just seem...wrong, and those who do the same in/usr doubly so. There are ways to stop users deleting files too, I don't think it would solve the malware problem. The biggest problem to me is non-standard installers. Having everything in a standard package where an external program installs it, like rpms or proper msi packages (msi adds zero overhead if used correctly because all the actual installer bit is already on the system) would be a great step forward. IIRC programs which make proper MSIs charge for them though, which results in a plethora of almost-compatible installation systems
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No, because the GPL says future versions will be "similar in spirit". The FSF publishing a license like that would invalidate the GPL so no-one but the copyright holder would be able to distribute GPLed code at all. It would cause a mess, but it wouldn't let you close the source.
I've thought of something like "this software may be licensed under any license meeting the DFSG provided such a license would not allow the subsequent licensing of the software or any derivative under a license which did not meet the DFSG". Not sure how good that is legally though.
The recommended way to put your stuff under GPL is "version 2 or any later version published by the free software foundation". It's not a flaw in the FSF setup, it's a flaw in linus' deliberate decision to say v2 only.
He didn't want any risk at all. He thought v2 was good enough and wanted to make it completely impossible that linux could ever become propriety. That's also why he doesn't have contributors assign copyright - makes changing the license much harder.
Riva TNT2 and a PCI Geforce2, both using the binary nvidia drivers. Gentoo xorg-6.8.2-r1, no optimisations other than -O2. Input is a ps/2 keyboard using pc105 keymap and uk (non-intl) keyboard layout; mouse is IMPS/2 with two scroll wheels. Setting it as a standard 3 button mouse stops the mouse lockups, but I don't want to do that. The lockups seem to disappear when xinerama is disabled, but I haven't tested it for long enough to be sure, I will take more of a look when I have time. It's probably just some error I've made, and I will look into it and I have no doubt find a solution, but it's just that this isn't the first time I've had such issues, and I don't think it's the case that X is markedly more stable than the alternatives.
And I think a large part of the reimplementation is the need for platform independence. KDE wants to become the platform. Yes, you can do network i/o, multithreading, printing, IPC, you name it on *nix/mac/windows/beos/etc., but it's usually with different methods. Wheras you write your applications for KDE and they will run on anything KDE supports, same with gnome.
Not at all. The EU told them to sell it without windows media player. They didn't say they had to remove the codecs or libraries or anything. As others have pointed out it's bad business sense for MS to ship the framework without the player, but it's not impossible.
Qt/Embedded doesn't use directfb, it writes directly to the framebuffer. Simplest demonstration of the fact it's not X is that there's no way to get network transparency with it.
Hardly
Limited, as I said.
Not really. They say it's only supported for approved machines, but almost any support site will say that. Other than that the only issue seems to be that you can only use USB devices which act as hard drives to boot from, not anything you can store data on. Which seems pressy obvious.
All Macs with built in Firewire can do it. Vaio's can do it. Some Asus boards can do it. There are probably more computers that support 1394 booting that USB booting.
I seriously doubt that. Almost every new PC in the last 7 years has shipped with USB and I have yet to see one which won't boot from it (though the oldest ones need a bios upgrade first)
Having the different types of thing in different places. Binaries in /usr/bin, libraries in /usr/lib, config files in /etc, shared data folder in /usr/share, all seems much neater to me than the "folder for each program" layout. I can understand the desire for a distinction between system and applications, but to me it seems a false duality, because the more useful an application gets quite often the more integrated it becomes, and the more a part of the system. Maybe this is true of linux much more than other OSes, which are normally made as a coherent whole, rather than aggregating together.
I *am* the great grandparent, and I would have thought it was obvious that I meant the standard method in general for removing that type of thing, which isn't always the add/remove programs dialog. And yes, I can remove linux installs, but because of configurations being stored in home folders and other things it is tricky to remove it completely enough to install another distro on top of it. Wheras I had no trouble removing win98 and installing freedos and keeping all my data files.
No. This is a prime example of Yahoo doing something innovative, and it's not the only one either. They don't do all the leading edge stuff because they're trying to be reliable. They don't want to be the absolute best for searching, they want to be the only place you ever need to go on the internet.
Yep. Much as slashdot will deny it, yahoo is actually getting to be better than google these days.
That would be funny if it weren't for the post some way back saying "this has space elevator written all over it"
I know, I know, don't feed the trolls.
Hmm, my X windows has recently become less stable than the winME laptop I sometimes use. Ever since enabling Xinerama I've found it will occasionally lock up for long periods. And it still loses the mouse input quite frequently, requiring a VT switch to get it working again.
It would be great. It would also harm companies with lots of money, so no government is ever going to allow it.
The reason is that every single story about spam says "never reply to spam or you'll get more". Once we reverse that and get people to reply to all the spam they recieve and string them along as long as you can, then we can destroy it.
As a serious solution for more modern computers, look at the chernobyl virus. Basically you reflash the bios with random data. The flash rom is usually soldered so it costs more to replace than to buy a new motherboard. Nasty, very nasty.
2.That's opt-out rather than opt-in which is always a bad idea. Furthermore I read below that they *do( have a robots.txt *and google is ignoring it*.
3.And we hate them for it. They want to make it easy for real users at their actual website.
4. They only care about making sure it's attributed. It's equivalent to a BSD license, would you say that BSD-licensed code obviously shows the author doesn't deserve the copyright to it?
They criticise the U.S. as and when the U.S. is wrong. Some people would say that a true friend will do this rather than sychophantically singing the praises of everything you do. And don't forget that a) France has saved the US too b) other countries did a lot more to save france in WWII than the US.
Actually, no. You can install Qt/Embedded and recompile most of kde against it, and use that with the linux framebuffer, if you want to.
But there's no way to distinguish that from "*he would support your right to do that*".
If you go to add/remove programs, I think you'll find notepad is one of those optional components you can add or remove on one of the other tabs.
I don't think so. Despite all the problems they cause, dynamic libraries and perhaps even the registry are basically good ideas. Install gives a better laid out system, I've felt that especially since moving to linux, where the packages that stuff themselves in a folder in /opt just seem...wrong, and those who do the same in /usr doubly so. There are ways to stop users deleting files too, I don't think it would solve the malware problem. The biggest problem to me is non-standard installers. Having everything in a standard package where an external program installs it, like rpms or proper msi packages (msi adds zero overhead if used correctly because all the actual installer bit is already on the system) would be a great step forward. IIRC programs which make proper MSIs charge for them though, which results in a plethora of almost-compatible installation systems