I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Dave Farley's daily
Dr. Fun
strip. It's a Far Side style strip that is almost as old as
the web (Sept 1993). Dave's business model is to not quit
his day job. Bandwith is donated by the University of North
Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Another excellent web comic that uses a university to
avoid bandwidth expenses is Jorge Cham's PhD.
So, to these men, I say: drop it. Let the chips fall where they may. Let the people decide which license should govern them.
Of course the people will decide. That is what the whole argument is about: trying to convince the users (and developers) which license they should choose.
You'll want to use XEphem to
plan your Leonid observing. It is freely available software
for GNU/Linux that produces great printable star charts and
much more. If for some reason you can't get XEphem for your
OS you might find Heavens Above to be
useful.
For example: The Linux kernel is 'copylefted'
software, patented under the GNU GPL, and thus, nobody
actually owns it. In fact, the relevant law is
copyright not patent and most portions of the kernel are
owned by the programmer who wrote them.
For example: Similarly important was Linus's
decision to create a highly portable [their emphasis]
system. In fact, the original kernel was very
i386 specific and
non-portable . The portability only came later.
(Torvalds did aim for POSIX compatibility to make it easier
to port codes to his kernel.)
There are many other errors in the article. Admittedly,
mostly minor details but they do make me wonder about the
quality of the "peer-review".
Re:OSS Test Harnesses? OSS Test Suites?
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Kernel 2.4.12 Released
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· Score: 3, Informative
I'm a relative newcomer to the Open Source world, but
what has struck me is how none of the big profile projects
seem to have their own test harness or test suites. Maybe
I'm missing something. Please let me know what test suites
major OSS software ships with.
SPARC has the same problem as Alpha. Once you pay the premium for non-wintel hardware, the cost of a commercial OS isn't that much more. Unlike Linux for SPARC, Solaris for SPARC is well supported.
(We've had far fewer problems with Tru64/Alpha than with Linux/Alpha. Factoring my time in it's a no brainer -- Tru64 is much cheaper than Linux.)
One typically only buys SPARC or Alpha hardware because off the shelf wintel boxes can't do the job. And once one switches to thinking about "how do I solve my problem for the least amount of money" the commerical OS often makes sense.
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Another excellent web comic that uses a university to avoid bandwidth expenses is Jorge Cham's PhD.
You'll want to use XEphem to plan your Leonid observing. It is freely available software for GNU/Linux that produces great printable star charts and much more. If for some reason you can't get XEphem for your OS you might find Heavens Above to be useful.
For example:
The Linux kernel is 'copylefted' software, patented under the GNU GPL, and thus, nobody actually owns it.
In fact, the relevant law is copyright not patent and most portions of the kernel are owned by the programmer who wrote them.
For example:
Similarly important was Linus's decision to create a highly portable [their emphasis] system.
In fact, the original kernel was very i386 specific and non-portable . The portability only came later. (Torvalds did aim for POSIX compatibility to make it easier to port codes to his kernel.)
There are many other errors in the article. Admittedly, mostly minor details but they do make me wonder about the quality of the "peer-review".
The Gnu Compiler Suite has an extensive regression test. See for example "GCC Automated Testing System" or "GCC 2.95 Regression Test Strategy"
If you need to write a regression test for your own software check out DejaGnu.
--Andre
SPARC has the same problem as Alpha. Once you pay the premium for non-wintel hardware, the cost of a commercial OS isn't that much more. Unlike Linux for SPARC, Solaris for SPARC is well supported.
(We've had far fewer problems with Tru64/Alpha than with Linux/Alpha. Factoring my time in it's a no brainer -- Tru64 is much cheaper than Linux.)
One typically only buys SPARC or Alpha hardware because off the shelf wintel boxes can't do the job. And once one switches to thinking about "how do I solve my problem for the least amount of money" the commerical OS often makes sense.
--Andre L.