After RTFA it sounds allot like something I designed a year or so ago. That design and my source was stolen from me by a media company who then went under. I never even got paid for my work.
I really hope when it comes out it is not found MS bought this from that company, as then I would have the legal duty to sue, win, then open source my code at there expense. I'm sure even if its a derivative work I could get something out nice of them.
Re:The current GPL ignores online gameing.
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The current GPL ignores online gameing.
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My company is currently developing a very large amount of software, including gaming titles on a on and off basis. Our biggest problem with the current GPLv2 and the very reason we have not released more open source code from our in house development is that server applications under the current GPLv2 can be proprietary.
Under the current GPLv2 as we understand it, you can download the source of a GPLv2 software product and modify it, even charge people to use that server, and you don't have to make the source available because they are using it but do not have a copy of the binary. For massive online games this means that anybody who puts any money at all into developing a MMORPG server will lose it and gain noting in return because the competition has no legal obligation to share the source for the game server even if there product is a derivative work of GPLv2 code.
This is a problem for not only MMORPG servers, but smaller versions like old style muds. The current code bases for mud's that are the most popular got that way because people shared sources and changes. If we had the same power and server code for gaming and non-gaming server source had to be given to anybody who asked gaming on linux would be MUCH better. As Micro$oft and the rest tout thee software advantage in gaming, it s hurts the linux market because to be blunt gaming in Linux sucks compared to the thousands of titles available for Winho32.
If we had a few key changes to the gplv3 that allowed innovation instead of strangling it, the linux gaming community would be much better.
But the real question I want to know is how stable is it *really*? Did they rush the release due to political meandering or is it really stable? I think I'm going to hold off upgrading and just use the security updates that are available for the next year until I see that the bugs really are down. The last thing I want in a production environment is a unstable system that was rushed to release because of debian politics.
Do NOT do this.
The first 512 bytes of a hard drive make up the boot sector of the drive. If you do what he showed you, it will overwrite the boot sector of the hard drive in question (In this case/dev/hda, the master and first hardrive on the first ide channel). This would make the computer unbootable!
I actually met him once when I was in visiting my then girlfriends parents in Seattle, and I found him to be very snobby in my humble opinion. He had the nerve to run into me and when he almost lost control of the cup in his hands he was very rude, and said some rather insulting things. Of course the fact that I was wearing a linux based T-shirt at the time probably didn't help his opinion of me either, as also he sneered and called me a Linux Zealot.
Thats right, I like linux so that I can have a multi-billionaire too full of himself to give somebody right of way trip on his own feet and almost spill what had to be scalding hot coffee on me. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact I'm not restricted to one man or companies whim, can see the source whenever I want and edit them as I please, the fact that it costs me nothing so I can actually afford to install it on hundreds of computers and still retain my morality if I so wish, or the fact that I pay my bills supporting it as part of my day job.
I personally hope the person who does get to meet him is not so blinded by the glitter he will throw in there eyes that they do not see the type of person I saw him to be. Then again I'm sure even Ray Charles could see that truth, so I have hope the person who 'wins' just whips it out and pimp slaps the man.
Actualy my reader must have missed it. My bad.
If this is the case, then care should be taken that they include everything. The artical speaks of the plugin as if its limited and a better version is for sale. This version that is for sale would need to be fully compliant as well. It doesnt hurt to care enough to check;)
If I understand TFA correctly and the code for this plugin was developed from mono sources, then isn't it too under the GPL?
And isn't distributing only the binary of the plugin without the source code against the GPL?
So isn't this company violating the GPL?
This is why you should always make sure you at least md5, sha1, and crc32 the file and base your system on more then one hash system. Yes these may be easy to crack, but if you throw in a random hash like sha256 and serpant you add n^(256^32^foo) layers of security.
This is actually what I'm doing for one of the systems I'm working on. It is not that hard to check if a downloaded file meets checksums for 4 different hashes, and then delete it if the file fails verification from even one of them.
Implement this and *bam*, you have a self cleaning p2p system and this so called company's stock goes through the floor.
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After RTFA it sounds allot like something I designed a year or so ago. That design and my source was stolen from me by a media company who then went under. I never even got paid for my work. I really hope when it comes out it is not found MS bought this from that company, as then I would have the legal duty to sue, win, then open source my code at there expense. I'm sure even if its a derivative work I could get something out nice of them.
Please forgive the formating/spelling. I just woke up.
My company is currently developing a very large amount of software, including gaming titles on a on and off basis. Our biggest problem with the current GPLv2 and the very reason we have not released more open source code from our in house development is that server applications under the current GPLv2 can be proprietary. Under the current GPLv2 as we understand it, you can download the source of a GPLv2 software product and modify it, even charge people to use that server, and you don't have to make the source available because they are using it but do not have a copy of the binary. For massive online games this means that anybody who puts any money at all into developing a MMORPG server will lose it and gain noting in return because the competition has no legal obligation to share the source for the game server even if there product is a derivative work of GPLv2 code. This is a problem for not only MMORPG servers, but smaller versions like old style muds. The current code bases for mud's that are the most popular got that way because people shared sources and changes. If we had the same power and server code for gaming and non-gaming server source had to be given to anybody who asked gaming on linux would be MUCH better. As Micro$oft and the rest tout thee software advantage in gaming, it s hurts the linux market because to be blunt gaming in Linux sucks compared to the thousands of titles available for Winho32. If we had a few key changes to the gplv3 that allowed innovation instead of strangling it, the linux gaming community would be much better.
I can tell the future! I called it. You all should have listened!
You must not be a good geek. All the 'good' geeks I know are codeing this time of night. Its prime hacking time. :P
But the real question I want to know is how stable is it *really*? Did they rush the release due to political meandering or is it really stable? I think I'm going to hold off upgrading and just use the security updates that are available for the next year until I see that the bugs really are down. The last thing I want in a production environment is a unstable system that was rushed to release because of debian politics.
Do NOT do this. The first 512 bytes of a hard drive make up the boot sector of the drive. If you do what he showed you, it will overwrite the boot sector of the hard drive in question (In this case /dev/hda, the master and first hardrive on the first ide channel). This would make the computer unbootable!
I actually met him once when I was in visiting my then girlfriends parents in Seattle, and I found him to be very snobby in my humble opinion. He had the nerve to run into me and when he almost lost control of the cup in his hands he was very rude, and said some rather insulting things. Of course the fact that I was wearing a linux based T-shirt at the time probably didn't help his opinion of me either, as also he sneered and called me a Linux Zealot. Thats right, I like linux so that I can have a multi-billionaire too full of himself to give somebody right of way trip on his own feet and almost spill what had to be scalding hot coffee on me. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact I'm not restricted to one man or companies whim, can see the source whenever I want and edit them as I please, the fact that it costs me nothing so I can actually afford to install it on hundreds of computers and still retain my morality if I so wish, or the fact that I pay my bills supporting it as part of my day job. I personally hope the person who does get to meet him is not so blinded by the glitter he will throw in there eyes that they do not see the type of person I saw him to be. Then again I'm sure even Ray Charles could see that truth, so I have hope the person who 'wins' just whips it out and pimp slaps the man.
Actualy my reader must have missed it. My bad. If this is the case, then care should be taken that they include everything. The artical speaks of the plugin as if its limited and a better version is for sale. This version that is for sale would need to be fully compliant as well. It doesnt hurt to care enough to check ;)
If I understand TFA correctly and the code for this plugin was developed from mono sources, then isn't it too under the GPL? And isn't distributing only the binary of the plugin without the source code against the GPL? So isn't this company violating the GPL?
This is why you should always make sure you at least md5, sha1, and crc32 the file and base your system on more then one hash system. Yes these may be easy to crack, but if you throw in a random hash like sha256 and serpant you add n^(256^32^foo) layers of security.
This is actually what I'm doing for one of the systems I'm working on. It is not that hard to check if a downloaded file meets checksums for 4 different hashes, and then delete it if the file fails verification from even one of them.
Implement this and *bam*, you have a self cleaning p2p system and this so called company's stock goes through the floor.