Tudo bem, Luís? (something like a What's up? in Portuguese).
We have Manuels and Marias, but not as much as Portugal. Theses names have fallen out of fashion some decades ago. In addition, some Brazilians are very fond of giving peculiar names to their children, almost always with bad results.:(
Hey, I'm not oversexed nor I'm a criminal, just a little crazy (but not one of the dangerous ones). Maybe I'm not a real Brazilian.:P
PS - I note the next story on the front page is "IT: Wireless Security Attacks and Defenses." Coincidence? I think not;-)
It would not be a coincidence in Brazil, as we love to tell jokes about lesss-than-intelligent Portuguese people (usually named Manuel, Joaquim or Maria).:P
Who do Americans makes jokes about? Canadians?
Already the use of ethanol, derived in Brazil from sugar cane, is so widespread that some gas stations have two sets of pumps, marked A for alcohol and G for gas.
In Brazil, all gas stations have both gas and alcohol pumps, not just some of them.
. . . you ask for threes patents and then you receive four! That's what I call "software patent granting-happy". Isn't it a way to earn more money as any granted patent is paid?
That is confusing because you're addressing the same issue--granting users the freedom to modify MultiMAD for plugins.
You're still wrong: we are not addressing the same issue and I do not want to grant users the freedom do modify MultiMAD for plugins. I want to grant them the right to make plugins, under any license they want, but without modifying my code for it.;)
Supposing that MultiMAD becomes a success, I can't see how forks would be good for users, as they would be incompatible among them and then the user would need MultiMAD A for using one plugin and MultiMAD B for another.
Users can't have it both ways. Either users have the freedoms of free software or they don't. They don't have free software if they are forbidden to change MultiMAD for a particular purpose.
And yes, I know the GNU philosophy, but, as other people here already pointed out, not only the Richard Stallman concept of free software exists or is the right one.
You took my words out of context. Yes, I would prefer to not have any MultiMAD forks, but I can live with that, so it would be free software. On the other hand, what I definetely want to forbid is plugins that need to fork MultiMAD to run.
You're right: I have not made myself clear at this point. I really do not want my code to be modified in order to make any plugin run, as this would make plugins work with a MultiMAD fork and not with the original one. I also think that plugins that need modifications in the tool are not really plugins.
I prefer not to have any MultiMAD fork. Instead, I would be very happy to hear what features people want and implement them myself.
It's interesting as three guys at my university (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) were in the same situation as that guy. One already finished his project and implemented a PalmOS application generator (plugin). One is making a WindowsCE generator and other is still defining what he wants to do.
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Tudo bem, Luís? (something like a What's up? in Portuguese). :(
:P
We have Manuels and Marias, but not as much as Portugal. Theses names have fallen out of fashion some decades ago. In addition, some Brazilians are very fond of giving peculiar names to their children, almost always with bad results.
Hey, I'm not oversexed nor I'm a criminal, just a little crazy (but not one of the dangerous ones). Maybe I'm not a real Brazilian.
USA citizens have freedom of speech but not freedom of joke???
For you information, Brazil produces more corn than it consumes and exports beef to many countries.
. . . you ask for threes patents and then you receive four! That's what I call "software patent granting-happy". Isn't it a way to earn more money as any granted patent is paid?
Supposing that MultiMAD becomes a success, I can't see how forks would be good for users, as they would be incompatible among them and then the user would need MultiMAD A for using one plugin and MultiMAD B for another. And yes, I know the GNU philosophy, but, as other people here already pointed out, not only the Richard Stallman concept of free software exists or is the right one.
You took my words out of context. Yes, I would prefer to not have any MultiMAD forks, but I can live with that, so it would be free software. On the other hand, what I definetely want to forbid is plugins that need to fork MultiMAD to run.
You're right: I have not made myself clear at this point. I really do not want my code to be modified in order to make any plugin run, as this would make plugins work with a MultiMAD fork and not with the original one. I also think that plugins that need modifications in the tool are not really plugins.
I prefer not to have any MultiMAD fork. Instead, I would be very happy to hear what features people want and implement them myself.
It's interesting as three guys at my university (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil) were in the same situation as that guy. One already finished his project and implemented a PalmOS application generator (plugin). One is making a WindowsCE generator and other is still defining what he wants to do.