I blew out both serial ports from my old motherboard once, so I'm tempted to believe this story is true.
When the first serial port stopped working, I thought it was coincidence, but then I switched the cradle to the other one, and it eventally went out, too.
Ouch. Is this saying that I have to make my twenty-seven different versions of "Hello, World!" publicly available for downloading?
No, the GPL does not force people to distribute anything. If you do not distribute binaries to anyone, you do not have to make the source available, either.
Even if this is the case, the fine of 2500 euro is unfair to the developer considering that it's a free application. Just a simple request to rename the application probably would have been enough.
Loki set up a special newsgroup for port requests: loki.requests on news.lokigames.com. Please don't mention Diablo or Half-Life, however; those have been mentioned far too often.:-)
Anyone know why Stallman quit the discussion before it got started?
-Karl
The GCC developers should thank RedHat
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The fact that RedHat used an earlier snapshot of this compiler allowed for extensive testing early in the development process, resulting in many bug-fixes being made to the snapshot as well as to the pre-3.0 GCC development code.
I'm sure this release came about sooner with a lot less bugs due to Redhat's move to use the earlier snapshot in their distro.
I remember reading somewhere some time ago that Slackware boycotts this standard, but does anyone know why? I couldn't find anything about it in the FAQs on www.slackware.com.
The problem is, tech support is seen as a profit drain in many cases, so companies skimp on it by not hiring enough people, not paying enough to attract quality people, etc.
For those companies that charge for support, either pay-per-incident or support contracts, tech support is seen as a source of revenue, so the company will spend more money increasing the quality of support so that customers make use of it.
I agree. I had to work with Microsoft tech support over a year ago for my job regarding an Internet Explorer Java problem, and they were very polite, knowledgeable and helpful. As a tech support person myself, I appreciate seeing a well-run support organization.
The LSB is something that is very badly needed in the Linux community, but I have to ask: how long has the LSB been around, and to date has anything useful come from it (e.g. a distribution that actually follows the standard)?
They're just trying to prop-up a competitior when they seem likely to fall, so they don't seem like a monopoly. It's the exact same thing they did with Apple when they were in a similar bind.
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and Suse ? the OS/2 of Linux ?
Heh, if that were the case, I'd have to give Suse a shot, then. I started using Linux full-time after I gave-up on OS/2, but I still miss the latter.
-Karl
I blew out both serial ports from my old motherboard once, so I'm tempted to believe this story is true.
When the first serial port stopped working, I thought it was coincidence, but then I switched the cradle to the other one, and it eventally went out, too.
-Karl
Ouch. Is this saying that I have to make my twenty-seven different versions of "Hello, World!" publicly available for downloading?
No, the GPL does not force people to distribute anything. If you do not distribute binaries to anyone, you do not have to make the source available, either.
-KarlHopefully, Loki's book, Programming Linux Games will be a lot better.
Does anyone know of any early reviews of this book? It's due to be relesed in August.
-Karl
Is covering this topic an example of "Yellow Dog Journalism"? :-)
Even if this is the case, the fine of 2500 euro is unfair to the developer considering that it's a free application. Just a simple request to rename the application probably would have been enough.
-Karl
...KAdobeSucks :-)
Seriously though, if this sticks, then KWord may face a similar threat from Microsoft down the road.
-Karl
Loki set up a special newsgroup for port requests: loki.requests on news.lokigames.com. Please don't mention Diablo or Half-Life, however; those have been mentioned far too often. :-)
-Karl
Anyone know why Stallman quit the discussion before it got started?
-Karl
The fact that RedHat used an earlier snapshot of this compiler allowed for extensive testing early in the development process, resulting in many bug-fixes being made to the snapshot as well as to the pre-3.0 GCC development code.
I'm sure this release came about sooner with a lot less bugs due to Redhat's move to use the earlier snapshot in their distro.
-Karl
I remember reading somewhere some time ago that Slackware boycotts this standard, but does anyone know why? I couldn't find anything about it in the FAQs on www.slackware.com.
-Karl
The problem is, tech support is seen as a profit drain in many cases, so companies skimp on it by not hiring enough people, not paying enough to attract quality people, etc.
For those companies that charge for support, either pay-per-incident or support contracts, tech support is seen as a source of revenue, so the company will spend more money increasing the quality of support so that customers make use of it.
-Karl
I agree. I had to work with Microsoft tech support over a year ago for my job regarding an Internet Explorer Java problem, and they were very polite, knowledgeable and helpful. As a tech support person myself, I appreciate seeing a well-run support organization.
-Karl
It was already ZDNetted, linuxtodayed and newsforged!!!
Indeed, why should Slashdot get the sole honor of bringing servers to their knees? :-)
-Karl
P.S. Haven't you just contradicted your username? ;-)
Okay, where is that 4/20 reference from? I know to somehow has to do with smoking pot, but where did it come from??
-Karl
Maybe the wheel was incremental, too. They may have started with square wheels, then discovered pentagon wheels roll better, and so on. :-)
-Karl
...it was win32 bindings for Java instead? Doesn't either one defeat the purpose of writing a "write once, run anywhere" Java application?
-Karl
Not to mention gcc ... at least I can't think of an equivalent free compiler that isn't based-on gcc.
-Karl
I always thought those webcams were a huge waste of bandwidth. At least turning it into ASCII keeps the waste at a minimum.
-Karl
The LSB is something that is very badly needed in the Linux community, but I have to ask: how long has the LSB been around, and to date has anything useful come from it (e.g. a distribution that actually follows the standard)?
-Karl
Well, I guess Palm is finally building devices using the ARM family of processors. This brings a number of questions to mind:
* How will these new devices run legacy Palm apps?
* Assuming they have a built-in 68k emulator, is it likely that legacy Palm apps will run as fast as on the native processor?
* Will an ARM-based Palm force the Palm devices to be any bigger, heavier or use power more quicky?
-Karl
...maybe there's a chance of running some decent games on it now!
:-)
...maybe there's hope for the U.S. presidential race someday being decided!
-Karl
...going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
-Karl
They're just trying to prop-up a competitior when they seem likely to fall, so they don't seem like a monopoly. It's the exact same thing they did with Apple when they were in a similar bind.
-Karl