GTK free license allows comercial software to link to it. Thats not true for QT.
The dual-licensing used in QT depends on Trolltech being the owner of all of it. Any small change in the gpl version that is not owned by Trolltech will not be able to be licensed for comercial purposes.
Its not proven in court that you cant dynamic link to anything. And copyright laws are not the same in every country anyway. Anyone big enough for trolltech to notice they exist and sue them would have no problem buying the license anyway.
The real problem is that, imagine trolltech stop licensing it, or if the distros just fork it. It would be rendered useless for commercial applications. If it were not for gnome it could be a major drawback for linux.
I would have chosen better examples than Fox, CNN, or "talk" radio.
Could you share what you like to read? Something in the web? I like to read american media. The differences in the focus (and bias?), make it interesting to not read only my country's news.
In my country, no license can disallow me from dynamic linking to any lib, that doenst matter what license it uses. You just cannot distribute these libs without their sources. You may give your non-gpl code and tell the user to get the lib.
I wonder if american copyright law is so strong that even if youre not distributing one bit of a copyrighted material they could complain about it just for the dynamic linking.
You can distribute different pages for printing, different frames pro html rendering, or divs or something. Your browser could be decompressing pngs and jpegs in other cpus while one parse the html too.
Web browsing is still limited by the network anyway, increase cpu to browse the web doesn't make any sense for me. At least with my 400kbps DSL
But I at least would not want to increase cpu power for these trivial tasks. I would prefer that it happens when I do something heavier, like a game, or at least something that takes more than 1sec.
If J++ were created with an GPL-like opensouced java, it would be easy to port J++ to run in linux and firefox, which was the whole point of making J++ incompatible.
It's not Microsoft trying to kill java like with J++. They want their java to continue being theirs. They dont want to give it away.
I dont think the reasons the terrorist leaders talk in public are the same that really move them. Some of that suicidal hate-mongers may believe that, but I would not trust their leaders so blindly.
Even these suicidal guys may be doing it just for the help they were promised their families would get, and just lie its about relligion.
People should stop buying stocks blindly then. When you buy these things, you own part of the company, and you are responsible in part.
I'm not sure if it works the same way in the US, but there are stocks that give the right to vote, and there are a different type of stock that are for people that dont want to take part in any decision of the company. Owners of the first type should be fully responsible for anything the company does.
Down here in the 3rd world we will buy some chinese DVR that have a fast forward feature, or some type of mod-chip. And we will happily watch our tv programs knowing that we have at least one confort that those moneyed us-americans doesn't.
It already works this way with modded playstations, that are something like 100% of the market down here.
They would create an European company and sell vista as "made in europe". That was common practice here in Brazil when we had absurd (more absurd than now) importing laws.
The hatemongers are not the majority. They are just more visible, and louder. If they were, the current system wouldnt do much to protect them.
I strongly believe voting direct for laws would be better. Because representatives lie, and even if they didnt, there isnt any of them that would agree with you in everything, when you vote, you have to sacrifice your opinion about something in favor of other issues.
He is claiming it has no democracy, as none of us. And thats true.
Perhaps the internet could be a way to bring almost true democracy, letting people vote directly for their laws. I dont thing we will ever get it, but that would be cool, wouldnt it?
My personal experience in all these years using these crappy disks confirms his experiences. And everybody else I known. These plastic disks are crap for backup, I have it as a fact, and have enough damaged disks to not get bored researching to confirm that.
And this is true under the GPL as well. If I write an app, you are completely free to improve it and sell the improved version.
That is not realy true. You can sell the improved version until someone decides to offer it for free, then nobody will be willing to buy it from you anymore.
There are several business that are hard to make as free software. One example are the small developers, other is sotware that gets old fast, like games. Its a giant effort to make a game, and it doenst last for very long. And a good game wont get revenue from support.
Stallman wants all software to be free. He doesnot want anyone to continue using the LGPL. So, in his world vision, all SO libs will be GPLed, and there will be no commercial software possible. Perhas Windows will never die if the community follow this path.
Qt is a good example. Today its possible to make commercial software with their commercial license. But any day someone other than tolltech start changing it, it will never be good for anything commercial anymore. The GPL and Trolltech controlling it at the same time is something that wont last forever.
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GTK free license allows comercial software to link to it. Thats not true for QT.
The dual-licensing used in QT depends on Trolltech being the owner of all of it. Any small change in the gpl version that is not owned by Trolltech will not be able to be licensed for comercial purposes.
Its not proven in court that you cant dynamic link to anything. And copyright laws are not the same in every country anyway. Anyone big enough for trolltech to notice they exist and sue them would have no problem buying the license anyway.
The real problem is that, imagine trolltech stop licensing it, or if the distros just fork it. It would be rendered useless for commercial applications. If it were not for gnome it could be a major drawback for linux.
Could you share what you like to read? Something in the web? I like to read american media. The differences in the focus (and bias?), make it interesting to not read only my country's news.
Why you think our taxes are smaller here in 3rd world? We pay taxes higher than yours in the breakfast.
Not trucks, tubes!
In my country, no license can disallow me from dynamic linking to any lib, that doenst matter what license it uses. You just cannot distribute these libs without their sources. You may give your non-gpl code and tell the user to get the lib.
I wonder if american copyright law is so strong that even if youre not distributing one bit of a copyrighted material they could complain about it just for the dynamic linking.
You can distribute different pages for printing, different frames pro html rendering, or divs or something. Your browser could be decompressing pngs and jpegs in other cpus while one parse the html too.
Web browsing is still limited by the network anyway, increase cpu to browse the web doesn't make any sense for me. At least with my 400kbps DSL
But I at least would not want to increase cpu power for these trivial tasks. I would prefer that it happens when I do something heavier, like a game, or at least something that takes more than 1sec.
In x-men that iron in the guard's blood was not only the iron normally found on blood. He had iron injected into him when he was unconscious.
If J++ were created with an GPL-like opensouced java, it would be easy to port J++ to run in linux and firefox, which was the whole point of making J++ incompatible.
It's not Microsoft trying to kill java like with J++. They want their java to continue being theirs. They dont want to give it away.
Strange, never saw a printer doing it here. I think you must be mistaken.
Bird flu IS serious for birds. It kills them, and do it fast.
I dont think the reasons the terrorist leaders talk in public are the same that really move them. Some of that suicidal hate-mongers may believe that, but I would not trust their leaders so blindly. Even these suicidal guys may be doing it just for the help they were promised their families would get, and just lie its about relligion.
There was the much more recent fact that Spain joined the US in a war against them.
People should stop buying stocks blindly then. When you buy these things, you own part of the company, and you are responsible in part. I'm not sure if it works the same way in the US, but there are stocks that give the right to vote, and there are a different type of stock that are for people that dont want to take part in any decision of the company. Owners of the first type should be fully responsible for anything the company does.
Remember when robocop was stopped for trying to arrest an ocp officer? That directive IV thing?
Down here in the 3rd world we will buy some chinese DVR that have a fast forward feature, or some type of mod-chip. And we will happily watch our tv programs knowing that we have at least one confort that those moneyed us-americans doesn't. It already works this way with modded playstations, that are something like 100% of the market down here.
You forgot the 3rd world, your insensitive clod!
People generally buy their computers in 24 monthly payments here, this without office. Office alone cost more than our minimal montly wage.
They would create an European company and sell vista as "made in europe". That was common practice here in Brazil when we had absurd (more absurd than now) importing laws.
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion says that a modern billion is 10^9, and that this 10^12 billion is an older concept.
The hatemongers are not the majority. They are just more visible, and louder. If they were, the current system wouldnt do much to protect them. I strongly believe voting direct for laws would be better. Because representatives lie, and even if they didnt, there isnt any of them that would agree with you in everything, when you vote, you have to sacrifice your opinion about something in favor of other issues.
He is claiming it has no democracy, as none of us. And thats true. Perhaps the internet could be a way to bring almost true democracy, letting people vote directly for their laws. I dont thing we will ever get it, but that would be cool, wouldnt it?
My personal experience in all these years using these crappy disks confirms his experiences. And everybody else I known. These plastic disks are crap for backup, I have it as a fact, and have enough damaged disks to not get bored researching to confirm that.
And this is true under the GPL as well. If I write an app, you are completely free to improve it and sell the improved version.
That is not realy true. You can sell the improved version until someone decides to offer it for free, then nobody will be willing to buy it from you anymore.
There are several business that are hard to make as free software. One example are the small developers, other is sotware that gets old fast, like games. Its a giant effort to make a game, and it doenst last for very long. And a good game wont get revenue from support.
Stallman wants all software to be free. He doesnot want anyone to continue using the LGPL. So, in his world vision, all SO libs will be GPLed, and there will be no commercial software possible. Perhas Windows will never die if the community follow this path.
Qt is a good example. Today its possible to make commercial software with their commercial license. But any day someone other than tolltech start changing it, it will never be good for anything commercial anymore. The GPL and Trolltech controlling it at the same time is something that wont last forever.
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