gillianseed

6 ms·

1.
by gillianseed 10y ago
Me too, this was my favourite of the countless Gauntlet clones, given that it added some cool ideas: element magic which affected enemies differently, a sidekick you could conjure, and probably more cool things I can't recall at the mo
2.
by gillianseed 10y ago
Let's not forget that Microsoft is backing Oracle in making API's copyrightable. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/microsoft-foresee...
3.
by gillianseed 10y ago
I find your reasoning very strange, if anything, GPL ensures that the 'ideas' are instead made available for anyone to use, provided that they in turn do the same. If anything would be a 'tumor' by your reasoning around
4.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>They've developed it and it was adopted by everyone and their mother for being good and cheap FS. No, it was adopted in order to have Windows compability, which you need given the Windows desktop monopoly and since Windows refuses
5.
by gillianseed 11y ago
I've seen projects use LGPL with a added static linking exception (as in allowing it).
6.
by gillianseed 11y ago
Cisco is also a h264 patent holder, which may have given them a better licensing deal. Beyond this, Cisco is part of the 'Alliance for Open Media', consisting of Google, Cisco, Intel, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, Mozilla (the latte
7.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>Why do you suppose that is? It's infuriating to see someone else make a lot of money with something you developed for free? The argument as I recall it from back then was that they did not want to hurt the arcade business, the manu
8.
by gillianseed 11y ago
True, an increase in optimizations will likely mean longer compile times, on the other hand, with better optimized code, the compiler itself (as it's written in Go) will also perform better, which may negate some of the increase in com
9.
by gillianseed 11y ago
Improved optimizations which will also be easier to implement, with the result being faster and also typically smaller code.
10.
by gillianseed 11y ago
And then he went and released Java under the GPL.
11.
by gillianseed 11y ago
I'm going to go with the actual author of the licence (Danese), and not just because she authored it but because the idea that Sun management, seeing themselves struggle against Linux, would allow Linux to use their prized ZFS and DTra
12.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>The other reply [1] nails the real point: No one at Oracle is complaining. Canonical hasn't shipped their distro with the ZFS kernel module yet. My impression of Oracle is that they let their lawsuits do the talking. >You also i
13.
by gillianseed 11y ago
Oh please, even the author of the CDDL license states that this is so (Danese Cooper). And it's not as if that admission was ever needed, were you even around back then ? Solaris was being killed in the market by Linux, Sun decided to
14.
by gillianseed 11y ago
Of course this game did not lead to the 'videogame crash' of 83, other videogame areas like the arcades was doing just fine, and home computers as well. The problem was that the console games of the time were incredibly poor in gr
15.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>It is probably more accurate to claim the GPL was designed to be incompatible with an entire class of licenses that includes the CDDL, It was designed to give and preserve rights for end users, it's not really a big mystery, and th
16.
by gillianseed 11y ago
It's a Linux kernel module running in Linux kernel address space, I'd say there is reason to assume it can be considered a derivative work, and thus a license incompability.
17.
by gillianseed 11y ago
The CDDL was crafted with GPL existing and was according to the person responsible for creating it, deliberately made incompatible with GPLv2. Of course not hard to understand given that Sun had no reason whatsoever to hand over their prize
18.
by gillianseed 11y ago
Thanks for the correction, I'm not really well-versed in that area (should have asked the missus!) Tack!
19.
by gillianseed 11y ago
Here is the actual complaint, translated from swedish to english: Sexual Assault They were sitting in bed talking and he took off her clothes. They had sex again and she realised that he had only put the condom over the tip of his penis, b
20.
by gillianseed 11y ago
I made a swedish to english translation of the actual allegation (as in the actual case file), the original can be found here, naturally it's in swedish: http://www.magasinetparagraf.se/bilden/forundersokningen-avs
21.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>It's about the consolidation of tools into a few monolithic binaries. Could you go in to some detail here, what are the tools that have been turned in to monolithic binaries ? The systemd project consists of some 70 different binar
22.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>Most opponents of systemd are not against consolidation and standardization of linux system administration. That's not my experience, in the discussions I've seen and taken part in, most (as in vast majority) of the detractors
23.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>Interesting, I haven't heard of those. Basically they improve blood circulation and prevent varicose vein problems. My old coach was convinced it improved recovery time for lower-leg muscles after hard training and more or less mad
24.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>Interest in FreeBSD seems to be on the rise, with the advent of systemd. I don't buy this, why would someone who complains about the consolidation and standardisation of core tools/services in Linux want to move to FreeBSD whi
25.
by gillianseed 11y ago
Nope, but then I've always used compression socks (for long before I started standing due to having it drilled in to my head by a soccer coach I had back in the day) which I think helps prevent such problems, I also have a standing mat
26.
by gillianseed 11y ago
In the most recent talk I saw with Tanenbaum regarding Minix and performance, he mentioned a 20% decrease compared to monolithic kernel based systems, which he himself was happy to sacrifice for the greater system stability it offers. Of co
27.
by gillianseed 11y ago
Ah, thanks, makes sense.
28.
by gillianseed 11y ago
I'm somewhat confused, is this a different effort than the royalty free codec which is being developed by Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel under the name 'Alliance for Open Media' ?
29.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>I don't understand this - every product & service sold in the open market - from baby formula to clothing, from a meal at a restaurant to a flight - relies on competitive advantage that's proprietary to the seller. I disag
30.
by gillianseed 11y ago
>Quid-pro-quo: the undeniable biological, evolutionary instinct to receive something (money) for a rendered service/product (software) simply cannot be deemed criminal. FSF/Stallman in way claims that charging for software is c

More ›