starseeker

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by starseeker 5y ago
Well, there's a lot - a few I happen to be familiar with: Maxima: https://maxima.sourceforge.io/ Axiom: http://www.axiom-developer.org/ OpenCascade: https://dev.opencascade.org/ BRL-CA
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by starseeker 9y ago
Although I personally think matching the OpenBSD libressl license would have been better, I still have to regard the move towards using one of the mainstream, modern standard open source licenses for such a widely used and critical software
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by starseeker 10y ago
When I was in a hardware store last year, I had a chance to compare a 4k and 5k iMac side by side. IIRC, the size was the same and it came down to PPI. For casual use 4k was plenty, but where 5k really proved itself for me was small termin
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by starseeker 10y ago
The current copyright system is probably inevitable if you view monetization as the sole valid means of creation incentivization. There are also those who want to preserve the "integrity" of their work indefinitely and avoid any
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by starseeker 10y ago
Wonder if there have been any updates since this: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1a4wvf/kalman_...
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by starseeker 10y ago
I'm quite intrigued by the libfossil project ( http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/libfossil ) which attempts to make the core fossil VCS abilities available as a library. To the best of my understanding this is
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by starseeker 10y ago
This is cool, but (as usual with the Smithsonian) they claim copyright and/or commercial usage restrictions on the downloadable data. I wish they wouldn't do that...
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by starseeker 10y ago
Google turns up these: https://www.google.com/patents/US5628016 https://www.google.com/patents/US6247169 https://patents.google.com/patent/US20070016894A1 I'm not sure a
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by starseeker 10y ago
From what I can see, if Apache OpenOffice wants to be a viable project with Libreoffice already out there and well ahead from a user perspective, it needs to focus on things that are attractive about it that differentiate it from Libreoffic
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by starseeker 10y ago
I knew it - our brains are written in Lisp!
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by starseeker 10y ago
It lacks a graphical application development framework that's portable and usable. Java eventually solved this problem (more or less) but neither Garnet nor CLIM ever reached a level where most Gtk/Qt/* programmers would ser
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by starseeker 10y ago
Have you ever had to try converting a large pile of pre-existing Tcl/Tk code to L? Wondering how much work that would be...
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by starseeker 10y ago
What's the license on this project? I'm wondering if it might fit in well with some work Tim Daly has started on the Axiom project hooking up computer algebra to coq et. al.: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/htm
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by starseeker 10y ago
A good point. I didn't specify in my initial comment (and I should have) but one of our other criteria is to be able to build everything with just a C/C++ compiler. So we'd have to bundle/bootstrap Go just to build the
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by starseeker 10y ago
Close, but it doesn't appear to be active (the version you get from the download link is from 1996?) and it's using the 4 clause BSD license, which (as I understand it) poses GPL compatibility problems.
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by starseeker 10y ago
I note that with the exception of the sam code (which unfortunately uses the Lucent Public License Version 1.02, this editor is very liberally licensed (ISC/MIT/CC0). If the sam code is optional or easily replaced, this could evol
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by starseeker 11y ago
Free open access journals (just two I happen to know of - I'm sure there are more): http://theoryofcomputing.org/ http://jcgt.org/
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by starseeker 11y ago
That's actually quite interesting - I remember similar comments (Phd required, or Phds aren't able to understand it) cropping up in discussions of the GNU autotools toolchain. (With a fair bit if justification, in my own experien
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by starseeker 12y ago
Everybody hates some aspects of some of them, in my experience. People also tend to have strongly held preferences in the build system department - it's a bit like text editors. I tend to view it as problem-dependent as to which syst
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by starseeker 12y ago
The other two projects that leap to mind for open source CAD are FreeCAD and BRL-CAD, but I'm not sure either would meet your particular requirements. I'm pretty sure BRL-CAD doesn't offer the sort of parametrics you'd
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by starseeker 12y ago
They do have STL files, which I understand are commonly used in 3D printing scenarios. We'll see if they decide to put up STEP and/or IGES files as well - that would be ideal. The Rhino 3dm format might also be a viable option,