... Well, I never initiated large-scale projects on my own, just contributed to large-scale ( > 100K LOCs) projects that other people initiated. Well, first of...
... I certainly agree that code should be self documenting as much as possible. Sometimes even in line documentation in the form of comments, tends to stay out...
I am think about the best ways for technical young entrepreneurs (like me) to start startups... Here's the post - ...
Hadar Weiss
whadar@...
Nov 5, 2008 7:07 am
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Hi all! (for linux-elitists : I'm sorry about my last post about the KDE 4 rant. I thought it was acceptable, but it turned out to violate this list's...
... It is my understanding that you do not have to make your modifications available to people, who don't surf your Web site. So if you install the stuff on...
Omer Zak
w1@...
Nov 6, 2008 4:40 pm
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Hi Omer! ... No, you are right. I should have phrased it as an "on a public web-server". However, this misphrasing still doesn't make it a better licence, or...
... Possibly all. The reason is that "freeness" is not a boolean parameter. Not even a single parameter real-valued scale. There are multiple criteria, ...
... Well, generally speaking one should strive for endorsement as free (and preferably GPL-compatibility) by everybody. Otherwise, you may be facing problems....
... I understood that you are (not strongly) against all viral licenses, regardless of whether they provide us with protection against the unfair software...
Omer Zak
w1@...
Nov 8, 2008 11:36 pm
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Answering to myself... ... Since there are no takers, and since the domain is in use, I will renew it myself unless someone contacts me by mid-December and...
Hi Omer! Sorry for the late response. ... I am against them in the sense that I prefer not to use them for my code. But I accept the fact that some people want...
... Thinking of future threats is hard (in the banking business, this is a whole profession, and as you can see lately, the haven't been doing a very good job....
... I agree this is a problem. However, if X-Windows were GPLed, then the people who made Exceed and wanted to sell it, would not have made it in the first ...
As I was working on a new Greasemonkey script today, I needed a way to parse the date from a string, and format it into DD-MM-YYYY. Parsing the date turned out...
Hi all! I ran out of books to read, and while I can buy some more, there's always the more cost-effective way of borrowing them with fellow mongers. Here is an...
... Now that I think of it, I have another vital thought experiment to add to this. If X11 had been initiated under a non-BSD-style-licence, then it is ...
... In this case, your recommendations are also not free enough. Only license that would work is something like: "You can do with this work whatever you like,...
Hi all! I started to coordinate the Israeli participation in the Google Summer of Code program for this year. For this end, I created a page on the wiki: ...
See: http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1845 http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls-authz-standard for a call-for-action...
See the forwarded message below for the question. You can find my response here: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/sanfrancisco-pm/2009-February/002161.html ...
... This seems a bit contradictory. And who would be happy with such a licence and not with, say, the X11L? ... I see. ... Well, I have yet to hear of an...
A bit late, but better late than never: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/optimizing-code-for-speed/ This is an essay I wrote about optimising...
Today I was debugging a development branch of Freecell Solver (I see Muli is preparing the graggers) and had to deal with a problem that the scanning dump ...
Hi all! Today I had to some work on one of my open-source projects on Windows. After using the default console window for a while, I thought I wanted to die....
... On Windows, I usually use cygwin, and run "zsh" as my console. This not only do tab completion and history the way I want it, but is basically the full...
... Well, zsh is not a console - it is a shell. Generally, you open a console window and on top of it run a shell like bash, zsh, Win32's cmd.exe, etc. The ...
... I have heard rumors that both 'lynx' and 'tomcat' are projects that can trace their ancestry to the 'cat' project. Can you comment on that? Also, is it...
... Of course they are. All the Mac OS X releases, which are named after the great cats ("Tiger", "Leopard", "Lion", etc.) also originated by concatenating...
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