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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,…

Let's not forget that Microsoft is backing Oracle in making API's copyrightable. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/microsoft-foresee...

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 woul…

>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…

I've seen projects use LGPL with a added static linking exception (as in allowing it).

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, Int…

>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 the…

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 perfo…

Improved optimizations which will also be easier to implement, with the result being faster and also typically smaller code.

And then he went and released Java under the GPL.

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 Li…

>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 th…

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 w…

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 co…

>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 …

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.

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 give…

Thanks for the correction, I'm not really well-versed in that area (should have asked the missus!) Tack!

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 t…

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.magasinetparagr…

>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…

>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 i…

>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-…

>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 tool…

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 …