Loud ramblings of a Software Artisan

Thursday 12 October 2006

Don't beat them, join them

Company:

PS: Before someone asks: Gnash is low quality, written in C++ with Boost, requires Copyright assignment, svn doesn't even compile and it does less than my current Swfdec, so I didn't hack on it

About the low quality and doing less I must say that I have had much better success with it. As a proof, the movie you provided as a sample works well. And unlike your git repository gnash CVS compiles fine. The C++ use is NOT a problem. Actually it probably solve lot of design issues, but I'm just not surprised: this is on Planet Gnome, not Planet KDE.

Bottom line, the only issue left is copyright assignment. I'm not sure what to think about that, there are pros and cons....

Wednesday 11 October 2006

Coming from Open Source, returning to Open Source....

Eudora, the famous mail client for MacOS and Windows that used to be Open Source a long time ago [1] is returning to Open Source to allow Qualcomm to withdraw themselves from the market and refocus on their core business. Thank you Qualcomm, you made the right decision for you, your customers and everybody else.

See the FAQ

Source: MacNN

Notes

[1] I don't remember the licensing at that time, but I think it was BSD-like

Thursday 5 October 2006

Google me

Ol just gave me an idea about the new Google code search: Google yourself in source code.

Wow, I forgot I had done minor contribution to these packages...

Sorry for these few seconds of ego-centrism. You can return to your normal activities.