Well no, I am not against the idea of free software and such, I am actually doing software engineering course myself so I am a bit worry about how is the industry is going to change, well as far as technology goes change is always a constant, but this free software thing is more than just technology.
<br><br>But yea I still got a lot to learn so I appreciate all the comments and links and stuff. :D<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/5/6, Don Hensley <<a href="mailto:Don@donhensley.com">Don@donhensley.com</a>
>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Thanks for bringing that up Matt, I've been working on a in depth reply for
<br>Sunnz, but I also have other things that require my time so I'm a bit slow at<br>developing my replies - and then I really need to proof read them for<br>incorrect words, correctly spelled... sigh...<br><br>Actually I do live talks at the local college on this subject every so often,
<br>but I always do them 'cold', so each one is verbally different, but<br>contextually consistent. I'm having some fun trying to actually write down<br>the way I verbally relate to this subject when I have a live group to work
<br>with.<br><br>It's also an education for me, as the interplay when I can interact with a<br>group, face to face, is easy for me --but this writing it down business, now<br>that is much more difficult.<br><br>I'm hoping that Sunnz has been reading Mike Masnick's work at Techdirt.
<br><br>That was/is a brilliant series of essays. They should be required reading.<br><br>Here's the final summary, with links back to all the essays:<br><a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20070503/012939.shtml">http://techdirt.com/articles/20070503/012939.shtml
</a><br><br>Thanks,<br>Don.<br> ***********************************<br> On Saturday 05 May 2007 08:16 pm, Matthew Flaschen wrote:<br>Sunnz wrote:<br>> Another tricky thing to develop games on Linux is GPL.<br>><br>> Ok, I don't know that much about the underlying workings of GNU, so I
<br>> am on the assumption that a lot of programming API and libraries on<br>> Linux are licensed under GPL, and if you make use of the API and libs,<br>> your game would be a derivative software and have to license under
<br>> GPL.<br><br>That's pretty much wrong. There's plenty of proprietary software on<br>GNU/Linux, because core libraries tend to be licensed under the LGPL<br>(<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html</a>), not the GPL.<br><br>> The implication of GPL is that you are free to distribute the<br>> software, binary and/or source code... companies who have invest large<br>> sum of money wouldn't want to do this, perhaps it is ok to open source
<br>> the code, but they certainly want people to pay for each copy.<br><br>Open Source (or free/libre licenses) do not require per-copy royalties.<br> Open source (and free/libre software) means far more than source code
<br>availability. See <a href="http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php">opensource.org/docs/definition.php</a> and<br><a href="http://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html</a> . It's also a misconception that it's
<br>impossible to make money off libre/open source software. Consider the<br>many successful companies that rely almost solely on FOSS (Red Hat,<br>Alfresco, etc.)<br><br>Best,<br><br>Matt Flaschen<br><br>_______________________________________________
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