On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:50:35PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
There is screensaver that displays random fortunes (executes fortune(6)).
Create fortune's database consisting of credits information and you are
done.
[...]
Would debian be willing to do this as the default screensaver? I think
Hans Reiser wrote:
Would debian be willing to do this as the default screensaver? I think
it would be great if it did.
There is no such thing as a default screensaver except the console blanker.
Regards,
Joey
--
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
Hans Reiser writes:
Oleg Drokin wrote:
Hello!
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks
a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that
would be nicest of
As far as I am concerned, I have no desire to have ReiserFS distributed
for free by anyone who removes the GNU manifesto or similar expressions
from Stallman's work (or my own) and redistributes it. It is simply a
matter of respect that is due the author.
Respect is due; but it is up to
Hello!
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks
a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that
would be nicest of all.
BTW, I just thought about it again and the screensaver
Oleg Drokin wrote:
Hello!
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:25:11PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
If someone wants to create a boot program and/or screensaver that picks
a random OS component to describe the authors of at boot time, that
would be nicest of all.
BTW, I just thought about it again
On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:46:56PM +0400, Oleg Drokin wrote:
BTW, I just thought about it again and the screensaver code is here
already ;) There is screensaver that displays random fortunes (executes
fortune(6)). Create fortune's database consisting of credits information
and you are done.
On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 02:08, Hans Reiser wrote:
I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge
him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who
use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits
who are discomforted.
Our
Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
Consider that an Evil Company, say, starting with the letter 'M', could
apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed
document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts
that are unconscionable to the original author. Something
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 11:00, Hans Reiser wrote:
Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
[...] could
apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed
document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts
that are unconscionable to the original author. [...]
(Note: I
Op wo 23-04-2003, om 17:00 schreef Hans Reiser:
Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
Consider that an Evil Company, say, starting with the letter 'M', could
apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed
document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts
that
Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 11:00, Hans Reiser wrote:
Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
[...] could
apparently make its changes to the documentation of a GFDL-licensed
document near-proprietary by adding invariant sections and cover texts
that are unconscionable to the original
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:46:24 +0400
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
persons like me
are concerned that vendors will strip all information about who wrote
ReiserFS out except for copyright notices that none of their users
will see, slap their brand identity onto it, and ship, depriving
Andrew Saunders wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:46:24 +0400
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One could argue that if the thief had been unable to re-brand the
code, they never would have used it. If they had to have a prominent
notice advertising We did not write this, Hans Reiser did (only
I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge
him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who
use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits
who are discomforted.
As far as I am concerned, I have no desire to have
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:08, Hans Reiser wrote:
I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge
him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who
use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits
who are discomforted.
As far as
Hi Hans.
How about setting the feelings towards Stallman issue aside for a moment an
focusing on the problem of how Debian handles the credits in you program.
I'm not sure whether, for example, moving the Credits to sponsors from being
displayed by the programs themselves to the man page and /
(Hans Reiser wrote:)
I look forward to the release of GPL V3 which will hopefully cover fair
crediting of code as well as documentation, and stem this rising tide of
plagiarism and political bowlderization by distros.
I think nobody here has anything against keeping all the credits in
We are having a small debate about wheter a user has freedom to modify code of
free software when it concerns where a long version of author sponsor list
is displayed. It has also been speculated that GPL v3 will have a say on
this. Could elaborate what will be in it?
(The following message
Jarno Elonen wrote:
the frontend's About box?
About buttons are an abomination, like the term open source, they
gutlessly pretend to be what they are not in an attempt to please by
dissembling.;-) First time users go to them expecting to find out what
the program does, and instead they get
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give
for their actors.
So you are concerned with the missing ad when mkreiserfs runs?
In this case, your analogy is wrong. The message does not give proper
credit to developers (actors), but
[About menu item]
First time users go to them expecting to find out what
the program does, and instead they get the name of the author and remain
just as puzzled about what the program itself is for as they were
before. I hate them.
I see.. :) It has become a GUI idiom though, so most people
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On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 08:08, Hans Reiser wrote:
I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge
him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who
use his software, and to ensure that they are not
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:25, Hans Reiser wrote:
I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give for
their actors.
30 seconds after the movie ends the cinema is 95% empty and the credits are
only just started. Only the first few names get seen, and those are the ones
that
* Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:25, Hans Reiser wrote:
I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give for
their actors.
30 seconds after the movie ends the cinema is 95% empty and the credits are
only just started. Only the first
Florian Weimer wrote:
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give
for their actors.
So you are concerned with the missing ad when mkreiserfs runs?
In this case, your analogy is wrong. The message does not give proper
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:08:57AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote:
I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge
him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who
use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits
who are
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:25:11 +0400, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give
for their actors.
Now imagine if ls or grep wanted the list of contributors to
be scrolled past, slowly, on every invocation, and insisted that
On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 08:07:19AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
Well, I certainly hope he doesn't want the kind of visibility that the
studio and producer have. Can you imagine it?
# mkreiserfs
[clear screen]
N A M E S Y S
[...]
Dude, he should
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:25:11 +0400, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give
for their actors.
Now imagine if ls or grep wanted the list of contributors to
be scrolled
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