On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 09:05:21AM +0000, A J Stiles wrote: > On Monday 03 Nov 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:19:17AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:50:48PM +0000, A J Stiles wrote: > > > > The bug is in vuescan, if it won't build cleanly from source on a > > > > 64-bit system. > > > > > > It also appears to be proprietary software, so no way to fix that. > > > > I am a licensed user of the application and the author has been > > receptive to feedback previously. > > > > What would you suggest would be the most constructive way of > > *suggesting* to fix the problem. > > Ask for the Source Code! After all, you're paying good money for the > software. Would you buy a cake without a list of ingredients on the > packaging?
Um yes, from a good patisserie I would. I am all for open source, but I
am also for closed source - horses for courses. I paid a reasonable (my
opinion ) amount of money, the support I have had has been pretty good.
I knew the risks and bought it as is
>
> Absence of Source Code does **nothing** to prevent unauthorised copying,
> otherwise there wouldn't be so many pirate copies of Windows and Office out
> there. It does, however, piss off honest users like you -- in more ways than
> just making them feel that the vendor expects them to be acting dishonestly
> from the word "go".
piss off is a bit strong. it could be argued that if the gtk libraries
were compiled properly (with out full path to libraries) it would work
okay
>
> > So far I have read its a problem with gtk and the other is to test if it
> > does a clean compile in 64b.
>
> If software that was compiled on one machine runs on another machine, then
> that is just a happy accident. The Proper Way is, and always has been, to
> compile it on your own machine. The second best way is to have your own
> machine set up exactly the same as the one on which the software was
> originally compiled. You can no more expect a package originally compiled
> for Ubuntu to run on Mandriva than you can expect a map of the route from
> your kitchen to your bathroom to be valid in someone else's house.
I pay so I don't have to maintain it, plus having the source is no
guarantee it is going to compile
>
> Horrendous bodges (such as installing 32-bit libraries on a 64-bit system)
> are just waiting to come and bite you in the backside.
sorry I thought we were talking about having freedom, the freedom to
have a mix of 32 and 64 bit arch :)
Alex
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