On Feb 5, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: > > > On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>> I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of > >>>> Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. > >>> > >>> Outstanding. > >> > >> Unless there's a Linux port I don't know about, this might be hard to > >> work out... > > > > We can always use Wine, no? > > As if Chessmaster is the only chess program in the world....
You're right, it isnt. However, it is a *Good Thing* (TM) when closed source apps from closed source corpos are released as OSS, both for the corpo, us, and OSS in general, it attracts more attention and sends out a "Hey, maybe this OS stuff isn't that bad" to other corpos. > > Don't get me wrong - it's a nice gesture. I just imagine that activity > developers would choose to wrap an existing Free Software, GNU/Linux chess > program before they get around to packaging up Chessmaster. Yet _more_ GPL'd software is better. -FFM
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