Hey, you idiots, no bickering in front of the donor!!!!! On Feb 5, 2008 4:22 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: > > > 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. > > Yup! > > >> 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. > > Absolutely. And maybe they have some neat tricks in their computer > players! > > I do seriously mean it's a nice gesture. (-: > > -- Asheesh. > > -- > The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose > from. > -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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