On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:28:41PM +0200, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > Hi all, > > > For all those who are still living in a bobble, vmware released some
I was, thanks. > How to make new images for this tool...? (evaluating other vmware > products...?) They used to have a tool on their site called vmware-mount.pl. Still referenced from <http://www.vmware.com/download/downloadaddons.html> but is "Not Found" there. Maybe google or archive.org can help. > > > Now a more theoretical question. Lets say, I write an extreamly cool > application.... but it can be compiled with my own language, which I do > not provide specs, and I do not give a "free at no cost" tool for > compiling applications for it. Now, I also release the source of the > application (in my very uncool language) under the terms of the GPL. > > > How the hell does the GPL help me here...? I still have no way to really > trust that application.... > Besides Mulix's suggestion, you still have an option: You can try to understand from the sources how the language works and write a compiler for it. If it's a really cool application and the language isn't too big, it might be worth it :-) > > (can anyone say "java applications"? or "any windows application", yes, > that gentleman in the end with the @kde.org email address which sends > emails from Thunderbird on Windows XP...?) Or any other non-free OS in the world. For many years, _all_ free software was ran on non-free OSes/Compilers for which you had no sources. I guess there wasn't much free software written in unknown languages, because, admit it, it's pretty pointless, but there were tons of problems with portability - if the free software was written for Ultrix and you wanted to run it on HP-UX, you could have a hard time porting it. Today it's very probable that both the author and you are using Linux (but still might have problems if your distributions are different enough :-( ). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
