> How come all we ever talk about these days is copyright issues?
Strictly speaking that is part of the reason for GPL! The coders want
the right to share source again, man. But this isn't the thread for all
that.
> I always thought we were developers - not lawyers. Maybe it's a new trend?
> Once upon a time, when I were a lad, programmers wanted strut their stuff
> to big softwares houses by writing demos. Now, it seems that people, these
> days, still want to strut their stuff to the same big-guns but under a new
> light: arguments over licences...
But it is all so hard nowadays. If I want to show off to a software
house the best I can do is to make a 3d accelerator do all its polygons
at once . . . whereas the best they can do is make it do all its
polygons at once! 3d accelerators (and hyped rubbish like quake) have
made everything so stale now, who has the energy? Mind you - the
flipside is that the way is open for a true genius to blow all the dull
cobwebs away! And that person will not be known as 'Dave Perry' or his
mate Zachs . . .
Personally I think that a lot of the Linux components do really show
off to the large software houses anyway . . . who could have predicted
the sudden appearance of what idiots consider a potential MS beater from
entirely unpaid labour with programs such as GIMP, Lynx and KDE?
If you want to see why I personally will never 'strut my stuff' with
anyone, check out my Chaos update 'Anarchy' for which I will not lower
myself to promoting with a URL here.
Actually, the best non-mainstream coding to have occured recently is
probably the array of games for those Texas calculators once someone
figured out how to break through the GUI and do some real assembly sort
of stuff.
-Thomas
