Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-Plane sued for patent infringement
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Curtis Olson wrote: I posted something to slashdot, but I guess it came out as anonymous coward. Honestly, there are a lot of sharp people that read slashdot, but for every one of them, there are 100 complete morons. And at least Fixed that for you. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-Plane sued for patent infringement
I posted something to slashdot, but I guess it came out as anonymous coward. Honestly, there are a lot of sharp people that read slashdot, but for every one of them, there are 10 complete morons. And at least on slashdot, the dumber the person and the less information they are armed with, the more emphatic they will make their point. I personally don't have time to correct every statement on slashdot, especially with people that shout louder than me. And my comment probably is ranked so low no one will actually see it, but hey, I did put in 15 minutes of effort here. :-) If someone else wants to be the flightgear slashdot information correctness ambassador I will be happy to give you an appointment and give you an official title, and even an official email address. Curt. On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:42:40 +0200, Tim wrote in message CAPK_1fyqmUGgLrEO8KEUPGNvUHb5Frcr=ypieemg7m_oyjn...@mail.gmail.com: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/2048240/patent-troll-sues-x-plane It turns out that the patent has nothing to do with flight simulation but with remote license checking, but still. The Slashdot article has the line X-plane is a cross-platform flight simulator app, notably the only serious one that supports Mac OSX and Linux. In the comments the serious part refers to X-Plane being FAA certified. Now, I know that software isn't FAA certified -- complete systems --are and that FlightGear has been used in commercial simulators too, but someone (Curt?) with the real details might want to chime in with a correction. ..looks like Austin's big sin was make X-plane an Android app. Who are the other 8 app developers? ..he should have dual-licensed X-Plane, _much_ easier to find pro bono lawyer etc help with the GPL. Oh well. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Curtis Olson: http://www.atiak.com - http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/ http://www.flightgear.org - http://gallinazo.flightgear.org -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-Plane sued for patent infringement
I tried to post, but it appears my post went away. I noticed that one of the comments made a remark about X-plane aerodynamics. I think it might be time for a paper on that which we can use to inform people. Jon From: Curtis Olson [mailto:curtol...@flightgear.org] Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 10:52 AM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-Plane sued for patent infringement I posted something to slashdot, but I guess it came out as anonymous coward. Honestly, there are a lot of sharp people that read slashdot, but for every one of them, there are 10 complete morons. And at least on slashdot, the dumber the person and the less information they are armed with, the more emphatic they will make their point. I personally don't have time to correct every statement on slashdot, especially with people that shout louder than me. And my comment probably is ranked so low no one will actually see it, but hey, I did put in 15 minutes of effort here. :-) If someone else wants to be the flightgear slashdot information correctness ambassador I will be happy to give you an appointment and give you an official title, and even an official email address. Curt. On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Arnt Karlsen a...@c2i.net wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:42:40 +0200, Tim wrote in message CAPK_1fyqmUGgLrEO8KEUPGNvUHb5Frcr=ypieemg7m_oyjn...@mail.gmail.com: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/2048240/patent-troll-sues-x-plane It turns out that the patent has nothing to do with flight simulation but with remote license checking, but still. The Slashdot article has the line X-plane is a cross-platform flight simulator app, notably the only serious one that supports Mac OSX and Linux. In the comments the serious part refers to X-Plane being FAA certified. Now, I know that software isn't FAA certified -- complete systems --are and that FlightGear has been used in commercial simulators too, but someone (Curt?) with the real details might want to chime in with a correction. ..looks like Austin's big sin was make X-plane an Android app. Who are the other 8 app developers? ..he should have dual-licensed X-Plane, _much_ easier to find pro bono lawyer etc help with the GPL. Oh well. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Curtis Olson: http://www.atiak.com http://www.atiak.com/ - http://aem.umn.edu/~uav/ http://www.flightgear.org http://www.flightgear.org/ - http://gallinazo.flightgear.org http://gallinazo.flightgear.org/ -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] X-Plane sued for patent infringement
http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/2048240/patent-troll-sues-x-plane It turns out that the patent has nothing to do with flight simulation but with remote license checking, but still. The Slashdot article has the line X-plane is a cross-platform flight simulator app, notably the only serious one that supports Mac OSX and Linux. In the comments the serious part refers to X-Plane being FAA certified. Now, I know that software isn't FAA certified -- complete systems --are and that FlightGear has been used in commercial simulators too, but someone (Curt?) with the real details might want to chime in with a correction. Tim -- How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] X-Plane sued for patent infringement
On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:42:40 +0200, Tim wrote in message CAPK_1fyqmUGgLrEO8KEUPGNvUHb5Frcr=ypieemg7m_oyjn...@mail.gmail.com: http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/09/14/2048240/patent-troll-sues-x-plane It turns out that the patent has nothing to do with flight simulation but with remote license checking, but still. The Slashdot article has the line X-plane is a cross-platform flight simulator app, notably the only serious one that supports Mac OSX and Linux. In the comments the serious part refers to X-Plane being FAA certified. Now, I know that software isn't FAA certified -- complete systems --are and that FlightGear has been used in commercial simulators too, but someone (Curt?) with the real details might want to chime in with a correction. ..looks like Austin's big sin was make X-plane an Android app. Who are the other 8 app developers? ..he should have dual-licensed X-Plane, _much_ easier to find pro bono lawyer etc help with the GPL. Oh well. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
