Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/13/19:29:13
On 14 Feb 2000, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 08:57:16 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:
> > > > BTW why do you need a free animation utility? You can always download some
> > > > shareware animation package and crack it if you find you like it ;-)
> > > >
> > > Naughty boy... That's not allowed! Didn't you know that? :)
> >
> > Not allowed by who? ;-)
> Hmm... Let me gues... The author??? The law???
> The problem is when you want to distribute the program you've made. Might
> always be possibly that the author discovers it, and he is allowed to sue
> you, and that'll cost you lots of money.
Lets say that you create a FLC/FLI using a pirated animation program. How
may I ask is the authorof the program or even the "law"supposed to know
that it was created using his prog. I am assuming that you strip all the
comments and extra bagagge from the FLC/FLI.
This I think is also the problem facing UNISYS when they are trying to
implement there latest "interpretation" of the horrendous GIF patent.
Please check burnallgifs <http://www.burnallgifs.org> for more details.
> But to come a little bit back on-topic, in PCGPE you can find the description
> of the FLI file format, and you'll see it's pretty easy. You can just code
> it yourself, and I think own-code is much better than somebody else's code.
Yes but it sometimes saves time if you have something readily available.
> > I know this maybe a bit off topic but...
> > If software authors price there products exorbitantly there is no choice
> > for poor home users like us but to get a shareware or trial version of the
> > product and either crack it oursleves or run a crack that someone else has
> > kindly provided.
> That's why you use DJGPP, probably?
That among many reasons. The major one being that DJGPP is _superb_. I
love the code produced and IMHO it sure makes the port of UNIX apps to DOS
much easier.
>
> > Fr ex there is a pretty good utility caled VMWARE <http://www.vmware.com>
> > which enables LINUX users to run WINDOWS (yes, the whole OS) as a virtual
> > machine under X/LINUX or vice versa.
> But it is sloooooow.
But the idea is interesting. It is bound to be slow, but I suppose the
current generation of CPU's (Athlons) should be able to handle it..
>
> But Wine is improving, it can run lots of games, and also Office97 IIRC.
Office97, Wow! then WINE really has improved.
BTW why should anyone want to use that bloated, sloow Office97 when Sun
microsystems has released there superb free StarOffice. It is available
for almost all the platforms, linux,windows,solaris,os2 etc. Its freely
downloadable too. <http://www.sun.com/staroffice>
>
>
> > Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread
> > :)
> C'mon people, who's going to help this one a little bit??? :)
^^^^^
Yes my friends, could you please make this virus your signature and
lets see how wide and far it will spread :-)
Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread
:)
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