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Stanczyk is an unabashed bibliophile. Perhaps I am a bibliophage — bookworm. I certainly devour books — although my wife's voracious appetite for books puts me to shame. Today's meme is dystopian thoughts.
A few weeks back (August 15th) I wrote about Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), a dystopian sci-fi novel (which I was not enamored of, literately but has clearly has been a sales success). It has a movie coming out soon. I'll pass on that too.
I am looking forward to Jack Kerouac's "On The Road", dystopian travelogue or dystopian Beat Generation screed upon a scroll movie. Despite, its appalling morality tale stories it was an enthralling novel and to think it was written in just three weeks! I bought its 50th anniversary scroll edition in 2007 and read it in almost a single uninterrupted session — somehow I was channeling Jack's manic writing pace.
What appealed to me about "On The Road", was its parallel to Hemingway. Here we have some bohemian types dealing with post-World-War-II issues. This was much the same way as Hemingway and his Paris bohêmes dealt with the post-World-War-I issues. So I read it in that context. This movie too will be out this fall — I cannot wait to see it!
But it is 2012 and we now have a new dystopian sci-fi work that needs consideration. This book too, took three weeks to write. But its author despised it, in spite of its success. The work was "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. Well it is now the 50th anniversary of that novel's publishing too. As a young man I was enthralled with the Nadsat (English-Russian) argot spoken by the protagonists again while appalled by the violence. I think Hollywood needs to remake this classic too. Hollywood, knock-knock, pick a director with a Slavic sensibility to capture Euro-Ruso trashy-ness of the mood. I did not care much for Stanley Kubrick's version.
So this my Monday, Troika of Dystopia re-cast into 2012 … Hmmmm is it a coincidence that this is an election year? This election a bit dystopian too, n'est-ce pas?
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In addition, FNEX introduced FNEX.com, a new online marketplace for alternative investments; GBI and ByAllAccounts announced a collaboration to provide precious metals holdings data; OppenheimerFunds announced the launch of its new edistribution advisor portal; and Invesco PowerShares announced name changes for its four DWA Technical Leaders ETFs.
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1) Vanguard Introduces New Low-Cost Global Minimum Volatility Fund
Vanguard says that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the Vanguard Global Minimum Volatility Fund. Expected to be available in Q4 2013, the fund will offer two low-cost share classes, investor shares and admiral shares. Investor shares will have an estimated expense ratio of 0.30% and require a minimum initial investment of $3,000. Admiral shares will have an estimated expense ratio of 0.20% and require a minimum initial investment of $50,000.
The new actively managed equity fund will seek to provide long-term capital appreciation with lower volatility relative to the global equity market. The fund is expected to invest approximately half of its assets in stocks of U.S. companies and approximately half in stocks of foreign companies. To mitigate currency risk and lower the volatility of the overall fund, a significant portion of the fund's exposure to foreign currencies will be hedged to the U.S. dollar through the use of forward currency contracts. It will be managed by Vanguard's equity investment group.
2) S&P Capital IQ Introduces New ETF Style Classification System
S&P Capital IQ announced that it has introduced ETF Style Classifications, a new system that classifies ETFs and ETNs with over 40 standardized descriptive characteristics to reveal the true exposure being provided by over 2,500 North American ETFs and ETNs.
The first classification level defines asset class, such as equity, fixed income, commodity, currency, real estate and multi-asset. The next three levels further refine that asset class into very specific market segment exposures. For example, commodities would be refined to metals, precious metals and gold. In addition, the system captures and provides multiple other dimensions and characteristics, such as geographic emphasis, tax efficiency, expense ratio, long/short exposure, leverage ratio, sector emphasis, investing style and target risk.
The ETF classifications will be integrated into S&P Capital IQ's Xpressfeed and will be available for use with all Xpressfeed's information, including premium fundamentals, Compustat fundamentals, S&P credit ratings, earnings estimates; other classifications such as GICS; private company industry classifications; and regional classification schemas like ANZSIC.
3) Guggenheim Investments Adds New ETFs to BulletShares Suite
Guggenheim Investments, the investment management division of Guggenheim Partners, announced Tuesday the launch of two new BulletShares ETFs: Guggenheim BulletShares 2019 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (BSJJ) and Guggenheim BulletShares 2020 High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (BSJK).
BSJJ and BSJK join the BulletShares lineup, consisting of 18 defined-maturity corporate bond and high-yield corporate bond ETFs. BulletShares are designed to mature in their target year to provide investors with specific maturities to ladder portfolios or to manage fixed income exposure within specific investment time frames.
4) American Independence Launches Risk-Managed Allocation Fund
American Independence Financial Services, LLC announced Tuesday the launch of the American Independence Risk-Managed Allocation Fund (AARMX, ACRMX, RMAIX), an actively managed, ETF-based global asset allocation strategy. The subadvisor for is J.A. Forlines, LLC. The fund will be marketed to financial intermediaries throughout the U.S.
The fund seeks to achieve long-term capital appreciation while providing lower-than-average risk, and will invest in fixed income, equities and alternatives, including commodities, real estate and currencies, across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and emerging markets. It also has the capability to move to cash in times of extreme market duress.
5) FNEX Announces the Launch of FNEX.com
FNEX announced the launch of FNEX.com, a new online marketplace for alternative investments, including placements in private companies, hedge funds and managed futures accounts. The Web-based platform provides accredited investors, family offices and institutions access to investment opportunities offered by investment banks and funds across the United States.
FNEX is a distribution platform for investment banks and hedge funds to list offerings, and provides investors with tools to educate themselves on alternative investment opportunities and enhance their ability to make informed and targeted investment decisions. The platform offers a wide range of searchable investment opportunities by size, sector and strategy. There is no cost for accredited investors to use the online platform.
6) GBI and ByAllAccounts Collaborate on Physical Precious Metals Data
GBI and ByAllAccounts announced Tuesday an integration to provide precious metals holdings data from GBI's advisor platform through ByAllAccounts. Connectivity through the latter will provide more than 1,500 independent advisory firms, family offices, asset managers and trust companies, as well as more than 60 of the industry's leading service providers, custodians, and reporting platform providers, the ability to aggregate and reconcile precious metals holdings data from GBI into advisor/client reports.
Precious metals data will be streamed from GBI's advisor platform, where advisors can buy, sell and store physical precious metals on behalf of their clients. Via GBI's proprietary technology, orders can beplaced for competitive bid by the firm's network of dealers and refiners, ensuring that both advisors and their clients receive competitive pricing. Precious metals including bars and coins of gold, silver, platinum and palladium can be stored in one of six global insured vaults operated by Brinks, Via-Mat, and MalcaAmit and are also allocated to the client level, unlike traditional bank and dealer processes, and unlike the precious metals ETFs.
7) OppenheimerFunds Launches New eDistribution Advisor Portal
OppenheimerFunds has announced the launch of its new edistribution advisor portal.
The new site includes the following new features: a side-by-side comparison of OppenheimerFunds' funds with the competition using the Morningstar fund comparison tool; an expanded Morningstar hypothetical tool that includes all fund families; comprehensive fund performance information with interactive fund data; Advisor Exchange, OppenheimerFunds' advisor-only discussion forum for sharing best practices; professional development content via OppenheimerFunds' exclusive CEO Advisor Institute program; and real-time answers for questions with click-to-chat.
8) Invesco PowerShares Announces ETF Name Changes
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC announced on Thursday name changes for its four DWA Technical Leaders ETFs. The funds will continue to be based on Dorsey, Wright & Associates index methodology, and existing ticker symbols and investment objectives will remain unchanged.
The name changes, which will take effect on October 4, are as follows: PowerShares DWA Technical Leaders Portfolio (PDP) will become PowerShares DWA Momentum Portfolio; PowerShares DWA SmallCap Technical Leaders Portfolio (DWAS) will become PowerShares DWA SmallCap Momentum Portfolio; PowerShares DWA Developed Markets Technical Leaders Portfolio (PIZ) will become PowerShares DWA Developed Markets Momentum Portfolio; and PowerShares DWA Emerging Markets Technical Leaders Portfolio (PIE) will become PowerShares DWA Emerging Markets Momentum Portfolio.
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To some, Dr. Salomon Melgen was a miracle worker who brought sight to the blind. To others, he was a smooth political player known for rubbing elbows and jet-setting.
Whichever version of Melgen roused the interest of the FBI, which raided his offices this week, their investigation has illuminated the surgeon's ability to build ties to a host of Democratic lawmakers.
Foremost among them is Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, whose friendship with Melgen has yielded fundraisers, campaign contributions and trips on a private plane. Menendez said this week he did nothing wrong, and flatly denied allegations reported by The Daily Caller, a conservative website, that he traveled on Melgen's plane to the Dominican Republic for sex with prostitutes.
Though facts remain piecemeal, a fuller portrait of Melgen has emerged. There are photos of the beaming doctor sandwiched between Menendez and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a trail of checks written to politicians and a web of business interests that apparently fueled his wealth.
Melgen, 58, is a native of the Dominican Republic who has lived in the U.S. since at least 1980, holding medical posts around the country while building a reputation as a top ophthalmologist. He has a wife and two children.
Calls to his home and office were not answered, but his attorney has said he did nothing wrong.
On the website for his Vitreo-Retinal Consultants Eye Center practice, he is called a pioneer and an innovator, a front-runner in treatment of macular degeneration, a common eye disorder. He has treated "presidents, governors, politicians, celebrities and actors," according to his website.
Patricia Goodman, his office manager and personal assistant for a decade until cancer forced her to quit in 1999, remembers an endless stream of patients coming from all over the world for his care.
"He was just the best surgeon," she said, "and we had people that would come in that were blind and told they would never see again and he brought back their sight."
When Goodman was suffering through cancer, her paychecks never stopped, nor did Melgen's concern. He would often provide his services for free to people who could not afford it.
She's reluctant to say anything negative about him, except to say he was a "ladies man" and liked "living on the edge." She refused to elaborate.
As Goodman remembers it, a single big-name introduction appeared to fuel Melgen's entrance into the world of politics. Then-Gov. Lawton Chiles of Florida, a Democrat, went to Melgen for eye surgery in 1997 and later tapped the doctor for a state panel on HMOs. Not long afterward, he became a reliable donor to Democratic power brokers and a frequent host of fundraisers at both his waterfront, 6,500-square-foot home near North Palm Beach and his house in the Dominican Republic in the exclusive residential resort community of Casa de Campo.
Goodman coordinated logistics for the fundraisers - buffets, bands and a huge patio where revelers could dance. She remembers events with former Sens. Christopher Dodd and Bob Graham and former Dominican President Leonel Fernandez. Melgen basked in the newfound attention.
"He loved the limelight, he loved it," Goodman said. "He loved being with the politicians."
Last year, Melgen's practice gave $700,000 to Majority PAC, a super political action committee set up to fund Democratic candidates for Senate. Aided by Melgen's donation, the super PAC became the largest outside political committee contributing to Menendez's re-election, spending more than $582,000 on the senator's behalf, according to an analysis of federal election records.
Melgen and his immediate family have given tens of thousands more to other political causes, including directly to Menendez.
Even as Melgen cultivated a political profile in the U.S., he was never gone long from his homeland.
Fernandez, the ex-Dominican president, named him as an alternate delegate to the United Nations during his first term and an ambassador assigned to the Foreign Ministry in his second.
Meanwhile, a private plane owned by Melgen's company, DRM Med Assist LLC, made more than 100 trips to the Dominican Republic since July 2009, an Associated Press review of flight records found. Nearly a dozen of those trips showed brief stopovers at Washington, D.C.-area airports, although it's unclear who was on board because Federal Aviation Administration rules don't require private aircraft to file flight manifests.
Menendez repaid Melgen $58,500 for two 2010 trips he characterized as personal. The reimbursement was made Jan. 4 in response to the ethics complaint, but there was no public disclosure of it until this week. The reimbursement is significant for a politician who's not wealthy by Washington standards. Disclosure forms show Menendez's net worth as less than $700,000.
Whether Melgen's access or checkbook brought him any influence remains unclear.
In 2007, Menendez introduced a Senate bill, "The Glaucoma Screening Act," that proposed $10 million in grants to firms that would have in part expanded eligibility to Hispanics who are at risk of glaucoma. Melgen's clinic was not specifically cited in the bill and whether he would have benefited is not clear.
Menendez's spokeswoman Tricia Enright noted he had a long history of working with the Friends of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus, whose leader asked the senator's staff to introduce the bill. Regardless, the legislation never made it out of committee.
The senator appeared to have weighed in on behalf of one of Melgen's companies last July during a Senate hearing, complaining about several instances where Latin American governments did not honor obligations with businesses. Menendez pressed two Obama administration officials about an unidentified company that provided cargo screening services at Dominican Republic ports.
Media reports in the Dominican Republic have highlighted a contract feud between the country's government and a port security firm, I.C.S.S.I.
The company was hired to provide X-ray screening at Dominican ports starting in 2002, according to a 2003 document reviewed by the AP. In recent years, the Dominican government had begun to balk at continuing the contract, citing concerns about high costs.
In 2011, I.C.S.S.I. was bought by a Florida firm, Border Security Services LLC, which records show is managed by Melgen. The New York Times reported Friday the port contract could be worth as much as $50 million a year.
More details inevitably will spill out as both Melgen and Menendez become tangled in an investigation. The Senate Ethics Committee is looking into whether Menendez accepted inappropriate gifts from Melgen and FBI agents carted away evidence seized from Melgen's offices, but refused to say why.
"The government has not informed Dr. Melgen what concerns it may have," said his attorney, Lawrence Duffy. "We are confident that Dr. Melgen has acted appropriately at all times."
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The review I just wrote of the Sonos Play:3 streaming music system, and another I recently finished of several small Bluetooth speaker systems (you'll see the full results soon in the print edition of Sound+Vision) reminded me of just how important listening is in audio product design.
Most of us know that speakers are supposed to have a flat frequency response, reproducing all frequencies at the same volume given the same input voltage. That rule emerged after years of experiments at the Canadian National Research Council in Ottawa, comparing results of blind listening tests with lab measurements to see what type of frequency response most listeners prefer. The details of these tests have filled several white papers, but the upshot is that a speaker should have a flat frequency response on-axis, with an off-axis response that's as smooth as possible.
However, these tests were done mostly with relatively large, relatively full-range speakers of relatively good quality. That's great if you do all your listening on the living-room couch. But what if, like most of us, you do much of your listening elsewhere, on small, low-cost speaker systems with limited bass response?
My Bluetooth speaker test suggests that the rules are different for products that lack bass. Here, a not-well-enough-known psychoacoustic principle comes into play: A lack of bass can make a speaker sound as if its treble is boosted, even if its frequency response is flat.
For instance, the Monster iClarity HD produced the best frequency response measurements of all the Bluetooth speakers I tested, but because it has no bass, it sounds bright. In contrast, the Jawbone Jambox delivered less impressive frequency response measurements, but its sound was subjectively more balanced because it has more bass and a rolled-off treble.
I noticed this same psychoacoustic principle at work when I reviewed the Sonos Play:3 and the Veho 360BT Bluetooth speaker. If you roll off the treble to counteract a lack of bass, you get what seems to be a more balanced sound.
To my knowledge, there are no hard-and-fast rules regarding this practice, i.e., "roll off the treble at -6 dB/octave above 12 kHz if the bass response decreases by 24 dB/octave below 120 Hz." Because there are no firm guidelines, the cheaper the audio product, the greater the need for the designers to fine-tune the sound according to the tastes of a panel of experienced listeners.
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text: Friday, September 28, 2012 Donation to Expand Special Olympics Screenings The success of the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes program, which includes the physical therapy fitness screening FUNfitness, has led to a $12 million donation to expand Special Olympics' health-related services and launch a new Healthy Communities initiative. The donation, made by United States businessman and philanthropist Tom Golisano, was announced September 23 by former President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative event in New York City. Healthy Athletes has provided free health screenings and products to athletes for 15 years. In addition to physical therapy screenings the program offers podiatry, better health and well-being, audiology, sports, vision, and dental screenings. The donation will allow FUNfitness to expand its efforts to develop and promote fitness activities at the community level in a multitude of locations around the globe. Healthy Communities' goal is to achieve improved health outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities with the ultimate goal of ensuring that all are receiving health services and are able to reach their full potential. It will expand services to more athletes, increase partnerships with local organizations, expand the use of technology, and promote awareness of the health difficulties facing people with intellectual disabilities. The program will be launched in 7 countries (Mexico, Peru, Romania, Malawi, South Africa, Malaysia, and Thailand) and 6 states in the US (Arizona, Florida, Kansas, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and New York). It will build upon and broaden the scope of the current Healthy Athletes program. Several APTA members have been instrumental in the success of FUNfitness and the Healthy Athletes program. Donna Bainbridge, PT, EdD, ATC, is global clinical advisor for FUNfitness and Fitness Programming. Jim Gleason, PT, MS, serves as FUNfitness research and education coordinator. Vicki Tilley, PT, GCS, is FUNfitness coordinator of Clinical Services-North America. APTA developed FUNFitness, an assessment of flexibility, functional strength, and balance created for athletes participating in the Special Olympics, as an outgrowth of the North Carolina Chapter's successful flexibility screening program created for the 1999 Special Olympics.


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By Jonathan Scott
It may not be tabloid fodder like every Taylor Swift dalliance, and it's not nearly as insufferable as Brangelina, but the marriage between music and tennis is itself a storied love affair. It stretches across decades and genres, and it knows no bounds – well, none other than those pesky white lines.
Try to set aside the disappointment that the artist Sergey with the song "Tennis" on iTunes is actually not Vera Zvonareva's ridiculously good-looking model/coach. And, however possible, repress the memory of Justine Henin's song-and-dance scareoke on TV. Yes, Novak Djokovic and Ivo Karlovic have tried their tongues at rapping, as has Vince Spadea with amusingly deplorable results, but that doesn't mean you should try it at home after perfecting your Djokovic-ian down-the-line backhand, does it?
As the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival just wrapped its annual song-a-thon in Austin, Texas – soon to be the site for a volatile USA vs. Spain Davis Cup tie in July – here's the skinny on the latest hot shots in tennis-tinged music and an homage to some of the greats.
Best Newcomer: James Blake is a dub-step soulman and a veritable crooner. The British JB, that is. His American counterpart is a best-selling author and owner of a laser forehand whose best days are past, but Blake the Brit is taking the music world by slow-burning storm, releasing his rave-reviewed eponymous debut in February and – well before that – igniting the blogosphere with his faithful but quirky cover of Feist's "Limit to Your Love." Let's just pray that, when we hit up a James Blake concert sometime, his fans aren't half as annoying (adorable?) as the American Blake's J-Block can be in the tennis stands.
Dainty she is not. Our fave album cover from Blonde Readhead's 23. (Image via band website)
Best Dressed: Sometimes it's okay to judge a band by its cover. Oxymoronic indie rockers Blonde Redhead out of New York City put out the best, most elegant tennis-themed album art when they dropped 23 in 2007. But, no, the song "Top Ranking" has nothing to do with disputed no. 1 Caroline Wozniacki.
Worst Dressed, but Best Sound: Yea, there is a band simply called Tennis, a married duo specializing in '60s surf-pop for 2011. This act released its debut Cape Dory in January, and though the song "Marathon" doesn't harbor the words "Isner," "Mahut" or "Wimbledon" anywhere in the lyrics, it's solid stuff. Consider it your soulful throwback soundtrack for this summer – but steer clear of wearing skintight aqua as with the album cover. It looks like leftover fabric from a hideous Nadia Petrova creation.
Best Tournament Run: This has to go to the ginger-haired heroine in the video for Vampire Weekend's "Giving Up the Gun." She rips through a draw that includes Joe Jonas, a Daft Punk-helmeted doubles team, and even a flask-swilling Jake Gyllenhaal in tear-away pants. It's a great song, and the immaculately-white indoor court is sharp – even if the choked-up strokes from the damsel look laughably bad in reality. Girl, who taught you to grip a racquet like that? Topping it off: RZA from Wu-Tang Clan serves as the chair umpire, and Lil Jon offers astute on-court coaching. Brill.
TSF Vault | The many lives of tennis-themed music vids
Best Clay-Court Match: French DJs Martin Solveig — oddly in tasteful Wimbledon whites — and Bob Sinclar, sporting some hot-magenta vintage-Agassi styles, squared off on Roland Garros' red dirt for the video for Solveig's dance track "Hello" sung by Dragonette. The match and music video are both visceral, a veritable heartbreaker. Check out the cameo by that flashiest of the current French tennis stars as he comes on the scene and devastates the darling DJ.
Hello? Could Martin Solveig look any cooler? We think not. (YouTube screengrab)
Best Charity Hit: Andy Murray and Thom Yorke of Radiohead teamed up for charity single "Two Minute Silence" to benefit serving and former British troops and their families. Strangely enough, its title is no lie. "Hear" — but really just see — it here. British Prime Minister David Cameron and more also got in on this quiet riot. Truly the oddest not-quite-a-band lineup ever, but hey, can't wait for their episode of "Behind the Music." Finalist: Wozniacki put out a charity single called "Oxigent" (or "Oxygen") to benefit Danish and Polish Paralympic athletes. Because, you know, she has oodles of free time.
Top Passing Shot: Meg Baird's lovely, lilting "Waltze of the Tennis Players." It's just pretty, and we do pretty.
More of Jonathan's music musings (including "Best Grunt" and "Best Musical Ode to a Tennis Player") after the cut. (more…)


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The 2009 Delete Key Awards second runner-up is Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem (Penguin), translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.
This turgid novel about life on the Mongolian grasslands won the Man Asian Literary Prize for the best Asian novel unpublished in English. What can the competition have been if the award went to a book that abounds with lines that read like excerpts from a report by the General Accountability Office? Perhaps better than any international prize-winner published in the U.S. last year, Wolf Totem is a reminder that a medallion on the cover doesn't guarantee superior — or even good — writing.
Wolf Totem is the second-runner up for this and other lines:
"Now he understood how the great, unlettered military genius Genghis Khan, as well as the illiterate or semiliterate military leaders of peoples such as the Quanrong, the Huns, the Tungus, the Turks, the Mongols, and the Jurchens, were able to bring the Chinese (whose great military sage Sun-tzu had produced his universally acclaimed treatise The Art of War) to their knees, to run roughshod over their territory, and to interrupt their dynastic cycles."
The Delete Key Awards recognize the year's worst writing in books. They are given annually on March 15 or the nearest weekday to it. Other posts about the awards appear on www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.
Last year's winners were named in separate posts on March 14, 2008, which include samples of the writing that earned them their awards.
(c) 2009 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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KDE/Qt Gain Increased Support for Indic Languages
With the release of Trolltech's Qt 3.2.0 beta1, the upcoming KDE 3.2 has gained increased support for Indic languages both in terms of rendering and text input. Currently, Devanagari (screenshot), Bengali (bn-2, bn-3, bn-1) and Tamil have been tested but Syriac, Tibetan, Khmer and others are expected to work as well. Dirk Mueller writes: "The KDE Project encourages interested people who understand these languages
Indic languages were pretty much the only set of languages that were not supported very well by Qt, but were supported quite well by pango. Places like India have a great potential for many GNU/Linux/KDE installations.. already a increasing amount of people use Linux.. perhaps it'll free them from the chains of using pirated copies of WinXP :)
By lit at Sat, 2003/05/17 - 5:00am
Re: great
perhaps, if internet connectivity is cheaper than winXP.
By seenic at Mon, 2003/05/19 - 5:00am
semi-OT: Old languages
Are there internationalisations for olds languages for KDE like Latin, Greek or Sanskrit?
By Somebody at Sat, 2003/05/17 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Old languages? Greek???
By KDe User at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Not many people speak in New Testament Greek, now, but see the KDE-based BibleTime for a place where handling ancient Greek is useful. There's loads other classical works written in ancient Greek as well.
By Blod at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Like Works and Days ("Ergai kai heterai") of Hesiod or the famous Ilias.
By Somebody at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Ancient Greek, the new one is a mixture of the old one, Latin and languages of the barbarians!
By Somebody at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
What about Klingon? Or Elvish(sp?)?
By KDE Fan at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Yeah, Klingon would be nice.
By Somebody at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Klingon would be nice, but somebody (Charles Samels?) suggested it, even created a commit and got ready to support it in CVS, and it got nixed by the developers as "silly".
It's a shame, IMO. It would have hurt nothing, and would have been an attractive harmless sidebar note. Users would have liked it.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Rob Kaper
By Charles Samuels at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Re: semi-OT: Old languages
Sanskrit uses the 'Devnagri' script (and in fact was the origin of a lot of indian languages). therefore, I think only correct translations will be needed, the support is already present :-)
By Hrishikesh Mehendale at Wed, 2003/06/04 - 5:00am
What about plattdeutsch? Recent postings on prolinux got high attention. Perhaps KDE may become the only desktop environment that fulfills the European Language charter. Institut für Niederdeutsche Sprache Bremen wants to translate Gnome.
By Hein at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
Let them waste their time and bandwidth with unneccessary languages... I doubt that there is demand for plattdeutsch, and there are certainly things that are more important...
By Tim Jansen at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
Plattdeutsch \Platt"deutsch`\, n.
What is useless about that?
By ac at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
Because it is a dialect that no one writes, it is only spoken.
By Tim Jansen at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
It is no dialect, stupid!
Read our European Language Charter...
If KDe fulfills the European Language charter as the only Desktop environment it will be very useful to "sell" KDe to governmental use.
Afaik governmental institutions are obliged to reply in indigene languages in Europe.
Ha! Unnecessary? Sure, KDe only incorporates few basic features... Who need islandic KDE as everybody speaks english over there
By Hakenuk at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
I doubt that any government wants a KDE version in 'Plattdeutsch'. Show me, for example, a single newspaper written in it. Or a radio station that uses it. Everything over there is in regular german.
By Tim Jansen at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
The main reason is discrimination of indigene languages, in the times of nationalism language variety wasn't wished by the authorities. Later it became a traditionalism issue.
Wikipedia tells that it was official language of the Hanse.
The main reason why there is no radio station is that the authorities didn't want to have one. Minority languages (Plattdeutsch was majority language) became the languages of rural people. Very much the same in the third world. the upper class speaks English not Hindi, Ewe, Suaheli ecc..
It almost the same with noble men, they spoke french. National languages (like German) were regarded (and were) lower class.
By Gerd at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
The tiny, but very good public station 'Radio Bremen' has daily news in plattdeutsch. It's a real fun to hear and I'm sure quite a few people like it. Headlines from last friday: 'Schröder snackt mit Powell +++ Eichel will Vördeelen bi de Stüer afbuun +++ De School warrt reformeert - Orientierungsstufe geiht tweedusenunveer to Enn ... '. You can listen to it at: news.rm .
By thomas at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
> But I agree that there are more important things for KDE than a localized version for
Works perfectly fine here using KDE 3.1.1.
And besides it's by far not like programmers who could fix these kind of possible problems are the same people who are doing documentation and translations. By denying people to just do translations they'd like to see and contribute to you are more likely to also discourage them to work anywhere else within KDE so you lose more than you win. Right now Tim Jansen is doing a great job keeping the community small.
I am from Brasil (not *zil). I don't understand nothing about C ou C++ ou Kt ou Gtk, neither Python or Camel. Maybe HTML and CSS.
I help Free Software with translation! That's all I can do.
Seid umschlungen, Millionen !
By Ventura at Mon, 2003/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
By Gerd at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
Wilst du gern disse link lesen:
Ik kom ut Denemark un ik snaak ok Neddersassisch. Het is 'n spraak un het is tou vergelyken mit Nedderlands.
Ik ken vele dey Neddersassisch schryfen.
By Kenneth Christiansen at Wed, 2003/05/28 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
If you didn't understand what I was saying (due to me speaking another language more related to Dutch than High German), please let me rephase.
Low Saxon is a language and has been it for centories. Please read the supplied link for more information. It is spoken in North Germany, East Netherland, Russia and also other places.
Danish is one of those language who like High German has been highly influenced by Low Saxon.
Low Saxon is a litteral language. Especially in The Netherlands where there are official spelling systems.
Harry Potter is also translated to North-Lowlands-Saxon:
Low Saxon is protected by the European Language Charter for Regional and Minority Languages:
By Kenneth Christiansen at Wed, 2003/05/28 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
Yes, and there are around 30.000 mennonites in Paraguay that speak a dialect of Platt (plus many of the native people too). And no, they are not the horse and buggy mennonites from the USA, that everyone thinks of when they hear "mennonite". And yes many, but not all of them speak high German.
KAH - Uruguay, South America
Want Infos?
By Phantom at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
You think 'hindi' is unnecessary?? You make me laugh
By sujan at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
I think he was referring to Plattdeutsch, not the indic languages.
By cm at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
Uh? Why not actually let the demand decide before declaring everything as "waste of time and bandwidth" and being "not important enough" to be considered at all? There's really no need for someone to appear like knowing the only true truth and suggesting everyone else got it wrong.
Re: NDS
That is true FOSS style!
By Gerd at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
Article 10 Administrative authorities and public services
to ensure that the administrative authorities use the regional or minority languages; or
By Hakenuk at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am
So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
(note: this post is pure sarcasm to show what some particular people would prefer to see obviously completely ignorant of the current situation in KDE)
...such a waste of time and bandwidth... ...there are certainly things that are more important...
Basque (eu), everyone is speaking Spain or French there anyway.
...and we finally need to combine all those minor Skandinavian languages, their are also taking way to much time and space...
...there certainly is a connection between the lack of developers and the overkill of available languages in KDE... ...removing them all certainly would boost the development of KDE...
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
I fully agree.
If people that speak some language want to translate into it, why not?
Just on a side note, I'm from Portugal. Brazilian Portuguese is spoken by much more people than Portuguese. Brazil is several times larger than Portugal. One of the things that really annoys me is that many international companies only translate into brazilian portuguese and not in portuguese. An understandable economic reasoning, unfortunately.
Although similiar, the two languages are different, not only in pronounciation, but in grammar and vocabulary as well. The same thing happens with galician, which is a blend of portuguese with spanish.
Open Source projects, being voluntary work, need not worry with the economic issues of the cost of translations, so why not translate in anything if there is a voluntary to do the work?
By Luis Carvalho at Mon, 2003/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
The translation overdose will sort the good/used/maintained translations out.
It is self regulating, isn't it?
By cies at Mon, 2003/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
Plattdeutch internationalization may be based on German. It wouldn't matter at all if not 100% was translated.
Only for Mennonite people from South America probably bad...
By Gerd at Tue, 2003/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
There are also many Mennonite Brethren (no horse and buggy's) in central USA and Western Canada who speak Plauttdietsch, but they are dying out with many of the younger generation just speaking English. I am attempting to pick it up. There is a Plauttdietsch New Testament on www.biblegateway.com with audio. Alphabet doesn't use the German style vowels.
By Michael Warkentin at Mon, 2006/08/14 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
Now, British English is the original, KDE should be in standard (British Received Standard) English per default. :)
By Sinuhe at Mon, 2003/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
I agree with this. It's incredibly stupid to say that translations should be removed just because, in your irrelevant opinion, they are using up space.
We should accept the reality that in every other form of media, people are used to reading and listening to their variant of a language. If a piece of software is written by an American, then I would agree that in the case of English, nobody can be blamed if that application is natively written in American English. But if somebody contributes a British (rather, international) English variant, what's the problem with maintaining this also?
The arrogance of people that presume American English is the more communicated form of English frustrates me enormously. It is the unfortunate standard precisely because software is always in American, it is never translated back to international english, because the similarities are such that it is still understood. In every respect, providing an en_GB translation with KDE is just a more refined solution, not a lazy byproduct of mass-production. It is certainly appreciated by me, and I'm British.
I would therefore agree with the opinion held by some of the more sensible posters -- open source sensibly deals with translations in the same way it does code: if your language (or feature) is not present in an application, and you would like it to be, and you are able to do that work, you probably should do it yourself. Long before you complain about it not being there.
But, please, don't remove translations just because they seem 90% similar. I'm sure that is the case, but it is irrelevant. When I watch TV, it is in British. When I read the newspaper, it is in British. And generally, when I read books printed in this country, they too are in British. I do not see why I should have to make do with American English if the work has been done on an en_GB "translation".
By Alistair Strachan at Wed, 2003/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
Just to qualify what the original (and cleverly sarcastic) thread was saying -- I don't think I used a single British/International English variant of any "American" word in that post.
Perhaps maintaining en_GB is not so difficult afterall?
Is it like this in other language variants?
By Alistair Strachan at Wed, 2003/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
wow, I didn't realise there was a Maori translation...
By Stuart Herring at Mon, 2003/05/19 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
Let alone Canadian English...
By Wrenkin at Tue, 2003/05/20 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
Arggg!!!! It's so painful to see catalan here!!!!
Catalan is a language spoken by 10 milion people, not only in Spain BTW. It's my mother tongue, I also speak spanish, french and english.
You must understand that I speak catalan to everybody, I can speak spanish as well as catalan, but I don't use it much ... It's not a thing about: "they could use KDE in spanish" (I could do that in english too)... We are speaking of culture here...
You must understant too, that catalans speak spanish because of political imposition which began after a great defeat and has many political connotations.
When a catalan sees a computer in catalan, he/she feels "at home". Just another way to make it easy for the user.
Languages are not only for communication, they also represent a culture...
BTW: One of the strong points that free software has in front of M$ products in Catalonia is that M$ lacks catalan support in almost all their products. Soo don't drop this one... It would be so stupid!
By josep at Tue, 2003/06/10 - 5:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
You are damn right.They ought to streamline the garbish of that language confusion.The only one that i did not get was "sorbian".Maybe you meant "serbian" which is the same as croation.Maybe.regards. delma.
By Delma Del Fré at Sun, 2003/11/30 - 6:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
The sorbs are a small minority in the east of germany.
By jwk at Thu, 2004/03/11 - 6:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
"...and we finally need to combine all those minor Skandinavian languages, their are also taking way to much time and space..."
There are at least 20,000,000 speakers of the Scandinavian languages. What do you consider to be minor languages? Anything other than your variety of Yankee English?
You cannot combine the Scandinavian languages. Not only do they vary a lot (in some cases it would be like trying to combine German and Dutch) but you would not believe the politics involved in the language situation in Scandinavia in general. However, I will not discuss about that because it would take up too much space and is very complex.
Norwegian is my first language. Danish and Swedish are also languages. It seems many people on the outside have an idea that these languages are all very similar. They are similar in many ways, but for example I cannot communicate with a Swede or Dane, unless of course we use English or Norwegian. The differences are too great for clear oral or written communication and understanding.
You will notice that there are two traslations of KDE. One is in Norwegian Bokmål and one in Norwegian Nynorsk. These are seperate written (and spoken, more or less) dialects within Norway itself. Most people use Bokmål, and Nynorsk is used mainly on the westcoast and interior of the country. Both are official written forms of the languages, so by law, everything must be in both. It is spoken a bit differently also, and so a certain percentage of the news must also be broadcast in each speech variety (despite the fact there are hundreds of sopken varieties within these "norms" as well). Maybe it can be likened to Canada's situation of English and French being both official and everything must be in both, despite the fact most people are bilingual and the majority of French speakers are in Québec, numbering around 12-13 million speakers there. The same thing occurs in the States with Spanish being the secondary media language ( and quickly becoming a major media language in places like California, Florida, NY). If there is a market for it, they're going to do it. They're not stupid.
By the way, what about the Nordic languages Finnish (Finland), and Icelandic?
If you didn't already know, British English is pretty much the world standard. If anything is to be eliminated from the list it should be "American" English. Afterall, it's only used in the States.
By Ole at Thu, 2004/01/01 - 6:00am
Re: So many unnecessary languages in KDE...
Not to forget, Finland gave us LINUX. (but Linus Torvalds speaks swedish, the second language in Finland)
By Mikael Johansson at Sat, 2005/05/21 - 5:00am
Re: NDS
Okay... You all know the Open Source rules by now.
If you want it, if you need it, do it.
If you want plattdeutsch in KDE, then gather together a translation team and start making it happen. If you can't get that together, or it isn't sustainable, then it isn't that important to people.
If people want it enough to translate everything, the KDE project will be more than glad to welcome plattdeutsch into the gathering of languages.
So no more people having a go, okay? If it's wanted, it will be done.
By Dawnrider at Sun, 2003/05/18 - 5:00am


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Trolltech to Extend Dual Licensing to Qt for Windows
Trolltech, maker of the Qt toolkit which forms the basis for KDE,
Finally free QT on win32!
And please stop the complaints about FOSS on win32. If you don't like it, just don't work for it. But don't pretend people have to argue with you before porting their app to win32.
By Flavio at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Finally free QT on win32!
But there are certain demented individuals that believe they can tell people what to work on - especially volunteer projects.
By Plisken at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
why did trolltech do this?
For years Matthias and the trolls have been telling us they have no plans whatsoever to release Qt/Win under the GPL. That the last time they made a free Qt/Win available their sales dropped dramatically. That it would be a cold day in hell before they released Qt/Win GPL.
Now all of a sudden they decide to release Qt/Win under the GPL? Why? What's the new reason?
Not that I'm complaining... I'm very happy. :)
By ac at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: why did trolltech do this?
It's in the FAQ
> Why have you not done this before now?
We have been exploring ways to offer the Open Source community the opportunity to use the Windows version of Qt for some time. Until now, we have not done so because we had concerns about the viability of the Open Source model on Windows.
There are several reasons why we do it now:
By jmfayard at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: why did trolltech do this?
Exactly, and the more F/OSS developers out there that have experience of developing with QT (GPL) on Windows the more developers that may suggest to their management that they use the commercial QT for their software.
Personally, I develop apps for internal process improvements and am restricted to VB and VC++ with MFC/ATL simply due to the environment we run and current dev licenses we have. I would love to be able to ditch the shoddy MFC/ATL framework and VB in favour of C++ with the much more sane QT framework, even using more customisable IDE's such as Kdevelop and all at no cost (my software doesn't get distributed externally or sold).
By Colin at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Why in the world would you do this?
I like QT, but there are much more productive environments to develop in. Python, .NET/Mono, etc. Developing apps in C++ is just insane these days. I'm not suggesting KDE should be rewritten in C#, but there's just no reason to use C/C++ for most apps these days.
By Some guy at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Why in the world would you do this?
Python, Ruby, yes.
By Alex at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Why in the world would you do this?
Well, PyQt does exist under Windows:
It's just not licensed under the GPL on that platform.
By Anonymous Custard at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Why in the world would you do this?
The FAQ may be out of date. But I'm pretty sure that you can use GPL PyQt on Windows. The reason why there is tradionally no GPL PyQt on windows is simply because there was been no GPL Qt on windows for it to work with.
By Simon Edwards at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Why in the world would you do this?
And the GPL version works fine with the GPL Qt-X11 port, so yes you have GPL PyQt on windows already.
By Morty at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Why in the world would you do this?
"with the GPL Qt-X11 port"
And adds another useless layer on Windows. The GPLed QT-X11 port for Windows is out of date as well. Luckily, for QT4 this is solved which is awesome and those people who did the porting aren't doing that useless double-work anymore (who wants to run X11 native on Windows unless compatibility reasons which are forced upon ones throat?). Kudos to Trolltech for this move!
Re: Why in the world would you do this?
To be honest, I find QT to take roughly the same time to program medium apps (complex point of sale + subscription + stock tracking + web site sync, my current project) as C#. Both are surprisingly quick to use and provide usable output within a short space of time.
Here's my list:
With Java 1.5, I expect the implicit casting to make life easier and probably pop it up abive VB6, but ultimately, the gap between VB6 and the two top runners is huge for me, in terms of coding time. I doubt it can bridge that gap, but at least it'll get half way there.
Whether to choose QT or C# is a hard question that depends on the platform, required execution speed and what you want to do.
For example, writing an Image Processor, I'd use QT. C#'s VB legacy thinking makes image manipulation tricky. It can be done, but you have to jump through multiple class hoops first. In QT, just load into your QImage, get the pointer to the start of the image memory, read out each 32bits and shift&mask for each channel. QT's still better for serious and non-GUI stuff, and both are very similar for generalised GUI applications.
By Luke Chatburn at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Why in the world would you do this?
What about Python and Ruby, they are both much faster to develop in than both Java and C#? When you combine the Qt/KDE apis with Qt Designer support and a modern IDE with one of these language you have a very nice RAD environment. For example, Eric the Python IDE or the next release of KDevelop with the QtRuby/Korundum bindings.
C# is a systems programming language for implementing cross-language components, it isn't a RAD language. Java is also a systems programming language descended from Algol, but with features removed to make it simpler for 'everyday' programmers. I personally found the learning curve for C# pretty steep, and was surprised how many more features it has than java. The .NET class libraries are enormous and very complex to master.
When you talk about manipulating a QImage using shift and mask, that is systems programming. I doubt very much that most VB programmers would even know what a shift and a mask are. And that sort of knowledge shouldn't be needed to write a custom business app, only if you want to write the new PhotoShop or something.
By Richard Dale at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Why in the world would you do this?
I like Python, but its only faster than Java / C# for small projects - and even then not by much. The moment you get into even the medium scale, debugging becomes a big time-sink, and the more 'serious' languages win out. Static typing changes from a chore to a powerful aid.
The key thing is the IDEs. Python kicks Java's arse for development time - if you're using a text-editor to write your Java. But Java has Eclipse, which is a simply magical IDE that leverages all of Java's reflection abilities to the full.
In short, I recommend it.
And C# has Visual Studio, which is almost as powerful as Eclipse though rather expensive and not as user friendly.
NB: I'd say that Java 1.5 has made the difference between Java and C# minimal. You could almost convert back and forth with reg-exs. Also, there's a Java compiler that targets Mono, so you can even mix Java and C#.
So I'd say use Python for page-long scripts that you don't plan to extend too far, and Java for anything else.
By THIBOLOT at Fri, 2005/10/14 - 5:00am
Re: why did trolltech do this?
Repost from Slashdot http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=138577&cid=11597641
Re:Kindows???? (Score:5, Interesting)
Posted By: habacker
The QT/Win Free Edition is not far away from to be a full working release.
Maybe this is why Trolltech made this announcement? Trolltech propably had its reasons not to release the Windows version under GPL, but with this fork their reasons may be undermined. So maybe the guys at Trolltech thought "better done right (by us), than done buggy (by others) and give us bad reputation".
Of course this is just speculation and the close time gap between the KDE-Cygwin announcement and the Trolltech announcement could be just a coincidence.
By Anonymous Coward at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
maybe this is a presage of the end of the world?
maybe tomorrow will start to rain frogs?
but, by the way, this news make me a very happy child :-)
By mart at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: maybe this is a presage of the end of the worl
Accounting gymnastics aside, SCO have pretty much been approaching non-profit status for some time now, at least according to Yahoo! Finance's data.
By The Badger at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Qt as Free as GTK?
Does this mean that the GPL'd Qt is now as Free as GTK+? Or are there still other platforms that Qt is not Free under, like embedded?
By Jel at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
QT it is not as free GTK. QT is licensed under the GPL, GTK is under the LGPL.
By smoerk at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
According to the FSF, the GPL is more "free" than the LGPL, and is their preferred license for libraries.
Not that I really care. They're both fine licenses as far as I'm concerned. But for people who do care, that's where the FSF stands on the matter. Quite clearly, they prefer Qt's way of licensing things.
By ac at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
You're incorrect. The page you're referring to doesn't say that the GPL is more "free" than the LGPL. What's relevant to this discussion is the following paragraph:
"Using the ordinary GPL is not advantageous for every library. There are reasons that can make it better to use the Library GPL in certain cases. The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is better to use the Library GPL for that library."
As for UI toolkits, there's a plethora of "alternative libraries" and the LGPL is therefore the preferrable license. The FSF aren't the GPL-zealots they're sometimes made out to be, and they even backed up Xiph on the license change of the Ogg/Vorbis implementation from LGPL to BSD-style in order to "boost" the codec.
By Anonymous at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Freedom? So having not the freedom to link to a library (GPL) is more free than having the freedom to link to a library LGPL) -- both when not having the LGPL. I say no, unless you want all software being licensed under the GPL (there goes license diversity!).
-1 troll because of (pick one)
I picked A!
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
That's the freedom of the potential abuser you are talking about. If you want to talk about keeping the code and everything which makes use of that code free then GPL is indeed more free than LGPL. Many developers have the latter in mind when wanting to ensure that their contributions stay free.
By ac at Wed, 2005/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
> So having not the freedom to link to a library (GPL) is more free than having the freedom to link to a library LGPL(?)
Whose freedom? For users GPL promotes a greater freedom because it insures that whatever is distributed will remain free for them. For users you would think that would be important. For companies an argument can be made for linking to LGPL, but it's not a very strong one.
1) No more than a few percent of the total cost of developing a software application is the cost of licensing a toolkit. All one has to do is have the neurons to add up the growth of Trolltech to see that they have a lot of customers who understand this basic math... even if those people who have nothing left to harp about but how Trolltech refuses to give away it's core business for corporate welfare don't.
2) Both KDE and GNOME have LGPL'd core libraries. Show me the piles of commercial shrink wrap software being distributed based on them? Show me the Linux users waiting in droves outside their computer store to shell out for these imaginary programs? I see a little of Qt based stuff and a some cross platform other toolkit programs. In fact aside from the proprietary model losing viability outside of contract work and niche markets like we all talk about as the success of OSS there just isn't a substantial market potential compared to Windows, unless you go cross platform.
3) Given that you can dual license as well as build a service business, as many in the Linux community have, it's a silly argument to whine about not having corporate welfare. I mean Red Hat sells GPL software with a per seat license, they get a good price and they do it with a service business.
> A) KDE zealot (misquoted disinformation)
A GNOME troll I presume? Whatever happened to the good old days when Trolltech was attacked for not having a GPL'd Qt? The one consistent factor between the "it should be GPL" and "It shouldn't be GPL" attacks are the attacks. If Trolltech were to tell their customers not to give them any more money because they weren't charging, then go out of business, then quit maintaining Qt... then would the critics be happy? Probably not, because then Qt would go to a BSD license, somebody would maintain it and they would complain it should be GPL. After someone decides they hate someone or something then everything else is just lame rationalization, especially when it doesn't hold up to the light of cold hard reason.
Why would somebody take the "Qt GPL sucks" position? Either they don't understand reality or they want to prevail with their ventures and wish Qt would go away. Here's a thought... Don't use Qt and then don't complain about it.
By Eric Laffoon at Wed, 2005/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Qt is freeer than GTK+ and has been for years, claiming it isn't is pure FUD.
By mikeyd at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
please explain...
By smoerk at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Hope that helps. FYI--I don't necessarily agree with the FSF in a lot of cases, but this serves to explain why THEY (and presumably, the person you're asking) think the GPL is "more free" than the LGPL.
By ac at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Only if you have a demented definition of what the word free means - as in the Stallman definition.
By Plisken at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
>Only if you have a demented definition of what the word free means - as in the Stallman definition.
Do you would say this is a demented definition:
I think this is a really clear definition and it would be hard to argue that this definition don't define freedom for computer programs.
By pinky at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Users don't have rights. Only developers do. Stallman doesn't care about programmer rights. LGPL is more free than the GPL for anybody that is rational.
By Plisken at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
> Users don't have rights.
That's exactly the point why LGPL (Lesser GPL) is less free than the GPL, according to Stallman. Because users loose rights, simply because any program that wants to use that library will have to be free.
In terms of the programmer, yes, they loose freedom.
By blacksheep at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
"LGPL is more free than the GPL for anybody that is rational."
Umm, so anyone who disagrees with you is 'irrational'?
There are all sorts of problems with the LGPL, such as defining what 'linking against' means. For instance, if I have a proprietary java .jar file that I use in my java app, can it be said that the app 'links against the .jar file'? Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. If you want to write a commercial app, you should get a commercial license, the LGPL isn't suitable with these vague terms and potential legal problems.
By Richard Dale at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
>Users don't have rights. Only developers do. Stallman doesn't care about programmer rights.
Stallman cares about progremmers right and users right!
By pinky at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
> Users don't have rights. Only developers do.
Then let's shoot all users for shouting that the developers are not listening to them!
By ac at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Well, free software is not a human right, I think we can agree to that.
Then, what rights do users have? I mean, I buy a DVD and I don{ t even have the right to watch it on the UK because of zones. And I paid for it! What right am I supposed to have over software I have paid nothing for?
Where do those rights come from?
By ac at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
He started the whole free software movement. Anyone else who is devoted to free software is following his movement, and following him. So I think his definition of what the movement is about should be the right one.
By mikeyd at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Sorry, but that´s just propaganda. Free software has existed for much much longer than the GNU project. Hell, go read their manifesto, they say they are taking lots of free software written by others.
By AC at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
You could not be more wrong even if you tried. GTK+ is released under the LGPL, and the LGPL gives you more freedom than the GPL, just as a BSD-style license is more free than the LGPL (and public domain is more free than BSD).
By Anonymous at Tue, 2005/02/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
BSD gives you more freedom to do whatever you want with the code and use it in a project licensed however you want. However that also means it lets you prevent others from seeing what you do with it. You can do more with it, but you can also make sure others do less with the results. You are given the right to restrict others' rights.
GPL forces you to give the same rights to others that you got yourself. There's less you can do, but it ensures others retain their rights. GPL is imho only bad for people who want a handout: the ability to take code and give nothing back, and I don't feel sorry that this isn't possible with GPL. MY rights are preserved, that is freedom.
By jason at Wed, 2005/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
True, all of that applies to the BSD-license, but that has very little to do with either the LGPL or the GPL. Your second paragraph applies equally much to the LGPL as it does to the GPL.
If I develop a library under the LGPL and proprietary software links against it: good! That's the reason I chose the LGPL. MY rights are preserved, and that is freedom!
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
But the end users have more freedom under the GPL, which is what Free Software is all about. See the link above to FSF position.
By mikeyd at Wed, 2005/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
No, end users have the same amount of freedom under both the GPL and LGPL since the license only covers distribution. For developers, the LGPL is more free.
As for the question of which license is better for free software as a whole? It all depends on the situation, and the FSF clearly states that in the document to which you are referring. The FSF doesn't take a stand on which license is more free.
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
No, because the end users of something LGPL may end up using a non-free program. Wheras the end user for a GPL program will always get a GPL one.
By mikeyd at Wed, 2005/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Your argument would be valid if the library in question was GPL-only, but since Qt is dual-licensed you might end up running non-free software anyway.
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
In which case, the person using a proprietary QT based application still supports free software as a portion of the money they spent on the software goes to Trolltech, who in turn releases their work under the GPL. With a proprietary GTK app, none of the funds that the buyer has spent goes back to Owen & company to support their work.
By Joe Kowalski at Thu, 2005/02/10 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Embedded is allready available under GPL. Only, I believe GTK is LGPL, not GPL. That makes it possible to create closed source commercial applications with it without paying anyone. With Qt, you'd have to pay Trolltech (and get a great toolkit in return that saves you a the money spend on a licence easily in developers time...)
By Andre Somers at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Qt has been more free than GTK+ for almost 5 years now. Its only the ignorance of the Gnome community (or plain old FUD) that says otherwise.
By brockers at Mon, 2005/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
Actually, it's simple logic (or "rational thinking") that says otherwise. The LGPL is a more free license than the GPL.
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
It is more free the same way anarchy is more free than democracy. People are more free to screw you.
No, fewer rules doesn't mean more personal freedom.
By carewolf at Wed, 2005/02/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt as Free as GTK?
That has to be the worst analogy in history.... but alright, turnabout is fair play:


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