On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 7:10 PM, Asheesh Laroia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, ffm wrote: >> >>> On Feb 5, 2008 6:37 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>>>> I can try to have Ubisoft donate versions of >>>>>> Chessmaster so the children can play chess as well. >>>>> >>>>> Outstanding. >>>> >>>> Unless there's a Linux port I don't know about, this might be hard to >>>> work out... >>> >>> We can always use Wine, no? >> >> As if Chessmaster is the only chess program in the world.... > > > You're right, it isnt. However, it is a *Good Thing* (TM) when closed source > apps from closed source corpos are released as OSS, both for the corpo, us, > and OSS in general, it attracts more attention and sends out a "Hey, maybe > this OS stuff isn't that bad" to other corpos.
Yup! >> Don't get me wrong - it's a nice gesture. I just imagine that activity >> developers would choose to wrap an existing Free Software, GNU/Linux >> chess program before they get around to packaging up Chessmaster. > > Yet _more_ GPL'd software is better. Absolutely. And maybe they have some neat tricks in their computer players! I do seriously mean it's a nice gesture. (-: -- Asheesh. -- The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel