Arnt Karlsen writes: > .."free" in n the GPL kinda way is why Microsoft is running scared > throwing millions to people like Ralph Yarro and Darl McBride for > litigating us, details at http://groklaw.net/ .
Oh, I'm a firm believer in both GPL software and as a license for many of my personal efforts. I've given time and money to various open source projects, have worked with open source developers as contractors to make sure that their software contains the features I needed, run GNU/Linux on several machines, try to not run proprietary software if there's a remotely capable open source alternative, and evangelize whenever I can. I have Mac, XP and Linux in my house, and for personal projects the Linux machines get used most often. But I know that unless I'm willing to either write the code or pay someone to write it for me, it's unreasonable for me to expect that those features will magically appear. And it's why, as a function of using FlightGear, I'm trying to teach myself enough Blender (one of the projects I gave money to to get GPLed) to fill in some of the missing pieces. ObFlightGear: I used the "import AC3D" feature of Blender today to load in the Bo105 and see how it's constructed. It was eye opening, I now need to go through the Bell 206 XML to see what model parts are being used, and to see if some of the attributes can be used to select things which change aspects of the outside of the helicopter geometry, such as the high versus low skid gear (floats should be just something I can invis). And I didn't immediately see if the Bo105 had mast tilt the way that the 206 does. Dan _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
