Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/callforpapers/ One topic of interest is Open Source Programming Languages. If someone could explain to me the various subtle nuances of what an open source programming language is, I'll try to make a D-related submission and of course I recommend anyone else to do

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/callforpapers/ > > One topic of interest is Open Source Programming Languages. If someone > could explain to me the various subtle nuances of what an open source > programming language is, I'll try to make a D-related submission and of >

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Akakima
"Andrei Alexandrescu" > http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/callforpapers/ > > One topic of interest is Open Source Programming Languages. If someone > could explain to me the various subtle nuances of what an open source > programming language is, I'll try to make a D-related submission and of > c

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 20.01.2011 19:58, schrieb Lutger Blijdestijn: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.texaslinuxfest.org/callforpapers/ One topic of interest is Open Source Programming Languages. If someone could explain to me the various subtle nuances of what an open source programming language is, I'll tr

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Daniel Gibson wrote: ... > > You can never be sure with patents, as someone else in another thread > already pointed out: it's virtually impossible to write a piece of > software that doesn't infringe patents. Yes, it's like bugs: you can tell when you found one, but never know your software is

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Lutger Blijdestijn
Daniel Gibson wrote: ... > So yes, the point that D may cause less trouble than Java/.net can be > made, but you probably shouldn't claim that D doesn't infringe any > patents, because you can't possibly know (nobody can, there are just too > many software patents to check, even for big companies)

Re: Texas LinuxFest 2011 call for papers now open

2011-01-20 Thread Daniel Gibson
Am 20.01.2011 21:15, schrieb Lutger Blijdestijn: Daniel Gibson wrote: ... So yes, the point that D may cause less trouble than Java/.net can be made, but you probably shouldn't claim that D doesn't infringe any patents, because you can't possibly know (nobody can, there are just too many softwa