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An anonymous reader writes “Via Wired, a blog post in which BMC Software’s Whurley and Google’s Greg Stein agree that the GPL v3 is currently on a path that will alienate developers. Stein has an interesting theory called ‘license pressure’ which is similar to ‘pricing pressure’. ‘Due to pressure from developers, all software is moving towards permissive licensing” translation, the GPL and developers are moving in opposite directions … Developers care about the licenses on the software they use and incorporate into their projects, they like permissive licenses, and they will increasingly demand permissive licenses.’”
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Original post by Zonk and software by Elliott Back
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An anonymous reader writes “These newfangled memory-managed languages like Java and C# leave an old C++ dev like me feeling like I am missing the love. Are there any good C++ tools out there that do really good memory validation and heap checking? I have used BoundsChecker but I was looking for something a little faster. For my problem I happen to need something that will work on Windows XP 64. It’s a legacy app so I can’t just use Boosts’ uber nifty shared_ptr. Thanks for any ideas.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original post by kdawson and software by Elliott Back
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An anonymous reader writes “IBM DeveloperWorks has a few quick tips on how to write maintainable code that won’t leech your most valuable resource — time. These six tips on how to write maintainable code are guaranteed to save you time and frustration: one minute spent writing comments can save you an hour of anguish. Bad code gets written all the time. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Its time to ask yourself if its time for you to convert to the clean code religion.”Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original post by ScuttleMonkey and software by Elliott Back
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FishWithAHammer writes “As part of my Google Summer of Code project, I’m working with WinLibre to develop a Debian-like software download system for free/open source software on the Windows platform. My reasoning is that open source software suffers from poor presentation. Most computer laymen, even those aware of open source software, often don’t have any idea how to go about looking for it, but would use it if it were easier to access. What I have proposed is both a Debian-style packaging mechanism (capable of using Windows Installer MSIs or not, as the user wishes) and a software ‘catalog’ that takes the best aspects of Synaptic and Linspire’s Click-N-Run system. Seamless, simple installation and removal of programs in as straightforward a way as apt-get (there will be a command-line tool as well). I’m posting to Slashdot to get the ideas of you lot who, while you may not be the [...]
Original post by kdawson and software by Elliott Back
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An anonymous reader writes “A startup will soon launch ‘a kind of holy software grail,’ according to an article at LinuxDevices. The dual-licensed technology is claimed to enable more or less normal Linux applications to run — without requiring recompilation — under Windows, Mac, or Linux, with a look and feel native to each. ‘As with Java, Lina users will first install a VM specific to their platform, after which they can run binaries compiled not for their particular OS, but for the VM, which aims to hide OS-specific characteristics from the application. Lina comprises a platform-specific application that virtualizes the host PC’s x86 processor… A lightly modified Linux kernel (2.6.19, for now) runs on top of the VM. Under the Linux kernel is a filesystem with standard Linux libraries modified to map resources such as library, filesystem, and system calls to analogous resources on the host platform.’ Further details, [...]
Original post by Zonk and software by Elliott Back
