Re: GPL vs. sweatshops (was Re: Bias)

Martin Wilck wrote:

>Am Mit, 2002-06-12 um 19.07 schrieb Deven T. Corzine:
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>>It looks like "MAPI" is the main IPC mechanism, is that right?  That's a 
>>messaging API; are there other IPC mechanisms as well?  (This is where 
>>completely unfamiliarity with Windows programming is limiting...)
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>AFAIK, MAPI is a closed standard. Otherwise it wouldn't be so hard
>to get an email client that can fully utilize an Exchange server.
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>Btw, if you have as little experience as you say, I recommend you start
>with something simpler than IPC.
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>>A separate issue is I have no idea where the IPC code is in Wine, or how 
>>much has actually been implemented already.  There's no point if the whoe 
>>thing is done already.  If it's partly done, I'd need to familiarize myself 
>>with that particular code.
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>This is how it works: You read all the docs you can get your hands on.
>You grep and read the code until you are familiar with it. You make
>little changes and observe what they do. You watch the wine traces, and
>put in your own TRACEs to see what certain procedures do. If you're
>absolutely stuck you post to wine-devel. 
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>This is basically how all of us work.
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>After a considerable amount of work and time spent, you'll be able to do
>useful things, and you may even be able to tackle IPC. Another
>considerable amount of work, and you'll have patches ready for
>application. People will point out errors or misconceptions in your
>code, and you may have to make major modifications to get your code
>accepted into CVS. You'll have to put work into that as well. When it's
>in CVS, people will come up with bug reports in your code and tell you
>"my app xyz doesn't work". You'll have to deal with that, too.
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>When you have done all that, come back and tell us again freedom demands
>that any company can take that code of yours, put it into their
>commercial product, make money, and never give anything back.
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This is wonderfull. I laughed so hard I cried.  This idea of "Teach Me 
and Maybe I'll Learn" really got my goat.  Bye the way thankyou, even 
with my meager amount of contributions I can appreciate how hard you work.


Tony Lambregts