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vga256on Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

I very possibly would have dialed into your BBS in the late 90s :)

403 had some great local boards, of both the public domain and piratey kind!

vga256on Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

I meant more as an active use-term for software licensing that kiki uses (and in the sense of the OP's question), not in its historical sense that it is used by writers now.

vga256on Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

Would love to know myself. I haven't seen the term used in 20+ years.

vga256on Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

Oh geez -- we went recently through this with our tuxedo, who sadly passed a few years ago. I am glad you'll be able to give her the peace she needs.

The kiki this software is named after, is an extremely rambunctious rotten kitten whom we adopted after our tuxedo passed away.

https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/115742268356907140

vga256on Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint

When you describe my programming and design philosophy as "the personal preferences of a lone-wolf style open source developer, not a universal approach to software design", I consider that the absolute best compliment I could have ever hoped for!

A "universal" approach to software design is the problem I am addressing, not the solution. Coming up with your own philosophy of design and implementation that works for you, and hopefully works for others, is how we get better software.

vga256on Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

Unfortunately, Edward's project is just a runtime for running AGS games on Mac. The AGS Editor (the topic of the original post) is still Windows-only, and will likely always be due to its deep reliance upon Windows GUI libraries.

vga256on Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync

LOL. True.

vga256on FSF statement on jury's partial verdict in Oracle v Google

If the US judge decides that it is copyrightable it would be another giant departure from the EU on IP stuff. SAS recently lost a lawsuit at the ECJ on the same matter:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120502083035371

There was something similar, but not quite as far reaching in Lotus v. Borland:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Dev._Corp._v._Borland_Int....

vga256on Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions

Fucking A. Twas about time. Also read Scott Aaronson's thoughts on this issue in general.

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=912

Also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Spring