I've been using Flock for a few months now, and I finally noticed that it's not open source. Time for me to switch to Firefox 3 ;)
In his keynote at PyCon, Eben Upton, the Executive Director of the Rasberry Pi Foundation, mentioned that not only has Minecraft been ported to the Rasberry Pi, but you can even control it with Python. Since four of my kids are avid Minecraft fans, I figured this might be a good time to teach them to program using Python. So I started yesterday with the goal of programming something cool for Minecraft and then showing it off at the San Francisco Python Meetup in the evening.
The first problem that I faced was that I didn't have a Rasberry Pi. You can't hack Minecraft by just installing the Minecraft client. Speaking of which, I didn't have the Minecraft client installed either ;) My kids always play it on their Nexus 7s. I found an open source Minecraft server called Bukkit that "provides the means to extend the popular Minecraft multiplayer server." Then I found a plugin called RaspberryJuice that implements a subset of the Minecraft Pi modding API for Bukkit s…
The first problem that I faced was that I didn't have a Rasberry Pi. You can't hack Minecraft by just installing the Minecraft client. Speaking of which, I didn't have the Minecraft client installed either ;) My kids always play it on their Nexus 7s. I found an open source Minecraft server called Bukkit that "provides the means to extend the popular Minecraft multiplayer server." Then I found a plugin called RaspberryJuice that implements a subset of the Minecraft Pi modding API for Bukkit s…
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It's good, it's free but it's not open source so throw it away.
http://svn-mirror.flock.com/trac/flock/browser/trunk/mozilla/LICENSE
Ok, so maybe You are a fanatic, but not in bad way. After reading Your short post about flock I got the impression that You were enjoying flock as being good and free browser but suddenly realize that it is not open source and that made it bad. It's like being good and free had less value than being open source.
I do use open source software everyday and I just don't see any reason why I should switch to something closed (Windows or OSX), with my gentoo I can do whatever I want, change every bit of it. I does not mean that I do change everything (I tweak what I need/want) but knowing that I can is a very good feeling, it makes me feel that it's me who controls the box, not some big company. Still I have no problem with using closed source apps, I've been using opera for a long time and I still think it's a great browser, I switch to konqueror because (well it's a silly argument) it didn't integrated with my kde good enough, fonts where always different size despite all my work to make it look the same. That's the main price of using closed source - it works the way they made it, not the way You want.