Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: The QEMU Accelerator Module

[Natalia Portillo]

Hi

You misunderstood me!

> This comparison lacks a bit of knowledge about the license that QemuX 
> is published with. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/.
Are you selling QemuX?
If yes, is it being sold as the "VirtualPC killer that runs under G5"?
If i don't remember bad, answers for both is not, so I'm not refering 
to QemuX, but to iEmulator and similars that ARE A QUICK AND DIRTY GUI 
for QEMU and are being sold without even showing the QEMU's copyright.

I've never said that VMWare is a GUI, I refered that in 5 minutes you 
could (if KQEMU wasn't in propietary license) write a quick and dirty 
GUI for KQEMU and sell it for the practically the same $$$ as VMWare 
and people will buy it, and what will you do?

> >  and nor Fabrice nor other QEMU collaborators see money from that, 
> > like the WinZip program that is nothing but a commercial GUI for the 
> > Info-ZIP compression library.
>
> I don't see any money from that, too. Of course if if ever get 
> donations I will pass something to Fabrice, but my software is far 
> away from being worth a donation ;-). Fabrice could at least stop this 
> iEmulator thing by telling them to follow GPL/LGPL and publishing 
> sources for their qemu version.
I think that their QEMU version is simply 0.6.0 untouched, I must check 
that more in deep.
And what if they don't want to follow GPL/LGPL?
Who will pay the lawyers?

> > Just imagine what will happen if someone takes KQEMU makes a dirty 
> > GUI and sells it. Just like the VMWare cost... Image how much could 
> > someone get from KQEMU just investing 5 minutes in a RAD enviroment, 
> > selling it and leaving Fabrice with NOTHING.
>
> I must agree to Jean-Christian on that point, a GUI is not programmed 
> in 5 minutes and all that qemu can earn for a GUI is publicity.
Do you know RealBASIC, Visual Studio .NET and other RAD (Rapid 
Application Developments)?

I wrote a GUI for ffmpeg in 5 minutes using them ;).

So definitly a GUI can be programmed in 5 minutes.

From a GUI QEMU will earn publicity, but from a GUI that is sold like 
an emulator, as iEmulator, it wont earn anything.

> > I think that the current Fabrice's movement is the correct one and I 
> > hope that a company will sponsor not only the KQEMU but the whole 
> > QEMU project as is the BEST and MOST COMPLETE non-old computer 
> > emulator, and also, its fast, and it's worth it.
> >
> > There are a lot of companies interested in open source projects, like 
> > Novell, IBM, Apple, did anyone tried to contact them?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Natalia Portillo
> >
> > P.S.: Anand I think that your action of complaining Savannah could 
> > "hurt" (sorry I don't know the exact word) Fabrice and is based on 
> > another person's words, and is more a child's action than one from an 
> > adult. You should just have let Fabrice to see that he was breaking 
> > Savannah's rules.
> > P.S.2: Fabrice if you need a CVS server I offer my modest server.
> >
> > These are my 2 eurocents ;)
> >
> > El 12/02/2005, a las 6:14, Anand Kumria escribió:
> >
> > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 03:01:53 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Anand Kumria wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Is it really fair to distribute a proprietary module from a free
> > > > > software source code repository?
> > > >
> > > > Is it really fair to expect others to work for nothing at all?
> > >
> > > Are you actually this stupid?
> > >
> > > Or is it that English isn't you native language and you've missed the
> > > subtle point that qemu is breaking the rules of savannah by 
> > > distributing a
> > > binary module?
> > >
> > > I was trying to be polite and subtle about it so that Fabrice could
> > > consider his options and make a considered cautious move.
> > >
> > > Anyway, because of your response, I've complained to the savannah
> > > administrators.
> > >
> > > No thanks to you.
> > >
> > > Anand
> > >
> > >
> > >
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