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alejo <18milpies@usa.net> >re all, kombuzt!bl bon appet!t 00. u !ntenz!onal! om!td dze rezponsz 02. u om!td dze fakt dze kr!!!!ket = had perzonl mot!vz 4 dze pozt. rezponsz To: jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org> on 23 ma! with all due respekt you are an idiot monsieur. any fool can program an image to ascii converter. it literally requires 0+0 m9nd aktivity. only net.art marionettes could make a fuss about such idiotic endeavors. 1001 ventuze.nn jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org> >i really appreciate the java applet done by Drazen Pantic: besides it's >use, if he decides to release it under the GNU Public License, that code >is going to be also a good start for the development of a java client >working with codec compressed ascii stream technology, what we're >actually developing with the soon to be released hascii project at >dyne.org. > >as somebody allready pointed out, Jan Hubicka did a great job with his >aa-project, letting many programmers free to use his well documented >library, in fact multiplying his invention. finally i'm just one of >those programmers. > >that sourcecode is covered under the Lesser GNU Public License. > >i notice much talk in this mailinglist about this NATO closed source >"artistic" software, brightly celebrated by the Net-Art scene. finally i >saw also this ascii rendering feature into it, and there it came a >doubt: the rendering made by NATO software looks identical to the one >done with the AA-Lib by Jan Hubicka. also the ascii2image rendering >looks much identical to the one done with the Ascii Gimp plugin. it >could be that commercial software is enclosing Free Software, violating >it's license. > >true or not, it's interesting to note that there's no way to check this. > >concerning this provocation, the most significant point in it is that >such a doubt can be raised on a commercial software that usually gets so >much attention and success from the so called Net-Art establishment: >then - sorry to say - it's a bit naive to wonder why the Free Software >community is so far from it. > >greetings > -----Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to post to the Syndicate list: <syndicate@eg-r.isp-eg.de> to unsubscribe, write to <majordomo@eg-r.isp-eg.de>, in the body of the msg: unsubscribe syndicate your@email.adress