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New comment by vga256 in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

vga256 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:17:43 +0000

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!

New comment by vga256 in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

vga256 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:53:07 +0000

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.

New comment by vga256 in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

vga256 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:43 +0000

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

New comment by vga256 in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

vga256 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:54:10 +0000

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

New comment by vga256 in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

vga256 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:55:43 +0000

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.

New comment by vga256 in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

vga256 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:25:30 +0000

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.

New comment by vga256 in "Judge Posner: U.S. patent system out of sync"

vga256 — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:29:29 +0000

LOL. True.

New comment by vga256 in "FSF statement on jury's partial verdict in Oracle v Google"

vga256 — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:41:45 +0000

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....

New comment by vga256 in "Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions"

vga256 — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:06:13 +0000

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