Petition for Open Sourced Firmw

Well, I've looked over the board and I've found a lot of requests for many different features. Many of these features could be quickly fixed by a firmware modication.
There is a massi've community of programmers who would love to modify the firmware to the Creative line of MP3 players. Just look at the iPod's community. There are hundreds of hundreds of people who have spent hours working with the iPod just to hack some of the graphics. If Creative Labs were to open the source to one of their players, one can only imagine how much it would be improved upon. The mere number of people who would switch to that player just because they can reprogram it would be astounding!
So we, the signed, request the source to the firmware of the Zen MP3 player line up be released to the community, and a license be given accordingly to allow us to share our modifications with other owners of the product.

Open source? Shhh, you can't say that word in the forum of a multi-national, million dollar company. Don't be ridiculous. If the firmware go open source, who will pay for the customer support if something goes wrong? The last thing any company wants to do is to pay for customer support. The money can be saved for more important things, like colorful boxes.

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Petition to open-source OCCI

We are a large Oracle site running 10g on Solaris. We have plenty of C++ code. We are using g++ 3.4.x and we wish to use OCCI. But we can't because it's not supported with g++ on Solaris. We refuse to backport our C++ code to Sun's ancient RogueWave C++ library (non-standard) and Oracle doesn't support STLPort (also provided by Sun).
I know that there are many of you out there in a similar situation. You can't get OCCI to work with your combination of platform/compiler/std.library. For examples of exasperated users see:
Re: occi doesn't support STLPORT
Re: Lower level information
OCCI with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
C++ on Solaris with OCCI
I understand that it is unreasonable expect Oracle to provide binary libraries for every combination of platform/compiler/library. The solution seems clear: open-source OCCI.
The objection might be raised that this would make it hard for Oracle to provide support. In reality, most potential users of OCCI would (in my opinion) be happy to just have the opportunity of using it. The reality is that most of us that can't use it are trying to make do with (somewhat poor) open-source alternatives anyway. And Oracle can always continue to provide the "official" binaries with the current level of support.
I raised a TAR back in July '05 (4562431.993) which resulted in the creation of an Enhancement Request (4522152). This ER seems to have disappeared into a black-hole.
If you want Oracle to be more responsive to your needs with respect to OCCI, then please reply to this message. Hopefully, someone at Oracle will realise that their customers have an unfulfilled need here and act upon it.
Cheers,
Mike.
mlambrellis(AT)powercor.com.au

Please add my name to the petition.
I also tried a tar.
The Oracle person added all my comments to the ER, but the occi people basically said
"libocci is not supported in SuSE 10.1"
Here is some of what I sent originally for everyone's edification:
We are trying to build a large 64 bit C++/Qt/OCCI application on
SuSE 10.1 Linux. Here's a 'uname -a':
Linux grima 2.6.16.21-0.13-smp #1 SMP Mon Jul 17 17:22:44 UTC 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
SuSE 10.1 comes with gcc 4.1 and uses libstdc++.so.6.x.x. All
the kde/qt libs have been compiled against libstdc++.so.6.x.x.
libstdc++.so.6.x.x is not compile-time compatible with
libstdc++.so.5.x.x. As far as we know, there is NO 64-bit
libocci library available that links against libstdc++.so.6.x.x
from any of oracle's public downloads. Thus, our application
will not link. This is unacceptable.
SuSE provides a libstdc++.so.5.x.x for backwards compatibility.
If we link our app explicitly to the older libocci, we get a
compile-time warning and a run time crash.
We need Oracle to
1) Release the source code for OCCI under an LGPL license or
similar so that we and others can compile libocci ourselves
for whatever version of compiler/libstc++/platform.
or, minimally.
2) make sure all major distros' versions of
gcc/libstdc++/platform are tracked and a version of libocci
exists for public download for each.
This is a repeat of the gcc 2.96 fiasco that existed several
years ago when one could not compile an occi program against gcc
3.x because there the only libocci versions available had been
linked against the incompatible 2.96 version.
Please release source code!

Yoga 13: any chance for open source Synaptics touchpad driver or touchpad API?

The Yoga is my 1st Windows machine in years. Coming from various MacBook(s) Pro(s) I dearly miss the capabilities and configurability of Apple's multitouch touchpad. While responsibility of the Synaptics device is fairly decent I haven't found an experience that is anything close to the one perceived on the MacBook touchpad. Latter in combination with BetterTouchTool is my weapon of choice when it comes to productivity. It offers almost unlimited configurability, that is, I can design/configure any gesture I desire and link it to a keystroke for instance. It's just perfect since I am not into Apple's predefined gesture settings at all.
Now I have spent endless hours in getting this back on my new Yoga. At least I am now able to use 3 finger swipes for back/forward navigation. However, this is just a fraction of what I need/want. That's why I am looking for a way to either be able to modify the driver myself (open source, Lenovo/Synaptics?) or get access to an API I can build on. Obviously I'd prefer latter option. Synaptics is touting their Gesture Suite but I cannot find a download somewhere. I'm afraid it's OEM only. And if that's the config app that comes with the standard Synaptics driver it's just pathetic.
So does anyone have a clue on how we can significantly improve the performance of this otherwise very nice laptop?
Thanks in advance,
stfn

just wanted to say that I open-sourced the work I completed on the project:
https://github.com/jadware/betterfinger
Most of the hard work is done, but there is plenty of labor remaining..

Open Source Firmwa

I know is a stupid thing to say... But if the firmware was open source, wouldn't have these stupid problems been fixed yet? I mean... Lot of programmers like me, that can also code in assembly, would have worked to make the player (In my case Zen Touch 20Gb), OUR PLAYER better in tons of way... If something like this will be possible, in a future... I think Creative will only earn points... Less work to do, Less annoying customers that want their problem solved... The customer will resolve their problems with their hands! I know that is simply the firmware to make the difference beetween a player and another, not only the hardware features... But being the first company in the world to allow the user to modify the firmware for their player... Will be simply a great achievement, also for their business
Less Problems, More Features, Better Players...
The words to you all out there...
(Sorry for my bad english, if it has been bad I hope you can understand what I mean :P)

SSR wrote:
Or rather than thinking negati'vely and seeing as we have no evidence that Microsoft paid Creative, perhaps Creative decided that partnering with Microsoft was a good idea from a software and support perspecti've.
True... Creative seems to be going all MTP based, just like alot of companies seem to be doing, and also what Microsoft sees as the way to go.

Links for open source DRMs

Hi Guys
I am woriking on a project for that i require to manage the web users acount and theire resources,rights etc. the resources are mainly mp3,mp43 empeg4 vedio files, so i need to manage these user resources by encripting the files and associating rights and permision,restrictions to these vedio files, as i dont have much time to build these things from scratch, so i planned to go for some open source DRM(Digital Rights Managment) Servers, so guys if any one have used such DRM or know about avaliabilty on net of such DRMs please send the link, my id is [email protected], any help is appreciated.
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claudiogc wrote:So, if install this driver before xorg i'll get an error right?
Have you used pacman yet? Ever?
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Invitation for Open Source Project

Hi,
I'm starting a open source project which involves web based Java, JBoss application server and JBoss Seam framework. I'm a student and I work on the project in my free time for training. Every one who want to take a part in this hobby project in his free time is invited.
Send me e-mail.
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Web Dynpro for Open Source

Dear Web Dynpro community,
please have a look to Benny´s blog under http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs;jsessionid=(J2EE3417200ID0731044050DB00226095944409325288End?blog=/pub/wlg/16004 raising the question whether Web Dynpro Java should become Open Source.
It would be very interesting for me to here your opinion about this. What are the benefits in doing this? What are the risks? Would YOU like to actively contribute?
Thanks in advance
Jochen (Product Owner Web Dynpro Java)

Hi all,

let me add some comments on some parts of the answers (also in the two blogs around this topic ..).
In general it is really interesting to see that there seems to be a real interest for an "open sources" Web Dynpro for Java. This is motivating to go into this direction and to further discuss this here within SAP.

Some technical comments: I agree that an open-source WDJ (in the ideal world) would include also the WDJ tools parts and most probably also UR ( = Unified rendering) as the underlying (HTML) rendering technology. Also NWDI is somehow part of this game. BUT: I do not think that such a big step is realistic and feasible. Instead of this the first natural step for me would be to open-source the WDJ runtime part. This WDJ runtime contains all important parts needed to run WDJ applications (including the control libraries, the different CMI model implementations, the different clients and last but not least the server-abstraction layer).

This server abstraction layer (SAL) is most probably not know by the WDJ community as this was never rolled out in the past. As the name shows this layer encapsulates the server environment "hosting" the WDJ runtime. This allows us even today to run WDJ applications besides the SAP JEE also in top of a simple TomCat installation. This version is used for a long time for control development but was never rolled out.

In the labs we have WDJ application running on Amazon Cloud, on Google App Engine, on Bea and also on top of Geronimo.
Not all of these server abstraction implementations are fully working for the moment and not all features are available for all implementations - but it would be really straightforward to provide all these implementations - in the ideal case of course via a active open source community ,-)

Besides the platform implementations I see some other areas how an open sourced version of WDJ could be extended:

The combination of WDJ projects with Maven. This is also on our internal development list but due to prios this was never started.
New controls. Also without open-sourcing the UR layer I see a lot of potential to extend existing controls or to build completly new controls.
"Generation-free WDJ" - the idea would be to provide a WDJ version which is not depending on a complex generation framework. This would be of course one option but a "generation-free" WDJ would allow you to code your WDJ apps / components completly without any generation.
Extending the usage scenarios for "system components" - this kind of WD components is used to extend WDJ runtime capabilities. Currently this is only used for the "Technical Info" and the UI of the implicit personalization but there is a lot of potential to extend this.

This is only a very short list of things I have currently in mind - for sure you will find more.

Have fun at TechEd Phoenix
Best regards
Jochen

Looking for open source project in JSF for learning

Hi,
I am quite a beginner to JSF, I think it will be good to read some existing source code, could anyone recommend some projects that I can turn to? I am particual interested in an online text editor.
I think currently I could understand how the jsf works, its relationship with jsp, html, css,and how It could cooperate with AJAX. and I have written a small amount of web pages , which were aimed at providing a blog-publish like service. That's why I am interested in online text editor. But any other capable project would be also helpful for me.
Thanks.

You can find (simple) samples here:
[https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=4036&expandFolder=4036&folderID=0]
[http://www.coreservlets.com/JSF-Tutorial/]
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[Now in AUR!] S3TC libraries for open source Xorg drivers

Due to the typical retarded patent issues, S3TC support can't be packaged with Mesa or the Xorg drivers; instead, it's a separate set of libraries, available here, which probably cannot be distributed as a binary. It looks easy enough to install manually, but it would be nice if someone could maintain a PKGBUILD so users could let pacman keep track of it.
(Apologies if the libraries turn out to be illegal in the US or Canada; I had nothing to do with the software patent silliness.)
Edit: Forget the request, this doesn't look as bad as I thought... As soon as I'm certain it's working, I'll make a PKGBUILD and upload it.
Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-03-08 06:39:25)

FWIW it looks like binary distribution may not be such a huge problem, there's a binary package of this available for Debian. I would certainly like to see it as a binary, but let's not be hasty.
Anyway, I've uploaded the PKGBUILD. If you're using an Intel chipset, or a Radeon chipset with the OSS driver, and you have installed this and want to know if it's working, do this:
gxlinfo | grep -i s3tc
Obviously, feel free to report any problems.
Edit: here's the PKGBUILD.
Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-03-08 06:38:33)

Looking for open source Reverse proxy

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Gary D Williams wrote:
Squid -> SquidFaq/ReverseProxy - Squid Web Proxy WikiNote that a reverse proxy won't automatically secure a website.Exactly
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Open Source JavaFX Petition

To the Leaders, Management, and Board of Directors at Oracle Corporation,
We the undersigned formally request that Oracle Corporation release the entire JavaFX Platform as open source software available for modification and reuse by individuals, educators, and corporations.
Open source software has transformed the way that we build and use software. It has increased the educational reach of technology, allowed new and innovative applications to emerge, and spawned the growth of communities dedicated to software philanthropy. Java has been at the forefront of this revolution, providing a platform for open source development, and becoming an open source effort in itself.
JavaFX is an innovative technology built on top of Java that allows the creation of next generation Rich Internet Applications (RIA). We believe that an essential part of the future success of this platform is to release it as open source software. This would increase adoption by companies that fear lock-in or are concerned about technology maturity. It would also make it competitive with other RIA platforms that have embraced the open source model.
We recognize that Oracle Corporation has made a significant investment in JavaFX technology, and continues to grow and extend the platform. We encourage Oracle to continue their investment in the JavaFX platform, including monetization of the platform through training, support, and other professional services. In our estimation, the increased adoption of JavaFX will make the platform even more profitable for Oracle that it currently is as a proprietary technology.
Therefore, we proudly make this request to open source the JavaFX platform in the mutual interest of JavaFX technology and the future success of Oracle Corporation.Sign it at here
[http://steveonjava.com/javafx-petition/|http://steveonjava.com/javafx-petition/]
Edited by: Surikov on Jul 8, 2010 12:23 AM

According to the wikipedia page on JavaFX: "in the next two months". You just have to be patient and wait for further news. These things take time because before the release is made, it has to be 100% positive that there is no propriety code in there anymore.

Working on Open Source Projects for N00b programmers

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I have heard the suggestion on the forum that working on open source projects_ is a good way to refine your programming skill.
I am learning Object Oriented Programming concepts in my Java class. I have found that I am not getting as much practical experience* as I feel I need to really cement the concepts in practice, and to cement the concepts in my brain. I read the book a lot, and I get a lot of the theory, and I can make sense of all the book's code examples, but I feel like I need to start doing hands on code manipulation and/or problem solving to make these things stick in my brain.
Finally, I am genuinely a n00b, so even though I get all the concepts of OOP on a high level, I only have done pedagogical exercises, not any real practical experience. So I am looking for Open Source projects who's code isn't super intricate and will be manageable to decipher, based on my limited experience.
Also, if the projects are on cool interesting things like Open Office or Audacity or Mozilla Firefox or Miscellaneous Widgets (the kinds of things we use in everyday computer use, I know this varies from person to person, but anyway...) or Scientific/Mathematical Simulations etc, all those sorts of things would be cool.
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Compiling open source programs for multiple machines...

I am compiling the current version of RSYNC for my system, which requires that I have Xcode installed. How can I make a package....or convert the package that I am creating on my system, so that I can install it on another system...without Xcode?

If you build the program as a statically linked binary, you can move it to any other compatible machine. Even with dynamic linking, it should work as long as other libraries it depends on are available in the target machine. For open source programs, the easiest way may be to use the --prefix option (if it is configure based) and move the entire target directory tree to another machine.

Open source developer discount?

Hello all,
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Thanks
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Sorry Romu, but this against the CoC and [Terms of use|http://www.sun.com/termsofuse.jsp#g2_1] here.

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