From: Gawnsoft Date: 2003-07-13T09:26:18+09:00 Subject: Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby. On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:40:51 GMT, "Sean O'Dell" wrote (more or less): >... once the >committment was made to put GPL code in your application and the committment >was made to release it, the application (unless you are deliberately >breaking the terms of the GPL for some reason) must be released under the >GPL license. Exactly so. And a bit off-topic: >...people actually inject themselves deliberately with >man-made virii called Phages that are used to fight anti-biotic-resistant >bacteria. They don't even exist in the wild, and have to be created and >then injected into their hosts. Actually - the bacteriophages /do/ exist in the wild. It's just that any given individual human is unlikely to be harbouring them. The world-wide centre of excellence for phage technology was in Georgia (USSR) - they used to stick a beaker into a sewage outfall to catch new phages. The key trick is identifying the very specific phage you're after, and keeping it alive and seperate until you can get it to breed in your reactor vessel into industrial quantities. then you can turn it into pills, or mix it with water to use as a spray, or whatever. >By your logic, these aren't virii because >they can't infect you against your will. Yet, everyone calls them virii; >and, in my opinion, they are. And in the opinion of biochemists and biologists, they are. They are viruses that prey on bacteria, as opposed say the common colds, which are viruses that prey on human mucosal cells. > If you don't agree, you should go over to >phage.org and tell them that because their "doohickeys" don't attach >themselves to their hosts without explicit action and permission, they're >not really "virii" and to please stop calling them that. Cheers, Euan Gawnsoft: http://www.gawnsoft.co.sr Symbian/Epoc wiki: http://html.dnsalias.net:1122 Smalltalk links (harvested from comp.lang.smalltalk) http://html.dnsalias.net/gawnsoft/smalltalk