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Looks good. However the sign up process takes far too many clicks to eventually get to "Select your subscription level" then I get:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Field 'tblUsers.UName' cannot be a zero-length string.

/-/db/registration.asp, line 136

Oh well I'll come back later


That's because you didn't provide a username!


Seriously? I have to provide my personal details before I can find out what it costs to subscribe? WTF.


No; that's on another page (accessible directly from the main one). €20 for the regular subscription, €40 for the mega cool one. One-time payment, by the way; that's not per anything.


Oddly enough I was just thinking the same thing. From what I can remember every ( Android) app that I've ever installed has come from a recommendation from somewhere else. I can't see how you'd ever get any traction if you mainly relied on the app store search results.


There are apparently a couple of rail gauges changes necessary at the moment - https://www.railfreight.com/beltandroad/2020/01/30/four-ways...


I suggest that you don't read up on how penicillin was discovered then!


The BBC is reporting that both UK and Italian governments say that the doses were destined for Belgium. I haven't got a direct link, it's in the BBC's rolling updates.


That's an excellent channel for train ride videos. Mind you I would love it even more if they did one with a 360 degree camera at the front of the train!


> You cannot sell GPL licensed software

Wrong


> If GPL licensed source code is required for a program to compile, the program must also be under the GPL.

This is obviously wrong too, or else everything compiled by gcc would need to be licensed as GPL. If you distribute a GPL licensed program then the recipient must be able to build the equivalent program from source (e.g. you can’t rely on an internal toolchain that doesn’t have a publicly available alternative) but that isn’t what the author is saying.


GCC has a runtime library exception[0] which permits compilation of proprietary software.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1


This is only an exception for libraries.


No, this is correct. You cannot sell it, because you do not own it. What you can do is distribute it, which is another matter. The author is right.


A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is released under a GPL licence - https://github.com/john-davies/mapter

Problems / improvements are

* Improved Editor with features like search/replace and undo. At the moment the GTKSourceView component looks a likely candidate.

* A method of moving or swapping the contents of cells without a lot of cutting & pasting ( drag & drop? )

* There's also an annoying bug with the tree control drag & drop that I need to fix

I'm currently using it to try and write a novel. I'm about 35% of the way through and it works surprisingly well.


This absolutely.The good stuff is still out there but it's been diluted to homeopathic levels by the infestation of the "look at me" marketing crud.


... and that Mr Assange is how you skip bail with style.


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