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As for Sigurd, it is nonsense that all ecosoft sotware is 'bad'. I do use ecosoft software and am very happy with some of the software I bought from them. Especially the stuff developed by Glassman. On several occasions he has corrected minor bugs or added features, some major additions, on my request, usually very fast.

Can you please say a little bit more? What software exactly?



dvd/cdtoys, zippy.

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My 2 cents:

There are several business models and all of them have their own pros and cons. Bitwaise works, as far as I know, develops/ports open source software, collecting money in advance and during development to pay for the developer and of course to hopefully generate some profit. They also sell closed source software, like Injoy Firewall. Ecomstation.ru or ecosoft invests in developing software and then sells licenses, basically advancing the developments costs. There is nothing wrong with that. It's a complety valid way to produce and sell software. They also have done similar work as Bitwise, developing software paid by third parties. In this case the other parties most likely decided the software should be closed source.
It is true that open sourcing has several advantages for the community, like Martin has stated. It is not neccessarily true that there are advantages for the developer. In the case of the developer advancing the development costs, there is in fact a huge disadvantage in open sourcing, namely someone else using the code and selling it too, without having to invest. No sane person running a company would invite that.
Closed source abandonware, yes, that is a problem. The example Martin gave, the sad demise of the developer and the resultant loss of the code, can easily be corrected. It's just a matter of  a decent will). And as Eugene stated, he seems to have made some provisions for that by licensing the code to his subcontractors.

Generally, I like open source better, but we have to remember that we all have to buy our bread and preferably some cheese to put on it. There are several ways to make money still in developing os/2 stuff, everybody is free to choose the way how to do that. 'a 90's model' still works today, to a lesser extent perhaps, but is does. Selling services and support can even be complementary to that. The one does not exclude the other.

Lastly, the ongoing 'war' between Eugene and some others, and between Sigurd and Eugene that keeps coming up here and on several other fora and news groups. Please guys, keep it civil. I do not like the way Eugene accuses others of piracy without giving any proof. In fact, I do not even see how the development of the OS/4 kernel, legally questionable as it is, can harm his business. On the contrary, if the developers of it only distribute the kernel, it might even be good for his business if it makes eCS run on more hardware. As for Sigurd, it is nonsense that all ecosoft sotware is 'bad'. I do use ecosoft software and am very happy with some of the software I bought from them. Especially the stuff developed by Glassman. On several occasions he has corrected minor bugs or added features, some major additions, on my request, usually very fast.
Lets discuss matters as adults, not as little children.

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 25, 2014, 12:13:30 pm »
How do I get the spellchecker to work? I downloaded some dictionaries and installed them (extensions) but I can't get the spellchecker to work,

Confirmed; bug opened: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125501


Someone marked your bug as a duplicate of another one. I checked, solution there is to delete or rename user profile directory. That did -not- solve the problem for me, so it either isn't a duplicate of that bug or we have an os/2 specific problem.

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 25, 2014, 03:59:32 am »
How do I get the spellchecker to work? I downloaded some dictionaries and installed them (extensions) but I can't get the spellchecker to work,

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 25, 2014, 01:13:10 am »

It's not HTML there, but Wiki markup instead. Either ways neither Wiki markup nor HTML are not even close to "hard" to use for plain text markup tasks like you have.

I'll consider putting that on Wiki, if I manage to open the file you attached.

Thanks. I created the document with OO 4)
It might not be hard to use, but I have never used it yet, so I'd have to learn. At the moment I have little time for that. I did put it on the list)

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 25, 2014, 12:10:50 am »

It would be cool if you document your experience with loading DLLs into the high memory and the results you get (workability, stability) on the OS/2World Wiki.

I wrote a how-to but have no idea how to add it to the wiki. I am not familiar with HTML. I have it as an odt file. Any volunteers to proof read / edit  / add it to the wiki?

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 23, 2014, 10:15:50 pm »
Joop,

  Yes... I saw that and that is why I tried the -c switch. But why does -b work on OpenOffice but not SeaMonkey? SeaMonkey DLL's have both code and data segments according to highmem -v...


Don't know about seamonkey, but in FF24 only xul.dll will fail with data segments loaded high. According to the testing I've done loading data segments high does not yield much extra free shared low memory.

I also have odin and java load high. (except user32.dll and WINMM.dll, which will give problems with java when loaded high). It would be nice if developers would have rpm/yum package with modules already marked high)

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 23, 2014, 06:41:07 pm »

This error message says: exception occured raising singleton "/singletons/com.sun.star.deployment.ExtensionManager":   loading library failed: file :///X:/openoffice4/program/../program/deploy.dll"


I had that one too. Means you have still some dependency missing. In my case it was libxslt.

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Applications / Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 RC3
« on: August 23, 2014, 05:31:53 pm »

 It seems to me that shared memory may be getting used up by this beast and not being released (I have 4GB memory btw). The only way I have found to be able to use it is by only using one app at a time and rebooting after using it. Anybody got any tips on how this could be managed?

Or just fragmented which will lead to the same problems. I have marked the openoffice dlls to load high with above512, this greatly reduces the use of shared memory. I have only tested a little bit, but sofar it seems to work well.

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Applications / Re: Java applications
« on: August 14, 2014, 02:12:59 pm »
Same error here.

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General Discussion / Re: Audio/Video Streaming for Events
« on: August 12, 2014, 01:44:49 pm »
SMplayer does play youtube clips, so it should have SSL support. Never tried streaming with it.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Is eComStation DEAD?
« on: August 04, 2014, 10:39:34 pm »
It's all so familiar.... Not just for eCS. Maybe someone should adapt this image to suit the topic)

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Setup & Installation / Re: Re-organizaing OS/2-eCS Directories.
« on: July 22, 2014, 02:07:59 am »
Interesting...
http://www.stardock.com/temp/kwilas/merlin/rootdir.htm
Almost as if Martin wrote it)
DMISL I -think- is an intel interface standard fro network cards. Not sure though.

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Applications / Re: Java 6.0 won't run next to FF 17.0.11
« on: July 20, 2014, 12:55:40 am »
I have noticed several times that after opening lots of pictures (several hundreds) with pmview that openoffice or java or FF won't start because of too little shared memory. If I look at the amount of free shared memory, there is plenty available. It might be fragmentation, so no memory chunks large enough are available. I'm not knowledgeable enough with Theseus to properly analyse what's causing it. I have marked most FF and OopenOffice DLL's to load their data high, since doing that both use very littlle shared memory.

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