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Yanis Batura wrote:

>>Is Parallell 2 zifre or only no jdima? If the latter, is there a free
>>version available?
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>>Which toolkits do I need to build it?
>>TIA,
>>mi'e snan
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>Parallel is both free and 0-priced, as you say, but I somehow feel such usage is a bit malglico  :)
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>We here in Siberia have things much simpler than out there in the outside world. And don't put juridical comments on 20 pages about those simple things.
>If the program is free, then it's free, i.e. absolutely free.
>I can even give you its source if that could make any sense.
>The program is written on Delphi 7 + KOL (which explains its tiny size).
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>Several prenu have asked already whether there's a version for Linux; I don't know. Neither I have seen Linux, nor that version. But having in mind the extremely primitive idea of the program, it must be easy to linux-ish-create it, too.
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>Yanis Batura
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For the software to be free, the source code must be freely available. 
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html

I disagree regarding the malglico comment. Most languages have a way of 
distinguishing free-as-in-beer from free-as-in-speech. In French, for 
example, these words are respectively 'libre' and 'gratuit'. There is a 
real and tangible difference. 'Freeware' programs such as Skype or 
Finale Notepad are free-as-in-beer / gratuit / nonjdima, but come with a 
hefty list of restrictions, and the companies which distribute them keep 
the source code to themselves, and thus the programs are not 
free-as-in-speech / libre / zifre. It would be malglico to use {zifre} 
when what was required was {nonjdima}, just as it would be malglico to 
say {lo temci vofli} instead of {temci sutra}.

Given that the program was written in Delphi, it will be hard to port to 
Linux. I would think a better solution would be to write from scratch a 
GTK or Java version.

mi'e JEsikas.