QuasarTE

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alphax ^τεχ 09:51, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

"Gigo" Series

I think that it would make more sense to put Gagagigo, Giga Gagagigo, and the as-yet non-existent Gogiga Gagagigo and Gigobyte into this article, as otherwise this policy would list them for deletion.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikiproject

Myself and Moe Epsilon are considering creating a Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikiproject, and I was wondering whether you would be interested in joining. -- Setokaiba 19:56, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

If you are interseted in joining click here and add your name to the list of members. Hope you join! — Moe ε 22:55, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Super Mario Bros. 2

Regarding your addition of the citation needed template, I have added some references. Andre (talk) 06:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

CVSNT

Regarding your claims of GPL violation on the CVSNT article, I have added some references, but you need to cite a reliable source that this does constitute a violation of the GPL otherwise it's just your opinion vs someone elses. I've added more extensive notes on the CVSNT discussion/talk page. I do work for the vendor so I'm trying to remain at a distance from any claims you are making. If you have not already spoken to someone at the vendor about this and would like (eg: because you require the source code to a particular build you are using) then please do, I think that would be altogether more helpful than publishing claims without citation on wikipedia. Arthur (talk) 22:15, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

It is neither my opinion that your commercial website offers "trial" versions of the software (ie. binary distributions) based on a previously open-sourced GPL codebase nor that the only link that I could find to the source code demands a payment of more than USD $1000, and it is additionally not my opinion that the GPL forbids this kind of arrangement, as it requires "equivalent access" to binary and source code, and the language used to allow charging of a distribution fee is quite unambiguously clear that the fee may *not* exceed preparation costs - that means at most the cost of the physical media, labour cost for placing it on that media, and possibly shipping and handling assuming the distribution is not electronic. The claim that it costs $1000 to distribute source code electronically I find extremely disingenuous as I serve the source code for multiple free software projects at effectively no cost. These are facts, not opinions, and are therefore not subject to prosecution under libel laws of the United States, as you have threatened, however indirectly, on the talk page for the article.

In fact, the source code would be of use to me because I need to eventually migrate a large commercial product *out* of CVSNT, since our organization cannot indefinitely maintain it on the aging version we use, and the licensing fees of the new versions are not competitive from our management's POV in a market full of Free Software alternatives for software revision control. It was upon attempting to find the code for this older version, or any version, that I discovered the recent changes in your product's distribution and hosting arrangements. And while you are correct that there is no requirement for 24/7 availability, there is a requirement for *actual* availability. That is, if your online repository IS in fact online at some given time, I would like to know when that time is, rather than connecting at random over a period of days, weeks, or months and attempting to guess whether it will be available or not. I suppose it is my "opinion" that such an arrangement is completely unreasonable, but I believe you'd be very hard pressed indeed to find someone that does not agree with me. --QuasarTE (talk) 01:36, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. It sounds very interesting, but not the subject of a section in a wikipedia article... If a "server is up or down" on the vendors "web/cvs site" is not typically the sort of thing that a wikipedia article has sections on. Are you sure that wikipedia is the right place to address this, or is this simply some kind of technical support issue you should be discussing with the vendor? Arthur (talk) 05:24, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Permission to use figure in a book.

Dear QuasarTE,

I am working with Prof. Steven LaValle to help obtain permissions for borrowing figures or pictures in his upcoming book Virtual Reality, to be published by Cambridge University Press. The book is online here:

http://vr.cs.uiuc.edu/

We are hoping to include the picture of yours (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Doom_ingame_1.png) in this book (Chapter 1, Figure 1.27c). Could we please have your permission for this? Thank you.

Please contact me at awarkoczewski@yahoo.com

Sincerely,

Adam Warkoczewski — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.11.35.79 (talk) 12:41, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm not actually the original author of that screenshot, as it appears the old revisions have been deleted, but besides that, its content is entirely the property of id Software as it's a fair use image so I'd have neither any right to object to you using it, nor any ability to grant you permissions beyond fair use, as it is currently used on this site. --QuasarEE (talk) 16:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)