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"Mochi" is a user interface language/library that was intended for use on a (now abandoned) version of webOS for phones and tablets. It has now been released as open source under the Apache 2.0 Licence.
From the announcement:
While we don't have any immediate plans to resume our Mochi work, we would be thrilled to see the community pick up where we left off.
The code is available on git, and a wiki is starting to take shape.
If only all abandonware were open-sourced, what a rich world it would be.
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(Score: 2) by NCommander on Tuesday April 08 2014, @10:48PM
Moderation rework can't come soon enough :-/, thats the "-1 Disagree" abuse myself and others have been noticing.
That being said, I get your point; a lot of abandonware is crap, but occasionally, you find grails in the garbage. When we started working to revive slash, it was utter crap; the amount of patching to get to usable should not be underestimated and if it wasn't for the unique circumstances that created this site, there's a very good chance slash would have remained effectively dead as a FOSS project. Furthermore, even reviving abandonware is rare; its similiar to the effort that goes into creating a true fork of a project.
Still always moving
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday April 09 2014, @03:35AM
Oh I 110% agree that there IS a LOT of abandonware that can be very VERY useful, as just one example those old games from the Win9X era that are hell to get running now, or all those FMV games that were hardcoded to Windows 3.X that are damned near impossible to run. But in this case we are talking about something so specialized its beyond ridiculous and when you are talking about mobile, especially older mobile where every MB was/is precious? You do a LOT of hardcoding to the specific OS, sometimes even down to the specific chips that it runs on just to squeeze that last bit of performance out.
To make what I think is an apt comparison...MSFT releasing the source for DOS. like this its completely pointless as 1.- MUCH better alternatives are already FOSS, 2.- Those alternatives are designed for ease of porting, 3.- those alternatives aren't coded for an OS that isn't being used anymore. there is NO way anybody is gonna convince me that any development team is gonna decide that taking a half finished GUI for an OS that only exists as a ROM on Smart-TVs would be a better alternative to the literally dozens of FOSS GUIs and OSes already out there, it would be backbreaking effort for absolutely ZERO gains. What makes it even more ridiculous is that with Tizen and Android AOSP and MozOS you already have all the code AND a more modern updated OS its designed to run on right there!
And as for the mods? i have noticed that once we hit 4 digits on the users we started seeing the same stuff we saw on Slash, where downmods equal "I don't agree" and we have all seen where that leads, where posters won't speak on certain topics without those that jealously guard those topics downmodding to oblivion. If someone has a different opinion they should DEBATE THE ISSUE and give the community a chance to see the pros and cons of the topic, not hit the downmod on anything that doesn't fit their myopic worldview. That is why I NEVER DOWNMOD unless its an OBVIOUS troll like Ethanol and his "you must be a nigger" posts, because I believe it is NOT the job of a mod to decide the "right answer" to an issue, but to merely keep the trolls from derailing threads.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday April 10 2014, @02:28PM
With the 4-digit ID here I feel like such a n00b :D I have the same policy, I only mod up (and sometimes mod up posts I disagree with, because I feel they need to be seen to understand the whole comment chain). I think I've modded down all of twice in 16 years, for truly egregious posts. But I've already collected a "flamebait" mod here myself, just for expressing my own opinion (and nothing too contrary at that).
Totally agree on the attitude issue. I've been looking for a linux I could love, or at least tolerate on a daily basis, since 1998, and it hasn't happened yet. Too many niggling bugs that never go away (my particular pet peeve is how the file managers won't reliably retain settings from one session to the next), and occasionally show-stoppers on otherwise good distros (like the sound that would never work on Mandrake 7.2, which otherwise I liked). It's frustrating as hell, but I no longer have the patience to dumpster-dive after settings and scrounge the net for fixes. I want the damned thing to work pretty much out of the box, with maybe one major config session using the obvious tools, and a few small tweaks thereafter, and I expect it to never, *ever* crash (my Windows setups have been so stable, they've ruined me -- I could count my total crashes across all Win-systems back to 1994 without taking off my shoes). But when I offer a suggestion, or identify a bug (and coders beware -- I can break anything) it's "not needed" or "works for me" despite a mass of reproducible detail. It's no wonder some people refer to it as "opensores" -- cuz so long as these attitudes prevail, the patient will never heal.
I've been watching ReactOS and hoping for the best there -- cuz, see, that's what linux needs to be successful across a broad range of users (and to stop the broken-update madness): binary compatibility with Windows apps and drivers.
You know the source for MSDOS5 (or actually an early update heading to 6.0, to guess from the contents) was leaked some years back, right? a curiosity, but not really useful. Amusing for the comments, tho. :) What I'd really like to see opensourced is the MS mouse driver v8.0, the one and only I've seen that's absolutely trouble-free in every environment that will run it.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.