{"id":24,"date":"2007-10-17T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=24"},"modified":"2007-10-18T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T16:22:41","slug":"sweet-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading that the good people from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsoftware.com\" title=\"ID Software\">id<\/a> have released a Linux port of their <a href=\"http:\/\/zerowing.idsoftware.com\/linux\/etqw\/\">ETQW demo<\/a>, I decided to give it a try (even though it does not seem to be my kind of FPS) in order to test  the 3D capabilities of my new laptop. When installing the demo I skipped through their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EULA\">EULA<\/a> noting that 3e) forbids me to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>distribute the Software by any means, including, but not limited to, Internet or other electronic distribution, direct mail, retail, mail order, or other means;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The funny thing is that id distribute the demo via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bittorrent\">BitTorrent<\/a> only &#8211; which automatically turns everybody downloading the software into a distributor of that file. The problem is of course that they use their  standard EULA for the demo, but maybe somebody from the development department should have a chat with their lawyers sometime.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and as an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/?p=23\">my previous post<\/a>: is it me or have hypertext experts turned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohead.com\">RADIOHEAD&#8217;s homepage<\/a> into a giant wobbly blob?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong>\u00a0 it seems that either Firefox or the Flash Plugin for Linux fail to render the animation underneath the text, rendering the website unusable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading that the good people from id have released a Linux port of their ETQW demo, I decided to give it a try (even though it does not seem to be my kind of FPS) in order to test the 3D capabilities of my new laptop. When installing the demo I skipped through their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-licenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~alex\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}