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How many character blocks will it take to display U+X? Will U+X be displayed in independent multicolor? Introduction I’ve been on a bit of a research kick in Unicode lately, and I’ve long been a C language user, since before UTF-8 became the “winning” encoding for Unicode. I’ve also long been a bit of an enthusiast for Virtual Terminals, especially as I started programming before fully integrated development environments for every language were the default....</p></div><footerclass=entry-footer><spantitle="2024-11-28 15:45:00 -0400 -0400">28 Nov 2024</span> · 4 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><aclass=entry-linkaria-label="post link to Virtual Terminal - Missing Functions"href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/11/virt-term-functions/></a></article><articleclass=post-entry><headerclass=entry-header><h2>Open Source Does NOT Mean Free</h2></header><divclass=entry-content><p>Corporate Use Restrictions There seems to be a growing trend in Open Source software of adding Terms of Use of a download service to exclude use by businesses (usually defining this as some number of employees, some amount of revenue or both), so that the software itself remains free and open source, but making sure that businesses must pay for the privilage of using the product.
These span a wide swath of methods from very obvious paywalls to deeply obfuscated Terms of Use clauses, and they are dangerous for businesses specifically because some programmer who uses one of these technologies at home on an open source project often won’t think twice about installing the same on a business supplied computer to get their job’s work done…...</p></div><footerclass=entry-footer><spantitle="2024-04-03 17:31:21 -0400 -0400">3 Apr 2024</span> · 3 min · Gary Allen Vollink</footer><aclass=entry-linkaria-label="post link to Open Source Does NOT Mean Free"href=https://blog.vollink.com/post/2024/04/open-is-not-always-free/></a></article><articleclass=post-entry><headerclass=entry-header><h2>Your Terminal Emulator Is Wrong</h2></header><divclass=entry-content><p>Introduction At this point, there are hundreds of graphical terminal emulators out there. Every single one that I have run into pretends like it is some varient of a hardware terminal made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from their Video Terminal (VT) line of products, from 1978’s VT100 through 1993’s VT525.
