Sunday, April 29, 2007

On icecream and fairness

Thanks to the help of Niels and Vladimir, the solution for the QStyleSheet variable was to do:
int r, g, b;
m_theme->letterInputColor().getRgb(&r, &g, &b);
m_letterEdit->setStyleSheet(QString("border-style: solid; background-color: rgb(%1, %2, %3); border-bottom-right-radius:10; border-radius: 15px; border-width: 3px").arg(r).arg(g).arg(b));
It's the getRgb() that I failed to see how to use!

Yesterday on Saturday I went to the monthly hacking day organized by ervin in Toulouse. We were 7, sharing the power of our machines with icecream and hacking on various things.

Speaking of Icecream, B&J is now selling Fair-Trade icecreams. Nice to see fair trade spreading in lots of areas, I also noted a new trend in ethically made clothes, using organic material.

About patents: Quoting the BBC website: "The Thai government's decision to bypass the patents on two Aids drugs and one heart drug, so it can offer them to all Thai citizens, is a bold move, which has put the country on a collision course with the big pharmaceutical firms."
I do hope it'll induce a change of world ethics.
The FFII motto for its campaign against software patents Ethipat is "Sometimes less is more" (I have a poster of it in my kitchen). Sometimes less money for a few individuals in pharmaceutical firms is more health for thousands people.

4 comments:

Andrew Callender said...

> Sometimes less money for a few individuals in pharmaceutical firms is more health for thousands people.

And sometimes less money to fund research means less health for thousands of people. It's not all fat cats and luxury - for every drug that makes it to market, hundreds of candidates don't. When a software company needs to make changes to a beta, they don't have to scrap the whole code; a pharma company might indeed have to rewind five years and start totally from scratch.

Jonas Maebe said...

Note that the Ethipat campaign is run by the FFII, not by the the FSFE.

annma said...

It's not before the drug comes out, it's after that problem arises.
But as with many subjects it's indeed not black and white.
However in the example I give, the Thai government cannot afford the cost of the medicines and thus choose to release generics under a compulsory licences. What Thailand has done is completely legal under international trade regulations but condemned by drug companies.
In that case it is indeed money against affordable healthcare.

annma said...

Jonas, yes you're right, changing it in the post.
Thanks for reading and correcting!