I’ve successfully used the program with 32-bit Python 2.6 on my Windows 7 64-bit machine, but I’ve run into little quirk and I wonder if it’s something I’m doing wrong.

When I “restart”, I get the following message in the rpdb2 window:
“This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application’s support team for more information.” (Also, Windows throws the following exception in a dialogue box with the title python.exe”: “python.exe has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.”); HOWEVER, the most recently opened rpdb2 window will be fine, and I can just close the old window and carry on.

Are you forgetting to close files ?

I get OSError, [Errno 24] Too many open files trying to use it with PyPy 1.1 on OS X

Here are my 2 dollars to the discussion (they are worth cents now):

Opensource == Freedom and Power to developers and service providers. Gives them power to be more effective. Opensource thinks that software marketplace will provide best for users. It is modern development methodology. Opensource often is an *ASTROTURFING* operation.

Free Software == Freedom and Power to (end)users. Gives them power to break all limits, to use the computer in a way they need. It is social movement with a goal of sharing freedom, knowledge and power.

And for anonymous/Greg: read the mentioned article. there is a text about your argument:
“….Also, they judge solely by the license of the source code, whereas our criterion also considers whether a device will let you run your modified version of the program….”
If you fail to read mentioned article and then you flame in this way, you deserve to be labeled as an ‘useful idiot’ working against Freedom.

Interesting interview - thanks for sharing.

Seems Peter Deutsch reached this scheme coincidentally because of a personal promise to Stallman to release Ghostscript as GPL. By using AFPL on the latest two revisions, he was able to commercialize with Printer manufacturers.

Those printer manufacturers could legally use the “year-old” GPL versions but preferred to license the latest AFPL version for a fee.

This indicates this approach can be effective!

BTW, the interview includes several gems, for example when Deutsch gives his prediction on the result of a back then hypothetical event of Netscape releasing their browser as Free Software. Excellent read.

@Erigami: see http://winpdb.org/2008/11/tip-of-the-day/, though I agree it could benefit from higher prominence