Archive for January, 2010
The Innovative People of Novell
Posted by Jason in Novell, Patent System on January 30, 2010
Inventive people who write more software patents per capita than anywhere else. Software patents: A Novell metric for success.
Constant Zonker
I was mildly interested to see if Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier would continue to spread his special brand of so-close-to-a-lie-why-not-just-call-it-that distortions once he left Novell. Well, now we have an answer: Yes. And – brace yourself for a shock here – he is targeting the FSF. Again. This time around, though we are treated to simple [...]
Firefox in Ubuntu to be powered by Microsoft
Lots of discussion around the fact that the next version of Ubuntu will be using Microsoft as the default search provider for Firefox. Oh, that’s not how the announcement puts it of course, relying on the one-thin-step-of-seperation of saying that the default search provider will be Yahoo! But the fact of the matter is that Yahoo! [...]
The Free Software Way
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Red Hat on January 27, 2010
Wowiee wow wow! So happy to see this! Red Hat’s new site opensource.com has a brilliant article up entitled “The free software way“. Written by Richard Fontana, the Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel at Red Hat, it eloquently hits on a number of my favorite points. The term “open source” originated in a 1998 [...]
Checking in on the GNOME Foundation
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 27, 2010
It’s been a little over a month since the initial kerfluffle about GNOME and GNU. In that first run-up we basically had a couple of the usual chuckleheads waging war against a flimsly constructed straw man in hopes of discrediting RMS/FSF/Free Software with a secondary effect of promoting “Open Source” as the preferred term (and [...]
The Lantern: WTF?
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 25, 2010
I really, really hope this is just poor reporting: Alek Rollyson, a third-year in information systems and the club’s president, said there is a difference between free software and open source software. Free software is like “free beer, or free as in it doesn’t cost me anything,” he said. Open source software is not just [...]
Starred Items
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on January 25, 2010
Here’s a few shorter stories I found interesting – “Starred Items” in my RSS reader – that others might find of interest! Gnote and Fedora The Good: Gnote has a new support team in place with exciting plans. The Bad: Said support team has to bend over backward to make it clear they are not [...]
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