Here’s a few shorter stories I found interesting – “Starred Items” in my RSS reader – that others might find of interest!
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 “anti-Mono”. After effects of the smear campaign against the original author of Gnote?
The Beez on how he deals with comments to his opinion pieces. I am of much the same mind. With the exceptions of spam, profane or insane posts, I don’t restrict comments.
You’d be suprised – or maybe not – on how many profane and insane comments I get. Some of them are literally zero-content comprised of pure profanity. Obviously, such comments show the level of intellectual discourse of some segment of the loyal opposition, but the really interesting thing is that if you just swapped out the profanity with slightly more polite language, you’d have the same comments from an even larger segment of that same opposition!
Things like that amuse me.
You have to be amused, or you’d never stop vomiting.
One thing I’ve always liked about WordPress is the unabashed support for the GPL. Check out the Philosopy behind the recently-formed WordPress Foundation:
The software should be licensed under the GNU Public License. The software should be freely available to anyone to use for any purpose, and without permission. The software should be open to modifications. Any modifications should be freely distributable at no cost and without permission from its creators. The software should provide a framework for translation to make it globally accessible to speakers of all languages. The software should provide a framework for extensions so modifications and enhancements can be made without modifying core code.
Two things I really like about this: First, it specifically calls out for the GPL! and second, I like the idea that there are requirements above and beyond the software license. A major failing of many “Open Source” promoters is thinking that the license is the be-all, end-all of Open/Free, even as some companies work overtime finding loopholes and “workarounds” to Open Source Licenses.
I love how the world biggest Apple fan boy (meant in a loving way) sums this up:
Say what you want about him, but he walks the walk.
Wow. Contrast this simple and honest recognition with some of the “Open Source Supporter” vile efforts to portray RMS as a hypocrite.
The FSF blog calls for people to let Google know they would like to see Ogg support on You Tube.
Not only is this something that would be an awesome win for a real Open Standard, but it’s yet another thing that puts to lie the “Open Source Supporter” tactic of portraying the FSF as negative zealots.
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