Archive for category Free Software
25 Questions with RMS
Posted by Jason in Free Software on July 30, 2010
Reddit has 25 questions with Richard Stallman! Very good reading, even with a couple of poor questions.
WordPress vs Thesis: Put your money down
Posted by Jason in Free Software on July 23, 2010
Here’s a funny thing that some PR dude kept emailing me about: SBRForum, a gaming odds site, has odds out on the whole “WordPress vs. Thesis” thing: Will the Free Software Foundation or any other group take DIY Themes to court for GPL licensing enforcement in 2010? Yes 1/2 No 8/5 Will DIY Themes relent [...]
BashQL: Another half-assed project by me
Posted by Jason in Free Software on July 22, 2010
Just the Facts BashQL is a stupid little python script that lets you perform SQL queries on the output of shell commands. Use case and example: I wanted to compare what was actually installed by my package manager (pacman -Q) against all the subdirectories where I create the packages for installation (ls -1 /pack): jason [...]
OpenCore == Crippleware
Posted by admin in Free Software, Open Source on July 20, 2010
This blogpost sums it up rather nicely: http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2010/07/19/rotten-to-the-open-core/
GPL and WordPress: Failure?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Open Source on July 20, 2010
There are an abundance of sources commenting on the GPL/WordPress/Thesis flap, so search them out if you want the details (Spoiler: Thesis is spectacularly in the wrong.) Most of the reading at this point walks well-trod ground, but one bit of commentary by The Accidental Businessman (Marco Tabini) deserves special attention: You could say that Matt’s opinion [...]
Need a chuckle?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Open Source on July 15, 2010
This is has got to be the most brilliant satire I’ve read all month.
RMS on .NET and Mono
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Novell, Patent System on July 15, 2010
Glyn Moody has up a short email interview with RMS on the topic of .NET and Mono (and dotGNU). Here is my favorite bit from RMS: RMS: You shouldn’t write software to use .NET. No exceptions. The basic point is that Microsoft has patents over features in .NET, and its patent promise regarding free software [...]
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