Archive for category Free Software
The Phoenix Interviews RMS
Posted by Jason in Free Software on December 24, 2009
The Phoenix has a quite good interview with RMS, including a surprisingly clear recognition of the on-going rift between “Open Source” and “Free Software”. (Bonus: a nice sidebar, “GNU and the Free Software Movement” as well) Kudos to the author, Mike Miliard. I like several things about this article. For one thing, the author obvious took [...]
Review: qBittorrent
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Reviews on December 22, 2009
It was a little rough getting there, but KDE 4 has reached a point where I’m using it on all my machines. The pain was worth it (barely) and KDE is by far the most satisfying desktop environment for my personal use. That being said, I was running into quite a few strange problems with [...]
GNOME and the GNU Project
Posted by Jason in Free Software on December 14, 2009
Well-a, well-a. News abounds about the possibility that GNOME will officially distance itself from the GNU Project. [Slashdot Article] | [IT Wire Article] The best reading to be done though, is on ground zero, the GNOME Foundation Mailing List. There are two purposes to do so: Get the story Watch the players The Story Basically, [...]
Phony Open Source
Posted by Jason in Free Software on December 10, 2009
Dana Blankenhorn has an interesting article out titled “Phony open source to be a 2010 trend“. One of the themes I’ve been writing about is how popular just the term “Open Source” has become, and how as part of that popularity the term has diverged of the philosophy. Mr. Blankenhorn’s article is along the same lines, worth [...]
The World According to Novell
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on December 7, 2009
eWeek Europe has an interview with Joe Brockmeier, the OpenSUSE community manager, entitled Microsoft ‘Has Acknowledged The Enterprise Role Of Linux’. Let’s take a look at some of the more interesting points the article raises, starting with a very misleading statement on the original Microsoft/Novell collaboration: At the time Brockmeier’s role didn’t exist, and thanks [...]
Where do you get your corn pone?
Posted by Jason in Free Software on December 1, 2009
“You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I’ll tell you what his ‘pinions is.” I’ve been seeing a few blogs posting quotes or parts of speeches lately, usually with little or no accompanying explanation. This is a powerful rhetorical trick, because it combines an appeal to authority with allowing the reader [...]
The Success of “Open Source”
Posted by Jason in Free Software on November 23, 2009
“Open” or “Free” You might not know it based on some current community commentary, but at its origin the term “Open Source” was intended to be a straight drop-in replacement for “Free Software”. There was no philosophical or conceptual difference; instead there was a linguistic concern (“free” has multiple meanings) and a marketing concern (“free” makes [...]
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