Archive for category Free Software
A Deep Divide
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux on April 16, 2010
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of Linux Foundation, as quoted by LinuxPlanet on Apr 15, 2010: Could Google be the company they are today if they were written on [Microsoft's] .NET? Could Facebook? The answer is no, you need an open platform that you can own yourself, modify, customize and scale. Miguel de Icaza, on his [...]
Lightworks to go Open Source?
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 15, 2010
EditShare recently announced they will be introducing Lightworks Open Source Program, a professional video editing software package. Best as I can interpret the press release, the move to Open Source will be gradual and will start with a free download later this year. It’s not 100% clear to me that this means they are releasing Lightworks [...]
More on GPL and derivatives
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 13, 2010
More Nerds Argue Remember those Nerd Lawyers arguing over the GPL and plugins? Now there are some Nerd Professors arguing over the same thing. This blog is interesting because it contains a host of opinions, all well-stated. If I understand the consensus (such as it is), the answer to writing non-GPL plugins to a GPL [...]
Site News: Testing identi.ca
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 12, 2010
I’m testing identi.ca and blog integration. I’m using thesourcedotcom on identi.ca, and trying the Network Publisher plugin. Rationale I’d like to see if announcing the blog content on a Social Networking site increases the reach of the site. I define “reach” as number of visits / comments / emails I get. I chose identi.ca because [...]
Celebrating Apple’s Rules?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Propriatery Technology on April 12, 2010
Every once in a while I get rational correspondence taking me to task on something I’ve said. I sincerely appreciate hearing criticism, because I loathe the “echo chamber” effect and welcome the challenge of strengthening my arguments. So I was quite happy to receive an email that contained the following: [W]hen I read your new note, it almost [...]
KDE 4.4 Positive Spin
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 9, 2010
I just ran across KDE 4.4 Positive Spin over on Brain Dump – my first time seeing this blog. The author, Andy Crouch, makes a good point: It’s interesting to see that even now, 2 years down the line people are still bringing up the KDE 4.0 release. Perhaps it’s me but I don’t (either [...]
Matt Asay On IBM Patents
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Patent System on April 8, 2010
Wow. I don’t often agree with the Canonical COO, Matt Asay, on many things and even when I do in general, I often find myself in disagreement with details. In Mr. Asay’s recent piece “IBM patent claims show open source has arrived“, that’s not a problem – because I disagree with everything, filled as it is with inaccuracies [...]
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