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NoMachine takes NX closed source
Posted by Jason in Linux, Open Source on December 22, 2010
Wow, sad to hear that the new version of NX will be “only available under a closed source license“. NoMachine NX is a very good remote desktop application, with several free and open source implementations of the NX protocol. It – either in the form of the official NoMachine NX client or the FreeNX client [...]
Mono: Unsafe At Any Speed
Just a follow up expanding on the recent Banshee/ECMA stuff. Warning: long stretches of file lists within! You’ll often hear Team Apologista (when cornered) say something like: “Maybe not all of Mono is covered by the ECMA standard, but all the bits used in Linux programs are.” (Here’s just one example from the recent Reddit [...]
Banshee, Mono, and Reddit
Got a lot of traffic last day or two from Reddit, because someone linked to my brilliant treatise, “Mono Criticism == Uninformed Hatred?” Now, I usually don’t comment on other sites about Mono/Moonlight because 99.99% of the arguments that come up are simply repeats. In my opinion (a polite way of me saying “It is a [...]
ZDNet: Blankenhorn Out, Vaughn-Nichols In
Posted by Jason in Linux, Open Source on December 9, 2010
Just something I ran across today while reading up on the Matt Asay leaving Canonical thing. Apparently, it’s Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols & Paula Rooney over at ZDNet’s “Linux and Open Source” blog now, and Dana Blankenhorn has been fired. (Please, please read that last link where Mr. Blankenhorn laughably asserts he is “right most of the time”. [...]
Matt Asay Leaves Canonical
Wow – with less than a year at it, Matt Asay announced he is leaving Canonical. No biggie, actually Mr. Asay’s departure isn’t really a big deal for Canonical or Ubuntu. For one thing, Mr. Asay was a poor choice for Canonical – assuming Canonical wanted to take a pro-Free Software position and not another sure to [...]
What Patents is Novell Selling?
Posted by Jason in Linux, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on November 26, 2010
Happy Turkey Day! According to my (on-going and slip-shod) research, here’s some speculation on exactly what patents Novell is selling to Microsoft. What patents are for sell? Only a number (882) is given in the SEC filing, so we don’t know for sure. But, we can look at patents assigned to (and applied for by) [...]
Anti-FSF Sentiment: Truth Not Relevant
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux on November 4, 2010
I find the current VLC in the App Store discussion quite interesting on a number of different fronts, but there is a specific one I’d like to point out here for the Gentle Reader’s edification: Anti-FSF People Don’t Care About The Truth Bold claim? Not really, because there are 2 ways we can come to this [...]
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