Archive for category Propriatery Technology
GPL Endrun: Value-Added Binaries
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Propriatery Technology on March 10, 2010
An interesting hypothetical over at ESR’s blog, “Plug for a worthy project: Softbound“. I encourage you to read the post and commentary after my brief summary, so you can see if your thoughts change after reading the discussion there! The Facts SoftBound is a BSD-licensed “value-added” compiler. Give it some source code and it can [...]
Get the Facts II: Electric Boogaloo
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Propriatery Technology on March 1, 2010
The Past Back in the dark ages of the early 2000s, Microsoft ran a misleading FUD campaign against Linux under the “Get the Facts” banner. It looks like “Why Microsoft” is the not-much-anticipated sequel, where – in concert with a blog running cutting edge 3.5-year old software – Microsoft will again FUD, mislead and distort [...]
Free Software, Private Property
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Propriatery Technology, Uncategorized on February 25, 2010
Michel Bauwens over at the P2P Foundation has an interesting article up entitled “Is free software private property?: In a 2003 essay, BENJAMIN HAK-FUNG CHIAO makes the startling claim that FOSS is actually Private Property, not in the legal sense, which creates a fictional Common Property, but in a economic sense, as individuals and companies [...]
What I like about the iPad
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Propriatery Technology on February 23, 2010
It’s Killing Flash Let me put it up front, Apple is not a great force for user freedom – but I am appreciative of one side effect of the popularity of the iPhone (and the expected popularity of the iPad): Flash is on the ropes. One of the big failures of Moonlight in my eyes [...]
Benjamin Mako Hill’s FSF Appeal
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Propriatery Technology on February 10, 2010
Benjamin Mako Hill has up his FSF Appeal. I’m always very interested in what Mr. Hill talks about, not only is he on the FSF Board of Directors, but he also serves on the Ubuntu Community Council (and in a host of other advisory positions for that matter). FSF Appeal Since one of my main [...]
The H On Moonlight
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Novell, Propriatery Technology on January 19, 2010
The H Open has a new article up, “Health Check: Moonlight“. Although it is a high-level overview/summary-style piece, let me point out a few things I found interesting. de Icaza is an enthusiast and long term advocate of Microsoft technologies…. Say it ain’t so! Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza once took great exception to be [...]
Fatal Flaw: On Competition
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Propriatery Technology on January 14, 2010
A long time ago in a distant blog, I had a short series of posts where each one addressed a single common (and flawed) argument. I’d like to try that same thing on The Source from time to time, so here is the first “Fatal Flaw” – I welcome your comments and suggestions! The Premise [...]
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