Mono Apologists on Wikipedia
Ran across another funny example of Team Apologista activity on Wikipedia today. Checking them logs For a long time, I would get a bit of traffic now and again from the Wikipedia page on Moonlight, as someone had placed my exceedingly brilliant analysis of 10 Problems with the New Moonlight Covenant. Today I was looking [...]
Netrunner Blacklight Released!
Huzzah! So, the official (and huge) ISO for the second release of Netrunner is up, out and available right now! (torrent) Here’s the distrowatch announcement. Moving to KDE The biggest change in this version is moving to KDE for the desktop. Something important to understand about that: when I say “KDE for the desktop”, that doesn’t [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation on Software Freedom
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Open Source on July 13, 2010
Microsoft’s Potemkin Village CodePlex Foundation has an interesting Venn diagram up:
The Corporation and the Community
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Open Source on July 12, 2010
Ran across an interesting story on Slashdot this weekend: ScienceBlogs.com, a high-profile and respectable collection of scientific blogs, is in a bit of a kerfuffle after including a paid “nutrition” blog from PepsiCo. In response, some bloggers have left the site, others are on hiatus, and some call the whole thing an overreaction. The PepsiCo blog [...]
Concern Trolls and Free Speech Nazis
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Open Source on July 2, 2010
I’m a big fan of The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe, and HSIC Steven Novella has an excellent blog entry covering “dissent” in the skeptical movement, “Concern Trolls and Free Speech Nazis“. Proposition The whole thing is worth a read (in fact, everything Dr. Novella writes is worth a read), but his commentary on a [...]
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