Linux Arpeggiators
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 22, 2010
Hey ho! Dave Phillips over at Linux Journal has up a series about Linux Arpeggiators: Linux Arpeggiators, Part 2 Linux Arpeggiators, Part 1 Reading Mr. Phillips’ excellent articles and working on some musical stuff recently got me to thinking about back when I first moved over to Linux. One of my major concerns was on the audio [...]
Canonical COO on Innovation
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 20, 2010
You don’t innovate if you spend all your time talking and working with people that agree with you. You learn by confronting hard questions and answering them. Canonical has a culture of tackling hard problems, and that starts with serious, critical introspection. I’m just one piece of that, but I’m hardly alone in believing we [...]
OMG BUTTONS ON THE LEFT!!!
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 19, 2010
If you follow Ubuntu at all, then you are probably aware that there are some big UI changes coming up. I don’t currently have any machines running Ubuntu – I do have one desktop running Kubuntu – but I like to keep up with the distro. The good First off, check out Mark Shuttleworth’s explanation [...]
Eben Moglen: Freedom vs. The Cloud Log
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 18, 2010
Glyn Moody interviews Eben Moglen. Mr. Moglen lays out a very interesting idea of de-centralized servers – mainly of the social networking type. The basic argument as I understand it is: If you have all this personal data on someone else’s servers they can (and will as we have seen) give it up with very [...]
What is “Ubuntu WebNow”?
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 16, 2010
In a recent Q&A with Matt Asay on Linux.Com, Mr. Asay says: The desktop – including Apple’s – hasn’t materially changed in the past 10 years. Real innovation, therefore, is happening at the edges of the desktop: in the cloud (tying desktop software to server-based services), for example, but also in new form factors (which [...]
GNOME Foundation Charter: I’ve read it. Have you?
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 15, 2010
GNOME is part of the GNU project and supports the goals of the GNU project as defined by the Free Software Foundation. Free software licensing has always been a mainstay of GNOME, and we must ensure that this tradition continues. GNOME will include only Free software. From the GNOME Foundation Charter. About Me I’m a [...]
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 [...]
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