Silverlight Promotion on Planet GNOME
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Novell, Propriatery Technology on January 9, 2010
A bit of a rant here, because guess what greeted me when I began checking my RSS feeds today on my lazy Saturday morning: Remember that whole promoting proprietary software on Planet GNOME kerfluffle? I know this will sound insane, but I think a huge-ass button saying “Install Microsoft® Silverlight™” might possibly fall under the [...]
And So It Begins Again: Microsoft Joins SVG Group
In what I predict will lead to an new round of old tactics, Microsoft has joined the W3C SVG Working Group. [IE Blog Announcement] [CNet Story] [Slashdot] The primary point of interest to me in this is the idea of Microsoft joining a Working Group for a technology that it has been pointedly ignoring for 11 years, and for [...]
InformationWeek on RMS
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 6, 2010
Synchronicity on the intertubes today! David Berlind has an article up today about his recent interview with RMS over at InformationWeek.com. Behold this shocking reporting!: After the interview’s conclusion, Stallman said I was particularly nasty in the way I started to ask my question to which I responded that I understood the issue well, that I have [...]
GPL Barter Cycle
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 6, 2010
To wash the taste of 180 proof ignorance out of my mouth that the last post left, I was happy to find a nice discussion of the GPL Barter Cycle on Groklaw. What’s so great about the image is the discussion it breeds. Everyone can benefit Several people pointed out that the blue arrow should [...]
Better to remain silent…
Posted by Jason in Free Software on January 6, 2010
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln Some people don’t grok Mr. Lincoln. Anyway, check the link to hear how one brave soul calls out the GNU Project as “failures as developers and as free software idealists”. It’s also painfully ignorant how [...]
2010: Open or Free?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Propriatery Technology on January 5, 2010
Terminology An old and reliable debate trick is to chose the terms. Prime example: “pro-life”; if you disagree you must be either “anti-life” or “pro-death”, right? Chosing a nice fat loaded term attempts to win the debate before it has even started. It’s a good strategy, because it is effective. If you want to control the [...]
More on the Moonlight Covenant
Reactions are coming in from all over now about the new Moonlight Covenant and I have yet to run across one that thinks it is a good thing. This means More Moonlight Covenant problems in addition to the 10 I already laid out. Moonlight still not acceptable in Fedora Unsurprisingly, the new “covenant” doesn’t change Fedora’s [...]
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