Fedora 13: Punny Stuff

Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 10, 2010

I like Fedora, and just got done with playing with F12 on my netbook. (I have Jolicloud on there now, I usually try 2-3 distros a month on it). Anyway, Robyn has a pun-filled blog post about the F13 – code named “Goddard” – release slogan “Rock it!“.  … Yeah, I think that’s brilliant – [...]

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Moonlight’s Olympic-sized failure

Posted by Jason in Novell on March 8, 2010

Another zealot for the list maintainers to add.

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GNOME Foundation Drama III: Part One: Moonlight

Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 8, 2010

I don’t know about “free software”. Even after more than a decade it’s still an alien term for me. I know it is “opensource” for as far as I’m concerned. And that’s all I care about. – Philip Van Hoof, GNOME Foundation Member Usually I turn to HBO or Showtime to provide me with my [...]

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Another win for best of breed software in Ubuntu

Posted by Jason in Novell on March 3, 2010

Blast from the Past This is just something I think is funny.

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When Nerd Lawyers Clash: WordPress and the GPL

Posted by Jason in Copyright, Free Software on March 2, 2010

If WordPress were a country, our Bill of Rights would be the GPL because it protects our core freedoms. – WordPress Blog I’m a fan of WordPress: not only is it the best blogging platform I have ever used, but it is also a big proponent of the GPL. WordPress is a great example of high-quality, useful [...]

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Site News: MS Quotes on FLOSS

Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Site News on March 1, 2010

I recently completed moving over my collection of Microsoft quotes on Free and Open Source Software to the site! This is a compilation I used to maintain on my old personal blog, but I’m trying to consolidate things here instead of across multiple different sites. Here’s my original announcement, but let me repeat the most [...]

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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 [...]

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