Rejecting Mono II: Banshee Boogaloo
Background #1 If you follow the so-called “Mono Debate”, one of the most common defenses – to be very generous in calling it a defense – is that users don’t care about the language, platform or other such “plumbing” that the application was built upon. Background #2 The attempts at getting Banshee to replace Rhythmbox as [...]
Synchronicity: Amarok in the Field
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on October 19, 2010
I recently had an opportunity to put Amarok to the test: at a 2-day outdoor rock festival I promote, I dragged out bits of my mini-home studio to provide backstage BBQ and after-party tunes. The Gear You can see from my awesome photography the basics: a laptop (running KDE on Arch), a couple of Mackie [...]
Rejecting Mono
Background #1 If you follow the so-called “Mono Debate”, one of the most common defenses – to be very generous in calling it a defense – is that people who object to Mono are “freetards”, or “zealots”, or otherwise ideologically driven past the point of rational thinking. The implication, often outright stated, is that opposition [...]
Patent Madness
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 7, 2010
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-in-the-telecoms-trade/ I am sure, it’s all about innovation and NEVER hindering your competition…
Microsoft becoming the next SCO
Posted by admin in Microsoft, Patent System on October 5, 2010
Steve Ballmer tells it best in his own words: Android has a patent fee. It’s not like Android’s free. You do have to license patents. HTC’s signed a license with us and you’re going to see license fees clearly for Android as well as for Windows. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/03/ballmer-android-aint-free-microsoft-gets-paid/ And some desillusioned people still believe Mono/Moonlight would [...]
Happy 25th, FSF!
Posted by Jason in Free Software on October 5, 2010
Wow – 25 years and going for the Free Software Foundation! Amazing to contemplate not only the impact the FSF has had on Free Software, but also how the importance of Free Software increases as computing in general spreads throughout ever more aspects of daily life. Some people seem to think that Free Software used to be [...]
Microsoft’s “anti-Linux” tactic
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux, Microsoft on October 3, 2010
Short, but interesting article over on Seattle Times, “Microsoft using anti-Linux tactic against Google’s Android“: The lawsuit Microsoft filed against Motorola and its use of Google’s Android phone software is awfully familiar. Microsoft used the same tactic against Linux when the open-source software reached critical mass in the data center and threatened to derail the [...]
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