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 [...]
FSF: Working Together For Free Software
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Open Source on July 1, 2010
The FSF has a updated front page to go along with a new theme: “Working Together For Free Software“. On Windows I like that the FSF is directly addressing moving to Free Software on Windows. There are a host of reasons why someone might use Windows but still be open to Free Software. I don’t [...]
Is it worth porting games to Linux?
Hemisphere Games says: A little over a month ago we released the Linux port of Osmos, promising statistics on our sales and downloads. We wanted to find out – from a financial perspective, for our studio – “is it worth porting games to Linux?” The short, simple answer… is “yes.” Nice. Combine this with the [...]
On Having a successful GNOME event
Posted by Jason in Uncategorized on June 25, 2010
A successful GNOME event involves everyone having fun. If someone in your audience is uncomfortable with something you’ve said, you’re not doing your job. Apologize to them as soon as possible, and try to avoid the topic that triggered this for the rest of your presentation. Is it just me or is this an absurd [...]
On Annoyance and Free Software
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Open Source on June 23, 2010
An interesting complaint by Stuart Langridge. Same old, same old? There is actually a complex and deep issue in play here – the conflict between Free Software and Open Source Software philosophies, but what I find more immediately interesting is not Mr Langridge’s (somewhat justified) concern, but the selection of commentors, so many of which seem [...]
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