Posts tagged Moonlight
GNOME Foundation Drama III: Part One: Moonlight
Mar 8th
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 drama fix, but the GNOME Foundation Mailing List is doing a pretty durn good job of spicing it up these last few weeks. It’s so good I might have to break it up over a few entries.
New Thing: Same as the Old Thing
This latest kerfluffle (not More >
The H On Moonlight
Jan 19th
The H Open has a new article up, “Health Check: Moonlight“. Although it is a high-level overview/summary-style piece, let me point out a few things I found interesting.
de Icaza is an enthusiast and long term advocate of Microsoft technologies….
Say it ain’t so! Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza once took great exception to be called an “apologist”, I must wonder if he will take the same line over being called an “enthusiast and long term advocate.” They are quite different, I’m sure, in some way. (Perhaps the fact that the former came from RMS makes all the difference?)
Will we now hear The More >
More on the Moonlight Covenant
Dec 28th
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 stance that Moonlight is not permissible in Fedora.
One of the main reasons is a problem with the covenant that I didn’t pick up on initially, but several other people did. Call it Problem #11:
Problem 11: Novell Only, pt. 4
This one is a tricky: in the covenant Microsoft promises More >
10 Problems with the New Moonlight Covenant
Dec 23rd
So, the all-new all-updated Covenant to End Users of Moonlight 3 and 4 is up!
Here’s the text, to save you a trip:
Covenant to End Users of Moonlight 3 and 4Microsoft, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, hereby covenants not to sue End Users for infringement under Necessary Claims of Microsoft and its Subsidiaries on account of such End Users’ use of Moonlight Implementations to the extent originally provided by Novell during the Term and, if applicable, the Extension or Post-Extension Period, but only to the extent such Moonlight Implementations are used as Conforming Runtimes. The foregoing covenants shall survive More >
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