Spent some time discussing/arguing free software with RMS today. Was good, I think, all things considered- he’s clearly a bright guy, and though we have major disagreement about tactics and probably some minor disagreements about end goals, I think I understand him better now, and I hope he understands me (and maybe even GNOME) better.>
Outside [...]
In the ’small world’ category, a lawyer sat next to mibarra and behind me on the train to the GNOME Summit today. He asked why there were 15 people in front of him, all apparently madly hacking. Mibarra explained a bit about who we were, and eventually he mentioned that he was aware of the [...]
jfleck: Very cool. libxml, the gnumeric and abi folks, moz/ephy, and (IMHO) above all the folks working on multimedia and multimedia codecs *cough*DeCSS*cough* are doing really important work.>
RandomThought: I’m currently watching some football, and just saw another Dell ad pushing Linux on the server. Hope to see those for Linux on the desktop at some [...]
Saw Finding Nemo last night. Very, very cool to see Sawfish all over the ‘making of’ documentary and one shot that briefly contained a gnome panel. Those people badly need us to reinvent Expose :)
Sometimes I think bugworkers need their own website or something, so that we can swap bits like this. Hyatt is, as usual, right on the money.>
I also got a nice note from a former gnome/evo bug volunteer, who is now contracting with $BIGCO to QA some of their open source drivers. I thought that was [...]
Spent last night answering board questions.Telsa picked some really good, hard questions. The toughest ones to answer, of course, were the ones that we knew were problems last year and have failed to resolve, like the one about transparency. Overall, I do think the board had a good year, but it took a lot of [...]
I finally posted my pictures of my trip to Bangalore at my website. The team itself is also slowly spinning up- they’ve filed a number of patches this week, slowly figuring out the ropes of nasty raw C and good old ‘diff’. The plan for now is pretty simple- they’re just working their way through [...]
