“[A]s a matter of law, the house is haunted.”
–Stambovsky v. Ackley, NY appellate courts, 1991(!)
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
the GPL is not a monopoly
09-Nov-06Nice smackdown ruling by Judge Easterbrook. For a 6 page intro to antitrust pricing law via discussion of the GPL, go read. (Yes, he does make a fundamental error about selling GPL’d software in the first paragraph or so, but otherwise, sound.)
Obviously SFLC has a dog in this fight :) but their quickie commentary on the MS patent pledge is here.
I haven’t had time yet to read the agreement, so I have to take Brad’s word for it, but if he’s right, and the pledge is revocable at any time, then even if the rest of [...]
Dan Winship (who needs to blog more often ;) asked in a comment on my last post:
[W]hy is the implying-that-Linux-infringes-patents thing even controversial? I thought everyone agreed that because of the way the USPTO hands out software patents like candy, that basically every program larger than “Hello World” infringes more patents than there are atoms [...]
Havoc, slightly edited:
In proper open source, Novell (or anyone) is welcome to take my code and convince customers to buy support from them because they are a big company and I’m just some guy on the Internet. But Novell (or anyone) is not welcome to proprietarize my code. If I wanted them to take [...]
Sigh. China is going to get free legal search before we do. C’mon, Google, get your act in gear :)
Some people were apparently offended by my post a couple weeks ago about being ‘prayed for’. That has bothered me a bit, and I want to take an opportunity to clarify that. I’m not anti-Jesus and I’m not anti-Christian, I’m just anti-assholes-in-the-name-of-Jesus. But I’m not eloquent, and didn’t convey that in my post.
In contrast, John [...]
novell and MS- some open questions
02-Nov-06I wrote nearly 1500 words on Novell and MS earlier in the evening, but I think I’ll sit on most of them for now as I think them through some more. [Disclaimer: I spoke to Nat on the phone for a bit this evening, and I used to work for Novell, left on good terms, [...]
gallery performance tip [was: apologies for performance problems with tieguy.org this morning]
02-Nov-06Apologies for any performance problems with tieguy.org this morning- for some reason my gallery is getting pounded and it is bringing the whole machine to its knees. I really wish the gallery guys would focus on performance for their next release- the current situation is just abysmal :/
[Coincidentally, last night I swapped out the old [...]
what I’m using for a GNOME business card
02-Nov-06Máirín put up some cool-as-usual biz card mockups, which reminds me- I’ve picked up a couple hundred cards from moo.com of late. Fun stuff. On the back of the GNOME cards I’m using this:
GNOME is still people.
Click the picture for a larger version. Enjoy and re-use. Generated (still) with the utterly awesome metapixel.