The New York LUG is having a legal-themed meeting this week, featuring James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center talking about “GPL3, The FOSS Legal Primer, and The Interaction of Licenses & Communities.” James is a great speaker and a good guy- hopefully he gets a good turnout. (I’m going to try to make [...]
I was hoping to do something like this in OOo this summer, and couldn’t. So I filed a bug. Looks like that paid off. (I also got this one fixed earlier in the summer.) Big thanks to Jan and Caolan- it might not seem like much, but making it easier for people to make beautiful [...]
I’ve been using a fair number of CC-licensed images in blog posts lately; I’ve had a lot of fun doing it- looking through and finding the pictures is often a blast. I’ve noticed others are doing more of this lately as well.
CC, by Franz Patzig, used under the CC-BY license.
Note that in all of the [...]
endlich himmelblau by extranoise, used under CC-BY license
So Red Hat is going to sell hosted servers in EC2. (see also) With my recent focus, this prompts an obvious question.
Given that EC2 is basically hosted Xen (a defacto open standard), so that you can apparently fairly trivially move a VM from your machine to EC2 to [...]
‘Trapped Clouds’ by Chris Kovacs, used under a CC-BY license
A wise and wonderful friend emailed me to say that he was glad my posts last night did not say ‘web 2.0′, as in his wise opinion ‘web 2.0′ is a pile of hooey. On this we are in deep agreement; there is no deep substance [...]
The lesson of this last post is not about gmail in particular; it is that web-based software, provided as a service, isn’t going away. If anything, it will keep expanding, because the user benefits are of a sort that traditional, user-managed software will have an extremely hard time matching.
It isn’t just that web-delivered software can [...]
In class Thursday, during a discussion of privacy and security, Prof. Moglen asked me how I do email; I told him gmail. I was going to write a long post explaining why (which will probably form part of an essay in the near future) but Jesse nails a fair number of them in one sentence:
Now, [...]
I’ve upgraded to Fedora 8 and created the appropriate F8 X41 tablet thinkwiki page. It keeps getting shorter; hopefully this time I’ll actually file bugs for everything that doesn’t Just Work so that the F9 page is ‘oh, it just works.’
Yow. (Just mentioned here at this panel.) And see also the (potentially) open side of this.
Notes from the panel on Advertising, Brands and Public Relations below the fold.
