Wrong answer.
giant by brom. License:
The six month release cycle is not an all-controlling god, and bugs in one known, specific subsystem are not undebuggable without wide release (which was KDE’s most valid excuse). If it isn’t ready for wide use, it isn’t and shouldn’t be a GNOME .0. It isn’t ‘too late’ to decide [...]
A new blog, dedicated to fact-checking spurious claims in open source blogs. Reminds me a bit of my own adventures (1, 2) in open source journalism. :) I will be keeping an eye on this blog; hopefully it becomes something useful and which others check before promoting openly false posts by others.
never too old, by LinBow, used under a CC-SA license. Thanks, LinBow!
yay rockstar coder! I remember my own such patch; I think it was to fix a metacity or panel build problem. Let this be a reminder that even bug guys or artists can contribute to code; if you’re reading this, and you’ve been wondering [...]
My post yesterday was all too brief. This one will be equivalently long, sorry. Some clarifications:
First: gnome is not ‘in trouble.’ [1][2] GNOME is people, and so, of course, we should be excellent to each other.
But GNOME is also humans. This is not to defend being an asshole (more on that below) but every organization [...]
[See also this followup, which goes into much greater depth and is important to read for anyone who is interested in the subject of this post.]
I’d like to join those (1, 2, 3) who are kindly asking Murray to retract his comments and use this year’s elections to really voice his opinion. –Og
I’m not really [...]
As I just announced on foundation-list, I’ll be running again for the Board this year. This will be an unusual candidacy. I will not be running to do various and sundry board tasks; I’ll be running to do exactly one thing:
legal work- a vote for me is a vote that says ‘Luis should be the [...]
Because people asked…
Q: will you be doing a Q&A on the Red Hat and Novell patents suits?
A: Are you crazy? :) I’ve worked for both companies and managed a team that may well have written or implemented the code at issue. I’m not touching that in public with a ten foot pole. :)
Q: but! but!
A: [...]
“Free software… refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software…”
–Free Software Definition, emphasis mine
“closing the [ASP] loophole would infringe on certain peoples rights and he [Moglen] didn’t see any way to preserve everyone’s rights…”
– Eben Moglen, as paraphrased here
[The rest of this post is not based on any conversations with FSF/SFLC [...]
Thinking about the Open Service problem
As Havoc mentioned, I’m putting in some time on thinking about what an Open Service Definition (to parallel the Open Source and Free Software Definitions). I present here a rough draft of a framework for evaluating such a definition. It is not the definition itself, nor a license/technology/business model/etc. which [...]
