I recently read the discussion on the GCC development mailing list related to GCC’s transition to GPLv3. Despite generating 172 emails, the transition was quite smooth actually. I decided to read about GCC’s transition because I wanted to investigate a (false) claim which Slashdot featured on their front page. Slashdot’s story, which I now know Read more »
I have three efficiency tips. One is to tell people what your goals are, another is to maintian a todo list, and the third is to remember to eat breakfast. Obviously, I still have a lot of room for improvement, so I’m going to read Getting Things Done and see what other good tips I Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday. Dinosaur Comics – about punch A GIMP 2.4 release candidate is coming soon, and the developers are of course looking for testers and some website help. The Open Library has launched to put freely licensed and public domain books online. This looks very similar to what Project Gutenberg has Read more »
It’s proven harder than I thought to find 4 or 5 good links per day. I’m going to keep trying, but I’ll probably expand this to include some musings too – and then find a new name for the series. UK rejects music copyright extension – it’s great news, but the article is a bit Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday (July 16th 2007). XKCD cartoon: NP-Complete ordering in restaurants Mark Radcliffe on 10 benefits of GPLv3 The Converter Hoax – an FSFE article about OOXML-ODF converters Wikipedia chart of most viewed articles Google’s timeline searches, for example: GNU or "free software" See also: the archive of Yesterday’s Links. — Read more »
InformationWeek have posted a follow-up article. In trying to respond to recent criticism about misrepresenting facts regarding Linus Torvalds and GPLv3, InformationWeek has managed to show exactly how incorrect their first article was. Their misleading GPLv3 article from last week drew criticism for using false evidence to suggest that Linus is on a new anti-GPLv3 Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday (July 13th 2007). MP3 of Jeremy Allison on Samba and GPLv3 Microsoft’s OOXML format fails to get support from the USA standards body (at least for now) Free software for learning Japanese – I checked the licences and all three programs are under the GNU GPL In a discussion Read more »
From Friday June 29th to Sunday July 1st, FSFE held its annual meeting of the General Assembly in Brussels. Starting at 10am each morning, we were in the meeting room until 8pm, 10:30pm, and 5pm. Being an employee, I was there as a guest. In preparation for the meeting, a two year executive summary of Read more »
LINUS CALLS GPLv3 "A FINE CHOICE" – is a title that InformationWeek could have used for their article. It would have been very selective quoting, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for InformationWeek. Nor does pretending that old emails are new emails, or misrepresenting people. In reality, there is no news. Their article Read more »
Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday (July 12th 2007). "Gobuntu" is announced – with a good comment from Joshua Gay Recordings of Stallman and Perens at a recent Italian conference Software patents: the latest thinking Lobbying by Committee – Corporate Observatory Europe looks at how large corporations ensure that legislation is written for them, not Read more »