A lot of media reports seem to have missed that Microsoft have said very explicitly that they consider patent licences mandatory for anyone who wants to use the interop info they’re going to publish. This makes it pretty much unusable by free software, so this PR stunt is no more than that. Below is a Read more »
Because Apple encrypted the pre-installed firmware, the Rockbox and iPod Linux projects have been unable to port their after-market firmware to the iPod nano 2nd generation or 3rd generation. I’m a very happy user of Rockbox on my iRiver H10, so after receiving an iPod as a gift, I was very disappointed that I couldn’t Read more »
With ISO’s Ballot Resolution Meeting starting next Monday (Feb 25th), there’ve been a few interesting publications today: DIS-29500: Deprecated before use? by FSFE’s OOXML working group, explaining why Microsoft’s format was undeserving from the start, how it now fails even its own criteria for usefulness. A Pre-BRM Miscellany, "Photo ID requirements, badged access to the Read more »
Bruce Perens’ 10 year look back at the "Open Source" marketing campaign reminded me of another anniversary coming up. On September 27th, it’ll be the 25-year anniversary of the GNU project’s announcement, and thus, of the free software movement. That’s a biggie. What to do? Maybe something should be done to record the history of Read more »