This is something that has been on my mind for quite some time (think years), but I’ve refused to blog it, because it goes against the beliefs of many of my friends. In short, this post is going to hurt, but I just can’t hold out on it any longer.
Question: Are you one that pirates [...]
With all the whoo hah about why GNote sucks for Tomboy, mono is patent encumbered software by Microsoft, people eating FUD for breakfast, and other things, one argument I’ve failed to read is this:
GNote can bring Tomboy to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as Red Hat will not ship mono with its flagship product.
Whatever Red Hat’s [...]
Chuck, I read your post regarding Jono and the EFF choosing Twitter over Identi.ca, and ask the same questions you are: “If you’re about Freedom and Liberty, then why choose a proprietary standard when an open one exists?” However, at the bottom of your post, you mention that you don’t mind proprietary software, saying that [...]
Goodbye Twitter and your buggy service. Goodbye Jaiku and your spammy bot. Goodbye Pownce and your 20 users. Hello Identi.ca and Free Software. Reasons for switching to Identi.ca for my microblogging service:
The code powering the service is Free Software, licensed under the GNU Affero GPL.
Create an account and login to the [...]
I just caught up on my feeds, and read Carthik Sharma’s post, Installing Vista Fonts In Ubuntu. From a completely Free Software standpoint, I’m going to argue why you would not want to do this.
First, is the license itself, which should always be looked at when dealing with fonts, media, codecs or software. [...]
Guess who I just got off the phone with? Well, if you read my blog, and read my last post, I bet you can take a good guess. At 20:23 pm, just 1 hour ago, I got off the phone with Rob Bishop, my congressional representative.
First off, I would like to thank Congressman [...]
Fundamentalism: Movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles.
Fanatic: An emotion of being filled with excessive, uncritical zeal, particularly for an extreme religious or political cause, or with an obsessive enthusiasm for a pastime or hobby.
You can call me a fundamentalist fanatic when it comes to music, online radio [...]
You’re treated like a criminal out the door. I won’t go into WPA, the patent policies with Novell and Xandros, or the fact that you have to enter a serial number every time you want to install the operating system. In other words, the average Joe and your grandma aren’t the subjects of [...]
There are only 9 days left, until Open Discussion Day, and I am posting this to remind you of the event and the purpose. Open Discussion Day is May 19th, every year, and it’s a day where you drop your legacy IM protocols in favor of open protocols, such as Jabber/XMMP.
I blogged about this [...]
This image will circumvent Digital Restrictions Management on HD-DVD AACS disks. I have licensed this image under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States license. Enjoy!
UPDATE 2: Groklaw covered this post and Justin’s. Comments following are insightful, and far outstretching the content here. Read more here.
UPDATE: Justin wrote up a good review of the conference on his blog. You can find his post here.
I had the opportunity today, along with John, Kyle, Justin and Mike (some local [...]
Phil Windley described in a recent post about a book written by author Archibald Putt (not his real name). He mentions a key point in I.T. and government, namely:
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
I’d like [...]
There have been a couple changes lately in my professional life, namely becoming an Ubuntu member, and now, joining the EFF. Both are important to me, and both are helping guide many decisions in my personal life. You may have noticed the EFF badge at the right in the sidebar. Well, that’s [...]
If you aren’t aware of the recent scare in the industry, you should take a look. Below are two images that are hyperlinked to their appropriate sites, both with a single focus- to protect your freedoms. Each have their separate campaigns. I would encourage you to sign up at both sites. [...]
So I’m about a day behind delivering this story. Sorry about that.
Texas and Minnesota are debating making the move to ODF following the example of Massachusetts, for all of the official government documents. This is good news for ODF supporters and fans. Not so good news for Microsoft and Office [...]
