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Good Luck Pete!

2006 11 07 Comments (0)

IceWeasel, Here I Come

Well, it’s rather unfortunate that the relationship between Mozilla and Debian ended this way. The whole argument over a trademarked logo is a little silly if you ask me. I look at this argument, and I see Mozilla to blame.
Mozilla: get over it. Open the logo and realize that no one is [...]

2006 10 11 Firefox
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Drawing the Line

Well, I’ve come to a conclusion on my personal conflict with supporting a Linux distribution that uses and ships with non-free software. I don’t have a problem with it. In fact, quite to the contrary. I think it is wonderful that Ubuntu ships it. And I don’t think that Ubuntu stifles [...]

2006 10 08 OSS
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Personal Philosophy Problems

I came across something that is problematic for me. I guess I really knew it all along, but today it hit home, and I put 1 and 1 together.
By default, Ubuntu ships with two repositories that are fully supported: main and restricted. These two software repositories include all the necessary software to get [...]

2006 10 04 OSS
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Bloggers Are Journalists

You can read all about it here at Groklaw. In a nutshell, the Appeals court held up the ruling that bloggers are journalists and have the legal right to protect their sources. This came via the Apple v. Does litigation. Glad to see that free speech is wining.

2006 05 27 General Comments (1)

Over and Out

Blue Security is no longer fighting the war on spam.  Another victory for the spammers.
So I guess I get to join the file and rank of “bend over and grab your ankles” when it comes to spam entering my inbox.  Downloading filters is what to do, right?  Out of sight, out of mind?  Out of [...]

2006 05 17 Security Comments (1)

Pete Ashdown for US Senate

I am concerned about my freedoms online, and my digital rights. I am concerned about software patents, licenses and other such issues that seem to be plaguing the computing industry like locusts. Unfortunately, I live in a very conservative Republican state. Not much is being done in the right-wing camp about such [...]

2006 04 19 Comments (0)

Points of Clarification

A follow-up post is needed to explain many of my positions in greater detail about previous posts I have put on this blog. I will address them in order.
-Open Discussion Day
This post seems to be the most misunderstood of all. I don’t know if people are just skimming the post looking for highlights [...]

2006 04 18 Linux
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Proprietary Software in and Open Source World

Before I begin going, let me ask a question. Think about it for a second. Should proprietary software belong in open source Linux?
Now if you gave that any thought at all, 80% of you are running proprietary software in your Linux box. Whether you are using ndiswrapper for your wireless, playing DVDs [...]

2006 04 18 Linux
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Hiccups

I hate ‘em.  Nothing is worse than getting the hiccups.  Escpecially when they are very violent and seem to last for a long time.  Well, yesterday, I just got a major hiccup, and this one is going to last for a long time.
Two days ago, I posted about Open Discussion Day, and how I will [...]

2006 04 13 Gaim
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ODF Versus OpenXML

This is something I do not know a lot about, and hope to get a better grasp. However, from what I am reading online, I am not excited by the moves Microsoft seems to be making agains OASIS and the Open Document Format (ODF). Here’s what I see:
Microsoft just made a major move [...]

2006 03 31 General Comments (2)

UGOTTA

I have the opportunity to work with a great guy.  He is very open minded, and a strong open source and free software advocate.  In fact, politically, his views are right inline with the Dali Lhama.  If there would be one word I would use to describe him, it would be “expression”.  As such, I [...]

2006 03 16 General Comments (0)