In true open source fashion, the community debates the most important issue of the day
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775
I for one, think we should remove the kernel version number from dmesg output. I mean, it's changing all the time anyways.
Read more »Gianugo Rabellino gives a refresher course into the cloudy status of current Microsoft proprietary reasoning: just give us the dough!
Read more »When someone searches for OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC or any other popular open source package on the internet, are they necessarily going to get the genuine article?
Read more »Now that Microsoft and SUSE have announced they plan to continue sleeping together, I wonder if the folks at Techrights are rethinking their plans to pull the plug on Boycott Novell?
Read more »The LPI gets into very bad company and heads off to play in a proprietary corporate playground.
Read more »Today Attachmate laid off an unknown number of U.S. based Novell developers that were working on the open source Mono project.
Read more »In a world of technology openness is often treated as an imperative, something that has to be preserved or promoted as something inherently good. I’ve been a long time believer in this idea myself, but as I watch the evolution of technology I’m beginning to question its value and underpinnings. What exactly is it that makes openness worthy of a pedestal it’s often being put on?
Read more »This, as we've argued, is not a defect of the Adobe business model, it is the business model. The fact that Adobe won’t maintain compatibility across versions for such basic functionality seems hugely anti-consumer, but obviously very good business.
Read more »Recently word started getting around that the terms for getting apps on Windows Phone 7, and indie games on the Xbox, have changed. Now, programs submitted to Microsoft cannot have any code licensed under a copyleft license. Even if a single file is licensed under a weaker copyleft license like the LGPL, Microsoft will apparently reject it.
Read more »The game is Luguru, from the humble indie bundle. Apple's not responding to copyright owner's emails.
Read more »La retpaĝaro nun malfavoras kelkajn vortojn, kiuj estas fifamaj ĉe defendantoj de aŭtoraj rajtoj pri verkoj laŭleĝe nedisdonendaj de ajnuloj, eĉ ĉe serĉoj ne koncernantaj tiajn verkojn.
Read more »Florian Müller (the English spelling of Müller is Mueller) has a problem. He has no provenance. To quote Wikipedia:
Read more »While reading Florian Müller's claim that Android infringes on Oracle's copyrights, I noticed how much what he was saying looked like Ken Brown's from ADTI's claims. So does Florian work for ADTI?
Read more »An anonymous reader writes "From the article: 'Apple is being sued for allegedly letting mobile apps on the iPhone and iPad send personal information to ad networks without the consent of users.'
Read more »The new version 1.0.4 of libimobiledevice, a library for communicating with Apple's mobile devices, now supports the recently released iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices
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