Ruminations on the Digital Realm


Archive for July, 2007

Show us the Code bullied into silence

A few months ago there was a great online petition going on from people inviting Microsoft to sue them for alleged patent infringements. It was exactly the kind of thing you might expect from the blogosphere and perfectly suited for the digital world that is the communicationsbackbone of Linux and open source development.
Yesterday appeared a [...]

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

I happen to appreciate GPL v3

After a long discussion the new GNU General Public License was released. It would be safe to say that version 3 has met far more discussion than version 2. The Jem Report even claims that GPL 3 could be the end of GNU.
I’ve no doubt that this is the beginning of the end for [...]

Monday, July 2nd, 2007