So back on this topic again today. I am going to take a look at a few different statements here in this post, and then I’m going to go over them and explain why these statements are or are not correct. Should you wish to verify any of my information, you’re more than welcome to [...]
This post is a bit of a “brain dump” of sorts for some thoughts that I have as to replacing AllTray with a more versatile, powerful, and robust tool to handle various needs of users when it comes to taking applications and docking them to the system tray. Why? I’ve used AllTray for a long [...]
Alrighty, so I wanted to play with Mono 2.0. I thought about packaging it up, but the packaging for Mono in Debian and Ubuntu is extremely complex, and would have taken me a lot of time that I simply don’t have. So, instead, I wrote a BASH script that pulls Mono 2.0 and friends from [...]
Here is an interesting short article on ExtJS and the GNU GPL. First off, if you are a developer (open source, closed source, doesn’t matter), you need to know the area of licensing. You should actually have read, studied, and understood at least the most popular licenses out there, so that you know what you [...]
SCOX: 0.40 -0.04 (-9.48%) – The SCO Group, Inc. Not that I was terribly worried myself, anyway. Of course, with Novell owning the rights to Unix, there is the entire question of what they’ll do with that. Hopefully, they won’t be influenced by their “partnership” with Microsoft to use the Unix source code rights to [...]
Welcome to GPLv3 — GPLv3 Version three of the GNU GPL license is released and now available after much revision. It is a good license, and I watched the streaming Ogg netcast of RMS announcing the release (or as much of it as I could—they were using a 700kbps stream, which is big as far [...]
I just received some mail from the GPLv3 mailing list that the Free Software Foundation maintains, and it is an essay titled “Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3”. In it, RMS notes that the GPLv3 protects against “tivoization”, or the embedding of GPL’d software into computerized appliances which prevent modification. This is, of course, a [...]
