Richard Stallman. That’s right.  Now, there are many things that the man has done that have been effective, and the man has worked hard to ensure that we have freedom in the vast world of software.  But recently, he has stated that Miguel de Icaza “is basically a traitor to the free software community,” and [...]

Yeah, alright.  Those are words I would never have thought I’d see in a title in a blog post, “thanks to Microsoft.”  But, it is true.  Microsoft is adding C# and the CLI to the list of technologies that it promises it will not sue for.  This is Microsoft’s “Community Promise”, which means that to [...]

Since 1996, when I was introduced to the concept of free software and the GNU/Linux operating system (in the form of Slackware), I started to take a look around and found myself amazed at what was the free software community then. Watching it build massively amazing pieces of software that are second to none in [...]

I just read a surprisingly stupid and inaccurate article regarding “IPv6 [being a] gateway to hackers.” Aside from the obvious fact that they meant “crackers” and not “hackers,” (because crackers are the people that break security with malicious intent, while hackers are the people that create software programs and systems like operating systems, Web browsers, [...]

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 [...]