Good news from slashdot today: the EU procedure on software patents has been restarted! This means it’ll be harder for the pro-patents lobby to push it down our throats (like, say, during a fisheries meeting). Here’s the GrokLaw story, and the FFII article (in french). Big thanks to everyone involved in this! And…
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PCLinux launches!
My best friend Yann, who runs Develog, a service company oriented towards free software and customer respect, just launched PCLinux, an online shop dedicated to selling configurable PCs, exempt from the so-called Windows tax. The machines come pre-installed with the distribution you choose. Let’s hope this’ll work as Yann wishes, as he already put lots…
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Way to go, Open-Source!
From Nat Friedman’s blog, Andrew Overholt’s blog, and referenced in Havoc Pennington’s one, you can see nice flash demos about bleeding edge free software. Congrats, people, you’re leading the open-source world and you provide demos that no one can read without using proprietary plugins. I find that ironic, at best….
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Screaming for mercy!
Aften having told Alfons that a patch he sent to port Hoa’s MailMbox plugin was not really needed because There’s already a port of it in the gtk2 branch, I seem to remember not porting the GTK part of it due to laziness. Well, at least my « port » compiled. Hum….
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Slowness, and upgrading
Some people just can’t be bothered to program efficiently. Probably because they don’t suffer from it, while using their stuff on gigahertz-class machines; I invite them to check their work on my old server, just look at the time Wordpress needs to render this page, or here (and this is just the index page!) Compare…
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