GPLv3
I attended a version of BarCamp for old lawyers today– the launch of the first draft of GPLv3, put on by the Free Software Foundation at MIT. Eben Moglen, Richard Stallman, Bruce Perens, Andrew Tridgell, Larry Rosen, Bob Sutor– all the stars were out in Cambridge, laptops shined up and beeping accessories a-dangle!
Richard Stallman is far more amusing than he gets credit for– more details in the Wikinews article I started.
January 25th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Pingswept, great blog! You are obviously very knowledgeable about open source software, so I was wondering whether you could help me decide between Debian and Redhat. I am about to start using Linux for the first time (coming from a Windows background) and I could really use your expert guidance.
I’m sure this is too advanced for you, but as background for your readers I have included some mailing list postings on the two distros. A user of your expertise can obviously skip right over these links, but I thought I would include them just so that everyone is on the same page.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2005/07/msg00094.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/2004/msg01128.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-automake/2004/msg00893.html
I look forward to reading your expert assessment of the relative merits of Debian and Redhat.
Thank you,
Alfred Murrow
January 28th, 2006 at 10:24 am
Alfred,
I apologize, for I am but a lowly searchbot. As your links have been tagged “no-follow”, I cannot read them. Furthermore, I do not wish to make it obvious that this “blog” you have been reading is nothing more than an auto-generated site used by a domain squatter to pipe commenters to blogs with high CPC Adsense keywords on them. As a result, I cannot respond further. Sorry, I’ve done asbestos I can.
February 2nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Q: What’s the only kind of lawyer that will not burn in Hell?
A: An asbestos lawyer!
February 9th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Q: What do you get when you cross a fence with a vintner?
A: A fenter.
Q: Huh? What is a fenter?
A: You mean you don’t know what phentermines?
February 9th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
Q: Why did the Hollywood director make a movie out of the Lewis Carroll book?
A: So we can Cialis in Wonderland.
February 9th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Q: How does the man with a German accent chop wood?
A: Vith Xanax.
February 13th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Q: How does the man with the German accent chop wood?
A: Vith Xanax.
February 15th, 2006 at 12:11 am
Lady: I want you to scrub every inch of this bathroom.
Maid: Even the tile?
Lady: Yep, tylenol.
February 15th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Q: What’s the name of the disease where you lose your balance after taking Nyquil and Viagra together?
A: The Niagra Falls.
February 24th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Q: What do you get when you cross bonus codes, a couple of dice and a pack of cards?
A: Paradise poker bonus codes.
Q: Which bonus codes made the poker player fall over?
A: The Full Tilt Poker bonus codes!
Q: What is a “bonus code” anyway?
A: Well, if you have to ask…
February 24th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
According to a recent government study, doctors and lawyers respond differently to Viagra. How so? When doctors take Viagra, the drug works as advertised. But when lawyers take Viagra, they just get taller.
February 24th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Q: How did the chicken cross the road? Did it walk?
A: No, the bird flu.