Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up, M. slept well, horay. Builders returned (finally) to get the side-way roof affixed; good stuff. Poked at mail, drifted to sleep and - somehow stumbled on a really nice set of n900 videos (NB. viewer caution advised: there -may- be (some) non-free software on the N900 [ next to the ton of great Free software ], and you -might- need to use a non-free player to view the videos; Death to the pragmatists !) - woke up in a cold-sweat, to discover the world is still sane.
Talked with the MariaDB guys a little, some similarities and differences to the OO.o world; we are optimistic that Oracle would find it hard to do a worse job than Sun of stewardship, whereas they are less so.
Prodded Clarity. Quote for the day, from Eben Moglen's EC submission, (point 35. - considering unlikely negative scenarios):
Experience shows that the trademark attack is likely to fail. Popular free software programs with large personal as well as enterprise install bases have been denied use of their "brands" in the past. GAIM was denied use of its name by AOL and became Pidgin; Phoenix became Firebird became Firefox, which in turn denied use of its name to the Debian browser version now known as Iceweasel. Lawyers for free software projects have learned that name changes are of minor concern to projects substantially based around commons production, and that trademark forms a poor way to restrict commons development.
Eben's latest Update is also interesting, in particular the suggestion that an eclectically owned GPLv3'd MySQL would be a good thing, which understandably concerned Monty. What a tangled web of pragmatic business and Freedom interests; most interesting.
Poked at Kiwi recovery bug. Bed early.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2009-12-15: Tuesday.