Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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Plugged away at boot times, and trying to unwind something
of a proliferation of different packages and wins, and get them all
back up-stream / into Factory / SP1. Installed lots of missing devel
package pieces onto my SP1 system.
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Interested by RMS' latest post defending copyright assignment
which he calls 'selling exceptions'. His ethical case seems to rest
on a supposed conceptual equivalence between X11 licensing and
proprietary licensing. Of course, while I have to agree in the
abstract - and perhaps some proprietary licenses are reasonable:
published, transparent, under F-RAND terms etc. I have yet to see
one of these in the wild. Surely the realities of proprietary
licensing are massively removed from this. The existence of
confidential licenses, with dictated terms, and the commensurate
strangulation of the very open-ness that makes Free software (as
a social experience) work can never be a good thing.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
