Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Breakfast with Sue & Clive, packed the tente eventually and went for a walk & blackberry picking. Pleased to see the linuxtoday editor's note:
How often do we hear "Someone needs to...." market Linux, fund development, make OEM deals, lobby government, and so on? What they're saying is someone else needs to. For FOSS to succeed it needs a strong, genuine, active grass-roots base, and that means you, me, and every Linux and FOSS user. If we abdicate, then the suits take over and it becomes just another strategic element for big business, and we get locked out. Of course that is ultimately self-defeating for businesses, too, ... If Free/Open Source software supporters are serious about how wonderful and valuable FOSS is, a lot more of us need to get off our buns and figure out how to become contributors.
I like Andy Upgrove's comment there: "What people look at as community property should be put into non-profit foundations." Amen - though Upgrove's analysis of the copyright issue is I feel naive - can (C) subsist in APIs ? we will see no doubt; that is the crux of that issue.
Drove to my parents' unpacked everything; feeling pretty awful - sinus wise; watched some of The Sound of Music - caught up with Robert & Ilona, Thomas & Becky.
Robert - having bought a new shirt in town, discovered later that he had also purchased a free bulky electronic tag, including ink as well; and what with the shops being shut had few options for removing it. Tragically on-line you can buy a simple key to remove thus; after some wrapping with a bag, removing the long handle, and hack-sawing through its centre-line from that direction it eventually yielded (and no ink anywhere in evidence) - fun.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2010-08-14: Saturday.