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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Nice weekend.
Started the weekend early, as I took a day off on Friday. We went to Albi with Clo, took some photos (B&W shots to be developed, scanned and uploaded). It was really cold and we even had a little snow! Did not work on Sylpheed-Claws; did not work on anything, almost didn’t touch the…
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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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