A scandal has been brewing in Latvia over the last half year and yesterday the activity spiked shocking the media and some IT people in the country. I’ll go back and explain what happened first, what is happening now and why this could have a heavy impact on IT and journalists in Latvia. At the [...]
UK ISPs erect “Great Firewall of Britain” to censor Wikipedia I used to use Eclipse in UK and recommended it to others, but they are now involved in this censorship scandal. Unacceptable.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
In light of Ted’s post on copyright, it is clear that we are bogged down by a hostile terminology. Copyright infringement is not piracy – gunmen on seas killing people, looting ships and holding hostages is piracy. Copyright infringement is not theft. When my bike was stolen, I no longer had it. Stealing a bicycle [...]
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Catching up on blogs, emails and Debian mailing lists I see that nothing really important has happened while I was off-line: the dunc-tank caboodle escalated and died down when the majority voted that it was not worth the commotion, some people got upset at some other people and decided stop working on Debian because of [...]
Apparently the government agencies in UK that are managing the current security craze have little to no idea how much their super-paranoid security policies acctualy cost. It appears that direct losses from one day of air traffic chaos costs airlines 175 million pounds. Everyone who has their flight delayed for more then an hour for [...]
There is a transcript of RMS Turino speech up on Groklaw. So to follow up on my earlier thoughts about GPLv3 I will look at the transcript of RMS’s speech in Turin and write down what I think about it here, so I can refer to it later and maybe so that other people can [...]
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Ok, I read the first GPLv3 draft. I found multiple problems, some good, some quite bad: Section 2 – The output from running it is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a work based on the Program.: does this mean that documents written in Abiword is covered by GPL? [...]
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