Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Poked at Kiwi recovery bug. Bed early.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
