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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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.
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)
