“In this particular case, though, the naming issue seems rather to distract attention from freedom, so I’d rather focus the attention back where it belongs,” [Stallman] said.
But no, he’s not getting it. He’s talking about the “Linux trademark fracas”, rather than the “GNU credit fracas” we’re used to.
The deepest and most insightful comment I have ever read on OS News goes something like this: “Yes, it’s brown. So is chocolate. (Which makes sense because Ubuntu is the Godiva of Linux distros.)”
What a stunning thought.
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Havoc, the main thrust of your response was about valuing design skills in the development process. Note that I didn’t question this at all in my entry, and I explicitly distanced my comments from the specifics of the notifications discussion before I began.
You don’t need to defend the skills of Bryan, Seth, Calum and others. No […]
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John, I agree that Davyd’s reaction to this has been somewhat unproductive. However, I have resisted blogging about it for most of the day because I tend to feel the same way. Note that it really has nothing to do with the technical conversation at hand (notifications).
Colin mentioned that libnotify and friends were “not an implementation […]
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Some of our users go beyond the call of duty. Dominic White of Rhodes University in South Africa is currently pursuing the Ubuntu T-Shirt Challenge. Ingrid Brant explains the game:
The bet, lodged with Hilton Theunissen, of the Shuttleworth Foundation tuXlab project, is that if Dominic wears said shirt for 31 days in a row and we […]
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A couple of days ago, Pia and I returned from a very restful and refreshing holiday. It was definitely more holiday than honeymoon, considering the four months in between wedding and departure, but that’s pretty much what we needed. Life has been complicated recently. I will write more about the holiday later.
In a few hours, I’m […]
