November 27, 2007 – 04:06
As a result of some confusion (and sadly, some very active, ugly and offensive muck-raking) in various sections of the community recently, I thought it might be interesting to do a review of GNOME’s relationship with Novell and some of the people involved in that relationship.
Due to my position as a director of the GNOME Foundation, […]
November 21, 2007 – 05:26
Federico, you might be learning the wrong lesson from this story, or possibly seeing only the Nail du Jour?
You don’t need a distributed revision control system to do the right thing by the communities who power your products.
If Novell had done this work upstream in the first place, it would have saved everyone a lot of time, […]
November 20, 2007 – 21:03
Here’s a listening suggestion for Saturday, November 24th, 2007: Powderfinger’s 1998 platinum release, Internationalist. Put the album on, open the windows, and crank it up!
Vision is rejected, the peoples choice is tested
So ignorance has won
Children are infected, remedy suggested
Dont drink from poison cup
Overpopulation, media sensations
The damage has been done
November 19, 2007 – 05:18
Cool plugins on blogs.gnome.org
“Here’s a quick tour of some of the rocking sweet plugins available on blogo!”
(tags: gnome blogs blogo plugins)
Deadline Hollywood Daily
“[Mrs Ari] doesn’t read ‘Variety’… she reads ‘In Style’.” — Ari Gold. If you want to know what’s going on with the WGA strike, dodge the brand name entertainment press and read Nikki Finke instead.
(tags: […]
November 18, 2007 – 23:04
You shouldn’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched, but you can definitely count your Google hits before election day.
We’re having what we’ve called an “election party/wake” next Saturday, but if the consistency of the polls over the last twelve months (and more recently) is anything to go by, there’ll be more chardonnay than tears at the […]
November 18, 2007 – 19:47
Check out Barton George’s interview with Glynn Foster during Sun’s recent internal OpenSolaris and FOSS summits. Covers some cool stuff about Glynn’s history in GNOME, OpenSolaris, Indiana and the zen of time-based releases.
Moving from Sun’s GNOME desktop team to the OpenSolaris marketing team? Guilty as charged!
November 18, 2007 – 17:08
“When people buy commercial software, really what they’re buying is a guarantee. You’re buying a guarantee that what you have will perform, and has been tested and there’s someone you can call up, and if things go really bad someone’s liable if something doesn’t work.” — Microsoft’s Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy
Of course, when Hilf says […]
November 18, 2007 – 05:17
Mens Donde Estan Mis Pantalones T-Shirt at PalmerCash.com
“¿Donde están mis pantalones?” — Jaq found my t-shirt. But not my pants. Estoy siguen buscando mis pantalones!
(tags: pantalones tshirt via:jaqx0r)
Update: It has been pointed out by helpful commenters that my Google-assisted Spanish is shockingly bad. Touché. ¿Soy caliente busca mi maestro español? Something like that.
Update: Xan notes […]
November 17, 2007 – 05:20
Antony Green’s Election Blog
“After resisting for a long time, I’ve finally committed to do a bit of blogging for the last week of the campaign.” — Antony Green, whose mere presence makes the Australian electoral season so great, starts blogging.
(tags: antonygreen blog election politics abc analysis)
Mac4Lin Screenshots
A retread of the OS X user interface built with GNOME […]
