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Posts tagged open source
Heresy!
Sep 13th
Please don’t label me a heretic for saying this, but has anyone ever thought what life would be like if Microsoft (ptooie) stopped fighting Linux and Open Source and brought out their own distro?
Imagine: Microsoft Linux
Now that’s an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one.
Oh, just fucking great…
May 17th
This is so typical really.
I find some nice backend software for running the site, and then the developers release a new version, and change the whole licensing scheme.
Unfortunately I opted for a non-opensource engine that was available for ‘free’ for personal use, which is what I’m doing. However, some of the things I’m doing in the background are now, according to their new license, deemed as ‘commercial use’, which is a very broad generality in their license since it covers some questionable (to my mind) items.
Well, this wouldn’t have really been a problem at their old prices, but I’m certainly not going to pay $299 ($199(!) intro price) for a commercial license for this software.
Stuff that, it’s easier to move to a proper GPL system. Fortunately I have already found a system that will do what I want, it’s just a pity that I came across it AFTER I had setup MT. Just as well it has a kind of crossgrade facility, otherwise I would be sitting here banging my head against my desk.
Open Source Hardware?
Mar 4th
This article, and others like it, really lead me to believe that one day soon, there are going to be more and more garage startups where people are going to start building ‘Open Source‘ hardware.
I mean, think about it. With hardware manufacturers building more and more restrictive hardware, what are people going to do about it? I’m sure as shit not going to upgrade my mobo’s bios to one that supports DRM. Not because I don’t believe in it (which I don’t), but because I don’t want my hardware dictating what I can and can’t do with music (or any digitial multimedia content for that matter) that I own.