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Comment Re:Different pockets, same taxpayers' money (Score 5, Informative) 1026

by publicworker on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @04:23AM (#26543247) Attached to: What will Obama change most in the first 100 days?

Seems to me you left out the important part of the Wikipedia explanation. "Let them eat cake" is usually attributed to Marie Antoinette (Queen of France at the time) and, according to Wikipedia:

"The context of the quote, as attributed to Antoinette, was its utterance during a famine caused by a bread shortage. Upon being alerted that her people were starving due to having little bread to eat, she is said to have replied, "Then let them eat cake." The response among the peasantry may have helped ignite the French Revolution."

Submission + - Nokia/Trolltech to License Qt as LGPL 1

Submitted by CarpetShark on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @07:22AM

CarpetShark writes: Following their acquisition by Nokia, Trolltech have added an LGPL licensing option to Qt. Qt (pronounced "cute", not "Q.T."), the main widget and OS abstraction layer used by KDE and many other Free Software projects, is roughly equivalent to the GTK+ library within GNOME. However, GTK+ has been LGPL from the beginning, which has, arguably, led to increased support from corporations such as Sun etc. This raises interesting questions on the future of Qt (increased contributions?), the future of KDE (more corporate contributions and sponsorship?), and also the future of interactions between KDE and GNOME (since they'll be using more compatible licenses).

Submission + - Qt goes LGPL

Submitted by Balinares on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @06:53AM

Balinares writes: Nokia announces today that the cross-platform Qt toolkit, which is the foundation of many open sources projects such as the KDE desktop environment, will be available under the LGPL license as of the next version, Qt 4.5. The former GPL/commercial dual licensing of Qt had been a source of controversy in the open source community for many years.

Comment Re:UK != England (Score 1) 132

by publicworker on Monday October 13, 2008 @04:29AM (#25352457) Attached to: English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software

True, but I also heard they were trying to sell it on eBay (citation)

Submission + - Referendum Against New Swiss Copyright Law 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @05:45AM

An anonymous reader writes: Two weeks ago, Slashdot reported about the new Swiss DMCA-style law being adopted. It is worth mentioning that the site www.no-dmca.ch is now trying to accomplish this task. If 50'000 people sign the referendum, it forces a national vote on the new law!

Submission + - Help me fight the swiss dmca. (no-dmca.ch)

Submitted by

pyalot

on Sunday December 02, 2007 @12:31PM

pyalot writes: "The swiss goverment has passed a law that would make it impossible to cirvumvent effective copy protection measures. I have created a page to inform and organize a resistance against this law. If we collect 50'000 signatures until the 24th of January however, we can force a national vote on this law. Help me in any way that you can fight this law. I was first made aware of this two days ago by this article on slashdot."

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