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Submission + - GNU Emacs switches from CVS to Bazaar (gnu.org)

Submitted by kfogel on Sunday December 27, 2009 @07:17PM

kfogel writes: GNU Emacs, one of the oldest continuously developed free software projects around, has switched from CVS to Bazaar. Emacs's first first recorded version-control commits date from August, 1985. Eight years later, in 1993, it moved to CVS. Sixteen years later, it is switching to Bazaar, its first time in a decentralized version control system. If this pattern holds, GNU Emacs will be in Bazaar for at least thirty-two years...

Submission + - QuestionCopyright.org seeking censorship examples (questioncopyright.org)

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kfogel

on Thursday August 20, 2009 @12:51AM

kfogel writes: "QuestionCopyright.org has put out a call for examples of copyright law being used as censorship. This is not something that's generally on the public's radar screen (since when something is censored that means people mostly don't hear about it), but it is likely to be on the radar screens of Slashdotters. Got any juicy examples?"

Submission + - Canonical fully open-sources the Launchpad code. (red-bean.com) 1

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kfogel

on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @02:17AM

kfogel writes: "Canonical has just fully open-sourced the code to Launchpad. Although we'd said earlier that a couple of components would be held back, we changed our mind :-). All the code has been released, under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3."

Submission + - "Planetary Astronomer Mike" gaining a foll (blogspot.com)

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kfogel

on Monday May 18, 2009 @06:43AM

kfogel writes: "Not sure this is a story, but the site Dear Planetary Astronomer Mike is gaining a sizeable following among techies. It's sort of like Dan Savage, but for astronomy instead of sex. Planetary Astronomer Mike gives extremely entertaining and readable answers, while still going into non-trivial scientific detail. And he includes great images and diagrams when necessary. It's a geek's delight; after seeing him consistently answer questions really well, I thought it worthy of Slashdot notice. (Disclaimer: I am not Planetary Astronomer Mike, and I don't write for the site, but he has answered my questions before.)"

Submission + - Perceptive post compares Microsoft now to IBM then (red-bean.com)

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kfogel

on Wednesday June 20, 2007 @10:33PM

kfogel writes: "Ben Collins-Sussman wrote a very perceptive blog post after reading the "Microsoft Pleads With Consumers to Adopt Vista Now" story today. He notes that a similar situation spelled the beginning of the end of IBM's dominance in the 1980's: although IBM set the hardware standards for a while, the market eventually moved beyond them, and the day came when IBM introduced a standard and *everybody ignored it*. Ben was in high-school then, and writes: "I remember thinking to myself 'Wow, this is a big deal. It's the beginning of the end for IBM.' And I was right! ... Well, I just had that same moment again [about Microsoft]". An excellent read and a spot-on analogy, IMHO. The URL is: http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=69"

Submission + - You Can Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source

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kfogel

on Monday May 07, 2007 @06:27PM

kfogel writes: "I'm submitting "Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright" as a response to Greg Bulmash's piece from yesterday ("You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source"). I think there were a number of flaws and mistaken assumptions in Greg Bulmash's reasoning, and I've tried to address them in this rebuttal, which has undergone review from some colleagues in the copyright-reform community."

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