Comment Re:If the feds want you they can get you. Learn th (Score 1) 114
Hi,
My mod point just expired... but this comment is just beyond spot-on. Mod up!
This is also one of the saddest comment I've read on Slashdot.
Merc.
Submission + - Google stopped submitting patents to the USPTO: wh (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
tonymercmobily writes: "About 7 months ago, Google stopped submitting patents to the USPTO. In the past, Google has been awarded some "interesting" patents, as well as some ridiculous ones even mentioning Slashdot. Then, lately, they got 200 already cooked patents from IBM. Is that because of a giant('s) writer's block? Or is Google preparing a more serious strategy to stop Microsoft from making money with Android?"
Submission + - Filtering by license not possible in Android, Ubun (freesoftwaremagazine.com)
tonymercmobily writes: "With the latest news from Microsoft, which will allow open source apps in their store, we will see more and more an abundance of per-pay applications mixed with license-free ones. What if you can't tell between free and non-free anymore? Even now, a quick search on the Android market is just not telling enough. But what do you do then when Ubuntu has the same problem?"
Submission + - Is it just to hard to only ever pick free (as in f (freesoftwaremagazine.com) 1
tonymercmobily writes: "With the latest news from Microsoft, which will allow open source apps in their store, we will see more and more an abundance of per-pay applications mixed with license-free ones. What if you can't tell between free and non-free anymore? Even now, a quick search on the Android market is just not telling enough. But what do you do then when Ubuntu has the same problem?"
Comment The actual link (Score 1) 374
Hi,
The actual link to the article is:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/googles_real_name_policy_or_why_you_are_product
The link posted in the story was an iFrame sandwich -- the one above is the actual link!
Merc.
Submission + - Linux loses its best free BBC viewer (linuxcentre.net)
tonymercmobily writes: While UK's BBC is still insisting that its (paying) users should use software that only runs on Windows and Mac, Linux lost its best programme viewer: get_iplayer. There is no link on the software's name because well, it's gone. We shall see how long it will take before the BBC site stops working well with get_iplayer. This comes shortly BBC's decision to Go DRM. This comes as irony seeing the somehow contraddictory stance of the BBC on open source. But, there is hope: Prometheus is a fork of get_iplayer and it's actively developed. Will this turn into a cease and desist letter to somebody? Maybe it's time to complain.
Submission + - Motorola's "open source" SAF is not open (fsdaily.com)
tonymercmobily writes: "Motorola released their "open source" Service Availability Framework. However, The license of OpenSAF isn't really open source after all — it's a mixture of GPL and MPL, with extra parts aimed at making sure that essential freedoms are prevented. This article highlights in red and blue where Motorola's license comes from."
Submission + - Does Microsoft have nowhere to run? (fsdaily.com)
tonymercmobily writes: "Tony Mobily wrote an editorial about Microsoft. He goes through Microsoft's attempts to beat Linux and free software, and in the end he writes: "[Microsoft] is fighting for its survival — a cornered giant struggling because it only knows one way to fight (by brute force) and it's finding that the enemy is somehow countering every attack, is adaptable, impalpable, and is winning. this time, it seems there are no plan Bs in sight.". Is this really "it"?"
