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Announcing Stallman's Law-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 24, @12:12PM

An anonymous reader writes "First there was Moore's Law. Now there's Stallman's Law."
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Comment: Re:Great, but how about patents? (Score 1) 526

by jxself on Friday October 28, @05:55PM (#37874978) Attached to: Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source

Except that you only get the patent license if you use the software that Apple provided. The independent implementation used by FFmpeg, for example, doesn't.

Comment: Re:And? (Score 2) 134

by jxself on Monday May 09 2011, @07:39AM (#36070680) Attached to: AMD To Support Coreboot On All Upcoming Processors

And even then, every tweak made by a motherboard manufacturer has to be taken account of. It's like saying the AMD "supports" running Linux on it. Course it does, but it doesn't mean that the computer can actually run Linux usefully (Argh! Flashback to the days when a lot machines *couldn't* get basic support under Linux working without patching an tweaking).

It is much easier when you have support from the manufacturer. Previously, AMD would provide preriodic code drops and makes their engineers available. Now, one of their more recent contributions provided the same code that BIOS manufacturers get.

OpenSPARC Gone?-> 0

Submitted by jxself on Sunday November 22 2009, @11:48PM

jxself writes "The opensparc.net website has been down for a few days. Is the project gone? I was wondering if anyone from the Slashdot community had heard anything?"
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Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? 541

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20 2009, @11:36AM
from the nice-step-towards-world-domination dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though..." The suggestion has been bouncing around the Portland Linux community, where Torvalds lives. Is it worthy of wider attention and discussion?

Comment: Video (Score 2, Informative) 202

by jxself on Tuesday January 01 2008, @01:21PM (#21875486) Attached to: Computer Glitch Halts Seattle New Year's Fireworks

A video of the event in H.264 video and AAC audio of if you're interested: http://aws.bluehome.net/2008.mp4 (Listen for the booing in the background.)