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Comment: LibreOffice is a bad idea now (Score 0) 180

by trifish (#38933193) Attached to: LibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust

Now that OpenOffice has been donated to the Apache Foundation, it is safe open source again. In this case a fork (LibreOffice) only makes things worse.

Instead of people focusing on the development of a single product, they are divided into two halves working on two forks for no good reason whatsoever.

Mozilla

Mozilla Public License 2.0 released->

Submitted by revealingheart
revealingheart writes "ZDNet reports that Mozilla have announced the release of the Mozilla Public License 2.0. The new version provides for compatibility with the Apache and GPL licenses, improved patent protections and recent changes in copyright law. The full license text is available here.

Mozilla have updated their wiki with plans to upgrade their codebase; Bugzilla have also said that they will update (with an exemption to keep the project MPL only).

The MPL was previously incompatible with other copyleft licenses like GPL. The new version is compatible (unless exempted) and doesn't require multiple licenses (as currently stands with Firefox and Thunderbird). This will allow Mozilla to incorporate Apache licensed code; but will mean that their software becomes incompatible with GPL2 code."
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Education

A World Without Schoolteachers->

Submitted by Attila Dimedici
Attila Dimedici writes "I came across a an article this morning that suggests that the Nook and the Kindle have changed things in such a way that schools are becoming obsolete. His premise is that the ideal way to teach children is by a tutor. Schools arose because those who were not well enough off to afford tutors pooled their resources to hire a tutor (teacher) for all of their children. Schools further developed because they offered the opportunity for society to indoctrinate children in the values society considered important. Until today, the indoctrination has become more important than the education.
The author's premise is that the Nook and the Kindle have allowed large amounts of written material on many different subjects to become accessible enough that parents can tutor their children at a price that just about everyone can afford."
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Piracy

GoDaddy continues to bleed customers over SOPA-> 1

Submitted by bdking
bdking writes "Despite a transparent reversal of policy regarding its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, domain registrar GoDaddy continues to lose customers to a reddit-inspired boycott. That GoDaddy was the No. 1 target of SOPA opponents — despite much larger companies also supporting the legislation — speaks to the Achilles heel of most Internet companies."
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Comment: Re:Double standards? (Score 1) 154

by trifish (#37349018) Attached to: Apple Criticized For Not Blocking Stolen Certs

I don't care they reacted quickly. It has happened TWICE to Comodo.

It's about trust. I don't trust amateurs who can't even learn from their own mistakes.

I've distrusted Comodo's certificate like I did with DigiNotar and the Chinese CA.

The reason not to remove Comodo can't be that they're bigger than DigiNotar. Double standards are absolutely unacceptable in this field.

Comment: Double standards? (Score 1) 154

by trifish (#37348904) Attached to: Apple Criticized For Not Blocking Stolen Certs

Comodo hasn't had just one, but two such breaches in the past few years (use the Slashdot search to find the stories).

How come their certificates are still trusted and included with all browsers and operating systems whereas Diginotar's certificates were obliterated from all browser and almost all operating systems immediately?

Is it because DigiNotar is only a regional Dutch CA? Talk about disgusting double standards then.

"If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong." -- Norm Schryer