There is some irony to be found in the fact that you didn't pay attention long enough to notice this has nothing to do with KDE. Nobody has said KDE will be switching. Heck half the KDE-based distros I've seens didn't even switch to KPackageKit.

This is in no way surprising but... the statement was made on the Symbian Nokia blog. Until 31 March the posts there were made by their HEad of Open Source including one on 31 march saying the source code was available and they'll be uploading the rest in coming days.

The "oh we didn't mean that kind of open" post was made by "admin" and has no signature declaring what dept "admin" is in. So it appears that this is not a decision the Open Source team were either aware of or perhaps happy with? I'm just guessing here of course but I think the fact that this latest statement doe snot specifically come from the open source team speaks volumes.

From TFS and TFA it's just petrol cars that will be banned. Cool! I'll stick with my motorbike then (actually by 2050 I'll be 80s so a motorbike might be quite fun.)

Agreed. The D in CAD can stand for design or draughting/drafting. Civil, Structural and HVAC engineers for example will make heavy use of the latter for plans (what most lay-people call "Blue prints").

agreed and while we're at it, there's BRL-CAD (3D modelling) and QCAD (2D Drafting) as well. QCAD has a dual licencing model and has been around for some time.

I'd not come across the Open Library before but I'm beginning to see they have as a warped definition of the word "open" as some software companies do.

From their About us page:
> Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open...

From one of the DAISY protected books...
> There are two types of DAISYs on Open Library: open and protected. Open DAISYs can be read by anyone in the world on many different devices. Protected DAISYs (like this one) can only be opened using a key issued by the Library of Congress NLS program.

The DAISY website is as clear as the OL one in regards to what this "protection" means but as far as I can tell it's about DRM. Something I would say is far from open.

+1 for English ppl against any such move.

Aside from that though we should remember that this crap appears (mostly) from the right wing press pretty much every time the clocks change. This story is just that - a story. The other key indicator is the "plan to scrap May Day" rubbish that is rolled out everytime a Tory government gets in.

> "For the United States, the choice is clear; on the spectrum of Internet freedom, we place ourselves on the side of openness"

Oh that's good - I'll let Julian Assange know.

I agree with the "too much whitespace" comments. It gives the whole page too much glare and - for me - makes it harder to read. This may be related to the fact that I have one of the more prevalent forms of colour-blindness (protonopia) which leads me to another issue I have with the new design: links are shown in a colour which has only subtle differences to the main text. Thus without running my mouse along the words in a summary (links in a comment have the site name next to them) I can no longer find the links. I know this is /. and nobody reads TFA anyway but this is ridiculous.

Yes i can fix this with a custom stylesheet but you wanted to know what we thought.

From what I can see (this is /. of course I've not watched it all) this just puts a line of vehicles all under "control" of a single driver. So what happens if the lead driver loses concentration or has a blowout? Do they all slam into the back of each other? Even if they can "disconnect" from each other the individual drivers may not be not get enough notice they are about to regain control of their vehicle and thus the pile-up could still happen.

Or have I missed something here?

Interesting point and one I agree with and I suspect we are not alone. Indeed some have recently argued that free software should not only have a "universal app store" but that it is the way forward. I'm not sure I agree with that but it certainly flies in the face of Wales' remarks.

whoosh

FTA: "Satnav’s only the tip of the iceberg. Connect your phone to access your music collection, read your Twitter feed, check the latest headlines or perform any other function on your dashboard"

As a motorcyclist I really hope I'm not anywhere near a car driver reading their Twitter feed or the latest headlines on their dashboard! It's bad enough when they're sending SMS or changing the song! Yes I know they probably mean that you should do this when stationary but to be honest for most of the drivers I see this means "while at the lights or in traffic". The last thing they need is more distraction.