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  1. Re:Excellent... by jaaron · · Score: 1 · on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support

    Dropline Gnome Rocks.

    I've used slackware for a number of years and either Fluxbox or Dropline Gnome for my windows environment. Dropline is just amazing and there's really no reason for Slackware to carry its own Gnome version.

    A couple of my blog entries on Slackware & Dropline:

    http://www.jadetower.org/muses/archives/000010.htm l
    http://www.jadetower.org/muses/archives/000095.htm l

  2. Re:Excellent... by jaaron · · Score: 1 · on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support

    Dropline Gnome Rocks.

    I've used slackware for a number of years and either Fluxbox or Dropline Gnome for my windows environment. Dropline is just amazing and there's really no reason for Slackware to carry its own Gnome version.

    A couple of my blog entries on Slackware & Dropline:

    http://www.jadetower.org/muses/archives/000010.htm l
    http://www.jadetower.org/muses/archives/000095.htm l

  3. The Point of Free Software by jaaron · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Mozilla Cracks Down On Merchandise Sellers

    The point of free software is to provide a common base from which all people can profit.

    Uh, the point is they (Mozilla) wanted to use a license which allowed users to have access to the source code. Anything above and beyond that is reading into the motives of the developers (in this case, originally the Netscape company) and supposing all open source developers have some sort of unified altruistic mission. There is no single open source movement. Open Source describes a licensing scheme and, perhaps, to a degree a programming methodology (though that's a stretch). Thus each organization or company which releases software under an open source license can do so for many reasons, but that doesn't necessarily mean they do it to "provide a common base" or that "all people can profit."

    Some organizations and individuals have made Open Source into a sort of social-political movement. The foremost of these is the FSF. But not everyone agrees with them, nor needs to.

    Read the GNU Manifesto... the goal is to have software available for free.

    Mozilla does not use the GPL. It uses the MPL which is very different. Additionally, Mozilla is not part of the FSF, is not "free software" in this sense, and can have completely different goals from the rest of the so-called open source movement.

    The first mistake most people make when evalutating open source software or the individuals and organizations which produce such software is to assume there exists a united effort with a single goal. Such a case is just about as likely as all humanity having a common purpose and single goal.

    More on this subject at my blog

  4. Just installed it last week by jaaron · · Score: 1 · on Slackware Turns 10

    I worked with slackware before, but ended up going with RedHat. Recently I decided to upgrade and wanted something new. After trying out a number of distros, I ended up going back to Slackware. I love it. And I just installed dropline-gnome, a Gnome environment customized for Slackware and WOW does it look nice.

    If you're really interested, I put a short article about it on my blog:

    http://www.jadetower.org/muses/blog/archives/00000 8.html

  5. Re:Plain English of Licenses? by jaaron · · Score: 1 · on NASA Report Advocates Switch to Open Source

    Good idea.
    I'm starting to put something together on my wiki site.