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  1. Luis Villa's thoughtful response by TripleDeb · · Score: 4, Informative · on Supreme Court Throws Out Bilski Patent

    Is also worth reading. Basically, while this is not a hands down win for opponents of software (or business method) patents, the upholding of the older cases (Flook, Diehr, etc.) could give some guidance on future cases that may help them rule out abstract ideas and algorithms. Villa also talks a bit about how the lower courts may see this and how he thinks they may be handling future patent cases.

  2. Luis Villa's reply to Thom by formal_entity · · Score: 1 · on H.264 vs. Theora — Fightin' Words About Patentability

    Luis Villa (lawyer who works for Mozilla) also wrote an important rebuttal to Thom's post: http://tieguy.org/blog/2010/03/26/more-patent-101-and-some-patent-licensing-201-advanced-class/

  3. Re:No, and No by fmarkham · · Score: 1 · on Hardy Heron Making Linux Ready for the Masses?

    While we're on the subject, I should also note that second only to windows, Apple updates are capable of breaking things in wildly spectacular ways - moreso than I've ever experienced with ubuntu. Yeah, Ubuntu updates never break things in spectacular ways. Oh wait... http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/08/22/still-learning-what-long-term-support-means/
  4. Re:linux support? by mrchaotica · · Score: 1 · on Thinkpad X60 — the Tablet Goes Ultraportable

    I'm getting one of these X60 tablets, and I plan to run Linux on it. Do you have any links to information that would be useful to me? How much effort did it take for you to get all this working?

    What isn't really available, and I'm sure this is what the parent post was talking about, is handwriting recognition software. AFAIK there isn't really any available for GNU/Linux (please reply if I'm wrong here).

    Well, there's stuff like XStroke, but this post doesn't sound very encouraging. One thing I have found that seems cool, though, is this equation-entry system. Imagine how cool it would be if that were integrated into a general-purpose utility...

  5. Re:Closed source strikes again by baadger · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Flubs Patch, Putting Users At Risk

    See this blog post for what I assume is the same issue and hence that this was fixed :

    "To ubuntu's credit, there was an update in apt within a few minutes of when I got to class, so I was able to fix it by apt-get'ing again."

    I don't use Ubuntu but i'm sure the several hour fix assumption isn't too far off

  6. Re:More Register flamebait by 10Ghz · · Score: 1 · on Sun's Linux Killer Examined
    The majority of distributions, like Ubuntu and Fedora?


    There are only two distributions in the world? If we look at the top 10 in Distrowatch, we can see this:

    1 Ubuntu
    2 Mandriva
    3 Fedora
    4 MEPIS
    5 SUSE
    6 Debian
    7 KNOPPIX
    8 Gentoo
    9 Damn Small
    10 Slackware

    Of those, 2 use Gnome by default(Ubuntu and Fedora). 5 use KDE by default (Mandriva, MEPIS, SUSE, Knoppix and Slackware). Ubuntu and Debian use neither by default and Damn Small uses something else.

    But hey, let's continue! Places 11-20:

    11 Xandros
    12 FreeBSD
    13 Kubuntu
    14 PCLinuxOS
    15 SLAX
    16 Vector
    17 CentOS
    18 Libranet
    19 KANOTIX
    20 PC-BSD

    Of those, 6 use KDE (Xandros, Kubuntu, PCLinuxOS, SLAX, Kanotix and PC-BSD). 1 Uses Gnome (CentOS), while rest (FreeBSD, Vector and Libranet) use something else, or nothing at all be default.

    So, the Top20 looks like this:

    KDE: 11
    Gnome: 3
    None/Something else: 6

    I'm getting sick and tired of hearing the "but all distros use Gnome by default!"-FUD. clearly, they are NOT!

    The majority of applications with "mindshare", like maybe, Mozilla/Firefox?


    Neither of those are Gnome-apps.

    and singles GNOME out as an 'opponent' when there are other desktop environments, a divisive move that Free Software doesn't have the resources to make.


    Funny, considering that I have seen official representatives of Gnome do that exact same stuff.. they talk about "the other desktop" (what is he, a marketdroid who can't say "KDE"?), and how it only has Linspire supporting it. If he wants to be the head of the Gnome Foundation (as he apparently wants to be), he should seriously consider cutting back on BS and FUD. I haven't really seen KDE-developers flame Gnome (users maybe, but that's a different thing), but here we have Gnome-developers downplaying KDE.

    What was that you said about "singling someone out as an opponent"? Maybe you should go talk to the Gnome-developers about it.
  7. Novell Desktop Released by Silwenae · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Novell Linux Desktop Released

    Luis Villa's blog has some more interesting information and links as well. (He's a Novell, former Ximian guy).

    You can download an "eval" copy, after some registration, it's 3 ISO files, but is the full version according to Luis.

    Novell has also released the source.

    Unfortunately, it's still Gnome 2.6 and some updated KDE stuff, but one of the most interesting things built in is Novell's new iFolder, an interesting way to share folders remotely, including over different OS's.

    It's based on Suse 9.1, but it will be interesting to see what changes the Ximian guys have added to it. The timing seems a bit weird though as Suse 9.2 just came out. Novell's strategy will be something to watch, to see how they position Suse Server, Suse 9.2 and Novell Linux between homes and offices.

  8. Re:missing key detail? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on GNOME Foundation Board Election Results

    AIDS, obviously.

  9. Re:Good News for Mozilla and Web Browsing by diamondc · · Score: 1 · on Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World

    Here's a screenshot of the fonts.

  10. Re:Show us your Bits!(tream fonts) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World

    In the hopes that this guy's server will catch on fire, I'll make a nice link for this one:

    http://tieguy.org/fonts.png