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Slashback: Forbes, VoIP, Firefly
Hey, this approach works for the New York Post ... digidave writes "The fallout from Dan's Linux's Hit Men article on Forbes.com has pushed Forbes.com into putting up a discussion board, where Dan [Lyons] has posted his response"
And unmadindu writes "FSF's Bradley Kuhn has responded to the Forbes article ( reported earlier at Slashdot). Read the short, but to-the-point response at Linux Today." Kuhn's response is remarkable in its restraint.
Reader Waldo Jaquith sent the text of Lyon's first posting; an excerpt serves to illustrate its tone:
"Of course the Free Software Foundation is entitled to enforce its GNU General Public License (GPL), just as other organizations are entitled to enforce their copyrights and licenses. My article simply points out that the paradoxical effect of these "enforcement actions" (FSF's term) may be to impede the adoption of Linux. By demanding that licensees publish source code for their own "derivative work" code (in addition to the Linux they're using) the FSF is, in effect, charging a royalty that approaches 100% of the value of the licensee's product."Some of the postings in response are very impressive; I especially like this one.
Dragonfly Forum Logs are scintillating reading. drdink writes "SlashNET would like to thank Matthew Dillon and everyone who attended the Dragonfly BSD Q&A forum session. Logs are available both in text and HTML formats."
You get to keep your base. Stealthgirl writes "The Hidden Agenda Game Development Contest, which received quite a bit of interest but also a lot of flak for its IP rules, has adapted the rules to appease those who were griping on sites like Slashdot. Check out this post for more info." Up to the entrants to decide if they like the rules of any contest, of course.
Leech friendly, with public Mandrake 9.2 torrents. An anonymous reader writes "Public torrents for the first two of the Mandrake 9.2 ISOs are up (I and II). Anybody cares to share the third?"
Sir? It's reality calling, on line two, from Anywhere. Marcelo Rodriguez (gardel on Slashdot), editor of Voxilla.com, writes: "We've posted the complete text of Federal Judge Mike Davis' ruling in Vonage v. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission on Voxilla.com. ... It's pretty much a slam dunk for Vonage and VoIP. Judge Davis wrote that Congress mandates that 'that information services such as those provided by Vonage must not be regulated by state law.' He also wrote that 'State regulation would effectively decimate Congress's mandate that the Internet remain unfettered by regulation.'"
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...And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me." - Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
I've just installed it, and it is a lot easier than the Famous SuSE 8.0 (the first KDE 3 distro). First of all, the command line is hidden very well. This means so much for the average user. No xterm's are installed by default, and the run program dialog is disabled. Mandrake shows that a command line free Linux is possible, and is making it a reality, even if it has to drag the geeks screaming out of emacs and vim (because Kwrite is so much easier to use!). I for one will not be using it again, because Mandrake has removed all reason for me to use it.
It's already excellent hardware dectection has improved once more, EVERYTHING (even my obscureist hardware) "just works".
The new graphical boot is really slick. The previous ones told me that everything is supposed to be [ ok ], but I didn't know what the hell is supposed to be [ ok ]! So thats good too.
The faster, more reliable OpenOffice 1.1 is included too! No more waiting for ages for it to load. This is probably the most important thing of all!
Good selection of games, with games like TuxRacer, Amergnatron, Chromuim, LBreakout, FrozenBubble and more. Theres always wine as well for your DirectX games.
It now has the totem media player, which is based off the Xine Media player. Simple, no frills interface that does what its supposed to do, play video files, and do it well!
Overall, i think Mandrake 9.2 is the easiest, yet most powerful Linux distro yet. It will defenatley gain new users, as well as swiping users from other Distros! Slackware and Debian users will really appreciate the Simplicty and the package management (urpmi is very powerful, and unlike apt-get it uses the RPM format, which is required for LSB compliance.) So stop punishing yourself with the command line, and come into the cozy GUI. This is the Linux I'll be giving to my mum, my freinds and to the masses. This is the true power of opensource, with the power to harness it!
Please see "exploit". As inigo would say, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I think what you really mean is appropriate.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The TV show is being released on DVD, including the unaired episodes. I'm looking forward to that.
Joss is working on a script for a Firefly Movie. It's still in the early stages, so it's still speculation if and when it might actually show up.
..wayne..
The article didn't have it, but here is Dan Lyon's response to the outcry about his column.