License software under GPL, sit back and relax with a soft drink or coffee (I don't drink beer;-))
License software under BSDL and worry about who is using it illegally (without the advertising clause), devote efforts to tracking down violators and prosecuting them
Several organizations of the Sri Lankan IT industry, along with the Lanka Software Foundation and Lanka Linux User Group have worked around the clock for the last couple of weeks to create a set of applications to manage the Tsunami recovery program (URL not given to avoid being slashdotted). We made them Free and Open Source from the beginning, and most of the code are already in SourceForge.
Do you intend to say that an article about politics is more likely to be written objectively if done by a single person with a single person's biases?
Of course not. What I mean is that a model where a single article written by many is not going to work, because everybody will try to push their views into the article.
Many people writing many articles and letting the reader do the judging is the only way I can think of. And the media is, or at least supposed to be, doing exactly that.
Sorry about not getting the wording right as I was typing in a hurry.
If you see the front page of the set of applications we are putting together, you will find that the whole Sri Lankan IT industry is collaborating in harmony. For example, our company has spared some of her top caliber individuals including the Chief Software Architect and the Associate Chief Software Architect, and also the members of the R&D team (including myself who got involved in a part of the project) to work full time on this effort, and most of us work 18-24 hours a day for the last many days.
We will try to build these appls in a very generic way and will [soon] host them on SourceForge as Free Software (Open Source, if you like to call it that way;-)), so that other governments / organizations can also make use of them. Please look forward!
In case you miss the above mentioned section in Wikipedia, here is the exact quote:
At least four trucks loaded with relief supplies heading north to Tamil regions were commandeered by Sinhalese mobs and minor government officials.
There were many other incidents, and many many Sinhalese groups took stuff exclusively Tamil Tsunami victims and vice versa, as signs of friendship, but only the above appeared on Wikipedia, which gave a very wrong picture of our country. I am sure someone will soon change it.
And before you ask, I am fully commited in building applications to rebuild our nation, and didn't have time.
Most media are reporting that this is the first of this kind in Sri Lanka. I think it is wrong. Sri Lanka has a written history of over 2500 years in a book called "Mahawamsa", which is still maintained, and it reports (along with many other books and of course fork tales) a huge natural disaster in 2nd century B.C., where sea waves came upto Kelaniya (close to Colombo).
This Sunday times article starts with the latter part of the story. Complete, but brief, story can be found here and here.
This article gives a list of kings, but nothing about the disaster.
We spent most of yesterday trying to contact relatives and friends to make sure they are okey. Now we are keeping an eye on this page for new potential earthquakes.
We used to enjoy walking and relaxing on those beaches regularly. I don't think we will ever be able to do that again in a free state of mind.:-(
And anway, Colombo is exactly on the wrong side of the island to be badly hit (assuming the quake was centered somewhere to the east of Sri Lanka (well the Maldives were hit).
Not exactly. Cities in the eastern coast, such as Trincomale, Batiacaloa, Muttur etc. have been hit badly, but it will take longer for get news from these areas. At noon today, just few hours after the first wave, 150 bodies had been brought to the Muttur general hospital.
Also hurting any warning effort is how do you get a mass warning out to places like Sri Lanka? There's no mass media infrastructure and only the minimum of transport infrastructure.
Media infrastructure is not that bad here, and transport system is good enough for this type of an evacuation, given that there were two hours from the time the earthquake took place to the time the waves hit Sri Lanka. However, I don't think they did a good job in using the media to bring about a reasonable warning, which would have made a big difference in the number of lives lost (2500 so far:-( ).
Dr Clarke used to live in Barne's Place (quite far from the coast), and I don't think he has shifted. I traveled by a road closeby this evening, and there was zero damage to that neighbourbood.
However, as far as health is concerned, Dr Clarke is not fareing very well. I saw him on a wheelchair at a recent convention where he was a (the?) guest of honour.
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cAos web site is running on a non free CMS called Rife. Before [or after] you mod me a troll, look at the number of mature free alternatives CMS stystems out there.
The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".'
`Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to feel interested.
`No, you don't understand,' the Knight said, looking a little vexed. `That's what the name is called. The name really is "The Aged Aged Man".'
`Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called"?' Alice corrected herself.
`No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called "Ways and Means": but that's only what it's called, you know!'
`Well, what is the song, then?' said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.
`I was coming to that,' the Knight said. `The song really is "A-sitting On a Gate": and the tune's my own invention.'
This number should go down to 70, because SCO can't be included in the count... :-)
There was a time every single news item on the case used to boost the value of SCO scocks. Not anymore; the hype has died down.
Both, obviously... ;-)
Wonder if Microsoft wants to place a spy at Google labs!
Wonder what the exact relationship of Solaris with Open Solaris going to be? Probably, it will be something like OpenOffice and StarOffice.
Would be nice if they had a Linux port. Or if the source code is made freely available, someone would have written a clone [or hopefully nicer ;-)] UI!
Several organizations of the Sri Lankan IT industry, along with the Lanka Software Foundation and Lanka Linux User Group have worked around the clock for the last couple of weeks to create a set of applications to manage the Tsunami recovery program (URL not given to avoid being slashdotted). We made them Free and Open Source from the beginning, and most of the code are already in SourceForge.
Of course not. What I mean is that a model where a single article written by many is not going to work, because everybody will try to push their views into the article.
Many people writing many articles and letting the reader do the judging is the only way I can think of. And the media is, or at least supposed to be, doing exactly that.
The link "Stallman's announcement of GNU" is broken. It reports that "there is no group named net.usoft.".
For articles of fact, Wikipedia is by far the greatest. However, for subjective topics such as politics, too much of openness is not a good idea IMHO.
Here is an example I posted few days back.
If you see the front page of the set of applications we are putting together, you will find that the whole Sri Lankan IT industry is collaborating in harmony. For example, our company has spared some of her top caliber individuals including the Chief Software Architect and the Associate Chief Software Architect, and also the members of the R&D team (including myself who got involved in a part of the project) to work full time on this effort, and most of us work 18-24 hours a day for the last many days.
We will try to build these appls in a very generic way and will [soon] host them on SourceForge as Free Software (Open Source, if you like to call it that way ;-)), so that other governments / organizations can also make use of them. Please look forward!
And before you ask, I am fully commited in building applications to rebuild our nation, and didn't have time.
A good example is this article, which has a section biased towards the separates Tamil Tiger guerrillas. Compare it with this article on CNN.
This Sunday times article starts with the latter part of the story. Complete, but brief, story can be found here and here.
This article gives a list of kings, but nothing about the disaster.
More videos are here. One is 9 MB and the other is 105 MB!.
We used to enjoy walking and relaxing on those beaches regularly. I don't think we will ever be able to do that again in a free state of mind. :-(
Dr Clarke used to live in Barne's Place (quite far from the coast), and I don't think he has shifted. I traveled by a road closeby this evening, and there was zero damage to that neighbourbood.
However, as far as health is concerned, Dr Clarke is not fareing very well. I saw him on a wheelchair at a recent convention where he was a (the?) guest of honour.
Coding 80 hours is beyond most humans, but I am sure Alan Cox is an exception, especially when he is in the dark! ;-)
I am sure none of the mails were lost inside Iraq, as they are running GNU/Linux. ;-)