User: darteaga

Re:GPL Violation?

On: Open Source VLC Media Player Coming To iPad

Apple retired a GPLv2 application from the app store at, because the FSF was asking Apple to comply with the GPLv2:

http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance

So I guess that this means that both Apple and the FSF Foundation agree that the app store terms are not compatible with GPLv2. As detailed in

http://www.fsf.org/news/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-gpl-enforcement

the key point seems to be that GPL explicitly says:

"You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.",

and the app store agreements impose further restrictions.

Seamonkey also updated

On: Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 Released

Seamonkey, the new version of the old mozilla suite (Netscape-like) has also been updated. The release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases /seamonkey1.0.2/.

Microsoft proposal?

On: Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop

From TFA:

"Before his critique, Gates showed off a new "ultra-mobile computer" which runs Microsoft Windows on a seven-inch (17.78-centimeter) touch screen. Those machines are expected to sell for between $599 and $999, Microsoft said at the product launch last week."

Does Bill think that their Windows-powered $600-$1000 machines are a better alternative than the $100 MIT laptop? Of course, they are a better alternative for Bill's company... but are they a better alternative for the developing countries?

Bugs solved from RC2

On: Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC3 Released

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/200 5/11/17/15rc3-available/

Notice that RC will be the final version if there are no new bugs.

Dark matter still needed in cosmology

On: Good bye Dark Matter, Hello General Relativity

Even if the article was correct, and dark matter was not needed to explain rotation curves in galaxies, dark matter is still needed to explain the acceleration of the universe, its large scale structure and the primordial anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.

Great day for linux

On: Mandriva Linux 2006 Released

With the release of the big three* user oriented linux distros: SUSE 10.0, Mandriva 2006 and the RC of Ubuntu 5.10.

(*) No flame intended.

New browser features

On: Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/new-brows er-features.html

Re:The actual article

On: Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist

What can one wait from a paper written in Microsoft Word?

(Almost all articles in the area of theoretical physics are written in LaTeX.)