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Eggloft 2009 photos have been uploaded! Flickr gallery: here.
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Starting to make some progress. Eggloft 2009 photo gallery started here.
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The Eggloft 2009 invite is up on facebook and open for all to attend:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=72575574777
Unfortnately I think you need an FB account to view it. I'll try to figure out a way to link to it publicly or else I'll post more information here.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=72575574777
Unfortnately I think you need an FB account to view it. I'll try to figure out a way to link to it publicly or else I'll post more information here.
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This evening while I was watching over Roxy Puppy and Charlie, Charlie was easily the angel. While Roxy consumed nearly my full attention to stop her from ransacking the place, Charlie sat peacefully next to Yoda in the recliner and read his book.
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I went to a talk this evening at RPI by Richard Stallman: software freedom activist and founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation.
It was quite interesting and thought provoking. Stallman is clearly over the top with his evangelism and I can see where the FSF vs. Opensource friction may come from. Of course I didn't even know about it until today.
One thing he cleared up for me was what the point of Gnu General Public License (GPL) v.3 was for. GPLv3 closes the loophole from "TIVO"ization. Actually what TIVO did was quite clever (and rather obnoxious): the company used the GNU/Linux operating system and ultimately complied with the GPL by providing the source code for their modifications. However they designed the hardware so it would not run any modified versions! Effectively, you were free to hack the code, but it was useless because the hardware would not run it! Trixy... and contrary to the software freedom ideals.
It was quite interesting and thought provoking. Stallman is clearly over the top with his evangelism and I can see where the FSF vs. Opensource friction may come from. Of course I didn't even know about it until today.
One thing he cleared up for me was what the point of Gnu General Public License (GPL) v.3 was for. GPLv3 closes the loophole from "TIVO"ization. Actually what TIVO did was quite clever (and rather obnoxious): the company used the GNU/Linux operating system and ultimately complied with the GPL by providing the source code for their modifications. However they designed the hardware so it would not run any modified versions! Effectively, you were free to hack the code, but it was useless because the hardware would not run it! Trixy... and contrary to the software freedom ideals.
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