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Some info on BSD history: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable by Marshall Kirk McKusick
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Intel pro 2200 bg works perfectly

WUSB54G Linksys (uses a Ralink chipset which dosn't work with WPA anymore after network-manager was integrated. Waiting for some new drivers that are in...

I would complain to the Competition Bureau of Canada. Include all documents, communications, etc where Dell has said MS does not let them, and therefore, you get a rightful refund on goods you don't...

Here's the thing though -- those all have reasonings behind them. It would be FUD otherwise, but RMS has proven extremely precient. Eben Moglen's arguments are very persuasive and thought through,...

Yes, you've just told us that MS killed superior products by listing those. Why don't you read what happened to Groupwise and Wordperfect (here's an antitrust complaint that details how MS sabotaged...

No, they haven't. They actually destroyed all the innovators. Computers suck these days compared to the potential of BeOS. BTW, you're all for capitalism, yet you are ok with monopolies? ...

I think Vista already has this. "Network Application Protection"...or something similarly-named.

I think a redesign to GNOME HIG is really important. Can't you detach GNOME toolbars from the main window? So then you would have the same functionality but with greater effect since then...

Don't most people use (reverse engineered) things like ffmpeg nowadays? Gstreamer has a plugin for that.

w32codecs aren't used very much anymore AFAICS. And thanks aysiu for that interesting...

I'm pretty sure Fluendo purchased several codecs under a BSD license and it was big news a while back. Like gstreamermp3 . And of course it's good business for them to make some money so an option...

Yes it's nv compared to Nouveau that they're talking about.

nv is the nVidia open source (but obfuscated) 2d driver
nvidia is the nVidia closed source 3d driver

Still, the fact that open...

I enjoy reading about SCOX and MSFT. The former is just for laughs, and the latter is pure interest.

The LKML post context is the midst of a debate. If you want to see the other side, this is Linus debating with a _RED HAT_ employee/engineer who's also a member of the FSF, I think in South America....

This is a 'weird' article...it's dated July 10, yet the LKML post is from June 20.

Anyways, some nice things about GPLv3, link to the blog has the full list, this is just condensed:
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Great news from Groklaw's New Picks Now the binary wireless drivers have no excuses other than 'we don't WANT to open the code'. I know that Ubuntu's policy is to allow binary wireless drivers in...

Oh there's a whole background to that story. They made Quicktime incompatible as well because it threatend DirectX, ended up pirating Quicktime with Intel around 1994, etc. The 1997 Apple deal was...

Wow! Thank you, I'll have to bookmark this page as I read them. I hope you get on Digg, too.

Peer to Peer like Bittorrent also gains an exception in GPLv3, all you need to do is point to the source.

That's a very sweeping statement. How about businesses or self-employed people using Linux and the hypothetical Adobe Photoshop? The BSA wouldn't be happy with that (although of course the BSA...

Here's the letter I sent them in case anyone wants to use it:

I am very disappointed with your web site. I cannot access your "apply online" (...

Free software -- "Free as in speech, not beer" :P

What an awful website. It doesn't even work with FIREFOX or Opera or my Internet Explorer 6 on Windows for some reason, it stops after passing everything, (with Opera, it freezes at...

Anyone else think they'll probably score some deals with Dell/other OEMs selling GNU/Linux with this? I also love,



in a big yellow box. Cute :)

Well, maybe, but then anything they do has to be GPL'd (I'm thinking of QT, MySQL dual-licensing here), and so the product benefits but so does the company (who is the copyright holder)!

Sometimes I really, really enjoy SVJN, and I sometimes I don't. It's truly odd.