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A copyleft license [1] could probably eliminate most invasive proprietary "value-add". Though that might hinder adoption, being just a dump pipe or a box mover isn't very profitable. Hopefully companies are getting desperate enough to give up on Apple-like profits.

1. A license that requires derivative works to be distributed under the same terms

Apparently Einstein had an FBI file: http://www.fbi-most-wanted.com/albert-einstein.php

The page sends the filename to desktop browsers base64 encoded. Cute :).

High-level languages are more than just syntactic sugar.

Even Symbian recently got a POSIX-layer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.I.P.S._Is_POSIX_on_Symbian I have no idea how complete it is, but they did manage to port Qt.

Google Chrome Frame could also be helpful here. Macromedia somehow managed to get most people to install their terrible plugin.

Yeah, but false positives would cause non-hilarious problems.

I can't wait to see the implementation. Maybe they'll do something interesting like making use of Cygwin or virtualization.

I don't know anything about the details, but apparently it's mostly GPLv2 or later: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/COPYRIGHTS

IIRC, The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX is good: http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort

It's compliant with FSF's definition of free software (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) and Debian's guidelines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract).

Stallman himself agreed that it was a good thing for Xiph to relicense their libraries from the LGPL to a permissive free software license (http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/icecast-dev/2001-February/00...):

In response to the change of license, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation says, "I agree. It is wise to make some of the Ogg Vorbis code available for use in proprietary software, so that commercial companies doing proprietary software will use it, and help Vorbis succeed in competition with other formats that would be restricted against our use."

I don't think it's mean to be useful; just male nerds bonding over their (presumed) shared sexuality.

That's probably the cruelest thing I've ever read.

You may not be able to just feed Flash WebM files: Adobe has only committed to supporting the VP8 codec, not Vorbis or Matroska (http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/05/adobe_support_f...). I wonder if the primary purpose Flash video will be making timeshifting impractical for normal people through weird formats and protocols.

Does anyone know why the link to the fast version is called Linux/Unix? Is it just to make it salient to nerds?

Most porn is quite distasteful, and streaming sites' tags are generally a mess (if they are even implemented).

I think the Whitehead quote applies as is: unnecessarily complex syntax makes me stupider.

They licensed tech from Imagination Technologies for their low-end GMA500 chip.

Found an article on switching to Vim after two decades of using Emacs: http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca/notes/Thoughts_on_editors.ht...

And another one on converting to Emacs from Vim: http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/10/from_Vim_to_Emacs...

Oracle has a project to run the metacircular JVM Maxine directly on Xen: http://labs.oracle.com/projects/guestvm/

This could create interesting situations with botnets.

Oops, that's embarrassing. Should've read all the way through.

I remember something like this called Liskell, but I think it died.

From the chief GNUStep maintainer: http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2010/11/gnustep-is-not-opens...

I'm reminded of this post: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1562#comment-18623

If Notepad understood Unix newline characters, I'd have no complaints.

The source code inanimate. The GNU manifesto says that users shouldn't have arbitrary restrictions imposed on them; this has individual and collective implications.

Did you explain to her what source code is and explain OSI's definition of open source (you know, DFSG rebranded)?

Google is sponsoring a free competitor to one of their proprietary solutions. I wonder why.

I think unfettered Unix sounds good.