[News] Notion of Open Source Licensing Now Affecting Housing, Environment
Roy Schestowitz
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The Open Source House Project, Sharing Eco-Affordable Housing Solutions (Video)
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| All in all, the Open Source House Project is a web-
| based platform that offers professional designs for
| affordable, durable, modular and climate-specific
| houses. We are certainly watching this space.
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/open-source-house-project.php
Legal Compliance: Open Source and Quality Assurance
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| Software is a pervasive element in most products
| and processes nowadays. It comes from internal
| developments, from suppliers of sub-systems and
| chips, from outsourced development contractors,
| from open source repositories or simply from the
| previous work of the developers themselves.
| Software, unlike hardware, is easily replicable,
| accesses, copied and re-used.
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http://www.ddj.com/linux-open-source/221901137
Recent:
SFLC tech director finds one new GPL violator every day
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| Bradley Kuhn, the technical director of
| the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC),
| has published a helpful set of guidelines
| about the most productive way to respond
| to a suspected violation of GNU's General
| Public License (GPL). The guidelines
| caution against jumping to conclusions and
| encourages free software enthusiasts to
| give violators the benefit of the doubt.
| GPL violations are extremely common, he
| says, but most of them are accidental.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/sflc-tech-director-finds-one-new-gpl-violator-every-day.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
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JeffM
>The Open Source House Project
It's an interesting idea, but again,
with no actual source code being involved,
they got off on the wrong foot
when they used the wrong term to name their project.
Roy Schestowitz
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____/ JeffM on Thursday 26 Nov 2009 21:19 : \____
I thought the same thing when posting this because it it was called Free
_software_ they wouldn't get away with it. "Open" means too many things. "Source
also.
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JeffM
>>they used the wrong term to name their project.
>>
>"Open" means too many things. "Source also.
>
It's also pretty obvious they're using Windoze
to get ugly URLs like
http://www.os-house.org/english/os-house/Open%20Source%20House/Eight%20principles
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____/ JeffM on Friday 27 Nov 2009 06:14 : \____
Yes, Windows encourages spaces in filenames and directory names. Windows
pretends that the Web and the CLI do not exist, so the ambiguities just
get ignored.
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Tim Smith
Roy Schestowitz <newsg...@schestowitz.com> wrote:
> > It's also pretty obvious they're using Windoze
> > to get ugly URLs like
> > http://www.os-house.org/english/os-house/Open%20Source%20House/Eight%20princ
> > iples
>
> Yes, Windows encourages spaces in filenames and directory names. Windows
> pretends that the Web and the CLI do not exist, so the ambiguities just
> get ignored.
How does Windows "encourage" spaces in filenames?
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Hadron
Roy is talking through his arse again. You can tell because you see
Ahlstrom's hair flutter.
JEDIDIAH
...putting spaces in standard parts of the FS heirarchy for a start.
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____/ JEDIDIAH on Friday 27 Nov 2009 20:58 : \____
progra~1
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Chris Ahlstrom
> ____/ JEDIDIAH on Friday 27 Nov 2009 20:58 : \____
>> On 2009-11-27, Hadron <hadro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Tim Smith <reply_i...@mouse-potato.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> How does Windows "encourage" spaces in filenames?
>>>
>>> Roy is talking through his arse again. You can tell because you see
>>> Ahlstrom's hair flutter.
Said the blow-hard.
>> ...putting spaces in standard parts of the FS heirarchy for a start.
>
> progra~1
It's not Windows that encourages putting spaces in filenames, it is people.
UNIX long had the ability to put spaces (and many other non-alphanumeric
characters) in filenames. But the UNIX "convention" was for short,
lowercase, spaceless names.
I personally blame Mac :-D
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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 13:24 : \____
But Windows actually uses names like "My Documents" and "Program Files". It shows you that it's
OK to use space. Same with Microsoft Office...
It's not so hard to use dashes. File description fits in metadata and Linux has programs to
handle that. KDE4 is very good at it!
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Chris Ahlstrom
> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 13:24 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>>
>> UNIX long had the ability to put spaces (and many other non-alphanumeric
>> characters) in filenames. But the UNIX "convention" was for short,
>> lowercase, spaceless names.
>>
>> I personally blame Mac :-D
>
> But Windows actually uses names like "My Documents" and "Program Files".
> It shows you that it's OK to use space. Same with Microsoft Office...
Well, my take is that, although it makes the names more difficult to deal
with, let "normal" people do what they want.
> It's not so hard to use dashes. File description fits in metadata and
> Linux has programs to handle that. KDE4 is very good at it!
Spaces in file-names drive you nuts when writing bash scripts!
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HAHAHAHAHA!
Anyone spot the significance of that last comment?
Yes folks : Linux systems support spaces in the file names too ....
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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 15:48 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 13:24 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>>>
>>> UNIX long had the ability to put spaces (and many other non-alphanumeric
>>> characters) in filenames. But the UNIX "convention" was for short,
>>> lowercase, spaceless names.
>>>
>>> I personally blame Mac :-D
>>
>> But Windows actually uses names like "My Documents" and "Program Files".
>> It shows you that it's OK to use space. Same with Microsoft Office...
>
> Well, my take is that, although it makes the names more difficult to deal
> with, let "normal" people do what they want.
>
>> It's not so hard to use dashes. File description fits in metadata and
>> Linux has programs to handle that. KDE4 is very good at it!
>
> Spaces in file-names drive you nuts when writing bash scripts!
Also when you upload%20to%20the%20world%20wide%20wibble^H^H^H
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Tim Smith
Chris Ahlstrom <ahls...@launchmodem.com> wrote:
>
> Spaces in file-names drive you nuts when writing bash scripts!
Well, maybe once, the first time you encounter one. After that, it's
trivial to start writing your scripts correctly.
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Chris Ahlstrom
> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 15:48 : \____
>>
>> Spaces in file-names drive you nuts when writing bash scripts!
>
> Also when you upload%20to%20the%20world%20wide%20wibble^H^H^H
I hate it when a URL has characters not in my mrxvt double-click-selection
set:
Mrxvt.cutChars:
;+:=/~#@?%&_-.,0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
[usually, it's the parentheses].
> A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
> ~Linus Torvalds
Not useless. It just labors harder.
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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Monday 30 Nov 2009 12:33 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> ____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Sunday 29 Nov 2009 15:48 : \____
>>>
>>> Spaces in file-names drive you nuts when writing bash scripts!
>>
>> Also when you upload%20to%20the%20world%20wide%20wibble^H^H^H
>
> I hate it when a URL has characters not in my mrxvt double-click-selection
> set:
>
> Mrxvt.cutChars:
>
> ;+:=/~#@?%&_-.,0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
>
> [usually, it's the parentheses].
>
>> A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open
>> windows.
>> ~Linus Torvalds
>
> Not useless. It just labors harder.
It also helps support the economy by encouraging you to shop for new equipment.
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