singpolymaposted, “Speaker uses restricted fair use in the US today and assumes it will never get better. @ossguy: fair use does not apply to GPL #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.758Z
singpolymaposted, “@russellmcormond The GNU, copyleft-style thinking wants control as much as the closed-source corps. DRM4freedom?” @ 2008-299.743Z
singpolymaposted, “If you ask a lawyer about anything they will tell you "it depends". If you get a straight answer, you may be "probably" safe #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.654Z
singpolymaposted, “Big companies fear Theora because there *may be* submarine patents. H261 we *know* was patented and has expired #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.651Z
singpolymaposted, “Terrible how we have to live in a world without music because home taping of LPs to cassette destroyed the industry 😉 #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.642Z
singpolymaposted, “If it’s cheaper to settle than defend, many will, making it look like the patent was valid because defense is expensive #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.619Z
singpolymaposted, “"Unpatents" are important because they’re registered and easy to find #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.617Z
singpolymaposted, “I hope Linux never becomes the "one OS" for *any* category. There should *never* be "one OS". Competition is good #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.608Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya sure, it works, but ruby+shoes or python+qt, etc. I believe in right tool for the job. HTML is for documents.” @ 2008-299.604Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya Cross-platform? Ruby, python, Java, scheme, or even just properly-written C/C++. Note how 95% of FLOSS is available on mac+windows” @ 2008-299.602Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya I disagree to “more people” there are at least as many devs as webdesigners” @ 2008-299.601Z
singpolymaposted, “Android is the software, the G1 is the hardware : it’s different things, not two names for one thing #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.599Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya Why take HTML+CSS (very good at documents) and use them for desk GUI (other things are very good at that)?” @ 2008-299.599Z
singpolymaposted, “"Unpatents" are great for prior art. I say the lazyweb/blogging can also help here #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.593Z
singpolymaposted, “The community can help by identifying and documenting prior art to take down illegitimate patents #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.592Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya not very familiar with AIR, but from what I hear it’s an abuse of XHTML+CSS to be a GUI toolkit?” @ 2008-299.591Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya CSS good for documents. Application GUIs should use GUI toolkits” @ 2008-299.589Z
singpolymaposted, “Dougebag speaker takes random potshot at judeo-Christianity… no reason, not related to talk #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.587Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aidtya fail. That’s an abuse (read: not a legitimate use).” @ 2008-299.586Z
singpolymaposted, “Next talk is about defending open source from patents… sounds interesting #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.584Z
singpolymaposted, “Speaker shuts down questions so he can get on with what he wants to say. So big-conference #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.580Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya Also must “subscribe” to commands in Ubiquity, Yubnub everyone has everything” @ 2008-299.578Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya Could do, but the way it’s built is different. YubNub stores URL patterns for cmds, Ubiquity stores JavaScript.” @ 2008-299.578Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya I use both. Ubiquity is more about scripting, YubNub is more about shared shortcuts.” @ 2008-299.575Z
singpolymaposted, “It’s not fair to compare the OpenMoko to the iPhone: the iPhone work and is awesome, OpenMoko not quite yet #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.573Z
singpolymaposted, “Complete schematics for the OpenMoko available "except one little box" #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.571Z
singpolymaposted, “Because you can buy a JTAG, that does not mean normal people can’t break their phone #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.571Z
singpolymaposted, “Qtopia is the best stack for the Moko and is now all GPL (read: almost free, free if you’re an FSF dude) #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.569Z
singpolymaposted, “Some ARMv5 assembly code must be ported to v4 to run Android on OpenMoko #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.567Z
singpolymaposted, “Talking about all the alternate software stacks you can run on OpenMoko #linuxfest” @ 2008-299.565Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya If you’re looking at usability, that’s not really the OS, that’s the WM and the apps, etc” @ 2008-297.694Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya It depends on what part of the OS you’re describing 😉 UI, maybe not, but who gives a crap about UI?” @ 2008-297.690Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy Comments on that story are the real story: x86 would be the death of the smartphone.” @ 2008-297.668Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy Intel lying through teeth. iPhone high-performance, even 3D gaming! If x86 req’d for Internet , we’d be in trouble.” @ 2008-297.667Z
singpolymatweeted, ““JavaScript is often accurately described as the world’s most misunderstood programming language.” — http://bit.ly/3rAa9N” @ 2008-296.812Z
singpolymatweeted, “SeveredFifth’s Denied by Reign is the first metal album not to work my subwoofer hard. I fear a sound quality issue.” @ 2008-296.019Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya on your “if willing to pay” – are there people you can pay to package the software you want for mac?” @ 2008-295.605Z
singpolymatweeted, “Just saying I spent 3 failed hours *with a machead* trying to install libsdl.org and rubygems.org on his mac + rubygame. It’s easy on deb” @ 2008-295.577Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya it’s only that easy *if* you can find it like that, which it seems you often cannot. Also, that system blows for libraries like SDL” @ 2008-295.572Z
singpolymatweeted, “@aditya Mac has no good package manager. Installing software and especially libraries is often a pain.” @ 2008-295.568Z
singpolymatweeted, “I become less impressed with Mac OS every time I see it.” @ 2008-295.149Z
singpolymatweeted, “@josephholsten I’m interested in a more apt and make like experience. Requiring two bulky libs to build simple code sucks.” @ 2008-295.130Z
singpolymatweeted, “@prasnation git’s workflow is nicer. Managing lots of small branches, commit undos, abitily to track offline, mostly the first” @ 2008-292.714Z
singpolymatweeted, “Every time I use git I find another reason why it is just plain better.” @ 2008-292.683Z
singpolymatweeted, “Hacking a ruby C extension. Different/easier than I thought.” @ 2008-292.662Z
On 2008-290
singpolymaposted, “@magnolia Take that back. They’re displaying in non-chronological order on the actionstream” @ 2008-291.879Z
singpolymaposted, “@bmevans Just added my clamid to identi.ca, login and trust, now just one step. claimid has no "remember me" so you log in once per session” @ 2008-291.876Z
singpolymaposted, “Bloglines seems to be missing updates from lots of my feeds recently. Like… most of them.” @ 2008-291.869Z
singpolymaposted, “@bmevans what OP do you use? Some may not allow you to "allow forever".” @ 2008-291.869Z
singpolymaposted, “omb has no provision for specifying in-reply-to, but has a seealso?” @ 2008-291.809Z
singpolymaposted, “1Password stores your passwords on a remote server. And people trust this?! So insecure.” @ 2008-291.791Z
singpolymaposted, “@bmevans If you stay logged in to your OP, it’s enter ID, click button, done. No more steps when done right.” @ 2008-291.791Z
singpolymaposted, “@bmevans You prefer typing two things to typing one? The rest of the experience seems the same for me (except the registration step).” @ 2008-291.751Z
