"At best an imperfect measure of adoption, the number of downloads tells you nothing about the satisfaction of the downloader." Sounds right. But what would be better?
"We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."
An Octave developer write, and then holds a patch hostage, until users are willing to pay up.
What, Microsoft doesn't subscribe to the FSF's definition of "free software"?
Interesting argument, but seems pretty obviously wrong.
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced a new initiative on Tuesday to seek reform of the United States patent system. But conspicuously missing from the list is the most direct and obvious way to solve the problem: exclude software from patent protection altogether."
"Cubism.js is a D3 plugin for visualizing time series. Use Cubism to construct better realtime dashboards, pulling data from Graphite, Cube and other sources. Cubism is available under the Apache License on GitHub."
"Cube is a system for collecting timestamped events and deriving metrics. By collecting events rather than metrics, Cube lets you compute aggregate statistics post hoc. It also enables richer analysis, such as quantiles and histograms of arbitrary event sets. Cube is built on MongoDB and available under the Apache License on GitHub."
I think David is wrong. Almost everyone I know who makes it a requirement of any job they seek that it will only include work on free software can do so. Those that want to work primarily on free software have very little trouble. Do you get a choice of all jobs? No. Are the jobs as interesting or as high paying? You can't count on it.
You have to be very very good to work on free software only without compromising. But I think that might be asking a bit too much.
Cute little Drupal plugin that tarbits and makes users' live real bad until they eventually give up.
Copyleft is not doing worse. At least in Debian.
"Make inactive windows obscuring the active one transparent." Seems interesting.
This is a network file transfer program that seems very cool but also a little bitrotted.
