E-LINUX.it: The Inevitability of Open Source Windows
The FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) Community knows, thanks to leaked Microsoft internal documents, that since about 1998 Microsoft has been in a sort of war against them. Because of this, it is not surprising that the FOSS community has looked at Microsoft with suspicion and has vilified it to [...]
E-LINUX.it: The Inevitability of Open Source Windows
Firefox 2 is out
cross-posted from my mind-Dumpster
You may have heard, but just in case you haven’t, the latest version of the Firefox browser was released yesterday at 6 PM Pacific time, or 8 o’clock this morning in Jakarta.
The official Firefox 2 announcement is at MozillaZine, with details on new features etc. You can download Firefox 2 at getfirefox.com.But [...]
Dynamic Linking and GPLv3
(aka. How GPLv3 affects the relationship between Proprietary and Free Software)
From the GPLv3 rationale[1]:
We wish to make completely clear that a licensee cannot avoid complying with the requirements of the GPL by dynamically linking an add-on component to the original version of a program.
What does this mean? Does it mean that proprietary software can no [...]
