windows software development

The Windows Software Development Minefield, and Mono

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 11/20/2008 - 17:53

If Microsoft would pursue one of their own MVPs so viciously and tenaciously, over nothing more than a damned plugin, what do you suppose they’ll start doing once their “IP” has well and truly infested Free Software?


 

The GNU GPL: Free as in Will?

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Mon, 03/24/2008 - 13:09

As anyone who has anything to do with [non-Windows] software development knows, GNU’s definition of “free” is “free as in freedom and free as in beer.” But what dictionary did the GPL author(s) use when looking up a definition for “freedom”?