So Brendan Eich has resigned and has left Mozilla. It was apparently the only reasonable option he had which is a very bad news. (If you don’t know what it is about, look for Brendan Eich Mozilla CEO in your favorite search engine.) The hatred and bigotry demonstrated in this case is scaring. AFAIK Brendan […]
The FreeBSD Journal looks interesting and I might subscribe to it even though I don’t use FreeBSD. There is just one, but important, problem: It can be read only on Android and iOS devices using a DRM equipped proprietary application available from the official Kindle, iOS and Google Android stores. What’s the message? For first, […]
Enough is enough. I got sufficiently annoyed by Samsung Android to install an unofficial port of CyanogenMod (no better alternative) on my phone. What are the first impressions? The system installed without problems and has been running reasonably well. The user restrictions are gone: I got rid of many useless proprietary applications wasting the very […]
Now, when the Motion Picture Association of America has joined the W3C, we can expect the pro-DRM W3C coalition of Netflix, Microsoft, Google, and Apple will get strengthened by another ally. Apparently there is the only real opposition there, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and it alone can hardly stop them from making DRM (Digital Restrictions […]
I’ve been thinking about patents a bit recently. I thought about alien invasion, from a far world with a strict patent system. What would the aliens tell us? “We can see you have been using a lot of our patented inventions, from the wheel to the rocket science, without paying us licensing fees. These are […]
I started my pump.io stream. pump.io is one of the free software social networking alternatives, somewhat similar to Twitter. BTW, pump.io FAQ may help a little when you start using pump.io.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation does a lot of good for online and software freedom so I decided to donate to it. If you care about software freedom (and you should care about it today if you care about freedom generally), please consider contributing to organizations which defend it. One of the most important ones besides […]
Eben Moglen gave an interesting series of talks on “Snowden and the Future”. The whole series is now available for watching, listening and reading.
This smartphone project looks interesting.
CyanogenMod installer application was removed from Google Play Store on Google’s request. Not much issue itself as it can be installed from elsewhere and without using the proprietary Play Store application. The more interesting part is the reasoning about the issue. According to Google the installer encourages users to void their warranty and thus is […]