05.12.08
Posted in News Roundup at 12:15 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Mr. Softee Does Them Ol’ Tricks…
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Oleg said,
May 12, 2008 at 12:50 pm
> Note: if you dislike this new format of “Links”, please shout out.
Thank you for your work of gathering and systematizing of all the links, Roy. It’s much better this way.
Max Stirner said,
May 12, 2008 at 1:32 pm
am officially a fan of your daily link collections- saves me a lot of time!
dont care too much for the categories..
ZiggyFish said,
May 12, 2008 at 5:05 pm
I like it this way
FSFan said,
May 12, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Stumbled upon some rather disturbing news today:
http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2008/05/wouldnt-it-be-nice-if.html
Looks like this guy is forcing MONO into a core part of Evolution, namely the IMAP code.
I think this is the same guy that added the C# plugin stuff a while back.
This guy needs to be banned from contributing to Free Software before he does any more damage.
Then he had this comment to say:
What an asshole.
Roy Schestowitz said,
May 12, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Heh. Like we didn’t see /that/ coming.
So it’s already happening. The ‘extensions’ bit was just the start of something broader, akin to Tomboy. In the same way, “child porn” and “terrorism” are often used as a prelude to political censorship and filtering for the MPAA/RIAA.
Good luck to them with .NET, OOXML, Windows DRM and the rest of that stuff which probably will come.
Jeffrey Stedfast has also been one of our most vocal critics. He just wanted to justify what he does. Thank goodness for choice.