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Danish open source e-voting petition
It's a bee-in-the-bonnet weekend again, and having left the draft petition text up for a week for comments it is now live right here.
Sign it, tell other people about it, if you're on facebook or other social media spread the word, make your voice heard.
open source e-voting petition
You know I have a bee in my bonnet when I blog twice on the same topic in the space of a scant few hours after a blogging hiatus of several months (well it's either that or I'm scatterbrained; your pick).
I don't want to let this slide. e-voting is too important. I'm not the Welfare Minister, but we live in a country where that person should answer to the people and perhaps we just need to shout loudly enough. So I have decided to draft a petition, and I need your help.
Scandalous
I have been making myself scarce on my own website of late; when you move back to your homeland after 12 years and pick up a very exciting new position with a place as cool as Rambøll Informatik, you'll tend to drop off the radar for a bit.
Thanks to Pinse I now have a long(er) weekend, and there is one thing I wish to piss and moan about. I want to call out the Danish Welfare Ministry. read more »
Free Software, Vendor Relations, and the Underdocumented Edge
I was listening to Josh Berkus speak to Laporte and Schwartz about PostgreSQL versus Oracle on FLOSS Weekly, and a real bona fide gem emerged.
Josh relates the difference in product offering between a Sun supported PostgreSQL and a typical Oracle offering, and it isn't the price difference (significant though it may be) which is the real issue, it is the difference in expectation between Sun and Oracle.
Oracle need to sell the database as it is their primary product. At Sun, if the PostgreSQL business breaks even that is well enough since it wasn't the primary business: the platform is. PostgreSQL is just part of a stack making the whole platform look more appealing. read more »
Timing is everything
From Google News on Monday the 18th of February 2008.
Cavalier Egyptian Attitudes to Trademarks
click to enlargeNow we've seen it all from the Microsoft marketing department: New Windows potato crisps. The puns almost write themselves.
"Them must be some hot chips!"
"Windows, crunchy as a pwned n00b's ego!"
Moving back to Copenhagen
Here I come. In one week from now, I'll have moved back to Denmark after living abroad for far too long. I'm still looking for a place and still attracting and evaluating professional options but my bags are packed and, there on the coffee table, see that? Yes, I have the ticket too.
Our two cats are also moving, but only to my in-laws' place in Italy as a temporary measure. Or until my mother in law gets tired of cat poo the placement of which approximates what you'd get piping /dev/urandom into gnuplot. read more »
More writing
I was very happy to see my article, The Free Software hardliner, the Corporation, and the Shotgun Wedding on linux.com a few days ago.
For one thing, it is obviously an honor to have articles you've written running there. For another, that article discusses some things I eeded to get off of my chest, and the comments section of the article indicate that there may be others who feel the same way.
And of course, it's nice to be paid for writing! (No, this little puppy isn't making anything other than €0.00 per copy yet...)
KDE 5.0 Available
KDE 5 in corporate liveryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE[1]
The KDE community is flabbergasted to announce that KDE 5.0 has been set upon the unsuspecting free software community. read more »
New linux kernel license! (alright, I'm sensationalizing, but still)
zypper update brought me a kernel update this afternoon, which gave me an intriguing prompt: read more »
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