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o2 | Oxygen for your company

Oxygen for your company o2 | Oxygen for your company I just activated an internal P2-based company blog. I feel involved! If you’re wondering why these aren’t appearing in the WordPress.org plugin and theme repositories, it’s because these are very rough releases. We don’t suggest using o2 on a production website, unless you know what you’re…

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Link

http://react-etc.net/entry/your-license-to-use-react-js-can-be-revoked-if-you-compete-with-facebook

Oh… I’m convinced that people at Automattic have evaluated this issue quite deeply, I dare say.

It seems that they don’t plan to compete with Facebook for quite a long time.

Or does it mean that they think that releasing Calypso under GPL make them safe from any litigation? Quite frankly I doubt it, but I’m not a lawyer so my opinion is not relevant.

People smarter than me already highlighted the issue and Automattic has already made a reasoned decision:

Paul Sieminski, General Legal Counsel for Automattic, responded to the ticket explaining why the company will continue to use React in its products.

As far as I can say it seems a policy similar to RedHat’s one: a defensive use of patents. May we call it a “patent cold-war”?

Fedora - RedHat, Wordpress

Sometimes it is annoying

Who? SELinux of course! Mind me, it is a wonderful tool. Tell me I’m old-fashioned, tell me I’m unacknowledged about the security it brings. This after I just wanted to add a theme to my WordPress inner company blog. SELinux kept saying something like “I don’t think so!”.

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Mood, Wordpress

Unpure bliss

I kept having annoying glitches here in my own self-hosted WordPress network so I thought to uninstall the package from the distribution (Debian), installing the pure package from wordpress.org itself. At first I was having the impression of pure bliss.

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