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Category: Wordpress

Wordpress

The joys of command line

I’ve been using WordPress to log all recordings at work, since ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems allows digital recordings since its 2008 release. One of the aspects where it currently is lacking is the policies for data conservations. You name it: backups. Actually it hasn’t been a real issue for quite a long time, since…

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Wordpress

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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