Winter has finally begun
Nostalgia
http://m.slashdot.org/story/303799
Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo
Yahoo is perhaps the last giant of the beginning of the net.
Such news triggers the nostalgia effect
Red mars
http://m.slashdot.org/story/303793
I’ve read the trilogy, it would make a wonderful TV series
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video) – Slashdot
http://m.slashdot.org/story/303819
Writing the docs is embedded in literate programming and should be the only natural way to do for a proper Eiffel programmer
Does Debian dislike AGPL?
Today I was going to compile dash cryptcoin from the sources.
Debian ships Berkeley DB version 5.3 by default so the configure script of dash argued that it likes version 4.8 for portability reasons.
Too bad that current Debian version don’t ship 4.8 anymore. What’s worse thought is that 4.8 and 5.x packages are mutually exclusive as I discovered by naively adding squeezy repositories to the sources available in my machine. I quite ignore the reason why two major release of a library can’t live side by side. It has been made for decades with many other libraries, Gtk 2 and 3 are the first example I can recall.
So studying how to solve the issue I discovered that Oracle which I thought to have an odi-et-amo attitude toward free-as-in-freedom software.
In fact I somehow convinced myself that Oracle loved non-copyleft sw preferring such licences over the GNU General Public License.
I was wrong as Oracle released the latest version of BDB under Affero-GPL, which is – as far as I know – the license that strives to protect the liberty of people using the software it protects.
You may be surprised to discover that Debian do not and plan not to include any AGPL-released Berkeley DB library:
RM: db6.0 — ROM; AfferoGPL not compatible with many packages and we don’t want to have more than 1 Berkeley DB in the archive
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An incredibly smart idea
Software Freedom Conservancy Asks For Supporters – Slashdot
Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 Is Out; Adds Support For 16-Bit MS-DOS, 64-Bit iOS – Slashdot
ModPOS: It’s no amateur POS malware
Reading from ModPOS: It’s no amateur POS malware that
The platform is thought to be written in a high-level programming language, likely C
makes me laugh.
I always thought that C was actually a fairly low-level programming language. Some people labels it “portable assembler”….