By Chad on 5/22/2003
Trying to make sense of the SCO vs. the World battle currently raging is complicated for many reasons. First of all, the company now known as SCO is the amalgamation of two companies, Caldera and SCO. The code they own comes from AT&T Bell Labs by way of both SCO and Novell. GNU/Linux is made [...]
Posted in Software Libré
By Chad on 5/15/2003
I think it is absolutely hilarious that Texas House Democrats have fled the state to break quorum and stonewall a Republican majority that has prioritized a re-districting bill to put more Republicans in the U.S. House ahead of the state budget. What really makes me laugh is the way Republicans (especially ultra-conservative ones) are getting [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Democrats, Politics, republicans, Tom DeLay, U.S. House, U.S. Senate
By Chad on 5/14/2003
The SCO Group, formerly Caldera Linux Systems International, has upped its strident tones as it marches headlong into oblivion. It would be funny if they weren’t trying to take GNU/Linux with them. This time, they are stopping all sales of SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux products (the products that gave them the money to buy [...]
Posted in Software Libré | Tagged GNU/Linux, GPL, SCO, software, Software Libré, software licensing
By Chad on 5/9/2003
The house hunt has been a little slower than expected. Jennie and I got shut out of two different deals in the first two weeks of looking, and it’s been tough finding a place to meet our standards since then. I’m happy to say that we’ve finally chosen something, though – we’ll be signing the [...]
Posted in Personal | Tagged family, Jennie, work
By Chad on 4/9/2003
Thought it was about time I gave an update on various things in my personal life, since I’ve recently ranted on the politics of free speech, the justifiability of war with Iraq, the morality of free software, and the abomination that is the Designated Hitter rule, but I haven’t talked about what’s going on with [...]
Posted in Personal | Tagged Disney, Jennie, Personal, wedding, work
By Chad on 4/3/2003
So today is the 30th anniversary of the Yankee Ron Blomberg’s walk against Boston’s Luis Tiant, initiating the era of the infamous Designated Hitter. Even though I’m not a player, or a journalist, or anyone with a semi-educated opinion on the subject, I thought I’d weigh in on the subject. The DH rule is an [...]
Posted in MLB | Tagged baseball, Bud Selig, designated hitter, interleague play
By Chad on 3/31/2003
In this nifty piece of FUD from a so-called “open source” developer, the author goes on and on about the GNU GPL‘s costs to developers and its supposed disincentives to create. He conflates the imitative quality of some GPL software with the innovative character of the free software community as a whole, and their dislike [...]
Posted in Software Libré | Tagged copyleft, FUD, GPL, Microsoft, Software Libré |
By Chad on 3/27/2003
That’s short for “Yet Another New Website Look.” I’ve been experimenting a lot with stylesheets since I moved to the new website, and I wanted to find a way to make the menus work without complicated JavaScript. I adopted a technique from Eric Meyer’s CSS/Edge website. They work great in Mozilla (and thus I assume [...]
Posted in Site Updates | Tagged Microsoft, website
