Archive for July 1st, 2007

Software, Not Ideology

July 1, 2007

I’m still pissed off about the FSF’s adoption of GPLv3.  The changes between GPLv2 and GPLv3 have more to do with ideology than software and freedom.
Jem Matzan comments that GPLv3 marks GNU’s decline and that people “will look back on this and say that June 29, 2007 was the day when the Free Software Foundation [...]

Other Developers on Core 2 Bugs

July 1, 2007

My previous entry about Theo de Raadt’s comments on the level of severity of bugs in Intel’s Core 2 processors needs a little update. Linus Torvalds brushes off the alarm and says it’s nothing new. Matt Dillon of Dragonfly BSD isn’t as nonplussed as Torvalds by the errata disclosure in his quick run through of [...]