Archive for August 20th, 2007

Linus, Sun, ZFS, and the GPL

August 20, 2007

I linked to the following quote in my previous entry about GNUStep’s chief weenie Gregory Casamento’s apoplexy over Linus Torvalds and Linux. Does it REALLY sound like Linus is so bad and so mean? I don’t think so.
I’ll highlight the key points so even Casamento can find it.
Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS:
And yes, I’m cynical, [...]

GNUStep Maintainer Whines About Linux and Linus

August 20, 2007

Here’s a big bunch of boo hoo from Greg Casamento, maintainer of GNUStep. He starts off by saying:
I must admit to getting really fed up with the Linux community lately. They seem to believe that their hero, Linus Torvalds, can do nothing wrong.
I don’t know where this comes from. Perhaps Mr Casamento has missed [...]

Monday Morning Wrap Up

August 20, 2007

Skype outage caused by download update:
A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday.

iRobot sues Robot FX over alleged patent infringement:
It looks like Robot FX has [...]