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Oct
30
Shuttleworth Weighs in in IceWeasel
Category: Debian, FSF, ubuntu | 
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As you may have heard recently, Debian has a problem with Firefox due to the fact that the artwork is not released under a free license. This is an extension of problems they’ve had with GNU’s documentation and the clause that allows some parts to remain uneditable. So Debian has forked Firefox into IceWeasel. The engine and core program are the same, only the artwork is different.
This has caused a lot of name-calling back and forth between the two camps. Mark Shuttleworth, who’s Ubuntu is based in Debian, posted a reconcilatory post today whereby he called on both sides to respectfully disagree.
Both groups really, genuinely mean well. I know this because I’ve spent some time working with both of them. Both care deeply about free software and both want to see the world improved through the wide availability of high quality software that comes with the right to change it. So it is a little frustrating to see this level of public tension between two groups that have come to represent, each in their own way, something iconic about free software.
First, let me say that both groups are being entirely reasonable about their positions. Debian has every right to insist that it have the freedom to ship the package in the form that it deems most appropriate for its users, and Mozilla has every right to protect its trademarks.
Spoken as a true businessman/mediator.
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Oct
30
Fedora Core 6 comes with Gaim 2.0 Beta 4. Here you can see it together with the new Fedora Core 6 DNA-style background.
As you can see, things have changed quite a bit in the appearance of Gaim. The largest change to the GUI involves the availability which is now set by a bar at the bottom of the GUI. The biggest complaint I have with this setup is that there isn’t an easy way to set one account as away while another is available.
On the plus side, it is now very easy to see which picture has been selected as your buddy icon. It shows at the bottom of the GUI near the status widget. I am not really in favor of the beige bar across the GUI by the names of my categories.
The program appears to be a bit more responsive. I’m not sure if this is due to Gaim optimizations or Fedora’s optimizations which came from the GCC flag they used to get FC6 so fast. Other than that, it continues to be my preferred program for accessing all of the chat protocols. I use it even on Windows machines. In fact, the only thing it is missing which, for example, Trillian has is the ability to do voice chat. However, that is slated to be in the final Gaim 2.0 release.
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Oct
30
My mother
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If you want to know what the glue is that binds our family together, it’s my mother. She has worked tirelessly to ensure that we have built up the relationships we need in our family. Always working, it’s pretty rare to see her just slacking off. But then again, that’s what’s made her the amazing mother she is and the great wife to my father she is. When others were giving up, she was just getting started. She’s the strongest, hardest working person I know. The only person who works as hard as her is my father and that’s why they’ve pulled themselves out from being poor when they first got married to now nearly being business owners!
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