A real screen saver

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Precimoda

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It looks like Canonical and Grupo Reyma joined forces to make shoes

We are watching you!

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How dare they?

I used Christine in an usual way. I use to play the items in the main list as the items there are in my hard drive. Today I was switching between playlists and some of them have more or less 14000 items. I don't know why but christine grows a lot more than I expect.

Well. I didn't knew it but I suspect it. Microsoft release the source of their Hyper-V drivers as GPL just because they violated the GPL License in first place. Now, what look like a very huge step in Microsoft (release code under GPL) which was so applauded became in a shame.

The driver had both open-source components which were under GPL, and statically linked to several binary parts

Now, I wonder how much "Microsoft software" include FLOSS with it violating the GPL and other OSI Licences?

Refs:
- Network Plumber's Journal
- Fedora México

A couple of days that I didn't check my mail, and then I receive a bunch of spam.

A friend, send me a link to a page that looks like Youtube, I use to read the links before opening, but I saw this in the morning and I was just woken up, youst read the "youtube" word and click on it. It took me to youtube.info, which looks like the original youtube.com but, when I saw that "You have an old version of Adobe's Flash Player..." I realize that I was in a phishing. Fortunately I use Linux ando most of those sites that ask me to dowload something can't hurt my computer.

I was looking for educational applications because my neighbor ask me to install a couple of this to his daughter's computer, I hit gcompris and looking that it was for Win32 (among all other linux distributions) and GPL I just think, lets install it. To my surprise, the binary for windows is "locked" and the "gratis" version doesn't allow you to use all the activities the Linux version does.
In their site they said that they want to promote Linux, and this was a way to doit, but this is wrong OpenSource software should not be locked. It's okay that this guy want some money for his work, but there are some better methods than locking the software.
You know, if it is GPL, then I can grab the sources and compile by myself, but most people don't have a C/C++ compiler or development environment installed on their computer, at least they don't know if they have it. And I guess they don't want to mess with libraries, dependencies and spend time on this, they just want to install the software and run it. This IMHO just make people turn arround and look for another fully usable freeware software.
I remember when xchat was free, now you have to pay for a complete usable version of this IRC Client for Win32. obviously, this didn't make xchat the most popular irc client, people keep using mIRC.