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Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal)Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal)Posted Nov 21, 2005 21:15 UTC (Mon) by sdenlinger (guest, #24239)Parent article: Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal)
Bruce's account of RMS is funny and engaging, but Bruce's speech itself, provided at that link, is really exceptional. It's a very elegant introduction to and defense of Free Software/Open Source, aimed at a non-technical audience. It needs to see wider circulation. Thanks, Bruce.
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Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal) Posted Nov 21, 2005 22:34 UTC (Mon) by zedman (guest, #12798) [Link] How do we get the message out?Is there an URL to Bruce's speech?
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Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal) Posted Nov 22, 2005 2:23 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Maybe LWN should make is a separate story?A long term solution would be to ask SourceLabs sysadmins to install better context management software. Right now, all Bruce's entries are placed on a single page without even HTML anchors, let alone permanent links.
Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal) Posted Nov 23, 2005 8:52 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] Actually, I threw out Sourcelabs content management: Movable Type. Not Open Source. It would be rather hypocritical for me to use it.I need something that creates static files, as I get slashdotted regularly. Bruce
Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal)
Typo might be useful Posted Nov 23, 2005 17:10 UTC (Wed) by emk (subscriber, #1128) [Link] If you're feeling *really* trendy, and you're looking for an excuse to mess around with Ruby and/or Rails, you might want to take a look at Typo. I've been quite pleased with it recently, and it's super easy to hack.
Typo uses the caching support in Rails to automatically save *.html files to disk. These are then served directly by Apache until such time as Typo purges the cache.
If you get Slashdotted, your server should only smoke a little. :-)
On the other hand, if you have no desire to mess around with Rails, Typo probably isn't worth the effort right now.
Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal) Posted Nov 22, 2005 9:15 UTC (Tue) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link] Since Bruce is reading LWN, Bruce, is it ok to redistribute your speech on sites with better usability and translate it to other languages?And to others, since this is a speech made at a UN meeting, is it public domain? Or something equivalent, at least freely distributable as a whole without modifications?
Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal) Posted Nov 23, 2005 8:49 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] There is a redistribution permission on the site. Look for the word "PRESS".
Richard Stallman's Tin-Foil Hat (Bruce Perens' Journal) Posted Nov 23, 2005 8:49 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link] It does burn me some that I had to cover a funny story about Richard before I could get anyone interested in devoting the slightest bit of attention to Open Source at WSIS. It used to be that Slashdot did this, but Slashdot has become a "geek culture" site now, without establishing a clear successor for its Open Source role.Bruce
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