Tiling WM
Posted Feb 13, 2012 11:30 UTC (Mon) by
Yenya (subscriber, #52846)
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Tiling WM by jmalcolm
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
JavaScript Semicolon Brain-Damage
Posted Feb 13, 2012 11:24 UTC (Mon) by
ldo (subscriber, #40946)
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The Chromium Blog on the future of JavaScript
If they only allowed Python-style line continuations, I could forget the horror that is the JavaScript semicolon convention. Currently this will work:
a =
(
b
+
c
+
d
)
but I cannot do the equivalent of this Python layout:
TheItem.add_accelerator \
(
accel_signal = "activate",
accel_group = AccelGroup,
accel_key = ord(AccelKey),
accel_mods = gtk.gdk.CONTROL_MASK,
accel_flags = gtk.ACCEL_VISIBLE
)
Power User definition
Posted Feb 13, 2012 11:23 UTC (Mon) by
drago01 (subscriber, #50715)
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Power User definition by bronson
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
How not to figure out why people use alternatives
Posted Feb 13, 2012 11:07 UTC (Mon) by
KotH (subscriber, #4660)
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How not to figure out why people use alternatives by giraffedata
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Tracking users
How not to figure out why people use alternatives
Posted Feb 13, 2012 11:04 UTC (Mon) by
KotH (subscriber, #4660)
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How not to figure out why people use alternatives by KaiRo
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Tracking users
Quotes of the week
Posted Feb 13, 2012 11:02 UTC (Mon) by
etienne (subscriber, #25256)
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Quotes of the week by ikm
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Quotes of the week
Javascript for everyday use
Posted Feb 13, 2012 10:56 UTC (Mon) by
epa (subscriber, #39769)
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Javascript for everyday use by robert_s
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The Chromium Blog on the future of JavaScript
"file it in the hope of it being inventive"
Posted Feb 13, 2012 10:28 UTC (Mon) by
pboddie (guest, #50784)
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"file it in the hope of it being inventive" by SecretEuroPatentAgentMan
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Jury rules that Eolas's "interactive web" patent is invalid (ars technica)
Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
Posted Feb 13, 2012 10:04 UTC (Mon) by
bkor (guest, #27950)
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design by bronson
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
Power User definition
Posted Feb 13, 2012 8:43 UTC (Mon) by
neilbrown (subscriber, #359)
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Power User definition by bronson
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
About the calculus for the project
Posted Feb 13, 2012 8:27 UTC (Mon) by
bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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About the calculus for the project by nix
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A tempest in a toybox
About the calculus for the project
Posted Feb 13, 2012 8:18 UTC (Mon) by
bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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About the calculus for the project by khim
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A tempest in a toybox
Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
Posted Feb 13, 2012 8:02 UTC (Mon) by
bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design by bkor
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
Power User definition
Posted Feb 13, 2012 7:41 UTC (Mon) by
bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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Power User definition by drag
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement
Posted Feb 13, 2012 3:27 UTC (Mon) by
BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
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Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement by dlang
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Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement
if they settle then the terms probably won't be considered too unreasonable, but if you ask for terms that are too unreasonable, you run the potential for the target not settling and choosing to fight instead.
The only party that really tried to fight was BestBuy, and they ended up accepting a settlement with SFC rather than continuing in court, after complaining about just these terms as "unreasonable" in their open court documents (they're available through Recap, if you care to look them up).
What makes the SFC terms reasonable is that they don't come with financial damages, penalties, import prohibitions, and whatever terms the court would routinely impose upon the infringer to cure the infringement.
Wayland and Weston 0.85.0 released
Posted Feb 13, 2012 3:02 UTC (Mon) by
jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
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Wayland and Weston 0.85.0 released by corbet
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Wayland and Weston 0.85.0 released
Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
Posted Feb 13, 2012 2:56 UTC (Mon) by
jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design by slashdot
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement
Posted Feb 13, 2012 2:40 UTC (Mon) by
jzbiciak (
✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
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Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement by mjg59
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Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement
Ok, there's morality and then there's the legal copyright concept of moral rights. I think they're getting confused in this thread.
The right of an author to dictate the terms of how their work gets published or distributed (regardless of whether the author has signed those rights over to someone else, in many cases), is that authors moral rights in the work. If we go upthread to jejb's comment:
You have the moral right to dictate compliance terms as far as your copyrights run. If I, as a kernel copyright holder, start trying to dictate what compliance means in, say, busybox, without consulting the busybox copyright holders, I've exceeded my moral authority.
I'm pretty sure jejb was referring to the legal concept I linked. What I'm not certain is whether jejb's entirely correct. If I, as an author, feel that the integrity of my work is violated when someone aggregates it with another work but violates that other work's license, am I exceeding my moral authority when I demand they stop distributing mine?
Here in the US, the concept of moral rights is rather foreign. We don't really have a strong tradition of protecting moral rights here. But other countries do.
In any case, the term "moral rights" is unfortunately confusing, since it's not exactly about morality in the more general case. It's a specific legal construct.
Tiling WM
Posted Feb 13, 2012 2:40 UTC (Mon) by
jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
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Tiling WM by Yenya
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Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design
Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement
Posted Feb 13, 2012 2:38 UTC (Mon) by
dlang (
✭ supporter ✭, #313)
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Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement by jake
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Welte: Some comments on the heated debate on SFC / Busybox / Linux GPL enforcement