Possibly interesting links I saw yesterday.
- Microsoft
HD Photo considered for standardisation by JPEG committee - this
will need some looking into, particularly to see how useful the
patent promise really is. No details available yet.
- Signal
and Noise in GPLv3 - an article about the media representation
of the GPLv3 discussions, explaining that they exagerated the
controversy, etc. Not a bad article, but it prints a few too many
Linus quotes without critical thinking. For example, Linus says that the GPLv3's
fight against tivoisation is like scientists refusing to share information with people
they don't like. A more accurate analogy would be scientists who refuse to share
information with people who are trying to make shared information unusable.
- BoycottNovell.com - a
news site which started out as a forum to protest Novell's patent
deal with Microsoft, but which is turning into a general free
software news site.
- The Trophées du
Libre competition have announced their 2007 call for submissions
of free software projects.
See also:
the archive
of Yesterday's Links.
--
Ciarán O'Riordan,
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