Open Source and Community-Developed Software
If you didn’t know that there’s a feeling of community among open source developers, you may have been hiding under a rock for the past several years. However, depending on where you work, and how active you are in hobbyist software development, you may or may not realize how passionate the debates and arguments are [...]
Windows Compatability Libraries Galore (including PowerShell 2 for XP)
Microsoft has been very busy this year … and in these last couple of months before the general availability of Windows 7, they’re trying very hard to crank out the tools necessary to encourage development of Windows 7 applications. The first tool out of the gate, of course, was the Windows API Code Pack for [...]
Evernote Click-Through is a Disgrace
Someone earlier today was gushing about how neat Evernote is … it’s a OneNote-like application which features add-ins for browsers and email clients to let you clip text and images, or record voice, take notes in handwriting, etc … and it’s cross-platform and has a version for Windows Mobile and iPhone! I thought it sounded [...]
Click-through licenses are getting out of hand
Can’t someone put a stop to this stuff? Where are our representatives when you need them? I started to sign up to try digsby this evening, but when I read the terms of service, I had to quickly back away and abort. Let me just say this for the record: these are not acceptable terms [...]
Ms-PL and Ms-RL gain OSI approval
From last friday: Acting on the advice of the License Approval Chair, the OSI Board today approved the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL). The decision to approve was informed by the overwhelming (though not unanimous) consensus from the open source community that these licenses satisfied the 10 criteria of the [...]
ShotGlass – License
Shotglass is an application for taking screenshots and doing stuff with them … there’s a simple API for developing plugins, and a few sample plugins for watermarking and uploading to FTP or Gallery2 …