Fedora: Open up your documentation!

It is now three years ago that I said my final Good Bye to Fedora. One of the main reasons was the usage of the Open Publication License, which is not recommended any more by its creators.
Fedora decided not to use GFDL or Creative Commons because like they describe in their Fedora Documentation Licensing FAQ:
The [...]

Rediscovering microblogging

I, just now, am rediscovering the use of microblogging. I have looked at Twitter an microblogging in the past and found it unnecessary. I had an identi.ca account for some months now, but I did not use it very often. But I had the feeling that it could be useful.
I think it is. I have [...]

The Obama posting

This posting I do because I think it would be good for the world we all live in to have Obama as next US president instead of McCain. And I do not want to let this day go by without posting something in support. Because I would not have done this I might regret it. So here it is.

Attacking from all sides

I like to talk a bit of what I am doing locally in my hometown. One thing is that I have worked the last two years in helping to organize a Linux even called “Kieler Linuxtage“. In 2007 we had over 500 visitors and all attendends thought it was a big success, given that we [...]

Backing up…

Backup is not something I really do for myself besides some disks I burn every now and then. Tuesday I helped a bunch of movie geeks (hey, why the heck should geeks only be the ones on computers ) fixing some backup scripts. Actually I didn’t do much, because most of the things were in [...]

Apples latest tricks

I am not going to whine about Apples move to block iTunes alternatives to access the new iPods. I have never been a fan of iPod. I am a former Apple advocate (back in the 90s) when I had believed their marketing shit. But if you look more deeply many of their claims are not [...]

New Sony Home vs. Second Life

I think that Sony Home is a extremely silly initiative if they think they should copy Second Life. even if they are better in graphics or on other parts. Linden Lab has been quite open to enable other projects to use Second Life also and I think rather than doing something again like having many [...]

Distribution of our dreams

I take the post of Adam: Don’t be afraid to dream as a reason for my post. So I am talking about the “distribution of my dreams”. First I like to question if the focus on a distribution is really a good thing? As long as distributions work like they do – sure we have [...]

How does Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) work?

I guess many people who are not active in the movement do not know that. You often meat preconceptions. People think a software that is given out for free must be stolen. The software industries advertisements against software piracy had this side effect: People think this can’t be true – if everybody tells them [...]

How to make progress?

I like to take a little tour to explain how I think we can make progress in culture and also in software development. Most importantly we shoul define or find out what kind of progress we want to achieve. This may or may not be a fuzzy definition. But we need some fix point that [...]