Microsoft Censorship

December 7th, 2005
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everybody loves eric raymond episode 28 strip

This (and last) week’s ELER brought to you with the beta power of the upcoming 2.4 version of The Gimp. The Lanczos interpolation and the new resizable selection tool are wonderful.

UPDATE: Go read the complete story of the Vienna conclusions over at Groklaw. Microsoft have become Free Software deniers. Though they deny their denials.

FSF Europe Fellow Me: Say NO! to Vienna Manipulations
  • Eweek: Microsoft, OSI Discuss Shared Source Licenses
  • O’reilly radar: New Source Licenses from Microsoft
  • Danesecooper: OSI remove ESRs halloween documents, just in time for greeting microsoft
  • FSF europe: The Vienna Conclusion: Sponsorship+Politics=Influence
  • FSF europe: The next Vienna Conclusion: So it WAS Microsoft that asked to delete Free Software
  • WSA conference
Bruce Schneier with guns for some reason

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A few things you probably didn't know about Bruce Schneier. The Bruce Schneier Facts Database.


Knuth is my Homeboy t-shirts

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Available at the ELER Shop. Be the envy of the tiny minority of your friends who know who Donald Knuth is.


13 comments

  1. # Posted by Dennis on Dec 7th, 2005 at 3:02 pm

    Bwahahahaha, once again excellent :)

  2. # Posted by My View » Unix Philosphy on Dec 7th, 2005 at 3:29 pm

    [...] After you read this book, apply the knowledge and then relax a bit by heading over to “Everyone Loves Eric Raymond” and smile. [...]

  3. # Posted by Anonymous Bosch on Dec 7th, 2005 at 5:40 pm

    Everybody loves Eric Raymond… we think what RMS thinks.

  4. # Posted by Robert Hulme on Dec 7th, 2005 at 8:10 pm

    That was genius :-)

  5. # Posted by Russell Nelson on Dec 8th, 2005 at 5:48 am

    Th@ts not f@@@y!
    -russ

  6. # Posted by JIm S. on Dec 8th, 2005 at 1:26 pm

    Darm, I was expecting “NINUO INUNE BIABU NHATU EIMPS REEAC GNOOP ENOIC INEPI PLND” to spell out a message.

  7. # Posted by john on Dec 8th, 2005 at 3:20 pm

    Jim: I tried that, but gave up. Best I could I could bother was make BEER out of Blender.

  8. # Posted by abis on Dec 8th, 2005 at 7:49 pm

    You seriously need to get a proper domain name for this site.

  9. # Posted by karsten on Dec 9th, 2005 at 9:41 am

    WOOOHAHAHAHA! Great. Now the permanent giggling will keep me from concentrating all day.

  10. # Posted by Rafael on Dec 10th, 2005 at 4:15 am

    ROTFL
    Very funny, as usual

  11. # Posted by Nick Fortune on Dec 10th, 2005 at 1:57 pm

    I like the comment about the Vienna Conclusions being a “living document”. Wow. Just think of the possibilities… They can continue to revise it in response to political pressure or financial incnetives. Why properly managed, they could turn this into an onging revenue stream.

    So you a mandate for compulsory DRM in all electronic devices? No problem sir. Want a reference to support research shoing that creativity is only possible in a corporate envirment? That can be arranged. A unanimous call for free software to be outlawed worldwide? Wel, that wasn’t actually discussed, but that needn’t be a problem – that’s what living documents are about. Histroy rewritten while-you-wait and all for our low low prices.

    The Vienna Conclusions – the finest veneer of respectability money can buy; never knowingly undersold.

  12. # Posted by abis on Dec 27th, 2005 at 5:34 pm

    okay, I give up.
    What’s linus’s last box say? I could only make out FSF, Free Software, Emacs, ?, ?, Wine, Epiphany, Blender

  13. # Posted by Sunnan on Dec 29th, 2005 at 4:56 pm

    That’s probably “Gnome” and “Openoffice.org”

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