Archive for February, 2010

Feb 28 2010

Things I said on 2010-02-28

Published by stefano under misc

Devo cambiare operatore mobile, ricaricabile, traffico dati a kb (no tempo). Consigli? #
#spam on #skype is alarmingly increasing. Time to abandon it, for good? #
Disservizio sanitario nazionale: attesi 20 giorni per una visita, medico malato, rimandata visita fra 10 giorni. Nessuna alternativa fornita #
I'm so *ing tired of people forcing me to fix things they [...]

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Feb 26 2010

La sottile voglia di regime che attanaglia l’Italia

Published by Stef under it, politica

Leggendo i vari commenti degli editorialisti italiani sulla sentenza contro Google colgo solo una gran voglia di regime. Non ho letto da nessuna parte che i ragazzini che hanno pubblicato i video ignobili sono già stati puniti e chissà se hanno imparato la lezione (suggerimento per un servizio da fare). Però tutti i difensori della [...]

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Feb 24 2010

Wikiedia Crowdsourced its strategic planning process

Published by Stef under community

I’m a firm believer that non-profit organizations need to have a strategy, too. Maybe even more than for-profit ones, because of the constant lack of resources. I’ve been watching without commenting the development of the five-year strategic plan for Wikimedia Foundation: fascinating. The process has entered the last phase, synthesis. There is lots to learn [...]

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Feb 21 2010

Things I said on 2010-02-21

Published by stefano under misc

Altroconsumo ricorre alla Commissione europea contro la pappetta Bondi-SIAE per l'equo compenso http://is.gd/8pOob #
pagliarini su #radio24 tralascia di menzionare #Funambol tra le aziende italiane presenti al #mwc #
sul sito di #radio24 non c'è un modo facile per contattare i giornalisti o la redazione di un programma. Sito appena rifatto: molto 1.0 #
#FIAT exploring [...]

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Feb 18 2010

Eben Moglen’s Freedom in the Cloud Talk

Published by Stef under business, community

I watched Eben’s speech but now I can quote it too thanks to the transcript done by the friends at Software Freedom Law Center. Talking about the problems of the cloud services, Eben hits Facebook hard with his rhetoric:
The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record. He has [...]

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Feb 16 2010

Three reasons to follow Mozilla Thunderbird development

Published by Stef under community, eng

Since Mozilla Messaging launched Thunderbird 3 I started using it to see if this new version is better than GNOME Evolution, the email/calendar application I used in the past 4 years. Evolution is a decent email and calendar client and I love the integration in GNOME, but it stopped evolving and its GUI has [...]

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Feb 15 2010

Newlyweds: Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin

Published by Stef under business, community

This is good news for mobile free software (or open source, as you wish to call it): Maemo and Moblin joined forces today.  I had lots of expectations for Maemo, but so far Nokia hasn’t pushed it enough. This merge of the two project may give it a new life.  Now the issue is [...]

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Feb 14 2010

Things I said on 2010-02-14

Published by stefano under misc

I agree ♺ @evan: We need to be closer-integrated with FB to make it easier for you to use Free Software to stay in touch with your friends. #
♺ @nico_mar: corner bank req 's digital fingerprints to enter for "robbery risk." Creepy. http://bit.ly/aZshsH in reply to nico_mar #
#Funambol released a new snapshot version [...]

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Feb 12 2010

What Symbian is risking by freeing its code

Published by Stef under business, community

I honestly cannot understand the fear of forks that is spreading within the Symbian community. Since Symbian Foundation released the full source code of the operating system under the Eclipse Public License I’ve read few comments like the following:
I sincerely hope that we don’t see various manufacturers forking the code, and thus creating a veritable [...]

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Feb 11 2010

Choose a good license and manage well the community

Published by Stef under business, community, eng

Some of the things that Mike Tienman said in this interview with InternetNews.com I could have said myself.
I have come to believe that a license alone is neither a secret to success nor an absolution of sin.
Exactly: choosing a free license is a moral choice but that alone won’t secure neither commercial success nor any [...]

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