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Oracle the patent troll tries to destroy free java
In: The IT Crowd
13 Aug 2010Seems Oracle bought Sun to become a java patent troll. Trying to destroy the alternative free java implementation that is part of android. Sun used to be agnostic towards Free Software in the past, then became a huge fan on java liberation day. Now that Oracle is in control and starts its quest to destroy the free java world, we are back to the dark ages. So, now what?
Oracle is still distributing a free version of java itself through OpenJDK on which IcedTea is based. Implementations derived from that source base seem safe against copyright and patent claims as long as one follows the obligations of the GPL. That is of course only for patent and copyrights Oracle holds or can pass on (through its stewardship of the JCP). To protect against claims by unrelated companies or when you have a free implementation of java not based on code distributed by Oracle, like GNU Classpath, try to get your implementation covered by a Free Software friendly patent pool. For example gcj/libgcj/GNU Classpath (as are some parts of the apache and eclipse java stacks) are part of the “System Components” of OIN (and Oracle has joined OIN).
Finally if you contribute to any Sun/Oracle java implementation demand that they change their Contributor Agreement to be truly reciprocal, not just for copyrights, but also for any patent claims covering the project you contribute to. So that anybody that wants to share the project you contributed to will always and irrevocably get all the rights to do that (not just for the GPL version). Point 3 in the current Sun/Oracle Contributor Agreement isn’t reciprocal, you grant a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, no-charge, royalty-free license to any patent claims you might have to Sun/Oracle, but they are not granting back to you or the wider community any they hold on the project as a whole.
Gnome ate my boyfriend!
In: The IT Crowd
13 Aug 2010You’ve got to love this bug report (love bug), make sure you read the fixes at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=626593
Status: VERIFIED INVALID
Product: empathy
Component: User Guide
Version: unspecified
OS: Windows
Importance: Normal critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assigned To: Maintainers of Gnome user documentation
QA Contact:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
Reported: 2010-08-11 05:18 UTC by ilana.m.ventura
Modified: 2010-08-13 12:17 UTC (History)
CC List: 35 users (show)
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---
ilana.m.ventura [reporter] 2010-08-11 05:18:10 UTC
Dear Gnome,
Please, have some empathy and help me out.
Because of you, my boyfriend is chronically attached to his computer and has
ceased to pay attention to me. I try to plan fun things for us to do on the
weekends and then he cancels on my because of GNOME conferences! He even went
to the Netherlands to GUADEC two weeks ago and left me at home alone for a
week! He keeps going to all these conferences and I just don’t know what to
do. Apparently there is some Boston Summit thing he keeps talking about?
Way back when, he used to talk about Linux every once in a while and I found it
nerdy and cute. However, as of late, his obsession has become a large dark
gloomy cloud on our relationship. Even when we are away from our apartment, he
is perpetually attached via his MAEMO Linux phone.
He even tried to put Linux on my computer and I simply could not take it. I
came home from work one day and my computer said “UNIX” all over it! Recently,
he installed Linux on his mom’s computer and now she is calling me complaining
and I don’t know what to do!
Please, help me bring my boyfriend back from “Linux Land.” His name is Zach.
If you find him, you may have to shut off the computer you find him in front of
to get him to speak in anything other than “C.” Sometimes he will speak to you
in French, but thats only because he has his phone in French. I don’t speak
French so this too has become a wedge in our relationship.
This is a severe issue. Please fix this.
Desperately,
Ilana
Package update notifications issues
In: Fedora
5 Aug 2010Recent updates to Fedora introduced two unexpected bugs, either of which results in users no longer seeing notifications of or being able to apply new updates. Updates to the relevant packages have been shipped to fix these issues, but users will not receive notifications for them unless they first apply the pending fixed updates using the “yum” tool. (Please note that these issues should only affect Fedora 13. Fedora 12 does not appear to be affected.) Packages fixing these issues were pushed to the Fedora software repositories around July 22, 2010. Users who have done a manual “yum update” since that push may have already received these fixes.
To fix the issue, please:
1. Open a Terminal (Applications > System Tools > Terminal)
2. Type either of the following commands and enter the password for the root user when prompted.
a. To choose to apply all pending updates now:
su -c “yum -y –skip-broken update”
b. To choose to apply updates fixing only the specific issues mentioned above:
su -c “yum -y –skip-broken update gnome-packagekit selinux-policy”
3. Log out and and then log back in, or reboot your computer. Note that logout/login will complete the fix for the notification issue. However, if you applied all updates in the previous step, you may need to reboot for other updates that require it.
If you have any further questions or require additional assistance, please refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help for ways to get additional help from the Fedora community.
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