Aaron Williamson (copiesofcopies)

Aaron Williamson

My blog post on Microsoft's anticompetitive new UEFI secure boot policy for ARM: http://ur1.ca/7gbzj

Aaron Williamson Richard Fontana

@fontana I should have thought of that.

Aaron Williamson

Mitt Romney, free software candidate: http://ur1.ca/7d9ej

Aaron Williamson Richard Fontana

(I realize I had the chance to ask this when it was meaningful to.)

Aaron Williamson Richard Fontana

Possibly academic question: do 1.10(a) and 1.4 together really limit copyleft to existing files?

Aaron Williamson James Vasile

Don't remember where, but somewhere HP said they plan to release a free SDK.

Aaron Williamson Christopher Allan Webber

Oh absolutely! Nothing more conspicuous than <blink>. Although, since it's nonstandard, you should probably have a fallback.

Aaron Williamson Richard Fontana

@fontana I agree with this. Specifically, it reflects the increasing significance of the Python and Ruby communities, among others.

Aaron Williamson Christopher Allan Webber

@cwebber Uniform Commercial Code requires that warranty disclaimers be "conspicuous" to be effective; usually translates to bold or caps.

Aaron Williamson Bradley M. Kuhn

I'm glad to have provided you this opportunity to promote yourself, but the point was more general.

Aaron Williamson Matěj Cepl

I was responding to two posts: that quote was the condescending part. (@evan, sorry for polluting your thread.)

Aaron Williamson Matěj Cepl , Evan Prodromou

@mcepl "It is disturbing to make new words, because one is lazy to think." I wasn't praising Marx, just characterizing his usage.

Aaron Williamson Matěj Cepl

@mcepl which of course no reason for you to be so condescending.

Aaron Williamson Matěj Cepl

@mcepl perhaps you're right; I take "bourgeoisie" to connote the ruling class (at least in Marx) but it is more expansive than that.

Aaron Williamson Richard Fontana

@fontana I agree. Do you think #revolution is necessary?

Aaron Williamson Richard Fontana

@fontana Bourgeois or middle-class? And does that make it less radical, less important, both, or neither?

Aaron Williamson Evan Prodromou

I'm with you, @evan. Safe corporate language tends to obscure that free software is radical, to the point that even we forget.

Aaron Williamson Software Freedom Law Center , Software Freedom Law Center

RT @SFLC: !SFLC proposes DMCA exemption that would free users to root their devices and replace their operating systems: http://ur1.ca/6aouq

Aaron Williamson Christopher Allan Webber

Just tried that Pidgin workaround and it didn't work for me.

Aaron Williamson Christopher Allan Webber

That's too bad. I wouldn't mind seeing this implemented as a persistent version of the top left corner's "ripple" effect.