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“And our job is to fight those politicians who use fear as an excuse to take away our liberties and promote security theater that wastes money and doesn’t make us any safer.” - precisely
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“Fedora is making very interesting noises about music” - i really wish someone would explore a tighter integration / relationship with emusic.com; it’s not just about the applications, it’s about getting the music acquisition and network effects
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wherein Stacy amplifies the demand for an updated Flash on Linux
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this is terrible news, but at least it’s treatable; my thoughts are with Lester and his family
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gotta love the Adobe guys using Gentoo as the build server
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congrats to the Gentoo folks for this; i’ll be giving this a whirl shortly
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wherein Bray neatly sums up the DHH v Spolsky language war
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everyone’s already linked to this, but it’s useful
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i was wondering why Jono hadn’t commented on this; answer - he hasn’t started at Canonical yet
- interesting post worth a read
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I and at least one other gnome dev (Bastien Nocera) unsubbed from emusic because of their non-rollover subscription policy. If they fixed that, people would probably be a lot more likely to work with it. That said, see: http://projects.matt-good.net/trac/emusic-gnome
Luis: i understand and certainly sympathize. nor would i be unappreciative of that feature myself. but the question remains - apart from you or i - would it be useful to have a music purchase and acquisition service rolled tied into Linux generally, or GNOME specifically?
i think the answer depends on what your goals are. if the goal is indeed to compete, at least on some basis, with Apple and Microsoft i think the answer is probably yes.
if you accept that, the question then becomes: what’s your best option? from where i’m sitting, it’s clearly emusic, because it’s the only one not applying DRM. i’d hope that some of the unfortunate subscription decisions - which may, in fact, be necessary for them to be a viable business - don’t obscure that.
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