Evan Prodromou on identi.ca

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1. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 09:08:52 EST Evan Prodromou

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   I'd like to make the transition as easy as possible for !feds.
2. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 09:06:33 EST Evan Prodromou

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   • march
   The blog post is about new developments specifically for status.net hosted sites.
3. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Dec-2012 09:05:14 EST Evan Prodromou

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   • saziusold
   The 0.1.0 version is primarily an API server. It is fun for hackers, but I don't think non-devs should install yet.
4. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Saturday, 15-Dec-2012 18:02:37 EST Evan Prodromou

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   Can't believe I'm being located in Toronto. Scandalous!
5. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Saturday, 15-Dec-2012 18:02:02 EST Evan Prodromou

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   @marclaporte are you still getting errors? I'm not seeing them.
6. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Thursday, 13-Dec-2012 13:51:58 EST Evan Prodromou

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   Looks like we're going to put in a bid to get the LibreOffice conference to come to Montreal in 2013. Are you here? want to help?
7. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Dec-2012 23:04:47 EST Evan Prodromou

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   Twitter folks have said something along that line, see http://identi.ca/url/74522447
8. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 16:40:07 EST Evan Prodromou

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   You're wrong. Copyright on APIs, file formats, network protocols, and programming languages have been a real issue for a while.
9. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 16:34:48 EST Evan Prodromou

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   • kevingranade
   ...and the fact that we've had 2 very court cases about the subject in the last few years suggests it's non-obvious.
10. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 16:32:20 EST Evan Prodromou

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    The macro language was a key part of the case.
11. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 16:31:45 EST Evan Prodromou

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    @kevingranade I don't think this line of reasoning is as far outside the mainstream as flat-earth theories are.
12. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 16:29:59 EST Evan Prodromou

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    • x1101
    @x1101 I think that's important. I think it'd be dishonest to say that work-alike clones haven't been important for FLOSS.
13. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 15:27:50 EST Evan Prodromou

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    To a very large extent, the success of Free and Open Source software has depended on our ability to make work-alike software.
14. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 15:23:13 EST Evan Prodromou

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    • kevingranade
    SAS vs WPS http://identi.ca/url/74505888
15. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 15:19:58 EST Evan Prodromou

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    Ashton-Tate vs. Fox Software. http://identi.ca/url/74505847
16. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 15:17:50 EST Evan Prodromou

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    • kevingranade
    Lotus vs. Borland. http://identi.ca/url/74505828.
17. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 15:16:33 EST Evan Prodromou

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    • bkuhn
    #StatusNet implement a work-alike API created for Twitter; this has always been something that concerns me.
18. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 15:15:35 EST Evan Prodromou

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    • bkuhn
    Many of the "copycat" APIs that we are used to, like POSIX, are actually made available under some standards regime.
19. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 15:14:43 EST Evan Prodromou

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    • bkuhn
    Saying that API copyrights are ridiculous because, hey, #Wine implements a non-standard API, is very weak proof.
20. Evan Prodromou (evan)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Dec-2012 15:07:19 EST Evan Prodromou

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    @bkuhn I think there's been a long history in computing around the copyrightability of languages and APIs. Not prima facie ridiculous.

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