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Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2013 15:50:14 EDT 
Simon Phipps
Last time I looked that needed lots of set-up for participants & a client for everyone - has it got better? -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2013 15:45:09 EDT
Simon Phipps
What technology are you proposing, John? I know several who would like something as easy as Hangouts-On-Air but with FOSS. -
hugoroy (hugoroy)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2013 04:29:14 EDT 
hugoroy
@evan good luck with the pump.io transition today! \o/ I'm looking forward do it -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2013 16:26:29 EDT
Simon Phipps
@schestowitz You'll be interested in wmk.me/11tsYVX too. -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2013 11:54:13 EDT
Simon Phipps
I'll certainly be there :-) -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2013 08:08:56 EDT
Simon Phipps
My update on why Google's VP8 codec license is OK after all http://shar.es/wg0t1 via @infoworld -
Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2013 17:57:45 EDT 
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Computer scientists urge court to block copyright claims in Oracle v. Google API fight: https://eff.org/r.2bS4 -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2013 10:56:21 EDT
Simon Phipps
FM is indeed the person you are identifying, yes - laid the "OSI Pres" thing on really heavily to try to create a stink -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2013 10:15:20 EDT
Simon Phipps
Which "claim"? See http://ur1.ca/e3qw4 (and BTW I did not comment on behalf of OSI, that's FM spin) -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2013 21:26:59 EDT
Simon Phipps
Yes, but more than just recency. It's also a tendency to prioritise small negatives over large long-term positives. -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2013 21:23:28 EDT
Simon Phipps
I said if it was in a FOSS license it would be non-free. Seems SFLC agrees with that. They are clarifying that it's GPLv3 compatible. -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2013 20:00:47 EDT
Simon Phipps
It was a general comment rather than in response to a specific dent. -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2013 07:45:03 EDT
Simon Phipps
Indeed. Strangely it doesn't seem to need saying for proprietary-proprietary migrations. -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2013 21:51:03 EDT
Simon Phipps
It's distressing how some people forget a long history of good work in the light of a single, often imagined issue. -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2013 10:35:29 EDT
Simon Phipps
Open source migration needs a plan - the real benefits only show if you invest first: http://ur1.ca/e2pvm -
mlinksva (mlinksva)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2013 07:16:29 EDT 
mlinksva
https://sfconservancy.org/campaign/ for FLOSS NPO accounting software at >50% #nptech -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2013 16:21:56 EDT
Simon Phipps
Since an exception is needed, I prefer Excepted Affero General License. Could get wings. -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2013 15:59:51 EDT
Simon Phipps
They need to cultivate a co-developer community: Background: http://ur1.ca/e0v68 -
Simon Phipps (webmink)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2013 15:58:57 EDT
Simon Phipps
I have had two clients ask for LAGPL in the last month, FWIW... -
Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2013 18:56:45 EDT
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Californians: Public access to scientific research is at stake tomorrow. Tell your lawmakers to support it now: https://eff.org/r.4bPR
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