http://www.linux-magazine.com Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog en-US http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Fellow-travelers-The-FOSS-media-and-FOSS-developers http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Fellow-travelers-The-FOSS-media-and-FOSS-developers If FOSS journalists and FOSS developers sometimes fight, that's because their interests are not identical. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:36:41 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/The-choices-inside-Ubuntu http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/The-choices-inside-Ubuntu Is Ubuntu's switch from Google to Yahoo! a sign of a new business orientation in Canonical Software? Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:05:28 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/A-75-victory-or-75-defeat http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/A-75-victory-or-75-defeat Is the fact that 75% of Linux kernel contributions are by paid developers a sign of defeat or qualified victory? Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:23:01 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/TinyOgg-software-freedom-and-convenience http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/TinyOgg-software-freedom-and-convenience TinyURL is a brave attempt to overcome the need to use proprietary Flash. But will users choose software freedom over inconvenience? Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:55:53 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Selling-GPL-Exceptions-isn-t-Exceptional http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Selling-GPL-Exceptions-isn-t-Exceptional When Richard Stallman expressed support for selling GPL exceptions, many people were surprised. They shouldn't have been -- he was just following a tactic that the Free Software Foundation has used for years. Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:26:38 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Why-can-t-we-all-just-get-along http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Why-can-t-we-all-just-get-along Discussion in the FOSS community is getting increasingly ugly. Here are a few suggestions about how to improve it -- and to tell when someone doesn't want to improve it. Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:07:30 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/GNOME-GNU-and-a-long-memory http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/GNOME-GNU-and-a-long-memory The debate over whether GNOME should leave the GNU Project makes a lot more sense if you can remember the last six months. Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:11:14 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Does-a-free-software-community-exist http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Does-a-free-software-community-exist Everyone talks about the free software community, but before you can say it exists, you need to define your terms. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:41:04 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/The-Windows-7-License-can-make-you-love-free-software http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/The-Windows-7-License-can-make-you-love-free-software Think that free and open source software's concerns are exaggerated? Read the Windows 7 End User License Agreement. You'll soon change your mind. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:07:33 GMT http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Information-sources-for-documenting-free-software http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Information-sources-for-documenting-free-software What sources of information are available for free software documentation? Are they any difference from the sources available in other technical writing? Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:17:09 GMT