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It appears that pretty much every post I’ve made to my blog in the past year has been about Mono, or related topics, and caused enormous offense, anguish, and controversy. I have therefore decided to balance it with a completely controversy-free, risk-free post. A nice, safe topic. So, ladies & gents, allow me to introduce [...]

So. Banshee as a default media player for Karmic, replacing Rhythmbox. You’ve read the analysis on the Internest, you’ve read ill-informed tripe from pretend-journalists, and you’re running in fear of a switch to a “worse” player. Well, it’s time to lay down a little dose of reality for all you naysayers. Firstly, Ubuntu’s feature freeze [...]

I mean, really. Some of them have big beards, or have trained Velociraptors!

If the anti-Mono crowd were provided with their GPL-compatible patent grant for Mono, which they spend so much time talking about the absence of, how would they react? Well, let’s watch together!

I believe Free Software developers should be free to work without their work being compared to terminal illness [0][1] I believe Free Software developers should be free to pick and choose their development tools [2][3] I believe Free Software developers should be free to contribute without being threatened with eviction from a community [4][5] I [...]

This post is a repost for something I sent to Linux Today. Their original message was here, where they invited people who don’t think Mono causes AIDS to justify themselves. I replied here. This is a repost, for the benefit of assorted aggregators. Some context may be lost by not reading the original “invitation” first. [...]

You are not being censored for your opinion. Let me repeat that, for those at the back: You are not being censored for your opinion. Nobody on any of the mailing lists, user forums, bug trackers, or other community interaction sites you use is censoring you for your opinion. There is no vast conspiracy, there [...]

A short missive on Gnote, which ties into my last post about bloat. Gnote is, for those living under a large pile of particularly non-porous rocks, a fork of Tomboy, doing a line-by-line translation of the source into C++. It was announced one month ago today, and has already seen several releases. Gnote is impressive. [...]

I’m going to take a moment to talk about bloat. What it means, and why one man’s bloat is another man’s necessity. First, a definition: bloat is an arbitrary measure of subjectively “useful” features minus subjectively “useless” features, divided by the size of something (in memory or on disk or whatever). If you want a [...]

Congratulations to anyone who read my post about Banshee as default media player in Ubuntu in the past week. You’ve formed part of an interesting social experiment – an analysis into the habits of people who surf the internest, and specifically the kind of people who visit a page with a dry topic like media [...]