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Meanwhile I read a bit more about the Microsoft <--> Novell cooperation deal. Hell, what an utterly shameful sell-out! In essence, Novell (and the guys leading it, Ron Hovespian & Co.) have defacto acknowledged that Linux violates Microsoft patents. They bought themselves (as a company) some exclusive "peaceful co-existence" (limited to 5 years from now) with the Evil Empire of Global Software Monopoly. Read More

Some months back I read about the GPLv3 for the first time. Just like many I was compelled by the arguments of Linus against it more then by the arguments from the FSF for this new license. Reasons for that were that the EU doesn't allow software patents as well as the silly example of Tivo which is pretty far fetched. Read More

My head is dizzy from seeing all the current news about "Microsoft ♥♥♥♥s Novell". Had no time to carefully read all the stuff. What struck my eyes was this sentence: Quote: "This is a watershed moment for Linux. It fundamentally changes the rules of the game."       (Joint letter to the Open Source Community, From Novell and Microsoft) Read More

Some interesting details from the Google/YouTube deal. I had already suspected some maneuverings along these lines, but preferred to not say anything. Now that others have gone public, lemme chime in..... Read More

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, KMobileTools Homepage was enraged by enemy Referrer Spy of the evil Spam Empire. Using the bright side of the Force, our heroes were able to destroy this terrible enemy weapons by banning several referrer keywords. But the Spam Empire was far away from being destroyed. A new weapon, secretly developed was ready to strike: spam usernames. Do you really think that "free xxx wife story" is a "real" user name? At this time, our heroes tried to stop the Empire by banning IP address. Will this stop these evil plans? Soon other details coming... Update: Since i got yet other subscriptions from spammers, i added the captcha module to the homepage. However, it's NOT based on image captcha, but instead on math expressions, so it's even higly accessible. Read More

Yesterday Pradeepto added the TOFU (an acronym for something in German) feature to KMail in the KDE-PIM Features Branch. TOFU provides top-posting -- see the "Insert signatures above quoted text" option in KMail's Composer configuration -- as well as composer window edit options for: Prepend Signature; Append Signature; and Insert Signature at Cursor Position. Read More

Packages of KDE 3.80.2 are available for Kubuntu Edgy. In this second developers snapshot of KDE 4 full sessions seem to be running nicely. Lots of things crash but it's a good start. As a distro developer one of my current worries is how KDE 3 apps will run under KDE 4, with these packages it works except for kioslaves which complain about klauncher breaking. So if I can work that one out, it should be OK. Read More

I've now added Okular packages to the KDE 4 archive. Okular is the rocking replacement for KPDF in KDE 4 featuring support for numberous file formats I've never heard of. Read More

While trying to fix a crash in Gwenview when saving a JPEG image (Bug 136112) I found out the crash was caused by a file I borrowed from libexif. Not wanting to debug this code, I decided to switch Gwenview to use Exiv2 instead. Read More

The kdegames survey has shown it: People love kpat. It's the only game that reached an overall score of 4 (with 46% saying it's game play is very good relative to the rest of kdegames)! Read More