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Tim Bray indicates that almost all the legal impediments before an open-source java are cleared. Now this really means there might be, one day, a clean java, something that does cause headaches to distributions!

I much love the GNU Classpath license… really… as simple as that: do whatever you want to “link to it” but there rest is the GPL-full-land.

Recently, Bob Matthews posted a mathtype trick, something that was not new to me, but something that struck me this time: you can, now, copy-and-paste from Wikipedia, shown in a current browser, into MathType (so into Word or PowerPoint).

Just found this by browsing randomly. Very delicious: http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/~cmiller/Linux+Is this is a very good summary of the traumatic experience many folks do while being proud of running a cleanly free software.

There are virtues in cleanly free software, and thanks god there are folks that take time to actually endure the woes up-there and that period is over for me since a few years.

The real virtues lie in the realization of the long-term impact of the licensing policies… which has carried a lot of its fruits, e.g. with the realization of the most dom

Looking for a good licensing model for content which stimulates re-usability? Here’s an attempt…

Below is an extract of The Wealth of Networks, a book trying to describe the mechanisms of “peer productions” with a very convincing analysis of why big projects such as Wikipedia or Open-Source-Software projects have managed to attract a large human investment. The extract follows the strong claim that an essential quality of high-involvement peer-production spaces is the possibility of small-grained human investments.

I know this site is for ActiveMathers but I'll still give it a try as a throw of a personal view with a pretty general scope...

I was recently in two major world heritage sites:

• the Altamira prehistoric paintings' caves (in Cantanbria)
• the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao

In both of these... no photographs... and guards to keep it strongly!

Why ? Some used to say that it is to protect the poor paintings from the horrible effect of the flashes... well... maybe... but honestly... this was not the case of both of these exhibits (note for Altamira caves: we're only allowd to visit fake caves)