Posted in Documentation, Licensing, xfce on Aug 19th, 2009
Greetings! I hope everyone has been enjoying their summers, and that things are progressing along smoothly with the 9.10 release cycle. I want to share a brief note regarding Xfce documentation licensing with the hopes that others could provide some additional points for us to consider.
Before I do that, though, let me pause to reflect [...]
Posted in Desktop Linux, Licensing, Uncategorized on May 16th, 2009
I recently posted a couple of ‘dents onto identi.ca regarding UbuntuOne, but wanted to follow-up with some more complete thoughts.
In thinking about UbuntuOne, there are a number of factors involved; it involves the need to build a sustainable business, trademark issues, and the level of one’s own comfort with using non-free software. To me, there [...]
Posted in Documentation, Licensing, Release Notes, Xubuntu on Nov 14th, 2007
Both this article and this article note how Ubuntu’s documentation needs to be better than it is. The first article describes (in the last point on the second page) that we should do more content scraping from the unofficial documentation (with permission) to improve our docs. We receive lots of requests for mentorship, [...]
Posted in Desktop Linux, Licensing, Microsoft on Apr 13th, 2007
From this wikipedia article:
Much like Windows XP Starter Edition, [Windows Vista Starter] will be limited to emerging markets such as Brazil, Colombia, India, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, mainly to offer a legal alternative to using unauthorized copies. It will not be available in the United States, Canada, Europe, or Australia.[4] It will have many [...]
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