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Software Licencing — Proprietary vs. Liberal vs. GNU GPL
This is a response to an article written by Daniel Jalkut, titled Getting Pretty Lonely.
I think there is one critical point that we all should agree on — developers like to be compensated for their work, even those of Open Source and Free Software.
Some assume that GNU GPL makes it almost impossible or at least very hard to earn fair compensation for time invested in developing the software, while “Liberal” licences allow the freedom to determine (and guarantee) the compensation through controlling the distribution.
The reason for this is the current implementation of the competition-driven capitalism which has made the concepts of donation and freedom to compensate complete bizarre in the context of how businesses work these days. Read more »
Widget Context Update for WordPress 2.8
I have updated the Widget Context plugin to fix the CSS overlay issue that was introduced with the latest WordPress upgrade. ∞ One comment, add yours (1)
WordPress, Plugins and Open Source
It’s funny how only now when WordPress has been updated and many plugins have stopped working, people realize how important and significant the plugins are.
Show your love for open source — say Thanks and donate. Get the developers’ enthusiasm flowing. ∞ One comment, add yours (1)
OpenID Plugin and WordPress 2.8
Ever since using the nightly versions of WordPress, I got used to doing regular updates and not checking if all plugins work fine afterward.
Therefore only today I discovered that leaving comments on this blog has been impossible for a while already. Turns out that changes in the WordPress core have made the OpenID plugin unaware of the comment author’s name and e-mail.
Haven’t found a solution yet. Read more »
Is iPhone 3G “S” Slow or Small?
Is Apple really going in the footsteps of Microsoft by creating more and more version of essentially the same product? When seeing iPhone 3G S for the first time I immediately associated “S” with size Small.
These days no one considers a phone “smart” if it’s slow or doesn’t have support for 3G. So what does Apple exactly mean by saying iPhone 3G Speed? Where the previous versions slow?
How about calling it iPhone 4, 5, 6, … n. ∞ Add a Comment
Free Software, GPL and WordPress
If you want to know what the spirit of GPL and Free Software is, listen to what Stephen Fry and Richard Stallman have to say. These ideas are so simple and amazing at the same time that no rule or license can fully define them. You have to sense them. ∞ Add a Comment
Widget Context Plugin for WordPress 2.8
If you are using my Widget Context plugin and you have just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 Beta, please use this new version of Widget Context plugin. ∞ Add a Comment
Quick Reply Templates Plugin and WordPress 2.8
Quick Reply Templates is a really useful WordPress plugin by Paul William that allows you to have a predefined comment reply template, such as <a href="#commend-id">@Name</a>, that will be filled out automatically when you reply to a comment within your WordPress Dashboard or Edit Comments page. Read more »
CSS @Imports Suck
I have never used them, and here is why you shouldn’t use CSS @imports too. Via Monday By Noon. ∞ Add a Comment
Digital Britain and USB Flash Drives
Digital Britain logo
While the ideas behind the Digital Britain initiative are really great and noble, its logo is quite the opposite — what is the connection between a flash drive and an open access to information and its distribution networks?
Every letter in the logo is supposed to symbolize a node attached to Britain’s information network, which sounds like a good explanation until you put it on a USB thumb drive. Read more »
Kaspars is a physics student and a web designer living in Latvia and working on the web since 2000. 
