Posts tagged open source

Proprietary vs. Liberal vs. GNU GPL

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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 completely bizarre in the context of how businesses work these days. Read more »

WordPress, Plugins and Open Source

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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.

The Future of Media is Linux

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All e-book readers to be released in 2009 will have Linux as their operating system. Can it really be that Microsoft and Apple have already missed it? Could they have not realized that all traditional media as we know it today will be on these devices in just a few years time? Is Linux really becoming the industry standard? Read more »

WordPress, GPL and Widget Context

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Definitely check out the special episode of WordPress Weekly podcast (RSS) hosted by Jeff Chandler where Matt Mullenweg explains why WordPress, GPL and Open Source matters.

I am finally publishing my Widget Context plugin as an α release at the official plugin repository. If you find a bug, or if you know how to fix that bug where the context settings are not saved for widgets that are added fresh to the sidebar on the first ‘Save’, then please leave a comment. Read more »