Apologies, if you've received this already.
Cheers, Peter
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From: philip
Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:31 PM
Subject: [NZLUG] Linux Lite banned from TradeMe
To: nzlug <nzlug(a)lists.nzoss.org.nz>
Hi folks,
Jerry Bezencon, the author of the Linux Lite distribution has had his
distribution banned from TradeMe. Jerry has put the correspondence on
the Linux Lite forums.
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/on-topic/linux-lite-banned-as-free-s
oftware-from-trademe
Jerry has been given the same run around that Copyleft was given a few
years ago when it was thrown off TradeMe. I had explained about Free
Software, Project Gutenberg, and that eBay allowing Linux sales. All
I got was "it was against policy blah blah blah" – despite the fact
that TradeMe's policy did not cover FLOSS. A burnt Official Debian
Disc is the original disc. Or worse, in Jerry's case he is selling his
own work and that he owns the original copyright on his work.
Applying Hanlon's razor.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
stupidity".
eBay.com.au runs Apache (FLOSS), so management has been educated by its
techies about free software, how it works and the environment in which
it works. So Linux sales are permitted.
IMHO the root of the problem lies in the techie area of TradeMe. When
I checked a few years ago I found that TradeMe was a Microsoft shop
(os info is not available now). TradeMe has Microsoft techies and so
management remains ignorant and open to FUD about FLOSS.
OnOffer is also a Microsoft shop and has similar restrictions.
Let's make waves.
Phil.
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For anyone who may like this sort of thing and not seen this
announcement. Sounds like some interesting progress.
https://sites.google.com/a/android-x86.org/web/releases/releasenote-5-1-rc1
Key Features
The 5.1-rc1 release is based on the Android 5.1.1_r24. We added many
x86 specified code and fixed issues to let the system runs smoothly on
x86 platforms, especially for netbooks or tablets. The key features
contain
Supports 64-bit kernel and userspace, as well as 32-bit system.
Update kernel to 4.0.9.
Enable OpenGL ES hardware acceleration for
Intel/AMD(radeon/radeonsi)/Nvidia(nouveau) chipsets.
Support booting from UEFI and installing to UEFI disk.
Be able to install to ext4/ext3/ext2/ntfs/fat32 filesystems via a
text based GUI installer.
Support Multi-touch, Audio, Wifi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Camera and
Ethernet (DHCP only).
Auto-mount external usb drive and sdcard with filesystem
vfat/ntfs/exfat/ext4.
Support VM including Qemu, VirtualBox and VMware.
Support foreign archs (arm / arm64) via the native bridge
mechanism. (Settings -> Apps Compatibility)
'Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth revealed today that they're planning to
make ZFS standard on Ubuntu. They are planning to include ZFS
file-system as "standard in due course," but no details were revealed
beyond that. However, ZFS On Linux contributor Richard Yao has said
they do plan on including it in their kernel for 16.04 LTS and the GPL
vs. CDDL license worries aren't actually a problem. Many Linux users
have been wanting ZFS on Linux, but aside from the out of tree module
there hasn't been any luck in including it in the mainline kernel or
with tier-one Linux distributions due to license differences.'
-- source: http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/10/06/210202
Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
'Just like Sarah Sharp, Linux developer Matthew Garrett has gotten fed
up with the unprofessional development culture surrounding the kernel.
"I remember having to deal with interminable arguments over the naming
of an interface because Linus has an undying hatred of BSD
securelevel, or having my name forever associated with the
deepthroating of Microsoft because Linus couldn't be bothered asking
questions about the reasoning behind a design before trashing it,"
Garrett writes. He has chosen to go his own way, and has forked the
Linux kernel and added patches that implement a BSD-style securelevel
interface. Over time it is expected to pick up some of the power
management code that Garrett is working on, and we shall see where it
goes from there.'
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/10/06/1553233
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
