richardfontana

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On Recent Controversial Events(ebb.org)
161 points by richardfontana 7y ago|136 comments
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by richardfontana 7y ago
> That there are light-skinned fair-haired Europeans today is evidence that they didn't vanish completely. This article suggests otherwise: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22308-europeans-did-n...
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by richardfontana 8y ago
More accurately, Skitt's Law (which is mentioned in that Wikipedia article).
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by richardfontana 8y ago
Etymologically speaking, it's not a contraction, but a preservation of an old 3rd person plural pronoun form (from Middle English "hem"): see https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/'em
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Why CLAs aren't good for open source(opensource.com)
5 points by richardfontana 8y ago|0 comments
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An insider's look at drafting the GPLv3 license(opensource.com)
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by richardfontana 9y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cities_Vowel_Shift , a significant chain vowel shift that has been developing in some dialects of American English. It's detectable for example (though in a relative
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Why so little love for the patent grant in the MIT License?(opensource.com)
1 points by richardfontana 9y ago|0 comments
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by richardfontana 9y ago
Speaking of Coltrane and musical palindromes, he played a tune that was partially a palindromic twelve-tone melody, called Miles' Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6BkV37OQK0&index=3&list=PLl... It actual
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by richardfontana 9y ago
Regarding the MIT license, I know one lawyer who disagrees in practice but I'm not sure if that lawyer seriously believes it. That lawyer is associated with an effort by some companies that have traditionally used standards-setting act
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by richardfontana 9y ago
Patent agents - the term for a non-lawyer who passes the patent bar exam and gets a USPTO registration - are qualified to directly file for patents, and tend to be used by law firms for other analytical tasks requiring technical expertise.
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by richardfontana 9y ago
As the Red Hat FAQ ( https://www.redhat.com/en/about/gplv3-enforcement-statement ) says: Q: Why didn’t you simply relicense your GPLv2 projects under GPLv3 and let the community benefit from the cure approach that w
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by richardfontana 9y ago
Itself a cover of the 1967 song by Tommie James and the Shondells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMFLUXTEwM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Think_We%27re_Alone_Now
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Red Hat, Facebook, Google and IBM extend GPLv3 cure provisions to GPLv2 code(redhat.com)
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by richardfontana 9y ago
I've casually suggested this to some people involved in Fedora. FWIW I think it would be a good idea, and I think at this point the retention of the FPCA by Fedora is mostly a matter of inertia. But I share jwildeboer's sentiment,
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by richardfontana 9y ago
There's Jack's 99 Cent store, which has at least two locations in midtown Manhattan. http://www.jacksnyc.com/
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by richardfontana 9y ago
"To be clear though, Ansible Tower itself will still be a licensed product offering from Red Hat, but the code that builds Ansible Tower releases is open sourced, and is available in the AWX Project." This is strictly speaking cor
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by richardfontana 9y ago
Actually, the iPhone and GPLv3 were first released on the same date, June 29th 2007.
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Patrick McHardy and copyright profiteering(opensource.com)
1 points by richardfontana 9y ago|0 comments
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by richardfontana 9y ago
I'm not too familiar with Waldron's later music but I recommend one of his early albums, Mal/2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mal/2
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by richardfontana 9y ago
I have read (no source at hand though) that that one used to be "Nor-itch" but during the 20th century the pronunciation was gradually forgotten and replaced with a spelling pronunciation. If I remember correctly the same was true
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by richardfontana 9y ago
Calls to mind the Norman Mailer mayoral campaign of 1969 (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City:_the_51st_State )
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by richardfontana 9y ago
I was directly involved in the decision to split AGPL into a different license (as a lawyer for the FSF at the time). Your story attributing this development to pressure from Google is completely false (though I have heard something like it
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by richardfontana 10y ago
In these particular cases I would expect there would be no assignment of copyright (however I would assume you're right about trademarks). Despite the fact that there most likely is some transfer of intellectual property contemplated h
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Do GitHub's updated terms of service conflict with copyleft?(fsf.org)
4 points by richardfontana 10y ago|0 comments
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by richardfontana 10y ago
Article on the actor, Jerry Carroll: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/nyregion/the-public-face-...
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by richardfontana 10y ago
In the past couple of years the OSI approved a license that essentially has no restrictions: https://opensource.org/licenses/FPL-1.0.0
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by richardfontana 10y ago
The Unlicense was never submitted for OSI approval.
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by richardfontana 10y ago
Similar for me, I grew up in New York and was taking the subway by myself to school from age 11 on (also early '80s). I can't remember when I first went to say Central Park unsupervised by adults but am sure it was by age 13.
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by richardfontana 10y ago
I lived in Bay Terrace during my last three years of attending a high school on the Upper East Side. The bus-subway commute was brutal, about the same amount of time as the described LIRR-subway commute to the NYSE. Around the middle of my

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