Posts by richardfontana@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AXKFxWl2IkDv1QMbmy by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2023-07-03T16:43:40Z
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IBM and Red Hat have separate policies and practices and rhetoric around open source. Whatever some particular ibm.com web page says about some issue pertaining to open source licensing likely has no applicability to Red Hat (and vice versa wrt redhat.com and IBM)
(DIR) Post #AY46UAvS9dNXGEhzFY by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2023-07-25T21:25:22Z
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@grammargirl Descriptivistically speaking, it's been 'correct' for at least a few decades, but that doesn't mean I have to use it myself
(DIR) Post #AdXOXXLrEPYAOqQalU by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2024-01-05T03:03:31Z
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I'm thinking of proposing that Fedora Linux adopt something like Debian's 'common-licenses' directory. Looking into this I discovered to my surprise that one of the most common licenses in Fedora based on package metadata is the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c (I mean, I know why, but still odd)
(DIR) Post #AdfeGhKBGm0jDbJaTI by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2024-01-09T13:28:55Z
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@penguin42 @dazo @brauner Note: I am a Red Hat lawyer, I am also a US-qualified patent lawyer but I am not a Red Hat patent lawyer in the sense that I am not on the patent team and I am not involved in Red Hat's patent portfolio program
(DIR) Post #AsLs7Cr7hZWbUfIZGK by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-03-22T21:01:18Z
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@bkuhn @downey in fairness to Gollum I don't think he was aware of the existence of the other Rings of Power
(DIR) Post #AsLs7EYlMo1imIivvE by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-03-23T00:40:08Z
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@bkuhn Gandalf told Frodo about the other rings, the first time in a conversation that Sam famously eavesdropped on. But at that time Gollum presumably wasn't nearby (he doesn't seem to have been in proximity to Frodo and Sam until they get to Moria). It's possible he picked info on this from them or others at later times, but it seems a little unlikely to me. Maybe lore about the Rings of Power was more widely known?Regarding Second Breakfast though, that makes me think of coffee ∀ 😀
(DIR) Post #AsLs7FJCa9Ap6KS1J2 by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-03-23T00:48:34Z
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@bkuhn Just skimmed "The Shadow of the Past" chapter. Gandalf seems to imply that knowledge about the Rings of Power at that point was pretty much limited to 'the Wise' (him, Saruman, and the more clued-in Elves, basically)
(DIR) Post #AscfDoTvq1CRCPhwm0 by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-03-31T15:39:07Z
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@almalinux not sure if that's implying that RHEL has a "commercial license agreement" but that's not the case (except in the sense that Alma too can be said to be commercially licensed) 🤓
(DIR) Post #AscfDqGtBTxGkXcYim by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-03-31T18:30:25Z
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@benny it's not specific to Alma, I find it frustrating when people, including unfortunately some Red Hatters, speak of "RHEL licenses" when they mean RHEL subscriptions
(DIR) Post #Ax00LT3w4zmgm5N07s by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-08-09T16:30:29Z
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@cwebber Cf.: https://spdx.org/licenses/any-OSI.html
(DIR) Post #AxU81SNXXZCHEnJ3vk by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-08-24T04:01:58Z
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@bkuhn isn't that because ſ is only lowercase? @neal @jbqueru
(DIR) Post #AxU81UbRGrVG8TpBs8 by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-08-24T04:21:08Z
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@bkuhn Indeed, among other things small caps has a standard use in legal scholarship journals adhering to the #problematic Bluebook format (I forget what offhand but titles of books are one example) @neal @jbqueru
(DIR) Post #AxU81XErTGE4JKHhb6 by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-08-24T04:10:33Z
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@bkuhn Here's an example @neal @jbqueru
(DIR) Post #AxkPP2JIv8NH5WVtOi by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-09-01T01:57:59Z
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@futurebird in Manhattan roughly half of the time
(DIR) Post #Azkuqr0QmPeJ5n5zrk by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-10-30T02:49:56Z
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Just noticed that the FSF (or perhaps Richard Stallman himself?) has replaced the long-criticized joke name "Ty Coon, President of Vice" in the GPLv2 "How to Apply" section with "Moe Ghoul, President of Vice". cc: @bkuhn
(DIR) Post #AzkuqteCxUehHjin8y by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-10-30T03:18:53Z
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@mason it's "Ty Coon", not "Ty Cobb". As defined by Merriam-Webster, meaning 2 of "coon" is "offensive —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a Black person" @bkuhn
(DIR) Post #AzkuqvRWHdh6qxnge0 by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-10-30T04:04:53Z
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@mason I don't think anyone ever accused RMS of intending any racist connotation, though I think it is fair to say that he stubbornly refused to later acknowledge that the joke name was offensive @bkuhn
(DIR) Post #AzkuqylpuYjDAqKSEC by richardfontana@mastodon.social
2025-10-30T03:20:48Z
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@mason Aficionados of GPLv3 arcania will know that there was an earlier (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to replace Ty Coon in the release of Discussion Draft 1 of GPLv3 in January 2006 (in that case, with "Rich R. Thanus, Peripheral Visionary") @bkuhn