A whole load of cryptic stuff…
“Noodle lumps of the present invention, because of their quick restoration properties when subjected to boiling water, can conveniently be served to the general public as a very convenient ration-type lunch, holiday snack for outings and/or emergency food, thereby contributing greatly to an improvement in dietary life of the general public.”
Momofuku Ando (?? ??). Inventor of Cup Noodles, 1976.
We’ve finally got around to uploading our Honeymoon Photos of Japan, don’t worry our wedding photos are on their way. Watch this space.
“One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control,” he said. “It’s just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else’s web server, you’re defenseless. You’re putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.”
Richard Stallman, Founder of the Free Software Foundation.
From a Guardian article about Cloud Computing.
"NVIDIA’s fully featured Linux graphics driver is provided as binary-only because it contains intellectual property NVIDIA wishes to protect, both in hardware and in software"
“The NVidia driver is the single component in a KDE4 / Free Operating system stack causing us most of the hard-to-solve problems. In other words, nvidia.ko has grave technical shortcomings.”
Sebastian Kügler, KDE Developer.
“The great advantage of the Open Source development model is that it is driven by considerations of technical excellence, so if you give people enough information, they’ll not only assist you writing the driver, they’ll even help you design it.”
“[...] binary drivers totally negate the shared support and maintenance burden which is what makes Open Source so compelling. Additionally, there is also a drag effect these binary drivers have on the rest of the ecosystem: for instance, Fedora was under enormous pressure not to release Fedora 9 until there was a solution that allowed it to run with the Nvidia binary driver (Fedora chose to ship with a pre-release of the X windows system which Nvidia refused to support and because the driver was binary Fedora couldn’t simply fix the problems and ship anyway).”
James Bottomley. Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Chair and SCSI Maintainer. Linux Graphics Essay.
“Critically though, I think the BBC can, and should, do more to support the Free and Open Source community”
Ashley Highfield, Director, BBC Future Media & Technology
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