SFLC will love the 7th Circuit

[Chris DiBona]

Thanks Nigel.  If you are interested in OSGeo's soc work this year, it
can be found here:

http://code.google.com/soc/2007/osgeo/about.html

WW is a pretty terrific project, for sure.

Chris

On Oct 16, 2007 6:35 AM, Tzeng, Nigel H. <Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
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> Chris has been supportive of NASA WorldWind...an Open Source project that
> competes with Google Earth.  We were in the 2006 SoC but alas didn't make
> the cut this year.  Though to be honest I don't think our submissions were
> all that strong this year.
>
> So no shame on Chris at all.
>
> Not too thrilled with some "free" software supporters messing with the NASA
> WW wikipedia entry about how you can't use the word "free" (as in beer) in a
> normal english sentence because it touches the word software but must use
> "gratis" instead...it would have been nice if RMS/FSF had chosen to support
> WW as an open alternative to GE rather than dis NOSA as "unfree".
>
> As far as imagery goes...well...Microsoft has kindly allowed folks to use
> their Virtual Earth imagery for non-commercial uses.  Like in World Wind
> with a plug-in or in OpenLayers (BSD licensed Google Maps like javascript
> package).  I think that OSGeo has been in SoC too but I don't follow their
> projects too closely.
>
> Nigel
>
>  ________________________________
>  From: Alexander Terekhov [mailto:alexander.terekhov at gmail.com]
> Sent: Mon 10/15/2007 9:05 AM
> To: chris at dibona.com
> Cc: dlw; license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: SFLC will love the 7th Circuit
>
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> On 10/14/07, Chris DiBona <cdibona at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah, I get it now. this is me not feeding the trolls anymore....
> >
> > Chris
>
> [...]
>
> > Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.
>
> http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/ciaran/ciaran_s_free_software_notes/transcript_richard_stallman_honary_degree_speech_pavia_2007
>
> "Google designs software specifically to restrict the user. That's the
> nature of the Google Earth client: it is made the way it is
> specifically to restrict the people who use it. Obviously, it's not
> Free Software, because Free Software develops under the democratic
> control of its users."
>
> Shame on you, Chris.
>
> regards,
> alexander.
>
> --
> "To show the falsity of 'PJ''s claims, in most cases I need look no further
> than Groklaw itself. 'PJ' wants more journalists to use the site as a
> resource, so I'll do just that. Below are excerpts from my story that 'PJ'
> says are incorrect, followed by 'PJ''s characterization of them, and my
> response -- at times taken directly from Groklaw."
>
>                                         -- http://tinyurl.com/2mn3jc
>



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