Raw Matter

With all the news about Sun being cool etc., here's one for you: get them to release their stuff under a GPL compatible license. Java is very high profile, and it's not yet licensed under a fully open license. They reportedly said they want to, though. And Microsoft says it works in our best interest and cares about interoperability.

Why am I bringing this up? I've just read that some folks where discussing Sun's ZFS in the context of Linux. KernelTrap quotes Alan Cox and Theodore T'so heavily doubting Sun's sincerity about Free Software issues, given that ZFS is CDDL-licensed and heavily encumbered with patents. (note: I'm just quoting the KernelTrap blog, and this is not an area I'm familiar with.)

Record label EMI announced (according to various sources) that they'd offer both DRM-encumbered versions (at ¢99) and DRM-free versions (called "Premium" or something, at $1.29) of their stuff on iTunes. I'd be curious to see the sales data on this, but I guess they won't be published.

I've never felt the need for a killfile so far: "Ignore thread" in kmail mostly does enough for me. Still missing is the ability to easily break and reconstruct threading and the "ignore thread" information to be stored in IMAP. (OTOH the latter bug staying open means I don't read Debian mailing list during work time, which is probably a good thing anyway :-)

The only time when "Ignore thread" was not enough was at the battle on nanae, but from what I hear the whole community lost that war, so people with elaborate killfiles didn't fare better than me, either.