Island in the Net by Khürt Williams
Technology and Photography Musings. Established circa 2000.
http://blog.posterous.com/introducing-posterous-for-the-iphone-the-only
Just touch post, add any combination of text, photos or videos and you’re ready to post. You can add tags, share your geotag location or even mark a post as private straight from the app.
This is great news for my Posterous mobile photo blog. Now, how about working on building up a free theme library?
Perhaps HTC (and T-Mobile, distributor of the phone) should review the actual contents of the GNU Public License (v2), which stipulate the legal requirements for modifying and redistributing Linux. They state that you may only distribute derivative code if you “[a]ccompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code.” Notably, there is no mention of a “grace period” or the like.
Steve Schultze, Associate Director at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, accuses HTC of violating the GPL with the G2.
One of the commenters points out that Android licensing is a bit more complicated.
Google uses Apache license for most of Android, which gives freedom to developers (carriers), including freedom to make product closed for users.
GPL (used for the kernel) has opposite goals and gives full freedom to users by limiting freedom of developers (so carriers are not allowed to make source of distributed kernel secret).
Instead of arranging their wines by country of origin or grape varietal, Cool Vines arranges wines by taste — simplifying the complexity of selecting the right wine for any occasion.
Matching the wine to the preference of the wine drinkers, the occasion or event, the accompanying food, etc. - all serve to enhance the pleasure from the pour. Instead of demanding that our customers know the vagaries of every wine-producing region’s labeling conventions or the subtle differences of the each grape variety when grown in different parts of the world, using the myriad methods that are available to the winemaker, we provide a standardized taxonomy, represented in clear, simple and visual form that communicates the character of the wine with regard to its taste and its affiliation with food.
My wife and I went in — just to take a look. Five minutes later, the knowledgeable staff were helping my wife pick the perfect wine for dinner while I found a few new Belgian ales to try — Schneider & Sohn Organic Weisen Edel-Weisse. I also picked up an unusual — at least to me — Belgian style ale called Hitachino Nest White Ale from Kiuchi Brewery in Japan. Delicious and a fantastic thirst quencher. I also picked up another Kiuchi Brewery ale, Red Rice Ale, a mixture of Sake, malt and strawberries. What!
