Month: May 2012
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Free vs proprietary licenses
The GPL is frequently seen as a “complicated” license, and thus less desirable than the “simpler” BSD-like family of licenses. I have stumbled upon a description of the situation that really bears repeating (I believe the kids nowadays call this “retweeting”). To summarize, the apparent complexity of free licenses only exists because free licenses are…
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Stallman facts in an Octave release
And now for something completely different… I managed to get an easter egg into Octave. I’ve always been a little sad that we are not having enough fun in Octave, so I added some facts about the world’s greatest hacker to the source tree. Just type fact in the Octave interpreter to read them. Giving…