Hey all, I was informed Thursday that it's pronounced I.D. software, but I do not believe that to be true. Here's a documentary on the company where they describe the origins of the name, and they definitely do not pronounce it that way. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCafnH_eisA From the meet-up, here are the links from the gnews items: New Firefox release, which has received much community backlash: * https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/12/133214 * http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/04/29/1638220/firefox-29-redesign * http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=13350353&sid=cee01d7621130bd32543a5154b4419c9#p13350353 New Screen release (first in over 5 years!): * https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7961 New OpenSSH release which does not depend on OpenSSL: * http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/1822209/openssh-no-longer-has-to-depend-on-openssl New Mailman beta (now using Twitter bootstrap!): * http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/04/29/0253247/gnu-mailman-3-enters-beta * https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/ (demo URL) US Supreme Court Makes It Easier To Get Lawyers Fees In Patent Cases: * http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/04/30/1555231/supreme-court-makes-it-easier-to-get-lawyers-fees-in-patent-cases> MediaGoblin campaign a success! * http://mediagoblin.org/news/campaign-success.html RBDOOM-3-BFG hits 1.0 * https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG * https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG/releases/tag/v1.0.1 All Packages Needed For FreedomBox Now In Debian: * http://linux-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/04/16/1355220/all-packages-needed-for-freedombox-now-in-debian New Privacy Badger Firefox and Chrome extension: * https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Why Oracle’s Copyright Victory Over Google Is Bad News for Everyone: * http://www.wired.com/2014/05/oracle-copyright/ * https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dangerous-ruling-oracle-v-google-federal-circuit-reverses-sensible-lower-court Net Neutrality links: * https://openmedia.org/slowlane?src=156261 * http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tellfcc/ * http://www.occupythefcc.com/ * https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/prepare-take-action-defend-net-neutrality-heres-how-fcc-makes-its-rules SOPA's dead but pols ask ad companies to pretend SOPA is law anyway: * https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/pols-ad-networks-pretend-we-passed-sopa-and-never-mind-about-antitrust Mozilla announces partnership with Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management: * https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/05/14/drm-and-the-challenge-of-serving-users/ * https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-condemns-partnership-between-mozilla-and-adobe-to-support-digital-restrictions-management * http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/14/firefox-closed-source-drm-video-browser-cory-doctorow * https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/ * https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/05/14/1949257 Just on that last gnews item, there was some discussion Thursday around what Mozilla was actually bundling with its browser. From The Guardian link: "Mozilla says it isn’t providing DRM; it’s providing a fully open utility that automatically fetches and installs DRM from Adobe’s servers. I am unconvinced that there is a meaningful distinction between “installing DRM” and “installing code that installs DRM”." So while it is technically accurate that Mozilla isn't bundling proprietary code, depending on the implementation, they might as well be. Hopefully this is functionality that needs to be activated by the user, as opposed to having EME enabled in the browser by default (such as the way cookies are currently handled). I also found this interesting, but unexpected: "But if users modify the sandbox in any way – if they add new features or improvements to it – the Adobe plug-in can detect the alteration and it will refuse to pass any more decoded video. The Mozilla sandbox comes with total openness, but without any of the freedoms that the free software movement cherishes." I wonder if unofficial Firefox builds will work with Adobe's CDM. Probably not. I also wonder if Mozilla's EME sandbox will be compatible with other CDMs. Thanks all for coming along Thursday. I particularly enjoyed seeing how the Bitcoin ATM was put together. Cheers, Adam
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