The Nexenta OS project has released its first publically available release. NexentaOS pre-alpha 1 has been released (also trying to beat this, I guess). You can download it from this page. This release contains OpenSolaris kernel build 26, GNOME 2.12.1, GNOME Office, Xorg 6.8.2, and much more. Update by AS: Screenshots!
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Member since:2005-07-11
"It's the same lumping and it's the same word"
No, it really isn't. Once again: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/not-ipr.xhtml is protesting only that the phrase "intellectual property" has become an overly broad, confusingly generic umbrella term which is being used to refer to copyright, trademark and patent laws as though they are all one and the same. It is arguing only against the use of that specific phrase ("intellectual property") and even then, only when it is being used as a catch-all term that would lead to over-generalization in the way that is described in the essay.
The only way that your own blinkered interpretation holds is if one chooses to read only the tiny fragment you quoted whilst steadfastly ignoring the whole of the rest of the essay. I think that doing so is intellectually dishonest in the extreme, but perhaps that's just me.
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2005-07-06
It's the same lumping and it's the same word. The passage I quoted clearly refers to the "property" part of the word. Wether you call it "intellectual property" or just simply "property" is irrelevant. If anything it is a sign that the ideal of free software (as in free culture) has been completley lost on you.
If you are going to argu against me you could at least have done it properly. The second link i refer to is all about how you don't have to agree with the FSF to use the GPL. Whish destroys in effect destorys my premise that usage of GPL implies agreeing with the free software ideal...
Edited 2005-11-09 06:49