Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/06/19/identica-weekly.html

Simon Phipps, when I
recently expressed surprise
at how he makes 1.37 blog posts/day,
suggested that I post
enough to identi.ca to make them into blog posts that frequent. I
doubt I’m going to do that, but I’m going to have a short go at posting
a “Identi.ca Weekly Summary” of threads of interest from the
week.

Identi.ca Summary, 2011-06-11 through 2011-06-19

• I started this past week
  in a thread discussing
  @laforge’s
  blog post about hackers using Gmail. This led to
  a a debate with
  @marjoleink about what a program is and whether how copyright should
  apply to them.
• In his usual debate-rousing
  way, @fontana started a
  thread about GPL and Javascript. That descended
  into discussion
  of whether or not this was a troll. I was home alone so
  I just
  phoned @fontana and talked to him until he had to hang up.
• There is
  a a
  brief discussion about misspellings of my name.
• A discussion
  ensued about whether or not @fontana and I had made a covenant not to
  troll each
  other. rahulsundaram
  made a cute reference to the Novell/Microsoft deal and
  I picked up on it with a
  joke of my own in the same vein.
• Red Hat’s CEO has
  trouble pronouncing
  GNOME. Is it a desktop, or is it genetics?
• fabsh started a
  thread by saying he wouldn’t sign the Fedora CLA, I
  asked him why, which led
  to a
  debate
  between me and @fontana about whether or not it is a CLA. In the
  end, @fontana conceded to call it
  a ghost of a CLA.
• Following up on @fontana’s previous week
  of using Planet
  of the Apes to make points at me,
  I pointed
  him at The Simpsons Planet of the Apes
  musical.
• I made a few comments
  on the Tony Awards.
• For once in
  history (so far), I
  thanked Matt Aslett for something.
• @magicfab is using GLPI
  which I
  noted was a great program.
• @fontana
  and I briefly discussed RMS’ debates with Gosling about early
  Emacs.
• There
  was a brief discussion of toplevel vs. file-by-file copyright
  inventory.
• There
  was discussion
  of lilURL and that fact that it and identi.ca are written in PHP.
  Later, @fontana agreed to
  help me rewrite lilURL in
  Python. It can’t be wrong
  to rewrite from scratch a project with only 462 lines of code and docs.
• I visited State College, PA (for the OpenFOAM Workshop, blog post on
  that tomorrow),
  and felt
  old seeing the students’ behavior there.
• The HHKB
  Type-S came out,
  but it
  doesn’t seem to be available in the USA yet.
• Evergreen
  joined the Conservancy.
• I discussed with
  @copiesofcopies, @fabsh, and others the fact that VMS users and
  lawyers like ALL CAPS.
• There
  was a discussion, started by @fontana saying Subversion is dead, about
  possible merits of Subversion compared to Git. I don’t know why
  @fontana intermixed it
  with my comments
  on Allison Randal’s appearance on Linux Outlaws.
• @fontana
  invented the phrase “Asay’s Fallacy”. Then @fontana
  and
  I ended
  up discussing characters from It’s a Wonderful Life! again.
• @fabsh
  likes Al Franken’s hair, but @fontana and I remember him from SNL instead.
• @fontana
  asked who ESR is
  and @glynmoody
  explained.

That was longer than I thought. I suspect it’ll be shorter once/if
it’s a regular thing.