Another quick update:

I just finished reading The Brothers Lionheart to Alan aloud. I broke into tears while reading the final chapter. This isn't something that happens a lot, mind you.

It's preposterous that one of the most beautiful children's book ever written, by a well known author no doubt, is not in print. Someone has posted a text copy online, and I consider this to be an "ethical copyright violation", specifically that the public good of making this work available outweighs the loss of incentive for copyright owners to reap profits from their legal protection, in this case utterly squandered.

You may find that the above link fails. Fortunately, archive.org preserves the text, though the broken HTML format makes this version quite unusable. Even so, it brings up a question: can archive.org continue to exist in this age of huge liability for copyrights?

Ghostscript

We're closing in on a new trio of releases. For one, I have the gdevijs driver successfully printing with hpijs 1.0 server. I'm looking forward to getting this into people's hands.

The free software community

I'm feeling more positive about the community than I have in months. Of course, there's a lot of stupidity and childishness, but there's also some serious wisdom, and some good work being done. I want to write about what I see, but my thesis comes first.