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back from Stuttgart's LinuxTag event which was truely amazing. Beside getting in touch with a couple of other berlin developers such as NickElm, I met Thomas Hiller, the ancient Fresco maintainer. It is sad how much work was done on Fresco and is lost simply because at the time no-one cared.
Spend a couple of days with friends in Zürich after that. It's fascinating to hear the mix of French/German my daughter speaks now, having spent almost three weeks in Germany/Switzerland.

ralsina:

I think the problem with such discussions about freedom is that people forget that it's not meaningful to speak about freedom without addressing to whom it applies. Saying that a piece of software is free doesn't tell anything as long as you don't say whether you mean to the developer, user, or vendor.
People are of course right if they claim that a BSD style license is more free than GPL if they mean for the vendor. But since this freedom is (potentially) restricting the user's freedom, and since the user is what the GPL is addressing, there is a deep conflict.
I think as soon as you add this little bit of context into the discussion it isn't any more about which license is more free but which interest you are trying to defend.

graydon: may be it's just a naming issue but I wouldn't make the distinction between art and work but between work and job.
This retains the same arguments as to motivation but avoids the issue about what activity falls into art. In fact, it's not the kind of activity which is responsible for the distinction but the goal.

cleaning up berlin's sources to prepare a new major release, the last one dates back about a year. This is very exciting, since we worked hard on it and the overal architecture starts to bear fruits. Though the documentation is awfully lacking behind. We'll have to work hard to get people interested not only into the fancy screenshots but in contributing ideas and code.