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Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed
UPDATE: Intel has resolved their microcode licensing issue which I complained about in this blog post. The new license text is here .
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Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals
Non-Judicial Punishment is a key part of democracy and free-market capitalism, and highly problematical, at the same time.
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Understanding the “GPL is a Contract” court case
There's been a lot of confusion about the recent Artifex v. Hancom case, in which the court found that the GPL was an enforceable contract. I'm going to try to explain the whole thing in clear terms for the legal layman.
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Bruce Perens: Invasion of the Ethical Licenses (2019)
About 23 years ago, I created the Debian Free Software Guidelines to help the Debian developers decide what software was permissible to include in Debian, which aspired to be 100% Free Software, and what should be consigned to a "non-free" repository upon which Debian would never depend. Nine months later, those…
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Grsecurity: Potential contributory infringement and breach of contract risk
It's my strong opinion that your company should avoid the Grsecurity product sold at grsecurity.net because it presents a contributory infringement and breach of contract risk.
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