Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.
This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!
Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.
Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.
Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.
Thanks! :)
I was asked to judge a debate on the merits of the EPL, GPL, and BSD licenses. Note that I'm not judging the licenses themselves, but rather how well each representative presented their position.
▼ EPL - Mike Milinkovich
• +1 argued that we're all really on the same side (more agreement than disagreement)
• +1 quoted Simon Phipps
• -1 irrelevant reference to "universal donor/recipient" phrase
• +1 defined "weak copyleft"
• +1 quoted Danese Cooper about lawyers
• +1 good description of EPL
• +1 gave commercial examples of EPL
• +1 EPL is written as a legal document, but -1 in describing how that applied
• +1 promoted why EPL covers patents as well, but -1 for not explaining it
• +1 EPL is good for various business models
• +1 for pointing out lies, damn lies, statistics, comparing project count vs usage
• +1 for differentiating commercialization of open source vs using open source for goals
• +1 for saying EPL provides similar protection to GPL in terms of permanent protection
• +1 even redhat ships EPL code
• +1 for clarifying the science problem, explaining how GPL requires credit/ownership to flow uphill
• +1 for describing why governments (not US) should use EPL
• +1 think through the choices you make (be informed)
▼ GPL - Matt Asay
• +1 redhat is making money with GPL
• -1 "GPL is most dominant license" - who cares... point not made
• -1 "it's about trust" but failed to present why it's more trustable
• +1 "it's about sharing", simple to understand
• +1 describing how people who choose to want their code always open can use this
• +1 that it's about distribution, not about internal usage
• -1 "more code under GPL" - again, without justifying why "more popular" = "better"
• +1 explaining why it's good for business
• -1 for using "bludgeoning the competition" without describing what that means
• -1 for again relying on "more people use GPL"
• -1 for some weird "movie reviewer analogy"
• -1 for again going to "popularity" without justifying it
• -1 for comparing "giving away software" to "trusting someone you loan your car to"
• -1 for bad analogy with science (confuses use with attribution)
• +1 for pointing out that individuals choose GPL knowing that their software not being hijacked
• -1 for again using "most popular" as justification
▼ BSD - David Maxwell
• +1 explaining why we need licenses ("public domain" might not even mean anything)
• +1 for explaining some history (oldest license of three)
• +1 for reading the entire license
• +1 for pointing out that the other two would not have enough time to do that :)
• +1 for describing how complex licenses (GPL, EPL) are more frequently misunderstood by normal people
• +1 for not being a lawyer :)
• +1 for describing how BSD is more trusting than GPL
• +1 for explaining concern of using GPL with contractors
• +1 for pointing out the redefinition of "contributor" in the EPL
• +1 for pointing out that the freedom is granted "to the software" in GPL, whuh!
• +1 for pointing out VHS vs Beta as "winner is not always best"
• +1 for pointing out that the scripting languages all use some form of BSD license
• +1 for pointing out BSD forks do share a lot of code back and forth
• +1 for pointing out how widespread BSD-licensed code is used (Apple, etc)
• +1 for explaining the sour grapes of "getting ripped off by commercial" being without justification
• +1 for providing BSD as alternative for EPL for government items
Mom visited me (down from Olympia Washington) for her 69th birthday. Together, we visited her childhood home in Portland (on Gladstone Street) and her next home, my childhood home in Gladstone (near Portland Avenue).
Amazingly enough, without any advance notice, the current residents of both homes let us come in for a quick tour, to see what had changed. It was weird... I hadn't been in either home as an adult. Everything seemed so small!
Afterwards, we stopped at TeBo's in Gladstone for their famous Strawberry Shortcake.
Some of you may have noticed that right now you cannot add books from Amazon to your Vox library. Giving people a glimpse into what's on your night stand is important to many of you, so I just wanted to reassure you that we are doing our best to get this bug fixed. I'll keep you posted.
So sorry for the inconvenience.
Hope you have a great weekend!
daisy
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