How would you explain copyright/copyleft and the open source movement to a slightly slow 16-year-old?
Life: It’s been a busy few days, and I should have been blogging every evening in order to keep up. (But I didn’t, because I was busy.) I’ve been packing and getting ready for GCDS and trying to finish off some things before I leave. I did find time to go swimming with Rio one evening, and yesterday we all went to the fair. I won a fluffy penguin playing darts. (I was playing darts, not the penguin.) Thanks to Alex for the photo on the right. The future of Metacity: It is fairly clear that Metacity will be replaced by its fork Mutter in the near future: Mutter is effectively Metacity 3. Although I have some loose ends to tie up in Metacity, it doesn’t seem worth continuing hacking on Metacity 2 when the life is in the other fork. In addition, there are over five hundred bugs open against Metacity, more than I (as the only active maintainer) can humanly deal with. Mutter has far more contributors and the bugs will be far more easily dealt with. CADT: However, this raises a problem. I ca
