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Archive for April, 2004
Infringement of GPL – court grants preliminary injunction
In: Open Source
22 Apr 2004The netfilter/iptables project has been granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom Germany GmbH for not fulfilling the obligations imposed by the GNU General Public License (which covers the netfilter/iptables code used) – Sitecom did not make the source code available nor did they include the GPL license with their products (GPL is viral). Read the [...]
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New Thunderbird artwork checked in
In: Mozilla
21 Apr 2004The Mozilla Visual Identity Team has completed the new artwork for Mozilla Thunderbird, as Steven Garrity (Mozilla Visual Identity Team leader) reports. Jon Hicks describes the process behind the design of the logo. Go check it out. Naturally, I’m disappointed by there not being a new default theme for Thunderbird as I’d previously thought had [...]
I stand corrected
In: Personal
20 Apr 2004Email from an anonymous visitor: Just to inform you, your tagline — “rambling’s of a misfit” is misspelled. It should be spelled “ramblings.” Ouch. I always thought I knew my apostrophes. Like how there is no apostrophe in “CDs” (it’s not “CD’s”) – short for “compact discs”. And the possessive form of “it” is “its” [...]
Firefox search now works in textboxes and textareas
In: Mozilla
18 Apr 2004The Burning Edge points out that you can now search in textboxes and textareas in a webpage when you do a “Find in this page” search. The corresponding bug is bug 58305 and this enhancement appears in builds on and since 2004-04-16. I sorely missed this, especially so because IE does have this feature – [...]
Thunderbird to get new branding!
In: Mozilla
17 Apr 2004Looks like Thunderbird is up for a design update with new branding like what happened with the renaming of Firebird to Firefox. Check out the teaser at hicksdesign. Also spotted on that page: You’re in luck. The same folks that made the pinstripe theme for OS X are working on a new theme [for Win32] [...]
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