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Well, you can always talk about rasputine... and maybe even implement that idea of charlotte + rasputine, to create a web interface for telnet services ;-)

which in fact makes a good feature request for Rasputine: add telnet-ssl support! ;-)

Hi there,

Hiding twitter messages for all your contacts is easy: just choose a random twitter item in the friendfeed web interface, click "hide", then "hide other items like this one" and there you can choose how do you want to hide them (all twitts, all twitts unless they have comments, all twitts from some users...)

Welcome to Friendfeed! :-)

Existem vários tipos de MUDs, incluindo MOOs e Talkers. Em Portugal os MUDs e as suas diversas variantes estiveram muito em voga durante um certo período de tempo, e ainda hoje existem vários (falados em Português, portanto): Tens o MOOsaico, criado em 1994, e oito talkers activos, o mais antigo criado também em 1994. O mais activo actualmente é a Selva, dá lá um salto se quiseres falar com a comunidade Portuguesa dos MMO em modo de texto!

Prokofy: We have 30 years of virtual worlds, and you think it's still too early for standardization? What will we have to wait for? To let the walled garden model prove its failure also in the virtual worlds field, and to fail and fail and fail again until users start demanding standards and openness? No, we *should* try to avoid the mistakes before users demand us to fix them.

Regarding LL, Dr. Yesha, or the other four or five attempts in creating "VW standards", I agree with you that something "global" should be created, but unfortunately there isn't nothing (we don't have a VWs W3C), so we'll be better sticking with what we have. But I agree that instead of criticizing LL, Yesha should instead invite them to become a member of his Meraverse1 project.

This is why I don’t believe in the Free Software as in “All software should be opensourced and free to change, distribute and so.”.

If you don't believe in Free Software as in "all software should be bla bla bla", then you don't believe in free software, because that's its definition. You just need to admit to yourself that you believe not in Free Software but in Open Source.

This is one of the things I’m not happy with GPL. They claim it’s totally free, but it isn’t. If you want to make any change to it, you have to make those changes available to everybody.

That's what makes it free: I explain why in Paula's blog and I don't think I should repeat myself (why there and not here explained in the end of this comment).

A friend of mine, who really supports OpenSource model, justifies that he doesn’t contribute because that doesn’t pay the bills at the end of the day, and he doesn’t want to do any more development outside of his working day.

This was already partially rebutted in earlier comments. Let me just add some things:
1) He can be a supporter of Open Source and not of Free Software, since they are different things. So I don't understand this affirmation in your blog post after talking about Free Software.
2) Contributing to open source is as easy as using Open Source, recommending Open Source, giving suggestions or bug reports... Any of those are already contributions. More, he doesn't *have* to contribute with Open Source at all: most people that like Open Source end up contributing because they *fell* they should - that's all.
3) Open Source *pays* bills. It might not pay his, but that's just because he's not working on Open Source. Many people have their bills excusively payed by Open Source.

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Now, offtopic: I wanted to read the comments and comment this blog post for a long time, but I couldn't. Something is preventing me to do so in both my mobile browsers (Opera Mini and the BlackBerry one). You should fix that, and that's the reason why the GPL thing ended up commented in Paula's post about this issue.

Clix SmarTV dá 50% de desconto nas primeiras mensalidades:
http://friendfeed.com/e/f2757818-08e4-4431-9a11...

Não.

12Mbps chega para seres cliente SmarTV, mas tudo depende de quantas boxes queres...

If CSI-like needs to identify who downloaded something, that's not a security issue, it is a privacy issue. And you're messing up security with anonymity: IPETEE isn't anonymous, you know who uploaded and who downloaded it.

IPETEE is funny, but it is only talked about because it comes from Pirate Bay folks. What I don't understand is why are they beting on such a system instead of contributing for a really secure, anonymous and censorship-resistent alternative like GNUnet.

With GreaseMonkey you can do the changes you want and make them a plugin for others to use...

Who cares about that when you have GreaseMonkey? There you can edit and changes *are* saved!

I would surely like to point out that "if Nokia wants to have a major support of Open Source advocates they have to start accepting how the community works". That interview shows that they don't know as they claim either Open Source nor telcos.

I wrote a couple of notes about the talk here... Not extensive as yourse, so thanks for working on it :-)