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Etch-a-Sketch doesn't involve much hill climbing. GPS-a-Sketch in San Francisco does, however:


Merry Christmas from me and whatever_art to you!

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In other news: not going anywhere for Christmas. Staying in San Francisco, hosting a 10 person orphan dinner. But then going to the Caribbean on a 7 night cruise over New Year's with parents, Sierra, my brother Cole and his girlfriend. Should be fun. :)

JSMin has a non-free clause in its license: "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." The author of this addition clearly thought it was cute, but a license is no place for being cute; precluding evil is a simple violation of clauses five/six of the DFSG.

Allowing people to do things you disagree with is the whole point of free software, not just a minor quibble. See also Mark Pilgrim's great essay: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you.

(When it comes to freedom, I side with Debian over the open source people or the GNU nuts. I think something like the third clause of the BSD license combined with a trademark for the book title (if he cared enough) would've been enough to address the issue invariant texts were meant to address in the non-free GFDL.)