Flickr stats Playing around on my flickr account today I found about flickr stats. Now these stats to turn out to be mostly quite lame and predictable, but the one that caught my eye was the referal sources. In amongst a large number of hits from flickr itself and the main search engines there was a surprising 48 hits direct from realadultsex.com (Hey this link is NSFW - stupid!) Bad license assumptions ....
If there’s one thing in this world that makes me mad (and there isn’t, there’s loads of things) it’s the portions of the Free/Libre/Open Source Software community who assume that anything to do with the law is inherently evil. Every time I see this is riles me - from the anti-GFDL people in the Debian community, through the “me too” boys who decry the GPL (and especially the GPL3) as being “less free” than BSD licenses without understanding the effect of either, right down to those whom, even with the best of intentions, make statements like this....