Thanks again for your work!

Sorry I’m not too familiar with Wine, but isn’t there some way to map Windows paths within Wine to local paths on your Linux filesystem? Remember that the Windows program (TortoiseSVN in this case) will have no idea that you are even running inside of Linux, so trying to use a Linux path won’t work.

Please take a look at the Wine docs and see if you can maybe map a folder named “C:\Home” to /home on Linux, and then you can checkout to “C:\Home\user” or whatever.

Best Regards noragen

I’ve now uploaded a new version to AMO for Firefox 3.5 but it’s pending review (as of today); if anyone reading this has editor privileges I’d appreciate your review…

I got the extension to work in 3.5 with a couple of simple changes:

- change the version strings in ‘install.rdf’ and ‘update.rdf’ to claim compatibility with the later Firefox,

- at around line 111 of content/tsvnmenuOverlay.js, change ‘getService’ to ‘createInstance’.

Then run build.sh to rebuild the extension and install the resulting xpi file.

Hope that helps.

As I put on the extension site, I am now primarily a Linux user so (sadly) I can’t use TortoiseSVN but I do have a Windows 7 VM I can test in. I’ll definitely move updating this version up on my priority list and hope to have the new version out soon.

A big thank you for having the insight to let users out of the Explorer jail- of course we’d be happy to contribute to testing a 3.5 version, but for now- we’re sitting pretty on 3.0.xx.

Great work Toby, keep it up! Please let us know if you’d like some help.

iTunes is now the number one music retailer in the U.S. If they declared that only DRM-free tracks would be sold through their store, they could make it happen. And unless I’m mistaken (I readily admit I’ve never even used iTunes), their ringtones, TV shows, and other content are still DRM-laden. Why should someone have to pay twice for a ringtone sample of a song they’ve already bought?

Now, I also realize that Apple has done a great job of holding the price of their tracks to 99 cents, and that is something that the record companies hate. So the big media companies are cutting deals with the likes of Amazon and Wal-Mart, with completely DRM-free selections, to try to gain some of that control back.

I think that has a lot to do with Mr. Jobs’ open letter: he’s trying to paint himself as the good guy, standing up for the Free Use rights of the little man. But it’s all talk and not enough action. DRM is a large part of what allowed iTunes and iPod to wind up in the enviable position they’re in.

Aside from DRM, there are plenty of other examples of how Apple is anti-open, from their OS X license prohibiting their software from being run on non-Apple hardware (including virtual machines), to their overzealous takedown notices and legal threats against fan sites that leak rumors.

Now, I’m very pro-capitalist and I congratulate and applaud Apple for the remarkable and dramatic turnaround they’ve had since Mr. Jobs has been back at the helm. I understand why they embraced DRM in the first place, why they refused to license it to others, and why they are now saying that they wish they could get rid of it if only the mean record companies would let them.

But when I look at the company’s actions as a whole, I frankly don’t see a whole lot of difference between them and Microsoft from the openness perspective. I think that if Apple had the marketshare that Microsoft did, they would be every bit as much of a threat to the future of technological freedom.

And speaking of empty promises to become open :) … thanks to Adobe’s lack of providing an open-source Flash player, or even any Flash player for 64-bit Linux, I can’t see SpinWeb’s front page!