Kevin Bedell

SYS-CON Radio interviews Chris DiBona, Vice President and Co-Founder of Konstrux Technologies. Listen to the Interview ... (more)

Could a New Type of Legal Entity Help Underground Open Source Development?

Sometimes it's the things you don't plan that seem to have the most impact. Today was one of those days. I'd been talking with Bruce Perens earlier in the day after attending a talk he gave on a bunch of issues including software patents and the dangers they pose to the Open Source community ­as well as to individual open source developers. It was a fascinating talk that covered a host of issues - including his take on the current SCO debacle. (I've gotten his permission to reprint the talk in the next issue of LinuxWorld Magazine.) A bit later, I ran into Zak Welch. Zak is Chairm... (more)

SYS-CON Radio interviews Scott Handy

SYS-CON Radio interviews Scott Handy, Director, Linux Solutions, IBM Software Group of IBM about IBM's Linux initiatives in software development, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003 in San Francisco. Click here to listen  [interview in MP3 format] ... (more)

SYS-CON Radio interviews Louis Suarez-Potts

SYS-CON Radio interviews Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager of OpenOffice.org, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003 in San Francisco. Click here to listen  [interview in MP3 format] ... (more)

To Whom It May Concern

U R G E N T    A P P E A L Distributed Denial of Service Attacks against SCO, or anyone for that matter, are a clearly unacceptable activity. While many in the Open Source community are not pleased with SCO's lawsuit against IBM, or their proposed legal challenges aimed at Linux users, these DDoS attacks do not promote the Open Source cause, and are not consistent with Open Source values. The Open Source community is based on the notion that principals of free speech should be applied to software development. DDoS attacks clearly deny the victim the ability to communicate freely ... (more)