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 Chairman of the Board of The Zynot
Foundation, a group of open source developers that are working on a new
Linux distribution that has been forked from the Gentoo distribution.
The Zynot Foundation bo... (more)
SYS-CON Radio interviews Mark Harris, VP of Corporate Development for
Cyclades, live at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003 in San Francisco.
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[interview in MP3 format]
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Hello, and thanks for reading LinuxWorld Magazine! Welcome to our one-year
anniversary issue! It seems like only yesterday that we were launching this
magazine; so much has happened since then.
We've carried some great articles, including detailed pieces on Carrier Grade
Linux and Open Source Visualization technologies. We've also carried some
great case studies and product reviews.
Anot... (more)
I'm writing from a pod of Compaq computers on the show floor all running Red
Hat. The pod is sponsored by HP and provides everyone with net access.
Thanks!
I can't tell you how exciting this show has been. I haven't been to a show in
a long time that's had this kind of buzz.
We've had some interesting announcements from Red Hat this week -- they
announced here at the show a "Open Source N... (more)
In response to the SCO lawsuit, Eric (with consultant Rob Landley) wrote the
"OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint." This position paper
addresses in detail SCO's claims of intellectual property ownership over
Linux. The paper has been widely read and is considered by many to be the
best analysis of the topic available. In short, the paper addresses the
question, "Who owns Uni... (more)