Wednesday, 11 August 2010 08:58
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Marc Lijour
Forrester Analyst Says Open Source Has Won | Linux.com - 4 views
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Open source has crossed the chasm
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Jeffrey Hammond
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Yahoo: The Linux Company | ZDNet - 4 views
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100,000s of servers, 640-million users, and over a 1 billion visits a months
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13th most popular Web site on the globe, or the fourth if you count all the international Google sites as one
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“Yahoo has its own Linux distribution, YLinux, targeted for out specific needs. It’s based on Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
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RMS On Header Files and Derivative Works - Slashdot - 2 views
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"In this email from 2003, Richard Stallman says 'I've talked with our lawyer about one specific issue that you raised: that of using simple material from header files. Someone recently made the claim that including a header file always makes a derivative work. That's not the FSF's view. Our view is that just using structure definitions, typedefs, enumeration constants, macros with simple bodies, etc., is NOT enough to make a derivative work. It would take a substantial amount of code (coming from inline functions or macros with substantial bodies) to do that.' This should help end the recent FUD about the Android 'clean headers.'"
redhat.com | Government - 2 views
Red Hat: 'Yes, we undercut Oracle with hidden Linux patches' * Channel Register - 5 views
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"We made the change, quite honestly, because we are absolutely making a set of steps that make it more difficult for competitors that wish to provide support services on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens tells The Register, before naming those competitors. "Today, there are two competitors that I'm aware of that go to our customers directly, offering to support RHEL directly for them...Oracle and Novell."
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"The work that we've done should not impede companies from building their own versions of Linux and supporting those for their customers," he says. "All the code we deliver through RHEL is out there. In most cases, the changes that go into RHEL. We already distribute into the upstream kernel. We have an upstream-first policy, where we're developing openly and then later integrating into our tree and then delivering it. So it shouldn't at all impede the community or anybody that's in the business of competing on that."
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"We made the change, quite honestly, because we are absolutely making a set of steps that make it more difficult for competitors that wish to provide support services on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux," Red Hat chief technology officer Brian Stevens tells The Register, before naming those competitors. "Today, there are two competitors that I'm aware of that go to our customers directly, offering to support RHEL directly for them...Oracle and Novell."
IE6 Countdown - 1 views
Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source [LWN.net] - 3 views
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Several readers have pointed out this interview with Maximilian Attems, posted by Raphaël Hertzog. Therein, Maximilian states that, while the cross-distribution cooperation on the 2.6.32 kernel has been a great thing, Red Hat is making things harder by shipping its RHEL 6 kernel source as one big tarball, without breaking out the patches. Your editor has downloaded the 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6 source package and verified that this is the case.
Not just another tablet. The first MeeGo tablet. - The Qt Blog - 5 views
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It’s truly great to see a Qt-based device like the WeTab, with support from Intel and the open source community, go from design to market in just little over 6 months of MeeGo launching.
fosdem.org - 1 views
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GNUDroid is a project meant to create an Android implementation using Free Software components borrowed from GNU Classpath and OpenJDK. This will be the IcedRobot Micro Edition.
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Android is a suitable alternative and a compendium to Java Micro Edition, offering more capabilities but keeping a good deal of possible compatibility
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GNUDroid is a project meant to create an Android implementation using Free Software components borrowed from GNU Classpath and OpenJDK. This will be the IcedRobot Micro Edition.
News » GTK+ 3 is here - 3 views
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Today, I am releasing GTK+ 3
HP to Put Linux in Printers and PC's: It's the End of an Era for Windows | Linux.com - 6 views
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the worlds largest PC supplier is indicating that they are going to ship PC’s without Windows
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HP announced that it is going to ship WebOS not only in phones, tablets and printers, but in PC’s as well
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Perhaps this really IS the year of the Linux desktop.
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the worlds largest PC supplier is indicating that they are going to ship PC's without Windows
Open Source Business Conference 2011 - 2 views
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The Computerworld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for business and technology leaders looking for an insightful discussion of how open source technology is changing the way we do business today.
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Matt AsayProgram Chair
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The Computerworld Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) is the premier forum for business and technology leaders looking for an insightful discussion of how open source technology is changing the way we do business today. With a rich and deep agenda built around the concept of emerging business models and the best strategies for incorporating the strategies for open source software into growing your business, OSBC makes the argument that every enterprise is, or should be, a data-driven business today. As the IT industry's only forum for discussing how to reap profits from using open source software, OSBC brings together a vibrant group of the industry's top practitioners, venture capitalists, lawyers and thought leaders for two days of in-depth presentations and lively discussions and panels. By being the leading conference for educating top tier executives on the value of the open source market place, OSBC provides the latest in cutting-edge open source thinking. OSBC offers the change to connect with the developers, users and companies behind the most significant open source Big Data technologies, teaching attendees the strategies to making your business more effectively data-driven.
it@school - 0 views
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Today, the Project is termed as the "Single largest simultaneous deployment of FOSS based ICT education in the world."
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The Project functions on Free Software platform since it provides the freedom to an individual to study, copy, modify and re-distribute any content, a process which would ultimately benefit the whole society.
The official web site of the Department of General Education, Government of Kerala - 0 views
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The Director of IT@School, K. Anvar Sadath said, "Building collaboration and sharing practices are essential factors for the well being of societies and proprietary software often deny that."
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The Kerala IT Education Department believes that sharing is an important virtue. However, sharing a proprietary software would be a violation of the End User License Agreement (EULA).
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Thinking about the massive cost involved in setting up the IT infrastructure based on Windows, it was better to have the OS and applications realigned for Linux and other free software.
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An anthropologist's view of an open source community | opensource.com - 3 views
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Diana noted that while 75% of the survey respondents in the study agreed that the contributors make up a community, she was more curious what the other 25% thought
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"Setting up a login, setting up an SSL key, and contributing was a little daunting at first. That process could be simplified," said one interviewee.
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High on the list of reasons were learning for the joy of learning and collaborating with interesting and smart people. Motivations for personal gain, like networking or career benefits, were low on the list.
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FOSS Patents: Google is patently too weak to protect Android - 4 views
Linux Is on the Rise For Business - PCWorld Business Center - 1 views
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according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.
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Large companies are planning to increase their reliance on Linux over the next five years
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Looking out over five years, the difference is even more marked: A full 79 percent plan to add Linux servers over that time, while only 21 percent will add new Windows servers.
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according to a report released Tuesday by the Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group. With data from an invited pool of more than 1900 respondents, the survey found that 76 percent of the world's largest organizations plan to add more Linux servers over the next 12 months. By contrast, only 41 percent plan to add Windows servers, while 44 percent say they will be decreasing or maintaining the same number of Windows machines over the next year.
Marc Lijour
Education Officer at Ontario Ministry of Education, French-Language Education Policy and Programs Branch. Working on e-learning, TICE and educational software.