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Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 12:11 PM EDT
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The LinuxWorld conference is going on today in San Francisco, so a big hello to you guys having fun there.
To celebrate the relaunch of the new LinuxWorld, the magazine -- in new hands I am happy to say -- I was asked by Don Marti to write an article on Linux's Legal World After SCO. I hope you enjoy it. I enjoyed writing it, most particularly for the *new* LinuxWorld.
A brief word of explanation from their About Us page: While LinuxWorld.com was formerly produced by a licensee of International Data Group, the site is now owned and operated by IDG's Network World - drawing on IDG's broad information technology resources (see IDG.com) - and produced in conjunction with the IDG LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. [smiles]
They are celebrating Linux's 15th anniversary at the conference.
I've already heard that there is a huge FOSS presence. Take a look at this list of exhibitors at the .ORG Pavillion. And here's the complete list of exhibitors. The opening keynote, "Free Culture: What We Need From You," was by
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, and founder and chair of Creative Commons. More details here [PDF] and here. I see they had a session yesterday on working with log files. I really wish I could have attended that one. If you did, send in a report on what you learned, will you? And today I see lots of goodies, particularly a panel led by Steven Vaughan Nichols on "The State of Linux on the Desktop: An OSDL Desktop Linux Working Group Panel Discussion", and Google's Chris Di Bona has a session on "The ABCs of Software Licenses" and IBM's Bob Sutor another intriguingly titled, "When Good Enough is Better". Lots more: Jay Beale and Crispin Cowan on "Securing Linux Systems with Bastille Linux and AppArmor." I so wish I could be there for that. That isn't even mentioning the Golden Penguin Bowl. Sigh.
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| Authored by: feldegast on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 12:13 PM EDT |
So they can be fixed
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IANAL
The above post is (C)Copyright 2006 and released under the Creative Commons
License Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0
P.J. has permission for commercial use[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: jbeadle on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 12:18 PM EDT |
With clickable links - they're much appreciated.
Thanks,
-jb
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| Authored by: Peter Smith on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 01:14 PM EDT |
I know this quite off topic but I want to float a concept to guage the reaction
and feelings of this wonderful community.
Background: I consult to a large international corporation that makes high value
products with many factories in every continent.
They have a varied IT infrastucture that is not centralised. Many companies in
the Group are duplicating what has been done by other members of the
Group(because the design is too localised)
I want to propose to them they should adopt the methodology of open source
within the confines of their enterprise.
That is Head Office maintains CVS servers and infrastructure. All IT members of
the world-wide organisation are free to choose their projects of interest, make
changes, commit patches, etc. Project leaders will arise naturally in the
process.
I am hoping that the synergy and benefits of open source methodology can be
applied in enterprise systems development and I call this the Company Open
Source Program.
I am hoping that members of this community have tried something similar and/or
can give me useful pointers about shortcomings, problems and advice on how to
make this work.
I know one of the questions will be why not make it a proper open source project
instead of confining it within the boundaries of a large enterprise.
The answer is that I think that this such a radical shift in mindset for
traditional IT management that it would be unthinkable. A much more realistic
target, given the nature of my client and their very competitive environment, is
to confine it within their enterprise boundaries.
I sincerely believe that open source methodology with all their many companies
contributing will accelerate their systems development, result in much better
quality and lead to more homogenous systems without wasteful duplication.
So I am anxious to know the thoughts, experiences and advice of this great
community.
Peter[ Reply to This | # ]
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- US DoD paper (it's somewhere on Groklaw) - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 01:18 PM EDT
- Company Open Source Program - Authored by: joe on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 01:49 PM EDT
- Company Open Source Program - Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 01:53 PM EDT
- Company Open Source Program: Project Prioritization - Authored by: Ed L. on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 02:31 PM EDT
- youve obviously never employed anyone - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 02:34 PM EDT
- Company Politics is your biggest issue - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 03:47 PM EDT
- Company Open Source Program - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 04:55 PM EDT
- Company Open Source Program - Authored by: gfim on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 08:48 PM EDT
- A few thoughts - Authored by: Bunyip on Wednesday, August 16 2006 @ 06:54 AM EDT
- Budgets and Middle Management - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 16 2006 @ 10:14 AM EDT
- IBM does this internally - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 16 2006 @ 09:18 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 01:45 PM EDT |
Really, Where is SCO?
If SCO truly "owns Linux" should they not be participating.
If SCO has "certain rights over Linux" should they not be informing
users, so that users can take the appropriate steps.
SCO's failure to communicate to the community is a clear failure to mitigate on
the part of SCO. Especially now that SCO has clearly described the rights it has
over Linux code to the court.
SCO's failure to have a presence here shows SCO's plan is simply to avoid
corporate and personal reprecussians from their behavior rather to actually
establish any claims over the Linux codebase.
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| Authored by: kawabago on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 04:37 PM EDT |
| To send pj to next years LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco? [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 06:20 PM EDT |
Howdy from Moscone North!
Yes, Im here at LinuxWorld in San Francisco. My biggest disappointment is how
many of the "Linux Vendors" are running Windows for their
demonstrations. It's not that there's no Linux (or Open Source) equivalent of
Powerpoint or Word or even Internet Explorer. But some of the larger vendors
(including MOtorola, Oracle and LinuxWorld itself!) are running Windows and
Microsoft software when Open Sourced software clearly exists. Shame, Shame,
Shame!
- NoCalDrummer
p.s. Perhaps SCO isn't here because they couldn't afford to exhibit, what with
their legal bills piling up... Or maybe they're afraid of an old-fashioned
Southern-style lynching.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 15 2006 @ 07:29 PM EDT |
Well, SCO may not be represented, but the smelly long-hairs can still sit around
a burning briefcase-full of SCO intellectual property, singing. Herewith a few
suggested verses for the campfire:
Kum-ba-ya, McBride, Kum-ba-ya...Oh, Darl, Kum-ba-ya.
Somebody's coding, Darl...
Somebody's thinking, Darl...
Somebody's living, Ralph, Kum-ba-ya...Yarro, Kum-ba-ya.
Somebody's sharing, Ralph...
Somebody's moving, Dave, Kum-ba-ya...Oh, Boies, Kum-ba-ya.
Somebody's judging, Dave...
Here's to SCO, the company that can make a party by simply not attending.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 16 2006 @ 02:42 AM EDT |
From the article:
The SCO saga is drawing to a close, and Linux
won.
We'll know who won when the trial jury gives its verdict. It
would premature even to say "the jury is still out". We aren't even at the jury
selection stage yet.
Linux is doing very well - so far. That's all that
should be said. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, August 16 2006 @ 04:40 PM EDT |
PJ said: "That isn't even mentioning the Golden Penguin Bowl. Sigh."
Speaking of the Golden Peguin Bowl, with Ubuntu aka Nerds and SuSE aka Geeks,
the quiz master posed a question-- Which SCO lawsuit has recently been settled?
The answer was- the one with a book publisher (forgot the name). BTW, the Nerds
won.
Before the answer was given, I thought none of them. At least not the ones
mentioned here in Groklaw. ^)[ Reply to This | # ]
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