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A great wiki engine behind Wikidot.com is now free software as Wikidot Inc owners: Pieter Hintjens and Piotr Frąckowiak, released the code on AGPLv3 license just today. This is great news for the Internet community as Wikidot is one of the most advanced wiki engines out there, leaving MediaWiki and TWiki far behind.
AMIDST AND DESPITE some AMQP controversy [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], Red Hat is inviting people to join an AMQP Conference at the University of California. AMQP made the headlines recently because of software patents that Red Hat obtained in this area.
I have looked around the way to find the IP address for Xen guest without login to guest. There were couple of posts and Xen FAQ which list some methods. The following code is very similar to Xen FAQ post in Network section.
Red Hat VP and Assistant General Counsel, wrote about Red Hat’s patent policy in response to some stories in the “press” spreading FUD about some AMQP-related patents, and (non sequitur alert) the recent virtualization agreement with Microsoft.
Occasionally, you might want to give a friend or family member access to your computer, but do not trust them enough with your login information. What do you do? Use the Guest Session or create a guest account. This tutorial shows you how.
Microsoft made waves this week with their GPLv2 contribution of virtualization code. On the other side of the coin, Microsoft continues to take issue with open source vendors over the issue of patents. One vendor that has called on Microsoft to be more open is Red Hat. In a blog post, Red Hat's legal team praised Microsoft's code contribution while asking Microsoft to change its stance on patents.
Recently we’ve seen some surprising comments about Red Hat’s stand on software patents and, in particular, about one of its patent applications related to the AMQP specification. It looks like clarification is called for.
"Today's Ypulse Guest Post is from Cameron Parkins of Creative Commons, a very cool non-profit org that provides free copyright licenses to content owners. Cameron spoke a while back at our College Mashup event and I thought I'd reach out to see his more recent thoughts on campus marketing. If you work in youth media or marketing and have an idea for a Ypulse Guest Post, feel free to email me..."
I've run into a few Apple UI patents a over the years while developing software. Their software patents, like most other software patents, tend to be completely inane. They are the sort of things that are obvious to pretty much anyone doing UI development who isn't stuck thinking "WIMP, WIMP, WIMP".