"David Chisnall takes a look at the GNU Project's infamous HURD kernel, exploring some of the features that make it unique and some that have found their way into other systems. [...] Even in its current state, HURD exists to prove a point: It’s possible to have a complete and usable system running nothing other than GNU code." -- http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1180992
Read more »Examining the Legendary HURD Kernel
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Freedom
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"I attended an interesting talk by James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center earlier this week. The discussion focused on how the Free Software movement can now be regarded as a success and how others are now attempting to replicate this in other areas such as media (Creative Commons).
Read more »The impact of licensing choice
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Tim Bowden published an interesting post earlier this week about the impact that the choice of open source license has on the potential valuation of an open source vendor. Taking the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases as an example, Bowden wrote:
Read more »BSD and the GPL
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One of the things that's been discussed a lot over the years is how Linux seems to succeed enmass across many different markets whereas BSD is relegated to just a sizeable slice of the server world.
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Richard Stallman: OpenBSD is non-free software
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"If a collection of software contains (or suggests installation of) some non-free program, I do not recommend it. [...] I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including OpenBSD in the list of systems that I recommend to the public."
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GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability
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If you haven’t been living under a rock the past decade (I suppose Stonehenge qualifies) you may have walked in on some incarnation of the famous GPL vs BSD flamewar. It’s up there with the most famous flamewars (now *there’s* a research question for a brimming sociology student!) of our beloved Internet society.
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DesktopBSD moves into Vietnam
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DesktopBSD has moved into Vietnam when it was recently added to the Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror by the Saigon Linux Group and GHP Far East, two companies promoting open source technology in Vietnam.
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Seven Different Linux/BSD Firewalls Reviewed
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Did you know more than 500 million computers in the United States have been disposed of in the last 10 years?
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GPL, BSD Fight for Best Licensing Agreements
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Having been a Linux user for a number of years, weathering immense criticism for thinking like a normal person rather than an engineer, you might think that articles like this one would have me moving in to agree with such statements. But me being me, I choose to rebel.
Read more »GNU GPL Creator Richard Stallman on the Meaning of 'Free'
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"Many computer users tend to equate Microsoft with evil, but that is a mistake.
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Relicensing: what's legal and what's right
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The ath5k driver has been through more than the usual amount of legal trouble. This driver, for Atheros wireless chipsets, was originally reverse engineered and developed in the BSD community.
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GPL vs BSD: why are people fighting?
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For the second time in six months, a flamefest has broken out between those who release software under the BSD (Berkely Software Distribution) licence and others who release software under the General Public Licence.
Read more »Linux vs. BSD, What's the Difference?
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Ubuntu is known as Linux for Human Beings...PC-BSD, on the other hand, "has been designed with the casual computer user in mind.
Read more »Linus on the GPL, BSD, Tivo and the FSF
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A lengthy debate that began with a suggestion to dual license the Linux kernel under the GPLv2 and the GPLv3 [story] continues on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Throughout the ongoing thread Linux creator Linus Torvalds has spoken out on the GPLv2, the upcoming GPLv3, the BSD license, Tivo, the Free Software Foundation, and much more.
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