Today I thought I might suggest a little bit of summer reading, now the good weather has finally arrived in the UK! Some are a little off the beaten track, with less explicit links to free software; all of them, in my opinion, will be of interest to anybody visiting this website. So, read the list, pay a visit to Amazon and grab the nearest bottle of sun cream!
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Why capitalist pigs would be good for Mozilla
I won't go into the economics, but suffice it to say that I think there's little hope of Mozilla making Firefox (or any of its other software) into true public goods of any note.
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The open-source community's double standard on MySQL
Deja vu. Remember 2002? That's when Red Hat decided to split its code into Red Hat Advanced Server (now Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Fedora.
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Richard Stallman Talks On Copyright Vs. the People
Richard M. Stallman recently gave a talk entitled Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks to the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club. The talk looks at the origin of copyright, and how it has evolved over time from something that originally served the benefit of the people to a tool used against them...
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Vista Aiding Linux Desktop, Strategist Says
Microsoft will lose market share to open-source desktops, a Dell strategist says at LinuxWorld.
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Time for a Free Software Business Initiative
It is not enough to have Richard Stallman travel around the world endlessly giving standard Free Software speeches among other things repeating how Open Source is not the same thing as Free Software and how the operating system widely known as "Linux" is actually "GNU/Linux" (because GNU project in fact started that OS).
Read more »Q&A: Jonathan Schwartz on Sun's open-source business strategy
Jonathan Schwartz is a man on a mission. While at Linuxworld today, I took an hour to visit with Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems.
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Stallman's dream and GPLv3
"...The thing to realize about the GPL using and creating Free Software community, is that the word "community" is the most important part. It's like a club, where membership only depends on you accepting the spirit of the license used by all the members, the GPL. Note that I say the spirit, and not just the letter of the license..."
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Q&A: Torvalds on Linux, Microsoft, software's future
Linus Torvalds was only 22 when he decided in 1991 to share with friends and colleagues the code of Linux, the new OS he had created.
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Apple Support for Open Document Format - Petition
"We appeal that you release an update to the latest version of iWork suite to support ISO 26300."
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For GNU/Linux Matters Freedom is Key
Blue GNU interviewed Gustavo Narea and Olivier Cleynen of GNU/Linux Matters, the organization behind GetGNU/Linux.org.
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Linux seen vying with Windows for platform dominance
"Linux Foundation director sees Linux entering second stage of growth and a computing world dominated by two platforms."
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Torvalds, Red Hat are no shows at Linuxworld
The two biggest names in the Linux industry – Linus Torvalds and Red Hat – skipped out on LinuxWorld again.
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Ubuntu - the fridge
Conceived at UbuntuDownUnder, The Fridge is an information hub for the Ubuntu community, bringing together news, grassroots marketing, advocacy, team collaboration, and great original content.
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Novell CEO: We Need To Standardize Linux
According to Novell President and CEO Ron Hovsepian, there needs to be more application availability on Linux in order to accelerate Linux adoption.
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