New Legal Center for Open Source Projects

February 1, 2005 Leave a comment

The Software Freedom Law Center has been established to “provide legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software”. From the article:

“The Law Center is being established to provide legal services to protect the legitimate rights and interests of free and open-source software projects and developers, who often do not have the means to secure the legal services they need,” Moglen said in a statement.
Overseeing the Software Freedom Law Center will be Moglen; Diane Peters, OSDL's general counsel; Daniel Weitzner, the principal research scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; and Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and author. A nice list of reps indeed. With such a small initial staff, a lot of case work may be unlikely, but this is yet another step (and there seem to be a lot of them lately) in Open Source growing up. In somewhat related news, OSDL recently hired Samba creator Andrew Tridgell and said the same $10 million legal defense fund that will be used to defend Torvalds from legal attack will extend to Tridgell as well. Nice!
–jeremy

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Red Hat Pushes for Government Linux Adoption

February 1, 2005 Leave a comment

Looks like Red Hat is going to open a Lobbying Office Near DC. It's unfortunate that this type of thing is needed, but it's definitely another sign of the maturing Linux market. The article also mentions that RHEL4, due out at LinuxWorld, will ship with the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 certification. While mostly useless in reality, this should help with the aforementioned Government adoption. On a side note, either the picture of Paul is too GIMP'd, or he needs to use slightly less tooth-whitener. Scary.
–jeremy

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Impact of the DOJ Case on Microsoft

January 31, 2005 Leave a comment

Found the following quote in this eWeek article interesting:
“Working at Microsoft today vs. five years ago is different,” Kroese said. “If anyone thinks the antitrust case hasn't slowed us down, you're wrong. If I want to meet with a products manager for Windows there needs to be three lawyers in the room. We have to be so careful, we err on the side of caution. We are on such a fine line of conduct.”
Maybe the antitrust case actually did get something accomplished.
–jeremy

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I'd Like to Thank the Academy

January 31, 2005 Leave a comment

Only a few days left to vote in the 2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. We have a couple extremely close races going, so your vote could be the difference!
–jeremy

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Which Linux for Professional Admins?

January 31, 2005 Leave a comment

OK, asking a question like this on Slashdot is surely a recipe for disaster, but I have to admit that I was extremely surprised by the almost complete lack of “Novell” as an answer. I tend to favor RHEL or Debian in the large install situations, but have to admit that the real answer is that the admin matters way more than the distro in most cases.
–jeremy

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Been a bit Quiet

January 27, 2005 Leave a comment

You may have noticed that I've been a bit quieter than usual. I've been putting quite a bit of time into LQ Radio (unfortunately not all the news there is good) and also have not only my usual Tech Support column to write, but also a feature article this month. LQ Radio should hopefully be situated soon and I'm already done with 1 of the 2 articles, so I should be back to normal soon (although with LWE Boston coming up quickly I'll likely be slightly quieter than normal for about 2 more weeks).
–jeremy

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LQ Radio Update II

January 25, 2005 Leave a comment

I just posted the LQ Radio intro spot. Let me know what you think.
–jeremy

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LQ Radio Update

January 24, 2005 Leave a comment

Just posted a quick update on the status of LQ Radio. The summary?
– Thanks to Doug from IT Conversations for the help
– The intro should be recorded tomorrow
We're getting closer….
–jeremy

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Linux-only Power5 Server from IBM

January 23, 2005 Leave a comment

In one of its first major hardware moves since dumping its PC division, IBM has now released a Linux only Power5-based Server. The 2 processor OpenPower 710 was posted briefly on the IBM site, but was pulled after an article was posted at the Register. IBM has offered Linux on some of its power-based servers before, but this is the first Linux only model to my knowledge. The OpenPower 710 appears to be lacking some of the bells and whistles that the higher end models that run AIX have, so this should allow them to protect the more expensive models while still allowing them to compete with Intel and AMD. One of these for LQ would be nice ;)
–jeremy

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LinuxQuestions.org Podcast – 01.23.05

January 23, 2005 Leave a comment

The latest LinuxQuestions.org Podcast. Topics include our new audio setup, an update on our intro, the new LQ Radio logo and tagline, the new LQ bugtracker, a couple random LQ stats, a product announcement from IBM and the impact Microsoft has on software prices.
–jeremy

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