Topic: Reference
I will keep a list of interesting items for your perusal here.
WARNING: You should be at least a novice treeforter before attempting to assess any of this for value to your favorite koolaid recipe. Not being snobby or clickee but you will need a good bit of reading to gain background enough to know how to make the assumptions here... which no-one should be making assumptions in the first place.
None of them may be assumed to be associated with VCSY except for coincidental matching by date and description. Other dates and descriptions should be correlated against other background information before anything should be assumed.
THAT BEING SAID, there are a heck of a lot of coincidences in behaviour and events that beg to be dug through for associations and assumptions.
Red Hat Summit 2007: Day 1 - desktops and licenses
excerpts:
...big news was Red Hat's announcement of plans for Global Desktop, a partnership with Intel that is scheduled to go live this summer. Global Desktop will see hardware and software combined in a single offering, apparently aimed at expanding the Linux market in developing countries. ...
The new desktop brings the Red Hat total to three: Fedora for hobbyists and developers, the Enterprise Desktop for corporate worker bees, and now Global Desktop for developing nations...
... Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia Law School... explained the flurry of activity by Microsoft in disposing of the coupons it purchased from Novell for copies of SUSE Linux. Time pressure is building around the use those coupons because of the pending arrival of GPLv3. The new license is scheduled to become available for use in December, and it turns the very weapon Microsoft sought to use against the Linux community -- its patent portfolio -- against Microsoft.
The first draft of GPLv3 attempted to prevent the use of patents as weapons to deprive users of rights by requiring that software developers provide keys for any DRM mechanisms which might stop users from being able to examine or modify the GPLed code. Under the latest draft, any patent protection offered to customers of a GPLed product are automatically extended to all downstream users. In the agreement between Novell and Microsoft, for example, SUSE Linux customers are afforded protection from the threat of patent infringement suits by Microsoft. Under the GPLv3 license, this same agreement would extend that protection to anyone and everyone, thus neutralizing Microsoft's patent weaponry. This explaining why Microsoft is dumping its SUSE coupons to Wal-Mart, Dell, and elsewhere as quickly as it can.
The day ended with an outdoor dinner party hosted by IBM on the hotel grounds, with a view of sailboats and small craft sailing past. IBM also included blinking-LED-lined red sunglasses and frisbees as party favors.
