08.14.08
Links 14/08/2008: Legal Victory for Free Software Licences, FOSS in Polish Education
GNU/Linux
- Pardus 2008: A touch of refinement
My experience with Pardus was quite positive. The attention to detail, right down to skinning Amarok with the Pardus colors, is matched by the elegance of the installer and the efficacy of Kaptan and PiSi.
- Canonical’s Power Play
So the takeaway from LinuxWorld seems to be this: Watch out for Ubuntu and community Linux in general, coming soon to an enterprise near you.
Virtualisation
Development
Windows Binaries in Linux
UMPCs
Networking
- WAN card vendor launches developer community
- A hands-on look at Vyatta Community Edition 4 networking software
Law
- huge and important news: free licenses upheld
- Court of Appeals for Federal Circuit Overturns Jacobsen v. Katzer - Ruling as text
- A Big Day in Court for the FOSS Community
- New York Supreme Court Rejects EMI’s Bid to Enjoin Expelled
- UK ISP Music Deal Only Sounds Reasonable
- Who owns the Internet?
Embedded
Healthcare
OSS
- Interview: OrangeHRM–Open Human Resources Management
- IBM readies Requirements Composer for Jazz
- Sun releases beta of NetBeans IDE
- Poland: Ministry of Education recommends Open Source
The Polish Ministry of National Education is advising schools and universities to use Open Source software. The recommendation comes at the end of a volunteer campaign to help schools switch to Open Source.
KDE
- Integration at Akademy
An important topic at Akademy 2008 is modularisation and integration. It has been the main topic of one talk, but you will find it comes up in many others. It is clearly on the minds of many developers here. Read on for more of what is discussed here.
- KDE Commit Digest - Issue 121 - 27th July 2008
Leftovers (Apple)
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Sterling Ball — businessman, guitarstring impressario, and Free Open Source Software advocate
Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
David Gerard said,
August 14, 2008 at 10:50 am
Further link: the Foxconn FUDster tried subscribing me and several others to a hundred mailing lists. Idjit.