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Open source conference to exit Portland
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| OSCON, a major national open source technology conference, has decided to
| leave Portland after six years in favor of the Silicon Valley. The move
| further reduces Oregon's diminished role in world of open source software.
|
| The O'Reilly Open Source Convention was the largest national conference held
| annually in Portland. It drew about 2,000 people to the Oregon Convention
| Center each summer to talk about open source -- software, often given away
| free, that is licensed for open inspection by anyone. The Linux computer
| operating system is the best-known example of open source technology.
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http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1221092714119880.xml&coll=7
Here's the real deal (not sponsored by Microsoft):
Happy Birthday To Gnu
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| Over time, Linux created Linux, a clone of the Unix Kernel, and Stallman and
| the GNU project coded the GNU utilities. Much like the ancient oft told story
| of the glomming of peanut butter and chocolate to create the Reeses Peanut
| Butter Cup, Torvalds' kernel and the GNU utilities were glommed together to
| form what we now think of as the Linux Operating System. (This is an
| oversimplification and trolls will be here soon to straighten this out for
| you.)
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http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/09/happy_birthday_to_gnu.php?utm_source=sbhomepage&utm_medium=link&utm_content=channellink
Recent:
Microsoft bolsters Ruby efforts
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| Also at OSCON, Microsoft will unveil IronRuby-Contrib, a Microsoft Public
| License (Ms-PL) open source project...
|
| [...]
|
| While often criticized by open-source advocates, Microsoft nonetheless has
| established a presence at OSCON this week, with its sponsorship of the
| Participate08 session at OSCON, which was focused on boosting dialogue about
| open source and other collaborative communities.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1547928661&rid=-50
Is Microsoft Irrelevant?
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| At OSCON, a top software architect questions Microsoft’s relevance as Linux
| and open source march on into the enterprise and the overall computing
| landscape.
|
| Is Microsoft irrelevant?
|
| That's what Brian Aker, director of architecture at Sun Microsystems' MySQL,
| called the software giant in an onstage Q&A during the opening day of
| keynotes and sessions at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention here July 23.
|
| [...]
|
| O'Reilly chuckled at the response and offered a bit of an apology to any in
| the audience from Microsoft. After all, Microsoft is a top-level Diamond
| Sponsor of OSCON this year.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Is-Microsoft-Irrelevant/
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| While often criticized by open-source advocates, Microsoft nonetheless has
| established a presence at OSCON this week, with its sponsorship of the
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| Participate08 session at OSCON, which was focused on boosting dialogue about
| open source and other collaborative communities.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1547928661&rid=-50
Related:
BMC at OSCON: Yes, We’re Open
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| First, the immediate availability of the new BMC Developer Network created
| specifically for (and with input from) our developer community. Second, the
| availability of several key open source projects that we’ve built with our
| customers and partners. Last, but not least, our open source licensing
| policy.
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http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-whurley/whurley/yes-were-open
My Tongue-Lashing from Eben Moglen
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| He made a strong statement about why the Free Software Foundation ultimately
| chose not to close the "SaaS loophole" in GPLv3...
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/my_tonguelashin.html
Pendulum has swung in the open source debate
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| Once upon a time, the term "open source" was coined to save the free-software
| world from itself--or, rather, from the free-software zealots, as you can
| read on the Open Source Initiative's Web site.
|
| Today, I can't help but feel that the pendulum has swung in the opposite
| direction, where we're so self-satisfied with the money we're making off open
| source that we have neglected the essential freedoms that make open-source
| profit possible.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9752966-7.html
Open Source is no Web 2.0
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| It is time we stop the term open source from getting hijacked. I recently
| wrote about how tech media doesn’t get open source. The events in the last
| week or so have confirmed my thesis further.
|
| [...]
|
| It is time for saner elements in the open source world to wake up and stop
| the abuse of the term open source by the tech media and companies like
| Microsoft. If we don’t do it now, the only other alternative is the free
| software movement and the business community may not be able to leverage the
| freedom offered by the free software then.
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http://www.krishworld.com/blog/open-source/open-source-is-no-web-20
Cries for help go out as open source mogul's radar breaks
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| That very speech served as O'Reilly's attempt to make up for his evisceration
| as the hands of Free Software Foundation attorney Eben Moglen. One day
| earlier, Moglen charged O'Reilly with wasting too much time on hem lines,
| haircuts and the latest fluffy Web 2.0 start-up that looks like it might be
| acquired for a ridiculous amount of cash. O'Reilly had no counter on the
| actual day of Moglen's attack, but thought about the issues overnight.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/28/oscon_oreilly_radar/
Eben Moglen challenges Tim O'Reilly to "join the conversation"
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| At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention today, Software Freedom Law Center
| director Eben Moglen threw down the gauntlet to O'Reilly founder and CEO Tim
| O'Reilly. Saying that O'Reilly had spent 10 years making money and building
| the O'Reilly name, Moglen invited O'Reilly to stop being "frivolous" and to
| join the conversation about software freedom.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118201
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