Video: Alan Cox on community and the enterprise.
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| In the second of a three-part series, Alan Cox talks about community and the
| enterprise. See the first episode.
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http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/01/14/666/
Interview: Michael Meeuwisse
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| Michael Meeuwisse started Project VGA in September of 2007. The project aims
| to develop a simple, low budget, open source, VGA compatible video card
| available this year. Michael is also a member of the Open Graphic's Project,
| but started Project VGA in order to get something affordable on the market as
| soon as possible.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Interview/Michael_Meeuwisse
Further Oops Insights
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| "[The] text below is mostly for the benefit of newbies - it's more along the
| lines of 'how to get from [a] bug report to the source of [the] bug', with
| more details than normal," began Al Viro, offering a full review of another
| Linux kernel oops in an effort to educate more people on how this is done.
| Al's walk through included a patch to fix the bug that caused the oops.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Further_Oops_Insights
Speeding Up Fsck With Metaclustering
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| Most criticism so far has been in regards to formatting issues with the patch
| preventing it from being easily tested, resolved in the latest postings. It
| was also cautioned that the patch affects a significant amount of ext3 code,
| and thus will require very heavy testing.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Speeding_Up_Fsck_With_Metaclustering
Related:
Alan Cox on open-source development vs. proprietary development
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| When you release a free software project, you do things in a different order.
| Firstly, you get some code. Hopefully, it just about works. And you document
| it as "Needs fixing, needs this, needs that."
|
| But most free software code, to get other people involved in the project, it
| has to work. It doesn't matter if it's hard to compile. It doesn't matter if
| it only works on one machine in five. And it doesn't matter if it eats the
| data file every so often. So long as sometimes, the right results happen,
| people will start to pick up the project and use it. They start to use it,
| and then they have to fix it.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9803919-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Linux guru backs new GNU licence
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| Open source guru Alan Cox has voiced his support for the
| controversial version 3.0 of the GNU General Public Licence
| in an exclusive podcast interview with Computer Weekly.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/05/10/223693/linux-guru-backs-new-gnu-licence.htm
Is the BBC Perpetuating the Microsoft Monopoly?
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| The BBC recently released its Public Value Test for "public consultation"
| with respect to its proposed on-demand services. The problem is that, while
| the EU has hammered Microsoft for using its monopoly unfairly, the BBC is
| poised to prop up the convicted monopolist with a Windows-only service.
|
| [...]
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| According to Alan Cox, a well-known Linux kernel hacker, "Such a proposal
| IMHO completely violates the expectations that the BBC does not use public
| funds to distort markets, and there is no sign that the BBC trust who
| should be overseeing this have done the relevant market distortion
| analysis."
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/80699/index.html
Rights management system patented
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| A rights management system monitors and controls use of a computer
| program to prevent use that is not in compliance with acceptable
| terms. The system monitors usage of the computer program for usage
| and activities that are not in compliance with the license or
| other use terms.
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http://www.freshpatents.com/Alan-Cox-Swansea-invdirc.php
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