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Software Freedom Day 2009
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| As the Ubuntu Maryland team did last year, we are planning a day of talks and
| discussions about Open Source Software and its benefits. While there may be a
| bias towards the Linux platform in general and the Ubuntu distribution in
| particular we are open to talks on Open Source projects for any OS platform.
| In addition we are hoping to have some talks on open formats and standards.
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http://www.chuckfrain.net/2009/08/03/software-freedom-day-2009
Episode 0x13: Justin Erenkrantz of the Apache Software Foundation
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| Bradley and Karen interview Justin Erenkrantz of the Apache Software
| Foundation.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2009/aug/04/0x13/
Recent:
Microsoft Releases GPL'd Software (Again): Does This Change Anything?
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| Microsoft has received much undeserved press about their recent release of
| Linux drivers for their virtualization technology under GPLv2. I
| say âundeservedâ because I don't particularly see why Microsoft should be
| lauded merely for doing something that is in their own interest that they've
| done before.
|
| [...]
|
| Someday, perhaps, Microsoft will take a proper place among other large
| companies that actually contribute code that improves the general
| infrastructure of Free Software. Many companies give generally useful
| improvements back to Linux, GCC, and various other parts of the GNU/Linux
| system. Microsoft has never done this: they only contribute code when it
| improves Free Software interoperability with their proprietary technology.
| The day that Microsoft actually changes its attitude toward Free Software did
| not occur last week. Microsoft's old strategy stays the same: try to kill
| Free Software with patents, and in the meantime, convince as many Free
| Software users as possible to begin relying on Microsoft proprietary
| technology.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2009/jul/29/microsoft-gpl/
SFLC: Microsoft violated the GPL
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| Microsoft violated the General Public License v2 (GPLv2) when it distributed
| its Hyper-V Linux Integration Components (LinuxIC) without providing source
| code, says the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).
|
| The violation was rectified when Microsoft contributed more than 20,000 lines
| of source code to the Linux community last week. The drivers are designed to
| improve the performance of the Linux operating system when it is virtualized
| on the Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V hypervisor-based virtualization system.
|
| [...]
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| "It seems to me that Sam [Ramji] is likely correct when he says that talk
| inside Microsoft about releasing the source was under way before the Linux
| developers began their enforcement effort," said Bradley Kuhn, a policy
| analyst and tech director at the SFLC.
|
| "However, that talk doesn't mean that there wasn't a problem. As soon as one
| distributes the binaries of a GPL'd work, one must provide the source for
| those binaries, so Microsoft's delay in this regard was a GPL violation.
|
| "The important thing to note from a perspective of freedom is that this
| software, whether it is released properly under the GPL or kept proprietary
| in violation of the GPL, is a piece of software designed to convince people
| to give up free virtualization platforms like Xen and KVM, and [to] use
| Microsoft's virtualization technology instead," Kuhn added.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=33641
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