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A Software Freedom Scorecard
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| I spoke this morning at the South Tyrol
| Free Software Conference in Bolzano, Italy.
| My subject was the idea of a "software
| freedom scorecard", a list of indicators
| for the strength of software freedom in an
| open source project or product, about which
| I wrote recently. The slides are available
| for download.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/a_software_freedom_scorecard
Nordic Free Software Award 2009
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| Receiving a price like this is a great
| motivator and I feel humbled when thinking
| about the many excellent hackers that were
| attending the FSCONS that cheered me on.
| Thank you everyone.
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http://blog.josefsson.org/2009/11/15/nordic-free-software-award-2009/
Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask - part two
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| Since the European Commission announced it was opening an in-depth
| investigation into the proposed takeover of Sun Microsystems by
| Oracle with a focus on MySQL there has been no shortage of opinion
| written about Oracleâs impending ownership of MySQL and its impact
| on MySQL users and commercial partners, as well as MySQLâs business
| model, dual licensing and the GPL.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2009/11/12/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-mysql-but-were-afraid-to-ask-part-two/
Recent:
Crowdsourcing the MacArthur Awards
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| Since 1981 the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago has chosen 20
| to 40 people each year to receive a $500,000 unrestricted
| grant. This grant is given to people who "show exceptional
| merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work."
| On its face the MacArthur Awards appear to be a good idea. For
| example, these awards shone an early spotlight on Richard
| Stallman, who has made major contributions to the field of
| computer science--doing so in a very selfless way.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/172366/article.html
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