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Matt Assay replaces Jane Silber as Canonical COO.
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| A founding member of Novell's Linux Business
| Office and an early influencer and
| participant in the company's move to Open
| Source, Matt Assay will bring to Canonical and
| the Ubuntu project an in depth knowledge of
| commercial marketing of open source
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/02/matt-assay-replaces-jane-silber-as.html
LCA
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| Jeremy Allison's talk about Microsoft was
| good. We've feared Microsoft for so long it's
| become almost unfashionable, but I think
| Jeremy is right to keep reminding the free
| software community of the danger there. He
| talked about Microsoft's attempts to take over
| the Web, and kindly mentioned Firefox's role
| in pulling us back from that brink. He made
| the point (which I think is too often
| overlooked) that which company one works for
| is almost always an individual moral choice
| and we should hold people accountable for it
| ... we can't let people off the hook by saying
| "oh, the company I work for is just evil and I
| can't do anything about it". The focus of his
| talk was the suggestion that Microsoft is
| gearing up for an all-out patent war on free
| software. I don't know if this is true ---
| honestly, I expected them to do it long ago
| and I'm not sure what's been holding them back
| --- but we certainly do need to keep aware of
| the possibility. Jeremy suggested that
| Microsoft will promote "RAND" standards ---
| standards covered by patents whose licenses
| would require a "Reasonable And Non-
| Discriminatory" fee, which sound good except
| that for free software, any non-zero fee is a
| show-stopper. In fact, as I discussed later in
| my talk, RAND-encumbered standards won't fly
| in the traditional Web standards world ---
| e.g. CSS and HTML5. We have a very good
| situation there, where everyone understands
| that any suggestion that can't be implemented
| in Gecko (MPL/LGPL/GPL) or Webkit (LGPL) is
| simply a non-starter. However, we do face a
| very serious situation in video, where the
| licensing isn't even RAND, and possibly in
| other technologies such as touch
| interfaces. It was good to be able to use
| some of these issues that Jeremy raised as
| launching points for my talk.
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http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/lca.html
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