OU may have been wondering what happened to my blog. For the past couple of week I have been writing for another blog and I added copies of my entries to my personal space. To provide some background I’ll quote a page that I recently added to boycottnovell.com. It’s merely the motivation — the raison d’être if you like — which I added to the About page.

“If the Microsoft corporation, whether it wishes to be part of this ecology in a genuine and sincere sense or not, if it succeeds in getting one distribution to pay royalties for the distribution of free software, other distributions will do so. They will have to. That will then succeed in marching the commercial sector away from the non-commercial sector, and Microsoft then will be able to use its patents to sue to block the development of software in the non-commercial sector without the fear of suing its own customers, which is the force that now constrains them from misbehavior with their patent portfolio.”

       
       –Eben Moglen, Software Freedom Law Center

I am working in collaboration with another person. As the About Us page introduces us:

• Shane Coyle is the Founder of EDU-Nix.org.
• Roy Schestowitz is a Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Biophysics at Manchester University. He advocates the use of Open Source technology in the public and private sector, as well as uses his background in computing to make personal contribution to the Free Software movement.

If this blog ceased to be fun, please drop me a line. I can probably separate the topics and set irrelevant material aside.

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