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Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat
ndansmith writes "Bruce Perens posts in his blog about an amusing encounter between Richard Stallman and United Nations security at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. It seems that RFID technology, which Stallman opposes for privacy reasons, was used in the identification badges for the conference. From the blog: 'You can't give Richard a visible RF ID strip without expecting him to protest. Richard acquired an entire roll of aluminum foil and wore his foil-shielded pass prominently.' During a keynote speech, Stallman also passed around the tinfoil for other to use as well. It seems that UN security was not amused, however, as they would not let him leave the room for some time." What makes this even funnier, of course, is that tin foil hats won't stop them. -
Panel discussion on Open Source business models
freelock writes "The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest is hosting a panel discussion about Open Source Business models this coming Wednesday, February 16, in Bellevue, WA. The panel will be moderated by Dan Woods, author of the upcoming O'Reilly book Open Source in the Enterprise. Panelists include: Jacob Taylor, co-founder of SugarCRM; Byron Sebastian, founder and CEO of Source Labs; Kevin Foreman, general manager of Real Network's Helix project; and Tom Brubaker, the VP of a security company and founder of a demised open source company. Should be a very interesting discussion! Disclaimer: my company, Freelock Computing, is sponsoring this event.
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Venture Capitalists Think Open Source Again
prostoalex writes "Seattle PI notices a rise in venture capital investments into open-source companies. JBoss, SourceLabs, SugarCRM and OSDL all attracted venture capital investments this year, with SourceLabs receiving investments from former Senior VP of Microsoft. ""You could say that it is as disruptive as ... mainframes going to PCs or landlines going to cell phones. Software as it has been sold for years is about to be turned on its head completely," says Lucinda Stewart from OVP Venture Partners."