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RedHat Starts "Open Source Now" Fund

Posted by Hemos on from the fight-for-the-right-to-code dept.

celston23 writes "According to this article (near bottom), RedHat is intending to use their Open Source Now Fund to support open-source (GPL) developers who are sued for copyright infringement. Might be used during the SCO legal battle."

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  1. Open Source Now by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Great. I hope IBM uses some of its Billion dollars on Linux that it had previously pledged. Also, I hope that companies in the market for Unix remember that their is HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and others as well as Linux...no need for SCO (some crappy old) Unix

  2. Re:503C status? by Hayzeus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sort of -- it was done slowly over a long period of time. The server-side software was something of a PITA, but you could do something similar (although with fewer capabilities) using apache, CGI, some and some kind of capture program.

    The robot itself needs good sensor coverage, since it is being driven around by random people on the internet. Sonar works well in this regard. Big batteries are also pretty much required for decent run-times (important if you want your web-cam to be up on a regular basis).

    The plan ultimately is to add some online object-recognition and video-based navigation demos. My time is somewhat limited these days, though.

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    Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot