RedHat Starts "Open Source Now" Fund

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."

Comments

frost pist

[Anonymous Coward]

damnit

Would you like to open my source?

[Anonymous Coward]

My source is open for you.

FP!

Jessus Dupe-Dancing Christ.

[Phosphor3k]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/04/181724 7&mode=thread&tid=110&tid=126&tid=163&tid=187&tid= 88

WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE

[Anonymous Coward]

Open Source Now

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

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

Uh Oh Spisghetti-0

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot strikes out
reported by Anonymous Cannibal

In developing news, Slashdot.org has released yet another non-SCO related article. Slashdotters are drooling at the incoming news "There on a roll now dude. A few more articles without the mention of SCO? I didn't think I would see the day" stated a fp'er..

"Ok so maybe we misunderestimate the potential of Slashdot, but answer me this, If a tree falls in an ocean does it make a splash? We here Texans, here in Texas, which of course is in the United Nations of America, value sites like Slashdot. At least they don't post forged articles". stated Slashdotter daprez.

Slashdot once upon a time was one of the hottest sites on the net, and the site which now boasts close to 600+ thousand users (most of which are duplicate users) is slowly going down the toilet. "Well I doubt if it is going to go away, if it did most of the admins there would likely commit suicide or something. I just want to see it go back to the basics and focus on news. Sure SCO is news, but do we really need it shoved down our throats four to five times?" stated another user via IRC who wished to remain anonymous.

So for those who are interested in real news, such as how China will replace every citizens ID cards with Digital Cards, you can read this here, or if you care about the NSA possibly backdooring all software, you can read that too by clicking here. The CIA's statement on WMD? Sure right here, however, if your looking for another SCO article, stay tuned one will be availble within the hour.

Numerous request were sent to Slashdot administrative staff who never responded to our e-mails. We feel for them, and will make sure to send them carfare when the company goes under so they'll be able to get to the unemployment office.

2003 Slashdotter Strikes Back News

"Red Hat" has a space in it

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not "RedHat"

Re:503C status?

[feed_me_cereal]

your robot kicks ass! was it a lot of work to build?

Re:503C status?

[Hayzeus]

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.