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Interview With Con Zymaris Of Open Source Victoria

Posted by timothy on from the first-hand-reports dept.

The Original Yama writes "OrangeCrate is pleased to present an interview with Con Zymaris of Open Source Victoria (OSV) from Australia. I thought it might be nice to get a perspective from outside of the United States, and Mr. Zymaris was kind enough to agree to an interview. What follows is an email interview conducted over the last few days." You may remember that OSV is the organization responsible for filing a pair of complaints about SCO's claims about legal rights to code found in Linux, but this interview does not confine itself to that topic.

6 comments

  1. interesting by i88i · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Good to see news about other f/oss organisations. Unfortunately, the fsf and osi seem to get the most of the news coverage, leaving out the smaller organisations such as the osia.
    I'm australian and i didn't even that the osia existed.

    1. Re:interesting by laptop006 · · Score: 2, Informative

      OSIA is very new (pretty much formed at LCA 2004) and will be a parent/umbrella org for OSV, etc.

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  2. Re:Consider the Jihad by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And what accomplishments are you remembering?

    making sure that your scumbot script is in crontab?

  3. will it have an impact? by Roman_(ajvvs) · · Score: 1
    The article's a quick and eloquent read.

    I'm just wondering how many non-australians are going to bother to read the interview? Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic, but I notice that slashdot has a tendency to ignore non-US oriented topics unless they impact the US directly.

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    1. Re:will it have an impact? by awful · · Score: 1

      and your answer is ... 4. well, that's the number of people (before me) who commented on it anyway. A shame really - one of the points that Con made in the interview was about the perceived insularity of the US.