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Red Hat Linux Summit Day By Day
Joe Barr writes "NewsForge (also owned by OSTG) has complete coverage of the second annual Red Hat Summit, covering everything from the announcements of Mugshot and 108, Eben Moglen's inspirational and FUD-countering defense of free software and the GPL, to One Laptop Per Child's Nicholas Negroponte asserting that Intel is 'pissing on us.'" From the defense of Free Software: "He spoke primarily about freedom, and the American legacy inherent in free software. He reminded us that there was a day when the word 'yankee' was not automatically preceded by the word 'damn' or followed by the words 'go home.' In fact, he noted, it was once most often followed by the word ingenuity. He also spent a lot of time discussing patents, and explaining why they were added to our legal system so that the world's brightest, most creative people, would move here. Today, however, Moglen says, 'the patent system is an unbridled and unnecessary headache.' He then went on to describe how patents stifle innovation and creativity today. "
Redhat? Are they still around?
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
For about 7 years now, Red Hat has been badmouthing the Free & Open Source K Desktop Environment and the Qt framework that KDE is built on. Both KDE and Qt are licensed under the GPL, the Free Software license with the strongest copyleft/forced sharing protections that ensure the users' rights to control their own computers.
I know for a fact that Red Hat employees have embarked on a FUD campaign against KDE by spreading outright lies about its licensing. One such lie that they've been perpetuating is that thrid-party companies can't write proprietary software using Qt and KDE: this is plain wrong, because a company that wants to write proprietary software based on Qt can simply play by the proprietary rules and buy a proprietary license from Trolltech (the makers of Qt). This arrangement is only fair, and it provides a financial incentive for companies to write open source software. Furthermore, revenues from prorietary development go directly into improving the Free & Open Source Qt framework. This dual-licensing arrangement is a WIN-WIN situations for ordinary users like you and me.
Now, I'd understand if Microsoft were spreading this FUD, but for a company like Red Hat that pretends to be 100% for open source to be doing this is downright hypocritical.
Well, if he thinks Intel and Micky-soft are bad, just wait till the Riaa gets wind of the fact that the entire third world will be turned into a giant mesh network of children eager for "American culture".
$100 laptops = the worlds largest network of "pirates" "stealing" from the RIAA. Egads! 100's of millions of CROOKS who will blatently STEAL from the poor starving artists represented by the Labels!!! This must be stopped! We must spend years developing DRM for these machines before we can even think of releasing them!
Lets face it, if that band of brigands, the so called "Doctors Without Borders" will stoop to the outright theft of patented life saving drugs by using so called "generics", whats to stop a bunch of kids from doing the same? Not to mention the the devestation caused by the mass release of computers infected with this so called "Linux" which clearly has ties to pedophiles, terrorists, and organized crime.
And don't be lecturing me about this "Zero marginal cost" communist crap. The poor are supposed to lead horrible lives and die gruesome deaths. If they don't, us rich people won't feel quite as, well, rich.
Ok, that's all the irony I can handle for the moment.
To boldly use to and too two times and get it right too! They're not gonna believe their eyes when they see it there!
Who gives a shit what some lawyer thinks about technology? he's like one of those suck up kids in school who was on the student council.
Why is Moglen so important? It's assholes like him(lawyers) who made all these problems to begin with. There was a time when if someone had a good idea it was copied and everyone was better for it. Now we have these geeks, like Moglen, who don't even know how to DO anything...law geeks...they just dance around and chant their incantations(statutes) and pretend like they are doing something.
It's because he's a _damn jew_ who knows nothing about our country.