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Developer Linux News for May 08, 2007
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Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright (May 08, 2007, 21:45)
QuestionCopyright.org: "The piece's most
obvious problem is its conflation of copyright with
'creditright...'"
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How to Kill Open Source (May 08, 2007, 21:00)
ZDNet: "...[M]any in the open source community
are under the mistaken impression that the war is over and they
won..."
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Meek Not Geek--Interview with Michael Meeks of OpenOffice.org (May 08, 2007, 19:30)
Tux Deluxe: "One of these is Michael Meeks, a
Cambridge graduate who began his Linux career at GNOME desktop
start-up Ximian, and now works as part of Novell's OpenOffice.org
team..."
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Interview with Simon Phipps (May 08, 2007, 16:30)
Linux Journal: "Simon Phipps defends the
open-source roots of Sun and the GPL-ization of Java..."
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Open Source Goals Outlined in Report (May 08, 2007, 15:45)
Application Development Trends: "For instance,
participants noted a growing similarity in methods between
open-source and proprietary software development. They predicted
some kind of convergence, where the best of both approaches gets
adopted in each camp..."
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Novell Linux Desktop Architect Goes to Google (May 08, 2007, 14:15)
DesktopLinux: "On May 4, Robert Love resigned
as chief architect of Novell's Linux desktop efforts. He has since
announced that he has accepted a position at Google..."
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Promise Kept: Sun Delivers Open Source Java (May 08, 2007, 13:30)
internetnews.com: "Sun Microsystems today will
announce it's released a fully buildable Java Development Kit for
Java Platform Standard Edition under the GNU General Public License
version 2..."
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"Spare Cycles" or Selfless Souls? (May 08, 2007, 01:30)
The NeoSmart Files: "...[D]o people actually
believe that open source exists only because we [the developers,
the contributors, the testers, the documenters, and just about
everyone else involved in the process] are too bored and have
nothing better to be doing...?!"
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Should Copyright Be Abolished? (May 08, 2007, 00:45)
Brain Handles: "The problem with a large part
of the anti-copyright crowd is that they don't understand or won't
admit what copyright entails as a concept..."
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Rampant Layering Syndrome (May 08, 2007, 00:00)
ars technica: "I won't repeat Jeff's long
rebuttal here, but suffice it to say that I've long seen the Linux
community's inability to design, plan, and act in a holistic manner
(i.e., 'across layers') as its greatest weakness..."
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