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September 2009 ArchivesA few people took Mark Shuttleworth to task in their blogs for making exclusionary and sexist comments in his keynote at last week's LinuxCon. Such as Open Letter to Mark Shuttleworth, A followup on the Shuttleworth incident, and On Keynotes and Apologies Mr. Shuttleworth has remained silent when asked for comment, saying only to watch the video and judge for ourselves. The video is now up, thanks to Linux Pro Magazine and the Linux Foundation. I watched it. I kept score. Everyone keeps saying what a nice guy Mark is. Well, maybe so, but even nice guys have their blind spots. I don't believe that nice guys belittle and exclude women, and that is what happened in this keynote. I believe that an apology is in order, both for the unfortunate thread of exclusion and sexism that runs the entire length of the talk, and for not understanding that dumb stuff like that distracts from the talk itself. That is unfortunate, because if you take away the dumb stuff it is an important and excellent presentation. Continue reading Mark Shuttleworth's Community Has No Women
big vendors want control. always. cloud. don't depend on bigtime vendors to save linux. foss is about power to the people ken re; broadband, charity support computers 4 kids, get kids hooked on linux Continue reading bigvenrosd
Bob Sutor, IBM's VP of open source, seemed to once again throw desktop Linux under the bus this week at Linuxcon:
What's wrong with this list? Continue reading Why IBM won't Do Desktop Linux
The first annual Linux Foundation's Linuxcon is in full swing, and it sure looks like the face of Linux is still a bearded one, despite the Linux Foundation's grand claims of Community. Perhaps they have a more limited definition of "community." Continue reading The Linux Foundation's "Community" Doesn't Look Very Community
Confession: I've never been much of a Firefox fan, but I am very happy for its success and I use it a lot. I have to, because even though my favorite Web browser is Konqueror there are a lot of sites that it doesn't handle very well. Firefox takes pretty much whatever you throw at it and it comes up smiling. My job requires that I spend most of the day online, so Web browsers are big deals. But it has some quirks that some days make me want to slap Firefox silly, like when it crashes and there are multiple Firefox windows open, all of them vanish. This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder if Firefox isn't just a little too Windows-happy. Continue reading Firefox is Zapping my Happy Linux Buzz
Way back in the last millennium, in the very olden days of Linux, most Linux users were grizzled old Unix graybeards. They saw Linux as a cute little toy Unix, but it was Free and free and fun. And so it was that there was no anguish at the sight of a raw nekked command line, and learning and progress were rampant, and life was good. Now Linux is the easiest of all operating systems to use, and yet anguish abounds in the land. Too hard! Too hard! Make it easier! What the heck happened? Continue reading De-Programming Windows Refugees
Here are more deep thoughts from Linux Today readers. Or at least entertaining thoughts. Or insightful. Or annoying. Or something!
Continue reading Too Much Choice, FOSS vs. Capitalism, Windows "Security", Mono
Blog of Helios documents the famous Ken Stark's adventures in promoting Linux and helping children in Austin, Texas get nice Linux computers of their own. As anyone who has followed Ken's adventures over the years knows, he is a tireless Linux advocate who has launched a number of interesting events: the Tux500, Lindependence 2008, and Komputer4Kids. But Ken can't do it all and needs more people to step up and help. Ken has inspired other people to launch similar projects and has his own little herd of Merry Penguins; that is, people who pitch in and help. But the time has come when the tireless Ken has to slow down a bit, and needs some more hands on deck. Perhaps one of them can be you. Continue reading Kids in Austin, Texas Need More Penguins
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