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Tonight Live: Doc Searls & Eric Raymond on the Great Debate, PLUS The Fat Lady, Part IIIJul 31, 2001, 19:27 (0 Talkback[s])Tuesday, July 31st, 2001 At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, PJ Hyett, Doc Searls(Linux Journal), and Arne Flones have another great show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!! (and yes the Loki tribes server is up and running.) In Segment One - Hot News: We will be covering the hot Linux news of the last few weeks. In particular, we will talk about the Mandrakesoft IPO. Full details can be found at a special web site http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/ipo In Segments Two- OSCON and the great Microsoft vs Red
Hat debate Where there winners and losers? Doc Searls will be giving us a report of his observations of the conference and the debate. Please check out Doc's Web Log located at http://doc.weblogs.com/. There is a complete running commentary of the debate, with crowd and pundit reactions, called "Smackdown" about halfway down the page. We will also be joined by Eric Raymond, Open Source maven and Author of lots of books that you all know about. We will get Erics take on the conference Keynote debate. In Segments Three- featuring David A. Wheeler
"Microsoft, Linux and the Fat Lady PART TWO"- or Contrary to many
opinions, Linux is far from over and Microsoft still has a very
very long road ahead This week we will be joined by guest panelist David A. Wheeler. David has been involved in software since 1977. His interests include computer security and "high-risk" software. He's been intrigued with open source software / free software, and began collecting statistics about OSS that resulted in the "Why OSS/FS" thesis that is being presented by David Tonight. Details about David's projects and opinions can be found in details at his web site, http://www.dwheeler.com/ Other opinions are welcome at GeekCast. If you would like to join us on the show, check our IRC Chat(irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow). Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et. Related Stories:
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