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O’Reilly: Globalization and Women, Copyright Infringement in Open Source, and Other News from LWE

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 28, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“LinuxWorld in January 2004 looked mostly like more of what was
at last year’s LinuxWorlds. No radical departures; just more
serious talk of moving to the desktop, more and faster clusters,
more products aimed at ERM and other back office services, more
advances in the tools available to support Java. But more is
better. Here I’ll report some conversations that gave me new
perspectives and some companies I met with.

  • “How globalization could promote the role of women in
    computing
  • “Who are the copyright infringers in open source?
  • “Volunteerism alive and well
  • “A cluster of related vendors
  • “Some larger vendors
  • “Other companies I happened upon…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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