Cisco Sued By The Free Software Foundation
I don’t think that anyone ever dreamed of the Free Software Foundation needing to enforce its license and copyright in a court of law, however, this unlikely event has happened. The FSF is suing Cisco Systems for violating version 2 of the GNU General Public License and Lesser GPL. You can read the complaint here [...]
Xguests 1.0.8 released
Xguests, a program to print interesting information about guests running under the Xen (TM) hypervisor has reached version 1.0.8. Xguests does not require xend to be running and will print information in the following formats: XML 1.0 PHP Array Perl Array BASH Array Easy to scrape text CSV ‘xm list’ style
Yet another reason to FLOSS
Vendors of proprietary software took a hit in September, the hit is attributed to the current U.S. economic crisis. Small businesses just don’t have the cash to spend on software when free alternatives exist. Sure, they may have to bring the free stuff up to par .. but its cheaper for them to do so [...]
Should law be taught with programming?
It has been a long time since I’ve seen the inside of a class room. In school, my primary major was criminal justice. I was programming since high school, so I took some programming / computer courses because they were easy credits. I’m really glad that I got some exposure to law (mostly, how to [...]
Jakub Jermar On HelenOS
Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Jakub Jermar via e-mail regarding his motivation behind creating and advancing HelenOS, an operating system based on the from-scratch Spartan microkernel. An important disclaimer, I am a contributor to HelenOS for my own reasons. My status as a contributor did not stop me from challenging Jakub with interesting [...]
What is a computer, really?
I received a very interesting e-mail from the FSF today, sent via its announcement mailing list. The FSF (and numerous others) are very concerned about the IPhone being out of reach of free software due to its locking restrictions and the Apple developer NDA. I began to wonder, in this day and age, what is [...]
Why I hack at new operating systems
I have been asked several times why I prefer to work on HelenOS instead of the Linux kernel or GNU programs. The answer is simple, working on something new is more fun and I don’t like assigning my copyright to the FSF. Today I have been working on porting my brain dead shell to HelenOS, [...]
Software licenses are not for linguists
There was a journal entry recently published on Slashdot which sparked several reactions. I think that it is safe to say most geeks realize that our lives will shortly depend entirely on computer software (much more than they do now). Most smart people realize the need to ensure that we keep software development as free, [...]
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