Showing posts with label alan cox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alan cox. Show all posts
17 June 2009

Open Source in the Enterprise: Safely Boring

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Yesterday I popped into part of the London Open Source Forum. This was a laudable effort organised by Red Hat in conjunction with some of it...
09 May 2009

Should Software Developers Be Liable for their Code?

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Should Microsoft pay for the billions of dollars of damage that flaws in its software have caused around the world? It might have to, if a n...
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24 December 2008

Alan Cox and the End of an Era

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In the beginning, free software was an activity conducted on the margins - using spare time on a university's computers, or the result o...
13 September 2007

Westminster eForum: Sermon of the Day

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No posting yesterday, since I was up at the Westminster eForum talking about open source (now, there's a surprise), along with a few cor...
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15 August 2007

O'Reilly? I Think Not

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Once again, Matt gets it, and Tim doesn't: "I will predict that virtually every open source company (including Red Hat) will e...
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10 August 2007

The Liability of Closed Source Software

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It's a pity that reports from the House of Lord's Science and Technology Committee are so long, because they contain buckets of goo...
19 January 2007

Alan Cox Stands up for Closed Source

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These aren't words you'd expect to issue from the mouth of one of the most senior Linux hackers: Cox said that closed-source compan...
23 October 2006

GPLv3: What Linus, Alan, Greg, Andrew and Dave Said

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Few subjects in the world of free software have provoked as much discussion as the new GNU GPLv3 licence. Mostly it's outsiders (like...
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