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I am the son of an anchorman. I am a First Amendment guy. In a statement after Diana’s death, I said the only thing worse than out-of-control photographers with no sense of conscience would be trying to restrict them. You can’t restrict freedom of speech or the press, even if it is miserable. &#8212 George…

During this morning’s Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR’s Scott Simon reflected on the progress of the One Laptop Per Child XO project, pointing to the salient features of a laptop whose target price is $100, listing the light weight, low power consumption, camera, speakers, microphone, water-resistance, and bright light operation. In particular he pointed out the…

Hello all you Open Source fans out there! Some of you have quite rightly suggested enhancements to the overall services OSI offers the Open Source community. We’ve decided to do something about it…namely, to hire someone to help our all-volunteer Board of Directors work more effectively to get certain things done. The job description is…

Copied the inbound channel / mailing list to the OSI board: On 9/28/07, Luis Ibanez wrote: OSI Board: As developers of Open Source software, at Kitware we are very excited to see that is more and more common for federal funding agencies to require or encourage the creation and use of open source software when…

According to an article published in Enterprise Open Source Magazine, CIOs interviewed by Forrester Research rank freedom more important than price or cost when considering open source software.

As SCO’s attack against Linux collapses, with Judge Dale Kimball’s ruling on the Novell copyrights making it plainer than ever that the lawsuit was fraudulent from the word go, we’re now seeing recantations from two of SCO’s three major journalistic stooges — Dan Lyons and Rob Enderle. The third, Maureen O’Gara, has yet to be…