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  • RFD: A Nobel Peace Prize for Disarming Software Patents

    If Al Gore can win the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the findings of the scientific community to the political forefront, perhaps Richard Stallman should be next in line for his early and tireless advocacy against Software Patents. And the sooner, the better. Al Gore was not one of the scientists who observed, theorized, modeled,…

  • OSI Approves Microsoft Licenses

    I submitted this to slashdot, and put it on my open source blog. In a board meeting held October 10th, and announced today, the Open Source Initiative approved two of Microsoft’s software licenses: the Microsoft Reciprocal License and the Microsoft Public License. These licenses are refreshingly short and clean, compared to, say, the GPLv3 and…

  • George Clooney, Princess Diana, and Microsoft

    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…

  • Why No Microsoft Software for $100 Laptop?

    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…

  • Job Posting: OSI is hiring a Programs Manager

    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…

  • Public Advocacy for Open Source Software–Preferences and Requirements

    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…

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